Paul Houle

Students from Montrose post in Barton Hall with flags in the background at the February Flash Dash last Sunday

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#photo #photography #portrait #groupportrait #bartonhall #cornell #flrc #running #sports

I went to another running event in Barton Hall this weekend with the goal of shooting nothing but group portraits

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#photo #photography #bartonhall #flrc #running #portrait #groupportrait

Close-up of Blue Spruce in the snow

#photo #photography #plants #trees #spruce #winter #snow

I haven't posted much lately because I am about to run out of tokens and I'm racing to get the next batch of all-unique cards to the printer -- when I hand one out I can say "Look, you got the 3 of cones!"

#art #fox #photography #marketing #cards #printing #crafting #tokens

... and performs better than I thought possible in that as a foxographer I've become a local celebrity who gets approached by strangers multiple times a day

... who really did it but I spent almost a year praying before I got the main costume elements figured out went out as-a-fox for the first time and a few weeks settled on the "fox-photographer" (foxographer) as a "cover story" which rapidly became real ...

... which had me reading stuff like Stendahl's 𝑂𝑛 𝐿𝑜𝑣𝑒 and Baudrillard's 𝑆𝑒𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 and studying theme park design and it ended very badly so I was not fast to respond when I received the call to Kitsune-Tsuki two years ago but then I found there were people in China ...

well, i pretty much gave up on the AI work I was doing by 2017 www.slideshare.net/slideshow/ch... but by 2021 I was doing something I now call "social artistry" and trying to regress myself to the 18th century for the wrong reasons...

Do-it-yourself ammonia production: Renewable-powered system uses calcium to reduce emissions and scale for farmers The last time you scrubbed a streaky window or polished a porcelain appliance, you probably used a chemical called ammonia.

🦨 Do-it-yourself ammonia production: Renewable-powered system uses calcium to reduce emissions and scale for farmers

phys.org/news/2026-01...

#chemistry #manufacturing #farming #agriculture #ammonia #nitrogen #energytransition #renewables

49ers coach Kyle Shanahan shows performance-enhancing smelling salts aren't just for players Kyle Shanahan must believe the olfactory exhilaration of smelling salts enhances his coaching ability. He's an advocate of the practice, as TV viewers discovered Sunday.

🦨 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan shows performance-enhancing smelling salts aren't just for players

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#sports #drug #doping #ammonia #performance #football #nfl #americanfootball

AI can generate a feeling of intimacy that exceeds human connections People can develop emotional closeness to artificial intelligence (AI)—under certain conditions, even more so than to other people. This is shown by a new study conducted by a research team led by Pro...

⚠️ AI can generate a feeling of intimacy that exceeds human connections

I discovered 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 for myself in my ill-fated research project of 2021!

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#danger #ai #culture #seduction #love #intimacy #psychology #selfpsychology

Cornell's № 4 Trinity Jones tries to go around № 11 Nasi Simmons of the Columbia Lions in last Saturday's basketball game at Newman Arena

#photo #photography #cornell #sports #basketball #women #newmanarena

Tree heavy with cones with big blurred-out snowflakes in the foreground

#photo #photography #trees #conifers #cone #evergreen #ithaca #snow #winter

Birch tree with peeling bark in blowing snow

#photo #photography #trees #birch #snow #winter #ithaca

Last weekend I finished a good landing page for the "tokens" that I hand out to when I go out as-a-fox. I'm within sight of running out of business cards and I'm racing to make a new generation of cards that are all unique

gen5.info/fox/

#foxwork #web #software #fox #photography

Abstract image of twisty stems with more in the background and a few flakes in the air

#photo #photography #plants #abstract #snow #winter

I'm currently obsessed with two things: cones and snow, and this photo has both

#photo #photography #cones #plants #trees #snow #winter #cornell

I've posted pictures of 𝐷𝑜𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝐴𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑢𝑚 in other seasons but I took this one on a freezing cold day with blowing, not falling, snow

#photo #photography #cornell #snow #winter #cold #statue

I'm wrapping my head around how to capture rebounds in basketball -- this is last Saturday's game of the Big Red women against the Columbia Lions which the Lions won 80-55 in fan-friendly Newman Arena

#photo #photography #basketball #cornell #newmanarena #sports #women

Ultrasonic sensor capable enables cuffless, non-invasive blood pressure measurement A new technology has been developed that enables cuffless noninvasive blood pressure monitoring by using ultrasonic to track real-time changes in vascular diameter—without the need for a traditional c...

💓 Ultrasonic sensor capable enables cuffless, non-invasive blood pressure measurement

phys.org/news/2026-01...

#sensors #health #bloodpressure #ultrasound #biosignals

Two students in falling snow at night in the courtyard between Gates Hall and the new CIS building

#photo #photography #portrait #students #cornell #winter #snow #night

The foxographer was heading back to its secondary den after completing an assignment and caught the kind of snow falling photo we've been looking for lately

#photo #photography #cornell #snow #winter #cs #night

Thousands of Irish farmers protest against EU-Mercosur trade deal Demonstration follows similar actions in Poland, France and Belgium as EU states approve accord

🪧 Thousands of Irish farmers protest against EU-Mercosur trade deal

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

#agriculture #eu #globalsouth #protest #activism #farmers #ireland #eu

Designer enzyme enables yeast to produce custom fatty acids, reducing need for palm oil Whether they are laundry detergents, mascara, or Christmas chocolate, many everyday products contain fatty acids from palm oil or coconut oil. However, the extraction of these raw materials is associa...

🌴 Designer enzyme enables yeast to produce custom fatty acids, reducing need for palm oil

phys.org/news/2026-01...

#biotech #gmo #yeast #lipids #oil #food #agriculture #palmoil #manufacturing #fermentation

A New Anti-Political Fervor | NOEMA How the collapse of political belonging is reshaping democracy.

🙉 A New Anti-Political Fervor

www.noemamag.com/a-new-anti-p...

#politics #culture #antipolitics

I was out-as-a-fox and got flagged down by a student who asked me if I was looking for things to take pictures of: he led me to this red tailed hawk devouring a squirrel below a tree where squirrel tracks converged

#photo #photography #birds #cornell #ithaca #wildlife #hawk #winter #snow

Red-tailed hawk looks down from a tree while its partner eats a squirrel that fell from a similar tree -- this population is rather famous www.allaboutbirds.org/cams/red-tai...

#photo #photography #birds #hawk #cornell

Student I photographed when we were watching the hawks

#photo #photography #cornell #portrait #streetphotography

How the left can win back the internet – and rise again | Robert Topinka In the final part of this series, we look at how infighting has ripped the left apart online while the right has flourished – and how some progressives are turning the tide, says digital media academi...

🪧 How the left can win back the internet – and rise again

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#politics #internet #media #socialmedia #activism #organizing #left

You'll Have That on Those Big Jobs: The World's Largest Zip Tie Is Nearly 4 Feet Long and $75 For when your work is both improvised and super-sized.

🤠 You’ll Have That on Those Big Jobs: The World’s Largest Zip Tie Is Nearly 4 Feet Long and $75

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#ziptie #plastics #makers #construction