Paul Houle

An unusually fluffy orange cat looks supernaturally smooth half because he's really that ways and half because I applied a lot of noise reduction so I was able to shoot this in the dark when he was prancing around quickly.

My neighbor's very fluffy orange cat on the warpath

#cats #photo #photography #indoors #animals

A road heads straight into the distance from the lower right of the image with a hedgerow to the left and an open field to the left with a cluster of bushes directly the the front, the view opens up to hills and fields at various distances with a layer of cumulus clouds in a blue sky

View in the direction of Dryden north of James Kennedy State Forest

#photo #photography #dryden #landscape #outdoors #stateforest #jameskennedy

Pale pinkish flower with whorls and whorls of petals with rather dark and subdued green foliage in the background

A Zinnia I found out walking on Tower Road

#photo #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #zinnia #cornell #plants #flower

A man jumps over the rightmost (his left) hurdle of a pair, both of which have a white bar with the word GROTON on them. He's got a red, white and blue shirty with irregular stripes and has one leg in front of him and the other arm out straight to your right with other leg and arm folded back and another runner visible in the far background

Man clears hurdles at Trackapalooza 2025

#photo #photography #sports #photo #photography #running #track #flrc #trackapalooza #groton #hurdles

Vertically oriented image of four columns that taper in size from top to bottom with staggered vertical gaps.

For #AbstractAug here's a close-up of the facade of the new Computer Science building

#photo #photography #cornell #buildings #architecture

Deep life's survival secret: Crustal faulting generates key energy sources, study shows Chinese researchers have recently challenged the long-held belief that "all life depends on sunlight." In a study published in Science Advances, the researchers identified how microbes in deep subsurf...

🌋 Deep life's survival secret: Crustal faulting generates key energy sources, study shows

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#biology #geology #life #extremophiles

Europe’s cocoa slowdown highlights global chocolate struggle Cocoa futures have more than doubled in the past two years and touched a record in December.

🍫 Europe’s cocoa slowdown highlights global chocolate struggle

www.japantimes.co.jp/business/202...

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#cocoa #food #chocolate #business #trade #europe #chocolate

Study shows that social interaction boosts emotional vitality—but leads to delayed fatigue Social contact can lift our mood but later leave us drained. A new study has tracked this full emotional sequence in everyday life. Researchers found that being around others boosts emotional energy a...

🥱 Study shows that social interaction boosts emotional vitality—but leads to delayed fatigue

phys.org/news/2025-07...

#psychology #social #interaction #introverts #extroverts #fatigue

The Colorado River is officially contaminated with invasive zebra mussels. Can the state stop the spread? The Colorado River from Glenwood Springs to the Utah border is now considered positive for zebra mussels, an invasive species known to devastate ecosystems and clog critical infrastructure.

🐚 The Colorado River is officially contaminated with invasive zebra mussels: Can the state stop the spread?

www.denverpost.com/2025/07/20/c...

#river #ecology #environment #mussels #colorado

Lunar soil could support life on the Moon, say scientists Scientists have developed a technology that may help humans survive on the moon. In a study published in the journal Joule, researchers extracted water from lunar soil and used it to convert carbon di...

🥮 Lunar soil could support life on the Moon, say scientists

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#moon #space #lunar #isru #materials #water #mining

Reverse engineering the mysterious Up-Data Link Test Set from Apollo Back in 2021, a collector friend of ours was visiting a dusty warehouse in search of Apollo-era communications equipment. A box with NASA-st...

🌝 Reverse engineering the mysterious Up-Data Link Test Set from Apollo

www.righto.com/2025/07/reve...

#electronics #technology #nasa #apollo #moon

Cluster of Red Roses Rise Up from the Lower Left in front of a brick building with a sign that says MARKET Cafe.

Semi-double roses in Front of Wegmans Supermarket in Ithaca, NY

#photo #photography #flowers #roses #bloomscrolling #ithaca #wegmans #supermarket

Equipment including ladders and barricades and workmen spread out in a new building with a bare concrete floor and a slanted ceiling (with two angles with doors to the left and windows to the right)

Workmen finishing the first floor of the new computer science building

#photo #photography #building #architecture #cornell #ithaca #computerscience #cs #construction

Three open lily flowers which are orange/yellow on the inside and white on the inside with an evergreen tree with tight cones and a corrugated red barn wall behind it

Lily flowers in front of my barn

#photo #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #plants #lily

In two separate lanes two groups of runners simultaneously hand off their batons

Simultaneous relay race handoffs at Trackapalooza 2025

#photo #photography #running #flrc #groton #trackapalooza #sports #track #relay

An glass wall from the left meets and orange wall at the right at a 90 degree angle creating an abstract pattern

Close up of the facade of Gates Hall for #abstractaugust

#photo #photography #buildings #cornell #ithaca #geometric #architecture

Conservatives Are Losing It Over Superman’s Basic Morality Reactionary hysterics over James Gunn’s Superman reboot bring some delight to America’s otherwise plainest superhero.

Conservatives Are Losing It Over Superman’s Basic Morality

(... funny my autoposter posted this to 𝐻𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑟 𝑁𝑒𝑤𝑠 when I was at the theater with my family to see it)

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#superman #comics #movies #politics #superhero #morality #values

Real milk proteins, no cows: Engineered bacteria pave the way for vegan cheese and yogurt Bacteria are set to transform the future of dairy-free milk products. Scientists have successfully engineered E. coli to produce key milk proteins essential for cheese and yogurt production, without u...

🥛 Real milk proteins, no cows: Engineered bacteria pave the way for vegan cheese and yogurt

phys.org/news/2025-07...

#milk #biomimetic #microbes #gmo #manufacturing #food #biotech

College is not for every student. How schools are steering them to high-demand jobs Los Angeles Unified's "Earn & Learn" summer program pays students as they are introduced to vocational skills in high-demand jobs.

👩‍🏭College is not for every student. How schools are steering them to high-demand jobs

www.latimes.com/california/s...

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#college #jobs #youth #education #work #bluecollar

Here's the one I have right now on my office door

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I was able to find this, the collage in front of my office, on my other social

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I went through a few different designs in this spot, I'm not sure I can ever replace this one

scroll back through my feed and you'll see plenty of these! I've got a whole bunch of them in front of my barn

Ancient trees are dying faster than expected in Eastern Oregon Eastern Oregon's Malheur National Forest boasts some of the state's oldest trees, including pine and larch that live more than 500 years. But many of those ancient trees are dying at an alarming rate,...

📉 Ancient trees are dying faster than expected in Eastern Oregon

phys.org/news/2025-07...

#trees #oregon #environment #deforestation #nature #ecology

A Sequoia Forest Grows in Detroit Using the DNA of the world’s mightiest trees, a tree grower in Michigan aims to replenish old-growth forests, one sapling at a time.

🌲 A Sequoia Forest Grows in Detroit

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#detroit #trees #forest #urban #city #sequoia

Study suggests liquid brines could form on Mars' surface during seasonal frost melting Due to extreme temperatures and the dryness of Mars, it's thought to be impossible for liquid water to form on the planet's surface, a critical precondition for habitability. The only hope of finding ...

🥨 Liquid brines discovered on Mars surface during seasonal frost melting

phys.org/news/2025-07...

#mars #space #astronomy #planetary #water #brine

Black man with dreadlocks wearing reflective glasses hangs in the air with a red track, fence, and spectators in the background and past that the roofs of some cars, a close row of trees and a distant forest as well as power lines. He's got his arms up in the air, a black tank top that shows his muscular arms, one leg bent in front of him and one behind, nike socks and shoes and a red bib that says 527 in yellow numerals.

Long jumper hangs in the air at Groton High School

#photo #photography #sports #flrc #trackapalooza #longjump #portrait #track #groton #upstateny

A purple coneflower is in perfect focus near the very bottom of the frame just a bit left of center, behind that are numerous similar flowers not quite in focus and then a row of grass and behind that a surface of water with diffuse reflections and a building and docks out of fovus on the far side with two bright polygonal spots

Purple flower by the inlet on Ithaca's waterfront with Cayuga Lake

#photo #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #water #lake #waterfront #summer #ithaca

Railroad tracks receed into the background and curve to the right as they go out of sight. On the left side is a big brown building with a split rail fence in front and behind that a low white building with a red C on it, on the right a grassy lawn and a little bit of a dark colored building, some powerlines cross the sky which is blue except for some cumulus clouds in the distant background

Railroad track by the waterfront in Ithaca, NY; that's the clubhouse for Cornell's rowing team with the big C in the background

#photo #photography #ithaca #cornell #rail #railroad #tracks #landscape #abstractaugust

Conference room on the top floor of the new Computer Science building with a floor plan taped to the glass

#photo #photography #cornell #buildings #cs #construction #architecture #computerscience

Walking back through the ferns after the Forest Frolic in James Kennedy State Forest

#ferns #plants #forests #forestfrolic #flrc #outdoors #jameskennedy #dryden #stateforest #photo #photography