Paul Houle

Mwng has to be one of my favorite albums of all time.

Now that I remember it, I got better pictures of daffodils towards the end of the season last year because the strident yellow threw off my exposure

#photo #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #daffodils #spring #plants

Old Railroad bed converted to trail by Massabesic Lake east of Manchester, NH where I wandered as a cub

#photo #photography #landscape #newhampshire #trail #hiking #manchester #massabesiclake #fall

Circular Stained Glass Window on West Side of Sage Chapel

#photo #photography #cornell #buildings #architecture #sagechapel #religion #church #stainedglass #art

Fresco In Memory of Mary Ann Wood wife of Ezra Cornell in Sage Chapel not to be confused with Sage Hall

#photo #photography #cornell #ithaca #sagechapel #art #memorial

Roof-Level Window on Sage Hall

#photo #photography #cornell #buildings #architecture #sagehall #ithaca

Is the World Cup bump real? MLS is going to find out MLS stakeholders want to turn the interest in this summer’s North American World Cup into ‘rocket fuel’ for the league. Are those realistic expectations?

🏃‍♂️ Is the World Cup bump real? MLS is going to find out

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

#sports #soccer #mls #football #worldcup #usa

In 25-Country Survey, Americans Especially Likely To View Fellow Citizens as Morally Bad Across 25 countries, Americans are the most likely to see the morality and ethics of people in their country as somewhat or very bad.

In 25-Country Survey, Americans Especially Likely To View Fellow Citizens as Morally Bad: 53% of U.S. adults say Americans have bad morals and ethics

www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

#politics #uspol #politicalscience #publicopinion #usa #us #unitedstates #morality #survey #socialsciences

Why struggling Thailand keeps voting for change that never comes Repeated military coups and short-lived civilian governments since the early 2000s have made long-term planning in Thailand nearly impossible.

🗳️ Why struggling Thailand keeps voting for change that never comes

www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02...

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#politics #democracy #voting #thailand #asia #globalsouth

Cardboard crazy! Scavenger genius Shigeru Ban on building cathedrals and quake shelters with paper From high-end boutiques to housing in disaster zones with beer-crate foundations, the Japanese architect creates with things people throw away. What will his distillery in whisky’s holy land look like...

🍊 Cardboard crazy! Scavenger genius Shigeru Ban on building cathedrals and quake shelters with paper

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

#buildings #architecture #materials #paper #cardboard

Converting human urine into clean energy: Researchers optimize the process Researchers at McGill University have improved the efficiency of a method for converting human urine into clean energy. The method employs microbial fuel cells (MFCs), which use bacteria to turn organ...

🧻 Converting human urine into clean energy: Researchers optimize the process

techxplore.com/news/2026-02...

#urine #energy #fuelcell #chemistry #waste #circulareconomy

Dried Milkweed pod in a little patch of prairie that seems infinite

#photo #photography #plants #milkweed #bloomscrolling #flowers #seeds #plants #prairie

Dried Goldenrod in Tiny Tuft of Prairie in front of Johnson Museum of Art

#photo #photography #bloomscrolling #flowers #goldenrod #grass #cornell #architecture #johnsonmuseum

Old Five and Dime Store in Owego, NY from a chain that is long out of business

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#photo #photography #owego #upstateny #store #downtown #jjnewberry #blue

Susquehanna River with Ice Floes Last January Near Owego, NY

#photo #photography #owego #upstateny #river #ice #landscape #susquehanna

Historic house in Downtown Owego, NY

#photo #photography #buildings #house #architecture #owego #upstateny

despite RSS being obscure there are a lot of RSS feeds out there including publishers like 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛, 𝐿.𝐴. 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠, etc. YOShInOn ingests maybe 20,000 articles every 2 weeks and picks about 300 to show me

"failing RSS readers keep failing with the same failing interfaces that have been failing for years" and after Musk bought Twitter I got sick and tired of waiting for somebody else to do it so I did it myself and boy did the technology get better in 20 years ...

yeah, back in 2004 I wrote a paper about text classification and was really sure that an RSS reader with an algorithmic feed would be a great idea and kept saying like a broken record that ...

... if I put much effort at all into Sakura and Daffodils at all this year and stick to Tulips or street photography involving flowers

well... i am sitting on a huge number of flower photos I developed last Spring as well as even more that I didn't develop which leads to all sorts of questions such as: "do I post them when people in other zones are seeing them?" and ...

Dreamy 𝐴𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑢𝑚 Flowers

#photo #photography #flowers #bloomsrolling #allium #bokeh #summer

Cleopatra Canna Lily

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

Pink flowers heavy on a rose-family tree

#plants #photo #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #sakura #spring

I'm still kind of amazed that we're going to be seeing daffodils like these in about a month and a half

#photo #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #daffodils #spring #plants

New England boulders on shore of Atlantic Ocean

#photo #photography #landscape #ocean #newhampshire #newengland #atlanticocean

... well maybe it will make ICE come out to my farm and we'll tell them if they want to find illegal immigrants they should try the other barn down the road which is the headquarters of the Republican party for local elections

5,300-year-old 'bow drill' rewrites story of ancient Egyptian tools A new study reveals that Egyptians were using a mechanically sophisticated drilling tool far earlier than previously suggested. Researchers at Newcastle University, and the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienn...

🪛 5,300-year-old 'bow drill' rewrites story of ancient Egyptian tools

phys.org/news/2026-02...

#tools #egypt #history #technology

Jesse Jackson Paved the Way for a New US Left With his two unabashedly left-populist campaigns for president in 1984 and 1988, Jesse Jackson opened the door to Bernie Sanders’s presidential runs — and a reborn American socialist movement.

✊🏿 Jesse Jackson Paved the Way for a New US Left

jacobin.com/2026/02/jess...

#politics #usa #democracy #left #democrats #black #africanamerican #jessejackson

Specific brain signals rapidly eliminate body fat in mice Researchers at WashU Medicine have identified a potent pathway that begins in the brain and leads to loss of all body fat without reducing food intake. The study is reported in Nature Metabolism.

🤯 Specific brain signals rapidly eliminate body fat in mice

medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02...

#fat #brain #neurons #research #biology #hormones