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Landscape Language
Cinnabar (adj) – a bright red color tinted with orange
Sitka mountain ash (Sorbus sitchensis) is known for its red berries, an important winter food for many birds and animals. However, its fall foliage can also be brightly colored, ranging from yellow to deep red. Or, in this case, cinnabar – a red color tinted with orange. What other unique colors have you seen this fall?
___________ NPS Photo, taken 10/1/18 at Paradise. Description: A cluster of shrubs with red berries and bright red-orange leaves. ~kl
December 17th of 2019 is The Launch Date of The CHEOPS_Mission to measure The Radii of EXOPLANETS Which have already been discovered by now.
What is a Yottabyte?
The European Space_Agency’s GAIA_Mission might help Astronomers discover a lot more Extrasolar_Planets.
(via European satellite could discover thousands of planets in Earth's galaxy (arXiv))
Here's a Linguistic Map of Czechoslovakia from 1930.
Linguistic map of Czechoslovakia, 1930
Here's a Look at The Lunar Space Elevator!
Here’s are some Websites to Explore.
These websites could change your life
I asked Kottke.org readers if they had ever seen, heard, or read something on the web that literally changed their lives.
Fourteen people said no. Sixteen said maybe. Thirty-eight people said yes. These are some of their answers. Everyone is anonymous. Some said more than others.
Four different people listed pages from Metafilter:
Ask MetaFilter
;Where’s My Cut? –: On Unpaid Emotional Labor
For the person who’s got everything: “I read this post, applied, and had a play made for me.”
[creepy filter] Is it normal to become this distracted from seeing an attractive person in public?: This reader pointed to a comment in this thread “that describes the grinding reality of daily low-grade sexual harassment.”
Five readers listed works of journalism.
The Lilly Suicides by Richard DeGrandpre.
The Overprotected Kid by Hanna Rosin “persuaded me to be a far less uptight parent.”
Is This Working? on discipline and punishment in the school system.
The Blissfully Slow World of Internet Newsletters. (I hope this person now does something with newsletters.)
Don’t report sexual harassment (in most cases) by Penelope Trunk.
Five listed personal essays or advice.
Ten Things I Have Learned by Milton Glaser [PDF]
Mindfulness in Plain English by Ven. Henepola Gunaratana.
Encountering the Gifted Self Again, For the First Time “made me realise that I’m not just a weirdo, but all of my "quirks” actually fit together under a label, and that has made me understand myself about 10000x better.“
Pixel Poppers: Awesome By Proxy: Addicted to Fake Achievement: "an essay on performance orientation vs. mastery orientation, as applied to videogame genres.”
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #77: The Truth That Lives There.
Five listed videos or video series.
“Almost any woodworking video by Matthias Wandel.”
Vsauce.
The School of Life
The power of vulnerability by Bren Brown.
Kid President’s Letter To A Person On Their First Day Here:
And ten listed entire websites.
“Josh Davis’s www.dreamless.org message board, now defunct.”
“Violet Blue’s writing, which lead to me realizing sex is a much deeper and more interesting topic than mainstream news coverage would have me believe.”
“The website MathPuzzle. It was the first time a website caught my attention and I corresponded with the owner/webmaster, and it opened me up to the online and offline community of puzzlers around the world. Working as a puzzle author got me through college and helped me establish a name for myself.”
Bullet Journal.
YearCompass.
“Jeph Jacques’s Questionable Content, particularly how he dealt with suicide, depression, and the concept of people from different backgrounds so elegantly. I like to think it increased (and continues to increase) my empathy in the world.”
National Novel Writing Month
“Radiolab made me want to be a journalist.”
l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi: “In 2005 I was trying to get information on how to study abroad for a year. Everything I read was on the Internet, and I then spent 9 months between 2006 and 2007 in Chicoutimi, Quebec.”
Pixel Envy. “Not pandering. Started reading Kottke, DF, and Metafilter, and realized that I could try doing the same thing. I’ve had a modicum of success since, and met a bunch of really cool people as a result.”
Now pick up your instruments, and go start a band.
The Solar System has at least two more planets waiting to be discovered beyond the orbit of Pluto, Spanish and British astronomers say. Beyond Neptune, Pluto was relegated to the status of "dwarf planet" by the International Astronomical Union in 2006, although it is still championed by some
Ranger Robin wrote Books on Birds.
Miniature Monday!
Small books about birds by “Ranger Robin” published by Phillips and Hunt. No date, but definitely 19th century. These are four inches tall, so they are a bit beyond a miniature book, but definitely still small.
The books are: Hawks and Owls, Swimming Birds, Tooth-Billed Birds, Vultures and Eagles, and Wading Birds.
Seemed a shame that color wasn’t available to them when they printed that frontispiece, so I added the red they must have wished for.
Gift of Carol Kapell in Memory of Pauline B. Deems.
-Colleen
