Btw I've Found These Stretches From The WAK Blog Very Helpful When Knitting A Lot:

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If you're feeling anxious or depressed about the climate and want to do something to help right now, from your bed, for free...

Start helping with citizen science projects

The Conversation

Explainer: what is citizen science?

Public participation in science is increasing, and citizen science has a central part in this. It is a contribution by the public to researc

What's a citizen science project? Basically, it's crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!

You don't need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases

Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.

Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.

Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El Niño.

Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.

Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.

Oh, and btw, you don't have to worry about messing up, because several people see each image. Studies show that if you pool the opinions of however many regular people (different by field), it matches the accuracy rate of a trained scientist in the field.

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I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can't participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.

Next time you wish you could do something - anything - to help

Remember that actually, you can. And help with some science.

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This Realistic Big Crocodile Amigurumi Pattern From Tricks Of The Crochet Is Simply Magnificent! 👉 https://buff.ly/3JiHHlo 🐊

Happiness Will Come To You.

First Book Of The Year

This is the first book I'm reading this year! I'm already 50 pages into it, and loving it. I'm a huge fan of anything with more than four legs, and so this book is right up my alley! Here's three things I've learned so far:

1) Fairy wasps spend their entire larval stage within the eggs of other insects

2) Male honeybees have no fathers, as they come only from unfertilized eggs, while the females are from the fertilized eggs.

3) Praying Mantises eat and kill their mates less often in their natural habitat than they do in laboratory settings.

I'm excited to keep reading! Also, if you have any book recommendations, let me know! Especially if it'll help me get buggy with it!

The Trilobite Buddy Plushie

I've been working on this for a while, and I'm very excited to share! I am not a professional by any means, but I got into sewing last year. I am also a huge paleontology nerd. This was the result. Anyway, I thought I'd share this for everyone here!

Feel free to download and share, I just ask that you don't repost or try to make any profit off of this pattern. This is just a resource for any fellow paleo nerds out there who would like a trilobite plushie as much as I did.

Enjoy!

Hey, don’t cry. Free online database of Japanese folk lore

going to start researching sheep breeds that are like endangered or need conservation and then seek out their wool to use, preferably buying directly from the herders, so i can support them

wonder if someone has written academic text on folk horror from an indigenous perspective