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Evolutionary biologist Toby Kiers explains how fungal networks in soil trade nutrients with plants, help keep carbon underground, and strike bargains without having a brain. The post How Do Fungi Keep the Planet Healthy? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
From Quanta Magazine
For the past few months, our local birding group has seen piles of large felled tree trunks in Nichols Arboretum in Ann Arbor, Michigan, near the Magnolia Collection. As we walked by last week, we saw piles of lengthwise wood planks finished on two sides. This week we saw a portable sawmill in…
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Weedon Island Preserve is a 3100-acre county park located in St Petersburg, Florida. It is a wildlife refuge encompassing a series of islands in Tampa Bay, consisting mostly of mangrove swamp and slash pine/cabbage palmetto scrub. But its primary importance is as an archaeological site, centered…
From Kagi Small Web
We have the usual three items today plus a bit of lagniappe. Reader Peter found the mother lode of cat videos: MelodyMeowsic, which is a bunch of AI videos featuring jazz-playing cats and, I think, AI-composed music. But it’s worth a look anyway, and since the videos are often an hour long, you can…
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The Portland-based artist's lush gradients are inspired by a love for oil painting. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Dreamy Digital Illustrations by Rebecca Zwanzig Tap…
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Circular maps custom-made for the fire towers that once dotted the American wilderness.
From The Public Domain Review
A crop circle sighting tinged with Christian morality.
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CDOT completed the wildlife-only bridge, the largest of its kind currently in North America, in December 2025. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article A New Wildlife Crossing in…
From Colossal
Ran a 10k trail race this weekend with 1,300′ of climbing. It was cold and windy, and we were at a high enough elevation for their to be frost on the ground, and it was very rocky. I came in 29th place, out of 33 people. Volunteers had some very good dogs with them, which … Continue reading "A 10K…
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With snow and cold weather for the past few days in the Mammoth Lakes area, Barbara Richter sent in some “last hurrah” photos from the ... Read more Source
From Kagi Small Web
Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae), taken September 10, 2026, in Georgia, US A bright yellow sulphur feeding from even brighter yellow flowers! To my puny, light-sensitive human eyes, both the flowers and butterfly were glowing painfully bright with the sun’s light, but they both seemed happy, so…
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I enjoy staring up at the stars at night and trying to wrap my tiny brain around the vast distances and time that their light has travelled. I find it relaxing to consider just how insignificant I am, and how brief and unimportant my existence is. I am hypnotised when watching the wind ripple…
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There’s a definite phenomenon arising from NOT crawling around a place you visit, and examining it in detail. Although I’ve walked from the northern extend of the town, where I found various things, including Lord Kelvin’s house, and gone as … Continue reading →
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A ridge of high pressure has returned to southern Alaska since late last week, echoing the persistent anomaly in August and September . Paired with a strong trough over far eastern Russia and the western Bering Sea, southwesterly flow has brought widespread unusual warmth and moisture to western and…
From Kagi Small Web
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