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“Oh, if I could only pray”, Luther once said of his dog Tölpel, “the way this dog watches the meat”. Attending to attentive canine figures in half a dozen paintings by Paolo Veronese, Thomas W. Laqueur explores the work of an artist whose love of dogs landed him in hot water with the Inquisition.
From The Public Domain Review
Circular maps custom-made for the fire towers that once dotted the American wilderness.
From The Public Domain Review
Various generative tools - model weather, parametric shapes, sunpaths, trees, more.
From Tiny Tools Directory
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
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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
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…
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…
From Kagi Small Web
Sakura is a procedurally grown cherry blossom tree with petals drifting down on the wind.
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Summit journal and blog documenting hiking trail routes, mountaineering, ham radio projects, and Summits on the Air (SOTA) amateur radio activities.
From personalsit.es
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
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
Japanese-Australian software engineer in Tokyo. Writing about hiking in Japan, coffee, birding, books and anything else that piques my interest.
From personalsit.es
Growing (€119) Extremely competent tree growth software, works with Blender. Almost didn’t include because $ but it does what it does well.
From Tiny Tools Directory
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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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…
From Kagi Small Web
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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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…
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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