Emma Goto
Japanese-Australian software engineer in Tokyo. Writing about hiking in Japan, coffee, birding, books and anything else that piques my interest.
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Dreamy Digital Illustrations by Rebecca Zwanzig Tap into Art History and Nostalgia
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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Photo of the Week: Portable Sawmill at Nichols Arboretum
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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Veronese's Dogs
“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.
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“The Persian Mâr-Nâmeh or, The Book for Taking Omens from Snakes” (1892)
A Zoroastrian text about serpents translated by the President of the Bombay Anthropological Society.
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A 10K TRAIL RACE WITH 1,300′ OF CLIMBING
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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Back to Warm
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…
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Álvaro Urbano Honors the Lost Specimens of Mexico City’s Iconic Casa Cueva
Álvaro Urbano presents an homage to the innovations of Casa Cueva, an icon of modernist Mexican architecture. 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 Álvaro Urbano Honors the…
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Caturday felid trifecta: Cats playing music; couple travels the world to photograph every wild cat species; new book on cats as muses; and lagniappe
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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andrewmarsh.com/software
Various generative tools - model weather, parametric shapes, sunpaths, trees, more.
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The Grove
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
Richard M1HAX
Summit journal and blog documenting hiking trail routes, mountaineering, ham radio projects, and Summits on the Air (SOTA) amateur radio activities.
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How Do Fungi Keep the Planet Healthy?
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
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I made an interactive Sakura tree that runs in the browser
Sakura is a procedurally grown cherry blossom tree with petals drifting down on the wind.
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Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae), taken September 10, 2026, in Georgia, US
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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2026: Annus horribilis
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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Terragen
Photorealistic 3d terrain generator. Some versions are free for noncommercial use
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