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Historian of science and technology, thinks "artificial intelligence" is both an oxymoron and a pleonasm. Possibly a panpsychist. Very occasionally posts longer mind-leavings on https://dettelblog.wordpress.com/.
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Catalpa flowers. Remarkable for such a weedy tree.

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📢 The #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary is entering a bold new chapter – and we need your help! Today we release our official Call for Support. We’re seeking new hosts for BHL’s staff, infrastructure, and services. Learn more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/06/tran... #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL

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We feed you. They hunt us.

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Spring chicken for dinner!

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As if there weren’t enough gall in the feeds nowadays, here are two firsts for the season from today’s walk, some witch’s hats (witch-hazel cone gall aphids) and some wool sower gall wasps.

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Inordinately, irrationally pleased with this purchase from a Dayton bookstore, PJF Turpin’s essay of a philosophical iconography of plants, with this synoptic plate, illustrating the morphological unity of Nature, dedicated to his patron Humboldt.

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This is a useless commuter line, @mbta.com. I see a pattern—at least be honest with your schedules.

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Admirable clarity. Gleichschaltung.

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The Trump administration is “trying to collapse the independence of universities. And they won’t stop there. The point is to collapse the independence of institutions in civil society.” — Wesleyan University President Michael Roth on MSNBC #HigherEd

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Habemus corpus?

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For folks in the Boston area eager to hear a Renaissance choir imitating cuckoos, cannons, cymbals, crowds, and campaniles--clango, "I ring" is a real (though apparently very rare) classical Latin verb--Convivium has some upcoming concerts:

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Alexander von Humboldt died #OTD in 1859. "Der Fürst der Wissenschaft, der erhabene Herrscher von Gottes Gnaden im Reiche der Geister ist nicht mehr." api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/image/v...

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"We know of no two travellers, ancient or modern, who have traversed so many leagues of foolscap, as Doctor Clarke and the Baron de Humboldt." Clever diss of Alexander von Humboldt, who died #OTD in 1859 at the age of 89, who spent far more of his life writing than travelling.

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I could live with Guys & Doll, but now with the movie tariff it's just Guy, and I'm done.

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A dapper looking male Philodromus dispar searching the garden for a mate. @britishspiders.bsky.social

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Today’s word is myrmecochore—a plant that relies on ants for seed dispersal—like the wood anemones now making their brief appearance across the street.

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Proper, or im. youtu.be/cg4YrOlAkds

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30 April 1943 | Eddy Hamel was murdered in a gas chamber in #Auschwitz. Born in #NYC in 1902. As a teenager, he moved to Amsterdam. 1st Jewish player in Ajax Amsterdam. He scored 8 goals in 125 league games. After arrest in Oct 1942, he was deported to Auschwitz with his wife & 2 kids.

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