(Ragondin, Loir-et-cher, Fr, 04/25)
#PhotographieNature #PhotographieAnimale #BaladeNature #Observation #Rongeurs #Ragondin #Mignon #Etang #Sologne #AnimalPhotography #NaturePhotography #Rodents #Coypu #Nutria #Cute
L’un des plus mignons de la série : le petit poussin qui baille en écartant ses petites ailes toutes duveteuses
Parce que courir sur la plage toute la journée, c’est fatiguant !
#ornithologie #illustrationnaturaliste #aquarelle #oiseau #gravelot #croquis #biodiversite #artanimalier #birdart #birdlover #wildlifeart #cuteart #illustration #dessinnature #observation #plage #natureillustration #poussin #watercolor #nidification
Toujours un entraînement aquarelle avec ce gorge bleu à miroir qui chante à tue-tête pour protéger son territoire, signaler sa présence aux mâles et femelles…
J’ai essayé d’évoquer le fouillis végétal des roseaux derrière. Je ne suis pas très bonne en fouillis végétal, il faudrait que je m’entraîne aussi là-dessus !
Can you see what I can see?
Historical stuff here. Attacks on licenses, attacks on intellectual thought. It is all about money.
1809 ‘Chart’: "Southern Celestial Hemisphere On The Plane Of The Equator:..
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“On which is carefully defined the Boundaries of the Conftellations & all the Stars to the Sixth Magnitude inclufive.
From the Aftronomical Catalogue of the Rev. M. Wollaston, F.R.S”
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https://www.atlascoelestis.com/Woll%20base%20per%20tavole.htm <-- details of the text and map(s) for astronomy students (in Italian)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_celestial_hemisphere <-- shared Southern Celestial Hemisphere wiki page
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My other ½ – an astrophysicist working currently in space weather – gave me this map/chart… Now I have to find someone to preserve and frame it - sheesh! ~smile~
#GIS #spatial #mapping #map #cartography #preserve #frame #teachingaid #education #oldmap #SouthernCelestialHemisphere #stars #starchart #astronomy #celestialmapping #observation #charting #navigation #mapgeeks #mapnerds
Les manchots papou, les stars de mes cartes marines !
Pour varier un peu, je cherche à faire des positions originales. Voilà un manchot papou en "position extatique".
Quand il braie (ou vocalise) de cette manière, c’est pour séduire ou communiquer avec son/sa partenaire.
Dans la série "je m'entraîne à faire des aquarelles efficaces et rapides", voici la mésange bleue !
Elle est perchée sur une branche de prunellier.
Un petit exercice de style pour affiner ma technique !
I was going to ask the #Earth #Observation community, including @EOMasters, if there were good online resources to access and process #DigitalElevationModel (DEM) data.
But just found out that my ace colleague @LukeDataManager had done a detailed workflow and published it online.
https://nordatanet.github.io/Exploring_FAIR_data_with_Python/Global_and_regional_bathymetry.html
Note to self: be more like Luke and publish my workflows
Great #inventions begin with an #observation or #intention, not a problem
Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll
#Wisdom #Quotes #RobertGreenIngersoll #Experience #Observation #Reason #Science
Some warnings about weather data when using -->
https://earth.nullschool.net
Text is:
#Weather and #climate data shown on this website and countless others are at risk.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (#NOAA) is the U.S. agency responsible for global weather #forecasting, #hurricane #prediction, #ocean #observation, and many other services vital to public safety. Its #satellites, #supercomputers, and research teams provide essential #data that help us understand our #planet and #protect #lives.
On February 27, the new U.S. administration initiated mass firings at NOAA. These actions are #unethical and deeply #disruptive to the talented #scientists and #engineers who dedicate themselves to the public good. The firings, along with expected budget cuts, have serious implications for the availability and #quality of #WeatherForecasts produced by the #UnitedStates. They must be reversed immediately.
Much of the data on this website is downloaded directly from NOAA's servers. In this environment of uncertainty, access could be #disrupted at any time. While I'll strive to keep all features on this website functional and switch to alternative data sources if necessary, some datasets have no substitute if they go offline.
If this concerns you, speak up. Share on #SocialMedia. And if you're in the U.S., contact your representatives.
Theory and Therapy of Representations • 5
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/25/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-5-b/
Re: R.J. Lipton and K.W. Regan • Legal Complexity
• https://rjlipton.com/2022/09/04/legal-complexity/
❝I do not pretend to understand the moral universe;
the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways;
I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by
the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience.
And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.❞
🙞 Theodore Parker
• https://web.archive.org/web/20200302045624/https://books.google.com/books?id=eHgYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA48#v=onepage&q&f=false
The arc of the moral universe may bend toward justice — there's hope it will.
For the logic of laws to converge on justice may take some doing on our part.
Resources —
Survey of Cybernetics
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/
Survey of Differential Logic
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02/25/survey-of-differential-logic-7/
Survey of Inquiry Driven Systems
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02/28/survey-of-inquiry-driven-systems-6/
#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #SystemsTheory #Governance #Democracy
#Plato #Peirce #MaxWeber #Accountability #Representation #Statistics
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #Observation #Expectation #Intention
Theory and Therapy of Representations • 4
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/24/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-4-b/
Re: Ontolog Forum • Paola Di Maio
• https://groups.google.com/g/ontolog-forum/c/Ek_7cCCyFkQ/m/qI0kQv4UAgAJ
JA: What are the forces distorting our representations of what's observed, what's expected, and what's intended?
PDM: The short answer is — the force behind all distortions is our own unenlightened mind, and all the shortfalls this comes with.
I think that's true, we have to keep reflecting on the state of our personal enlightenments. If we can do that without losing our heads and our systems thinking caps, there will be much we can do to promote the general Enlightenment of the State.
On both personal and general grounds we have a stake in the projects of self‑governing systems — whether it is possible for them to exist and what it takes for them to thrive in given environments. Systems on that order have of course been studied from many points of view and at many levels of organization. Whether we address them under the names of adaptive, cybernetic, error-correcting, intelligent, or optimal control systems they all must be capable to some degree of learning, reasoning, and self‑guidance.
Resources —
Survey of Cybernetics
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/
Survey of Differential Logic
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02/25/survey-of-differential-logic-7/
Survey of Inquiry Driven Systems
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02/28/survey-of-inquiry-driven-systems-6/
#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #SystemsTheory #Governance #Democracy
#Plato #Peirce #MaxWeber #Accountability #Representation #Statistics
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #Observation #Expectation #Intention
Theory and Therapy of Representations • 3.2
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/23/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-3-b/
Scene 2. Theory and Therapy of Representations • 1
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/21/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-1-b/
Statistics were originally the data a ship of state needed for stationkeeping and staying on course. The Founders of the United States, like the Cybernauts of the Enlightenment they were, engineered a ship of state with checks and balances and error-controlled feedbacks for the sake of representing both reality and the will of the people. In that connection Max Weber saw how a state's accounting systems are intended as representations of realities its crew and passengers must observe or perish.
That brings us to Question 2 —
• What are the forces distorting our representations of what's observed, what's expected, and what's intended?
Resources ─
Survey of Cybernetics
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/
Pragmatic Theory Of Truth
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Pragmatic_Theory_Of_Truth
#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #SystemsTheory #Governance #Democracy
#Plato #Peirce #MaxWeber #Accountability #Representation #Statistics
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #Observation #Expectation #Intention
Theory and Therapy of Representations • 3.1
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/23/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-3-b/
Representation is a concept we find at the intersection of cybernetics, epistemology, logic, mathematics, psychology, and sociology. In my studies it led me from math to psych and back again, with sidelong glances at the history of democratic governance. Its time come round again, I find myself returning to the scenes of two recurring questions.
Scene 1. Pragmatic Truth • Discussion 18
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2019/11/14/pragmatic-truth-discussion-18/
We do not live in axiom systems. We do not live encased in languages, formal or natural. There is no reason to think we will ever have exact and exhaustive theories of what's out there, and the truth, as we know, is “out there”. Peirce understood there are more truths in mathematics than are dreamt of in logic — and Gödel’s realism should have put the last nail in the coffin of logicism — but some ways of thinking just never get a clue.
That brings us to Question 1 —
• What are formalisms and all their embodiments in brains and computers good for?
Resources ─
Survey of Cybernetics
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/
Pragmatic Theory Of Truth
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Pragmatic_Theory_Of_Truth
#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #SystemsTheory #Governance #Democracy
#Plato #Peirce #MaxWeber #Accountability #Representation #Statistics
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #Observation #Expectation #Intention
Theory and Therapy of Representations • 2
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/22/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-2-b/
In a complex society, people making decisions and taking actions at places remote from you have the power to affect your life in significant ways. Those people govern your life, they are your government, no matter what spheres of influence they inhabit, private or public. The only way you get a choice in that governance is if there are paths of feedback permitting you to affect the life of those decision makers and action takers in significant ways. That is what accountability, response-ability, and representative government are all about.
Naturally, some people are against that.
In the United States there has been a concerted campaign for as long as I can remember — but even more concerted since the Reagan Regime — to get the People to abdicate their hold on The Powers That Be and just let some anonymous corporate entity send us the bill after the fact. They keep trying to con the People into thinking they can starve the beast, to limit government, when what they are really doing is feeding the beast of corporate control, weakening their own power over the forces that govern their lives.
That is the road to perdition as far as responsible government goes. There is not much of anything one leader or one administration can do unsupported if the People do not constantly demand a government of, by, and for the People.
Resource ─
Survey of Cybernetics
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/
#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #SystemsTheory #Governance #Democracy
#Plato #Peirce #MaxWeber #Accountability #Representation #Statistics
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #Observation #Expectation #Intention
Warm Seawater Encroaches On Major Antarctic Ice Shelf, Raising Sea Level Concerns
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https://phys.org/news/2025-01-seawater-encroaches-major-antarctic-ice.html <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JC020700 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #climatechange #Antarctic #Antarctica #icesheet #warmwater #oceancurrents #ocean #marine #iceshelves #WeddellSea #FilchnerRonneIceShelf #basal #melt #melting #rates #model #modeling #continentalshelf #spatiotemporal #observation #icecover #freshwater #global #sealevel #climatemodels #water #temperature #velocity #seawater #FilchnerTrough #spatialanalysis #oceandynamics
Theory and Therapy of Representations • 1
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/21/theory-and-therapy-of-representations-1-b/
❝Again, in a ship, if a man were at liberty to do what he chose, but were devoid of mind and excellence in navigation (αρετης κυβερνητικης), do you perceive what must happen to him and his fellow sailors?❞
─ Plato • Alcibiades 135 A
Statistics were originally the data a ship of state needed for stationkeeping and staying on course. The Founders of the United States, like the Cybernauts of the Enlightenment they were, engineered a ship of state with checks and balances and error‑controlled feedbacks for the sake of representing both reality and the will of the people. In that connection Max Weber saw how a state's accounting systems are intended as representations of realities its crew and passengers must observe or perish.
The question for our time is —
• What are the forces distorting our representations of what's observed, what's expected, and what's intended?
Repercussions ─
The Place Where Three Wars Meet
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/06/21/the-place-where-three-wars-meet/
Resource ─
Survey of Cybernetics
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/25/survey-of-cybernetics-4/
#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #SystemsTheory #Governance #Democracy
#Plato #Peirce #MaxWeber #Accountability #Representation #Statistics
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #Observation #Expectation #Intention
video overview - glacier ice loss over two decades
#GIS #spatial #mapping #GlacierMassBalanceIntercomparison #glacial #glacier #global #cryosphere #regional #frehwater #water #resources #waterresources #watersecurity #sealevel #sealevelrise #SLR #rate #change #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #ice #snow #loss #massloss #greenland #antarctic #icesheet #anthropogenic #climatechange #melt #melting #risk #hazard #geohazard #geology #engineeringgeology #marine #terrestrial #ecosystems #watercycle #masschange #insitu #remotesensing #local #observation #model #modeling #projection