Wendy W @WendyW@qoto.org

It’s a beautiful if very cold day in london.
The city looks beautiful, and I’ve picked up the first daffodils of the year.

#photographer #photography #dailyphoto #dailyphotos #dailyshot #creative #creator #london #cityoflondon #StreetPhotography #boost #follow

That cloud is giving the impression we’ve just avoided the apocalypse…

#DailyShots #Photomonday #Photographer #Photography #DailyPhotos #NeilEvansRocks #London #Meteor #OddCloud #NotUFO

Another #introduction I’m Neil, I’m a #photographer #filmmaker and full time #creator, you might also occasionally see or hear me on the #tv or #radio

You can follow me at:
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I talk about the #creatoreconomy #food #travel #photography #films #london #politics and more. Say hello, let’s chat, let’s follow! 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

World Leprosy Day 2023
#Leprosy #infectiousdisease

29 January 2023
This international day is an opportunity to celebrate people who have experienced leprosy, raise awareness of the disease, and call for an end to leprosy-related stigma and discrimination.

Visit the WHO information to learn more about the 2023 World Leprosy Day theme: "Act Now. End Leprosy."

https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2023/01/29/default-calendar/act-now-end-leprosy-wld-2023

Missing Radioactive Capsule Prompts Search and Concern in Australia - In the Australian Outback, authorities are engaged in an unusual search-and-recovery effo... - https://www.wsj.com/articles/missing-radioactive-capsule-prompts-search-and-concern-in-australia-11675068420?mod=rss_Technology #paid

I wrote about the remarkable, multi-dimensional progress that we've been seeing recently for engineering T cells to address refractory medical conditions https://erictopol.substack.com/p/engineering-t-cells

Elusive glass octopus spotted in the remote Pacific Ocean. Only its eyes, optic nerve and digestive tract are opaque. This rarely-seen glass octopus bared all recently — even a view of its innards — when an underwater robot filmed it gracefully soaring through the deep waters of the Central Pacific Ocean. Image credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute

I wonder how many folks out there know you can take just about any course at MIT for free.

They just post everything online after the in-person course is complete. Lectures, supplements, tests, everything.

New housing district Merwede in the center of Utrecht:
6,000 homes for 10,000 people.
21,500 indoor bicycle parking places.
0 parking places and no roads for cars.
1,500 underground parking spaces at the edges, €200/month each.
In @nrc today.

COMPETITION ALERT: “The aim is to build an exciting, modern urban quarter for at least 10k residents & 5k workplaces, focused on eco-friendly transportation & land use as part of a carbon-neutral urban environment.”

BIG ambition by #Reykjavik on this international competition! Former Vienna Vice-Mayor Maria Vassilakou & I are jurors and advisors.

Info: https://betrisamgongur.is/keldnaland/

Competition document: https://betrisamgongur.is/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Keldur-Competition-Brief.pdf

❓ Have you ever wondered what makes you you? This is a complicated question to answer in humans where we can’t control every single thing that a human experiences for their whole life.

🐟 This week, writer Kara McGaughey talks about how a group of neuroscientists used a genetically identical group of fish to answer this question.

Read her post to find out whether the fish were born with their individuality or if they developed their individuality over time.

https://pennneuroknow.com/2023/01/24/when-did-you-become-you/

#scienceCommunication #sciComm #neuroscience #brain #psychology #individuality #fish

In its sleep, an octopus will change its skin colour and texture in what appears to be dreaming.

Humans and octopuses are separated by 750 million years of evolution. Our last common ancestor was an ocean flatworm. We may as well be from different planets.

So either even creatures as simple as worms can dream and we inherited that from them, or dreaming is an emergent property of intelligence, appearing independently. And both possibilities are fascinating.

@Lee_in_Iowa @kornbluh @BrentToderian For some reason I couldn’t find any pictures with groceries… You’ll have to make do with camping gear, an adult friend, a flea market haul, and a Home Depot run including a tree. Bakfiets are the kings of cargo.

My dogs are The Saddest™ when I'm eating breakfast #mastodogs #dogsofmastodon #restingpibbleface #dogs #pitties #hongry

I dreamt I was learning a language with two important words, wimak and mak. You used ‘mak’ in factual sentences where the basis for your assertion was anything you could touch (including taste) and ‘wimak’ if what you knew came from dreams, communication with ghosts, or intuition. Stuff you saw or heard was an unmarked case. People argued about whether tv or internet was wimak or not. #linguistdreams

Mornin’.

Blue Tit in the brambles.

It must be exhausting always being on the scope for danger.

What they don’t see coming though is us…taking/destroying their habitat.
Poisoning their air, water and forage.

Birds need trees. Need brambles. Need hedgerows. Need insects. Need seed heads. Need wild.

They don’t need tidy. Concrete. Plastic. Pesticides. Us.

#BlueTit #birds #bird #birdsofmastodon
#beesanctuaryireland #bees #nature
#wildlife #naturereserve #organic #vegan #wildlifephotography