Ag Terrane @agterrane@qoto.org
#Mostly confused. #Seismology. #Volcanos. #Astrophysics. # Archaeology. #Art. #Interior Design. Most science.
Joined Nov 2022
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In Alaska, wood frogs freeze for seven months, thaw and hop away.
https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-alaskan-frozen-frogs-20140723-story.html
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Oh. my. god.
Madison Square Garden used facial recognition to identify and stop a mom from attending a Christmas show with her kid because she's an attorney at a firm who is engaged in litigation with them.
This is why it's not enough to just ban government and law enforcement use of #facialrecognition. There are so many ways private companies and even individuals can abuse #biometric #surveillance tech.
#BanFacialRecognition entirely. Yesterday.
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Cool short blog post by @ewklemetti
Find out how we used sand (well, zircons really) in the Andes-Amazon Fan system like a time machine to explore past mountain building processes.
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/sand-tells-us-the-history-of-mountains
#andes
#amazonriver
#geology
#mountains
#sand
#sediment
#tectonics
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#EarthquakeReport #EarthquakeToot for M 6.4 #Earthquake in Mendocino triple junction (Triangle of Doom) region
aftershocks suggest left-lateral strike-slip in Gorda plate
felt broadly, about 92%g in Ferndale
read more from last year's report
https://earthjay.com/?p=10125
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc73821036/executive
hi res map here
https://earthjay.com/earthquakes/20221220_norcal/20221220_norcal_interpretation.jpg
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🏳️🌈🖖🏽
Most people figure when they get to their 60s, it’s time to slow down, take stock, and hit cruise control.
That’s not what I did.
I came out of the closet, figured out this social media thing, and then made my Broadway debut in my 70s. Now I’m taking on London in my 80s!
To see me live and on stage in the West End, get tickets before they’re gone! https://Allegiancemusical.com
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You might not think much of sand, but the minerals found in a pile of sand can reveal the lost history of long destroyed mountains: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/sand-tells-us-the-history-of-mountains #geology #zircon #Discover
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A statue honoring Henrietta Lacks whose whose cells resulted in countless medical breakthroughs will be built in her birthplace Roanoke #Virginia
The statue replaces Gen Robert E Lee
@Rjdlandscapes That is amazing!
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TIL: There is a cursed color in the Kodak ProPhoto RGB color space which, when converted to sRGB using pre-August-2020-Security-Update Android's image conversion routines, causes an integer overflow and a crash due to a rounding error. Some dude accidentally created an image (https://www.flickr.com/photos/gaurav_agrawal/48746079687/) which contains the cursed color on a single pixel. In 2020 if you set this image as your desktop on a Google or Samsung device, the device would brick & lose all onboard data https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXKvwPjCGnY
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If you live in this area and felt shaking from this #earthquake be prepared to feel aftershocks. Aftershocks are normal and expected after an earthquake of this size. In fact, there have already been 20+ aftershocks of M2.5+. If you feel shaking - drop, cover and hold on until all shaking has stopped.
PSA: aftershocks are just smaller earthquakes that occur after a larger quake.
Here’s more info https://youtu.be/mH4qRTU7eTQ
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#Archaeology is always more fun when you look closer to find the details from everyday life long, long ago. Paw-prints left behind on a brick from Roman Bath
#DailyArchaeology My 📸
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A court in Germany on Tuesday convicted a 97-year-old woman of being an accessory to murder in over 10,000 cases for her role as a secretary to the commandant of the German Nazi concentration camp Stutthof during World War II.
Irmgard Furchner was accused of being part of the apparatus that helped the camp function. The Itzehoe state court in northern Germany gave her a two-year suspended sentence.
More: https://apnews.com/article/prisons-dceae7a28dfdee9a869bd8fe8a75c91a
#Stutthof #history #Nazis #Germany #SS #justice #woman #trial
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The area where this quake occurred is quite active. These images from the IRIS Earthquake Browser show #earthquakes of M4+, M5+, M6+ and M7+.
This is a fascinating area because it’s where the Pacific, North American & Juan de Fuca Plates meet. In this region the right-lateral San Andreas fault veers offshore into the Mendocino Fracture Zone and to the north the Cascadia subduction zone begins.
https://seismo.berkeley.edu/blog/2008/10/27/where-the-san-andreas-fault-ends.html
@Katiefeatherstone It reminds me of a windy day on the #Mendocino #headlands in #California. It's missing #redwoods inland, though. Makes me want to go to the coast.
Got woken up by the California shake alert at 230 AM last night. We're a mountain range away from the epicenter, so felt nothing. But it's nice to know there's a warning that will wake us ahead of a quake. I'm not good when I wake, but this made me very alert. 😂 😮
@keepitrheol Better to have a cuddle with the family! Paper can wait a day.
@Pat OH, thank you. That's very helpful.
#Mostly confused. #Seismology. #Volcanos. #Astrophysics. # Archaeology. #Art. #Interior Design. Most science.
Joined Nov 2022
