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[BillTre]

I would expect a variety of personalities. it wouldn't surprise if certain types were disproportionately common, but not exclusive.
I haven't know a lot of physicists, but I have known many biologists. Some are quite nice. Some have won Noble Prizes.
Some are assholes, not all do well.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I would expect a variety of personalities. it wouldn't surprise if certain types were disproportionately common, but not exclusive.
I haven't know a lot of physicists, but I have known many biologists. Some are quite nice. Some have won Noble Prizes.
Some are assholes, not all do well.

If you could meet one person from that photo today, who would it be?

For me it would probably be Schrödinger. From what I have read he liked the ladies. I do too so we would probably have a lot to talk about.

It might be fun to talk with Heisenberg about the philosophical implications of his uncertainty principle. But what physicist or physics lover could resist an opportunity to speak with any of them?!

 

[DennisN]

Here's a post about a little editing trick in Photoshop...

I took a walk through the park the other day and saw a nice scene, but I didn't have my system camera with me, so I shot it with my mobile phone which doesn't happen very often these days.

What caught my eye was the sky and the reflection of it in the pond.
If I had been using my system camera I would have shot it with a polarizing filter in front of the lens to get a more dramatic contrast of the sky, but I had to do without it.

Here's the original:

In Photoshop you can use can use the Shadows/Highlights adjustment (Menu->Image->Adjustments->Shadows->Highlights) and set it like this...

...which can give a more dramatic sky.
This is a kind of "overexposure compensation".
Another little trick I picked up from somewhere I don't remember.

Here's the edited result:

The colors change a bit, but this can of course be further edited if you like to.

 

[BillTre]

Here is a map of South Asia (land of the Danios) and their drainage basins. I got it from this place.
The drainage basins are a common restriction for where a species can easily spread to.
There are several isolated drainage basins in Tibet and Mongolia with no outlet to the sea.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

 

[Ivan Seeking]

 

[morrobay]

I ride along here everyday, North Rd into Pattaya. Walking today noticed this was photo worthy.

 

[morrobay]

The amazing transformation with my massage friend from her family's rice farm up-country. Kul,42

 

[morrobay]

Walk through between Walking st. and 2nd Rd.

 

[morrobay]

From Eastern side gulf of Thailand. Latitude 13 N

 

[jtbell]

What's up at the college today?

Are they launching a new degree program in beekeeping?

Are they trying to raise money to pay off their loan from the US Department of Agriculture?

Are they pollinating the campus flower beds?

Are the bees supposed to go after intruders?

Was there a telephone mixup when they tried to book a Beyoncé concert?

No, none of the above... the state beekeepers' association is holding its annual meeting here!

 

[BillTre]

the state beekeepers' association is holding its annual meeting here!

The swarm gathers...

 

[pinball1970]

What's up at the college today?

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Are they launching a new degree program in beekeeping?

Are they trying to raise money to pay off their loan from the US Department of Agriculture?

Are they pollinating the campus flower beds?

Are the bees supposed to go after intruders?

Was there a telephone mixup when they tried to book a Beyoncé concert?

No, none of the above... the state beekeepers' association is holding its annual meeting here!

They bring their bees with them!?

 

[jtbell]

They bring their bees with them!?

Sure looks like it... don't get into a wreck with one of their vehicles!

 

[berkeman]

No, none of the above... the state beekeepers' association is holding its annual meeting here!

https://9gag.com/tag/beholder/fresh

 

[pinball1970]

Sure looks like it... don't get into a wreck with one of their vehicles!

The AGM of The international coalition for the protection of Chimpanzees must be a noisy affair.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

What did people do before TV and the internet came along, you asked?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

What's up at the college today?

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Are they launching a new degree program in beekeeping?

Are they trying to raise money to pay off their loan from the US Department of Agriculture?

Are they pollinating the campus flower beds?

Are the bees supposed to go after intruders?

Was there a telephone mixup when they tried to book a Beyoncé concert?

No, none of the above... the state beekeepers' association is holding its annual meeting here!

It's a meeting of Bee students.

 

[BillTre]

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What did people do before TV and the internet came along, you asked?

Unless some of her children were twins or triplets, she would have been pregnant for 51.75 years.
69 children x 0.75 years per pregnancy = 51.75 years pregnant.

 

[jack action]

Unless some of her children were twins or triplets, she would have been pregnant for 51.75 years.
69 children x 0.75 years per pregnancy = 51.75 years pregnant.

Of course, it turns out that Valentina wasn't actually pregnant 69 times. Instead, she is an astounding medical mystery, having conceived 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets. Not once did Valentina ever carry a single fetus.

 

[BillTre]

27 x .75 = 20.25 years
That is so much more reasonable.
Very fertile, but also efficient.

 

[morrobay]

One rainy Sunday afternoon at high tide. And the second Thai girlfriend in bamboo English: Have raining water up

 

[Ivan Seeking]

The glory days of Radio Shack, note that they actually had radios!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

 

[berkeman]

The glory days of Radio Shack, note that they actually had radios!

Very cool. Do you know what year that was? Almost looks like the inspiration for Fry's Electronics (except for the soda and candy bar aisle next to the PCB chemical aisle at Frys...).

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Very cool. Do you know what year that was? Almost looks like the inspiration for Fry's Electronics (except for the soda and candy bar aisle next to the PCB chemical aisle at Frys...).

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1777875/
1971

I remember going with my dad to buy batteries at Radio Shack as early as 1970, or earlier.

 

[Tom.G]

Based on a wild guess of the radios in the foreground currently costing 2.5 times the posted price, I get around 1985.

Based on my (vague) memory of store layout and clothing style, mid-to-late 1970's.

 

[Arjan82]

My vacation this year

 

[morrobay]

Nice intact shells on Jomtien Beach

 

[morrobay]

She is making an arrangement for a mobile. Neng, 39