Paul Houle

Big cluster of Daffodils

#photo #photography #flowers #daffodils #bloomscrolling #plants #horticulture

Pink Bleeding Hearts

#photo #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #spring #bleedingheart #flower #plants

Callery Pear blossoms in Spring

#photo #photography #spring #flowers #bloomscrolling #plants #trees

№ 3 Kendal Davidson of the RPI Engineers at Cornell's Lynah Rink on Feb 6, 2026

#photo #photography #sports #portrait #hockey #women #cornell #lynahrink

Cornell's № 16 Rose Dwyer at Lynah Rink Feb 6, 2026

#photo #photography #sports #hockey #cornell #gobigred #women #lynahrink

The Caterpillar Pickup Truck Is Real, But It’s Not What People Were Hoping For For a minute, it looked like we might get an in-house-built truck with a genuine CAT diesel. Instead, it's a rebadged Super Duty.

😾 The Caterpillar Pickup Truck Is Real, But It’s Not What People Were Hoping

www.thedrive.com/news/the-cat...

#trucks #cars #automotive #caterpillar #cat #marketing #branding #yellow #ford

Humans show bat-like skills using mouth-click echolocation It may sound like a scene from "Nosferatu," but research from the University of East Anglia shows that humans can use bat-like echolocation skills to judge the distance of objects. The new study revea...

🦇 Humans show bat-like skills using mouth-click echolocation

(... and where is the bat-man?)

medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02...

#senses #echolocation #ability #research #bats

Mexican government partially unblocks secure internet The Tor network is used by millions of users daily to securely access the internet, safeguard their right to information and freedom of expression, and avoid censorship or government surveillance.

🔓 Mexican government partially unblocks secure internet

globalvoices.org/2026/03/03/m...

#mexico #internet #tor #privacy #www #security #anonymous

Newly identified brain circuit and cells link prior experiences to appetite Our past experiences shape how much we eat and where and what we choose to eat. Using preclinical models, researchers from Mass General Brigham and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have identifi...

⚡ Newly identified brain circuit and cells link prior experiences to appetite

medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02...

#brain #food #appetite #neurons #hunger #biology #behavior #memory

🚄 Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings

(could we drop our frames for a second and ask if the 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙 problem with America is that we're not like that?)

aethermug.com/posts/cultur...

#japan #culture #transit #easy

Mwng has to be one of my favorite albums of all time.

Now that I remember it, I got better pictures of daffodils towards the end of the season last year because the strident yellow threw off my exposure

#photo #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #daffodils #spring #plants

Old Railroad bed converted to trail by Massabesic Lake east of Manchester, NH where I wandered as a cub

#photo #photography #landscape #newhampshire #trail #hiking #manchester #massabesiclake #fall

Circular Stained Glass Window on West Side of Sage Chapel

#photo #photography #cornell #buildings #architecture #sagechapel #religion #church #stainedglass #art

Fresco In Memory of Mary Ann Wood wife of Ezra Cornell in Sage Chapel not to be confused with Sage Hall

#photo #photography #cornell #ithaca #sagechapel #art #memorial

Roof-Level Window on Sage Hall

#photo #photography #cornell #buildings #architecture #sagehall #ithaca

Is the World Cup bump real? MLS is going to find out MLS stakeholders want to turn the interest in this summer’s North American World Cup into ‘rocket fuel’ for the league. Are those realistic expectations?

🏃‍♂️ Is the World Cup bump real? MLS is going to find out

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

#sports #soccer #mls #football #worldcup #usa

In 25-Country Survey, Americans Especially Likely To View Fellow Citizens as Morally Bad Across 25 countries, Americans are the most likely to see the morality and ethics of people in their country as somewhat or very bad.

In 25-Country Survey, Americans Especially Likely To View Fellow Citizens as Morally Bad: 53% of U.S. adults say Americans have bad morals and ethics

www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

#politics #uspol #politicalscience #publicopinion #usa #us #unitedstates #morality #survey #socialsciences

Why struggling Thailand keeps voting for change that never comes Repeated military coups and short-lived civilian governments since the early 2000s have made long-term planning in Thailand nearly impossible.

🗳️ Why struggling Thailand keeps voting for change that never comes

www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02...

🆓 archive.ph/ynjHx

#politics #democracy #voting #thailand #asia #globalsouth

Cardboard crazy! Scavenger genius Shigeru Ban on building cathedrals and quake shelters with paper From high-end boutiques to housing in disaster zones with beer-crate foundations, the Japanese architect creates with things people throw away. What will his distillery in whisky’s holy land look like...

🍊 Cardboard crazy! Scavenger genius Shigeru Ban on building cathedrals and quake shelters with paper

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

#buildings #architecture #materials #paper #cardboard

Converting human urine into clean energy: Researchers optimize the process Researchers at McGill University have improved the efficiency of a method for converting human urine into clean energy. The method employs microbial fuel cells (MFCs), which use bacteria to turn organ...

🧻 Converting human urine into clean energy: Researchers optimize the process

techxplore.com/news/2026-02...

#urine #energy #fuelcell #chemistry #waste #circulareconomy

Dried Milkweed pod in a little patch of prairie that seems infinite

#photo #photography #plants #milkweed #bloomscrolling #flowers #seeds #plants #prairie

Dried Goldenrod in Tiny Tuft of Prairie in front of Johnson Museum of Art

#photo #photography #bloomscrolling #flowers #goldenrod #grass #cornell #architecture #johnsonmuseum

Old Five and Dime Store in Owego, NY from a chain that is long out of business

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#photo #photography #owego #upstateny #store #downtown #jjnewberry #blue

Susquehanna River with Ice Floes Last January Near Owego, NY

#photo #photography #owego #upstateny #river #ice #landscape #susquehanna

Historic house in Downtown Owego, NY

#photo #photography #buildings #house #architecture #owego #upstateny

despite RSS being obscure there are a lot of RSS feeds out there including publishers like 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛, 𝐿.𝐴. 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠, etc. YOShInOn ingests maybe 20,000 articles every 2 weeks and picks about 300 to show me

"failing RSS readers keep failing with the same failing interfaces that have been failing for years" and after Musk bought Twitter I got sick and tired of waiting for somebody else to do it so I did it myself and boy did the technology get better in 20 years ...

yeah, back in 2004 I wrote a paper about text classification and was really sure that an RSS reader with an algorithmic feed would be a great idea and kept saying like a broken record that ...

... if I put much effort at all into Sakura and Daffodils at all this year and stick to Tulips or street photography involving flowers