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“Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment. - Lao Tzu”
Macro Monday project – 04/07/14
"the Office"
The Cuypers library in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is one of the reasons to visit the museum. I really like the atmosphere...
This image is not SOOC. No, it needed a lot of TLC to come out like this. It is a 5 imagepanorama with 5 exposure-brackets brought together in Photoshop.
But you may like it as it is.
You can find out why this image makes me so happy on my Facebook page : www.facebook.com/dragonpapillon
The future looks busy :) with some new adventures planned ahead.
Forty years ago, it was common knowledge that the Lehigh Valley Railroad would cease to exist on the coming April 1. I made a commitment to capture as much of the Lehigh Valley as I could in the first quarter of 1976, and Easton Tower, shown here, played a prominent role in my quest. As a 17-year-old kid, I had limited resources and mobility. On Sunday afternoons, I would get my parents to allow me to take one of their cars to Easton, about ten miles from our house. This was fine, because Easton tower controlled the LV main between South Plainfield, New Jersey, and Lehighton, Pennsylvania. A knock on the door was usually answered by a friendly relief operator who would tell me what was coming, or better yet, invite me upstairs to talk and try my hand at lining up signals and switches. On this day, I left the tower when westbound train NE1 hit the bell at Phillipsburg, and shot it passing the tower and the signal bridge that governed westbound movements on the LV main as well as the connection from the Lehigh and Hudson River. Tucked behind the three U23B’s is an SW8 bound for Allentown or Sayre from Oak Island.
Knowledge on the ecology of streams at extreme altitudes is relatively sparse. We conducted a preliminary survey of the macroinvertebrate fauna of Tibetan streams in June 2009 and August 2011 and compared streams with different water sources. We collected quantitative samples of macroinvertebrates and measured physicochemical variables at 16 sites (8 each sampling year) at altitudes ranging from 4315 to 5065 m a.s.l. and grouped the sites into 3 types according to origin: glacier-fed, rain-fed, and lake-outlets. We identified 38 taxa, with a mean of 8.9 taxa per site. Overall the benthic fauna was dominated by insects (71%), mainly Diptera (especially Chironomidae). Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera were found at nearly all sites but mostly in low numbers; however, the fauna was significantly different in the 2 sampling years, especially due to the proportions of Chironomidae (68% in June 2009 and 10% in August 2011) and Baetidae (6% vs. 35%, respectively). The 3 stream types had significantly different faunas. Rain-fed streams had the highest total taxon richness (γ-diversity), but glacier-fed streams had a slightly higher taxon turnover rate (β-diversity). Percent glacial cover in the catchment and water turbidity explained most of the variability in taxon richness. Although not particularly taxon rich compared to other high-altitude streams, the Tibetan stream fauna showed considerable spatial variability. The fast retreat of the glaciers and permanent snow fields in Tibet makes further studies on distribution patterns and driving forces for aquatic biodiversity urgent.
Diversity and composition of macroinvertebrate assemblages in high-altitude Tibetan streams (PDF Download Available). Available from: www.researchgate.net/publication/280077956_Diversity_and_... [accessed Sep 1, 2017].
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244 :: 365 :: 1st September 2013 :: EXPLORED #21
I have had this key for a little while and have always thought it's quite vintage looking, but have never been able to come up with anything until last night when this popped into my head...and this has come up exactly as I saw it, which isn't always the case...Easy Peasy day! (for a change)
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A collection of books gathers dust. Part of a library in an abandoned manor house in the UK. A time capsule of Victorian and early 20th century artefacts.
A Hindu temple at Lake Parashar, Himachal Pradesh, India. The lake is coveted to have Sage Parashar from Hindu mythology meditated and acquire knowledge in its surroundings.
Rowan University Acquires Knowledge Is Power sculpture
Zenos Frudakis’ monumental bronze sculpture Knowledge is Power will be installed at Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey in Autumn, 2014. A dedication will be held in November.
The bronze sculpture is 8 feet high x 12 feet long, with two free-standing over life-size figures on either end. The figures represent educators holding an open book that presents individuals from intellectual history. One page presents Darwin as the central figure; the partnering page, shows Einstein stepping out of the book. Some of the 31 portraits of individuals and their quotes, mathematical formulae, musical notations and other elements are listed on a separate page.
The sculpture was commissioned by Dr. Francesca Cottone Shaughnessy in honor of her brother, Villanova educator Charles Sebastian Cottone, now deceased. Dr. Shaughnessy
worked for the School District of Philadelphia for 30 years as a psychologist. She asked Zenos Frudakis to create a sculpture that would "encourage students to enjoy the pleasures of learning" and site it where students and teachers could enjoy it. Inspired by Henry Rowan’s $100M gift to Glassboro University (renamed Rowan University) twenty-one years ago, Dr. Shaughnessy decided to offer the gift of this sculpture to Rowan University.
Images with quotes
Alan Turing: 0110000101101001 (binary symbol for AI)
Albert Einstein: Imagination is more important than knowledge. E=MC2
Anne Frank: In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Beethoven: Fifth Symphony
Churchill: Never never never give up.
Charles Darwin: In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
Descartes: I think therefore I am.
Di Vinci: drawing of the Vetruvian man
Emerson: Insist on yourself, never imitate..
Francis Bacon: Knowledge is Power
FD Roosevelt: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Galileo: The sun with all the planets revolving around it.
Gandhi: Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
Harriet Beecher Stowe: Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
Harriet Tubman: I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
Henry David Thoreau: If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Isadora Duncan: figures of her dancing
John Muir: In every walk with nature one receives for more than he seeks.
Lincoln: A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Machiavelli: The end justifies the means.
Margaret Sanger: No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body.
Martin Luther King: I have a dream
Niels Bohr: (image on Einstein’s right shoulder made in points representing packets of quantum.)
Quote: A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself. Joining Bohr’ head and Einstein’s head is a diagram of an atom.
Neitzsche: There are no facts, only interpretations. / Balloon quote: “God is Dead” in German /
Newton: If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Protagoras: Man is the measure of all things.
Sigmund Freud: The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk underwater.
Shakespeare: To be or not to be
Socrates: The unexamined life is not worth living.
Susan B. Anthony: Suffrage is the pivotal right.
Rachel Carson: Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the earth without it making it unfit for all life?
Thomas Jefferson: All men are created equal.
Thomas Paine: I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense.
Images by Themselves
Copernicus’ sun-centered universe and his name above it
Part of the "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus". There is another equation that completes the whole theorem. Now it is a standard topic in freshman calculus. It goes back to Newton, or maybe further, to his instructor Isaac Barrow.
Michelangelo’s Slave
Pi
Symbols of evolution around Darwin: At base, Galapagos Tortoise, lizard, bird, seal, cast of an actual pre-historic child’s skull; on his shoulder is a finch.
Diagrams: architectural images. Alberti (Renaissance) and Parthenon.
Pythagorus Theorum
Golden Section
Near Rachel Carson: Eagle (representing her research with DDT)
Quotes by themselves
Emmanuel Kant: Always treat people as ends never as means.
Lines of poetry by themselves
Dylan Thomas: Do not go gentle into that good night. (placed by King)
TS Eliot: At the still point of the turning world, there the dance is. (placed by Isadora Duncan’s figures)
John Keats: Beauty is truth, truth beauty. (placed near Harriet Tubman)
Emily Dickenson poem line: I died for beauty
Yeats poem next to FDR: Things fall apart, the center does not hold.
Sculptor Zenos Frudakis appears as a gargoyle on the Darwin side of the relief in the lower left corner, signing his name by the Vetruvian man. Business partner Rosalie Frudakis appears as a gargoyle on the Einstein side, in the lower right corner by Isadora Duncan and Anne Frank.
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@ Barcaldine railway station. This time of year there are so many flocks of parrots (cockatoos, corellas, galahs, blueys) everywhere you point your camera. Caught some stragglers from a large flock when taking this pic to add to the flavour of autumn in the outback - tourist season. Tree of Knowledge Monument and Comet windmill tapping into the Artesian Basin in the background.
The Spirit of the Outback has been a favourite with Australian and international travellers alike for 10 years, due to the social atmosphere onboard and the spectacular views afforded throughout the 24 hour journey.
The 1,300 km journey between Brisbane and Longreach offers a unique insight into the history and culture of early Australia.
The 'Spirit of the Outback' ventures through the heritage towns of Blackwater, Emerald and Barcaldine (home of the Worker's Heritage Centre) before arriving in Longreach, home to the famous Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame, Qantas Founders Museum and the Outback Heritage Centre.
I travelled on the train as a kid and record it in different locations whenever I visit my home town - Barcaldine, Queensland. The reason is, I wonder how long the service will be supported by the Queensland Government, especially as the current rollingstock is at the end of its life.
Mystery solved! I've been trying to get to know my new home area, and on one of my numerous recce trips had passed this farmyard out at Newton of Ardtoe, and wondered why there was an ex RAF SEAKING search and rescue helicopter residing next to a cattle shed. In the absence of anyone around I was left wondering until today when a local, liberally spattered in cow sh!t came out of a nearby house with his wife, and I was able to ask him. Well Gordon told me it had been bought by a local fisherman who had a vision to convert it into a snack shack or an AirBnB. Ah yes, what a good idea....and then it transpired this was not just any local fisherman but one who lives 20 yards over my garden fence. Thankfully, I know there is no room near us to move a redundant ex RAF SEAKING search and rescue helicopter to, but said neighbour does not have the best reputation in these parts for maintaining the peace. Quite how it landed in the back o'beyond remains a mystery. These things are BIG!. But I'm discovering there are many colourful locals in these parts and strange things do happen.
You should never underestimate farmers and fishermen in these parts. Next to the helicopter the farmer is building his own SpaceX Mars rocket rival
"Knowledge is power" ~ Sir Frances Bacon ... but
“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.” ~Albert Einstein
An alternative (and final!) take on Salisbury Cathedral's new font.
If it served no other purpose, the cathedral would stand as a superb testament to the skills of thousands of craftsmen and artisans down the ages - including this recent piece.
At least, that is the motto seen here over a side entrance to the old main building of Hamburg University. It is not that old, only dating from 1911. And it did not start as a university (that happened in 1919, in the Weimar Republic) but a "Kolonialinstitut". Germany before 1918 did have colonies. Knowledge as an instrument of power gets a totally new meaning then. But even later, when being a university, this academic institution was rather particular where its knowledge ought to be invested. For the Jews they did not cry when thousands were assembled next door virtually, at the Moorweide, and deported to their death. Knowledge? Yes. But whose knowledge, whose power? Fuji X-Pro1.
On bark of a tree trunk that had fallen recently (probably an alder). There are 6 or 7 different lichens there, but the one in the middle with the large apothecia (sexual reproductive body) caught my eye. My guess is that it is a Hypogymnia, possibly H. metaphysodes.
Note shape of smallest apothecia as seen near the bottom left of center.
Used in-camera focus shift, but forgot to open up aperture.
Stacked using Zerene Stacker.
Works large.
Other lichen seen in photo by Richard Droker -- remember, he has only the photo to go by using his knowledge of what is likely in this area and the overall look of the lichen:
Hypotrachyna sinuosa
Lepra amara
Ochrolechia species
Parmelia sulcata
Platismatia glauca
Ramalina farinacea
Tuckermanopsis orbata
Usnea species
This was a huge surprise to see these animals in the Mediterranean Sea. They are actually only once a year in this area (July-mid August). This amazingly clever animals know that there is tuna at the fishing rod of Moroccan fishermen. Normally they cannot hunt tuna, since the fish is way to fast for them. So, the knowledge of the fish on the hock is transfered from orca generation to generation. An amazing experience to see this animals in wildlife!!
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Professor Lyra Everbane was born on a crisp February morning in 1999, in the enchanting wizarding village of Mould-on-the-Wold. The Everbane family, though not wealthy, was well-respected for their scholarly pursuits, particularly in magical folklore. Her mother, Moira, was a noted magical historian, while her father, Declan, was a wandmaker who specialized in rare woods. From an early age, Lyra was captivated by the legends her mother would recount by the hearth, tales of ancient heroes, magical beasts, and forgotten civilizations.
When she arrived at Hogwarts in 2010, Lyra was sorted into Hufflepuff, a choice that delighted her family. She embodied the house’s values of dedication, patience, and loyalty, often becoming the peacemaker among her classmates. Her warmth and kindness made her a favorite among her peers, while her determined work ethic ensured her success in her studies.
Lyra excelled particularly in History of Magic, Care of Magical Creatures, and Herbology. She was captivated by how myths connected to magical creatures and the natural world. She spent much of her time in the Hogwarts greenhouses or on the grounds, seeking inspiration from nature and befriending the resident creatures. Her fascination with magical folklore deepened under the mentorship of Professor Sprout and later Professor Firenze, who encouraged her to view mythology as more than mere stories—tools of wisdom and prophecy.
After graduating in 2017, Lyra embarked on a journey across the wizarding world. She spent time with Veela in Eastern Europe, learned from centaurs in the Forbidden Forest, and even gained the trust of the reclusive Merfolk communities in Greece. These experiences expanded her understanding of myth as a bridge between cultures and magical practices.
Her travels earned her respect in academic circles, but Lyra always remained grounded, refusing to let accolades overshadow her desire to teach. She returned to Hogwarts in 2029 to become the Professor of Mythological Studies, determined to pass on her knowledge to future generations.
As a professor, Lyra's Hufflepuff traits shone through. Her classroom became a haven for all students, a place where they felt valued and encouraged. She filled her lessons with interactive experiences, bringing myths to life with illusions, enchanted relics, and the occasional magical creature. Her ability to make every student feel seen and supported made her a beloved member of the Hogwarts staff.
While her sunny demeanor endeared her to many, Lyra carried an air of quiet mystery. Rumors swirled among students about the source of her knowledge of Thestrals, and some speculated that her compassion stemmed from personal loss. Despite this, she remained a constant source of hope and wisdom, always reminding her students that even the darkest myths often held lessons of resilience and light.
Today, Professor Everbane continues to inspire young witches and wizards, weaving together the wisdom of the past and the promise of the future in her teachings. Her loyalty to her students, her love of magical lore, and her steadfast determination ensure that her legacy will endure at Hogwarts for years to come.
Miltalie school was a one teacher school which opened in 1915 to service the local area which is north-west of Cowell on Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. It had 11 female teachers during its 20 year life.
When photographing the Paul Sabatier University library (Toulouse, France), I wanted to capture the geometric essence of this modernist architecture. I deliberately chose a diagonal framing to create strong visual tension and transform this familiar building into an almost abstract composition. The black and white treatment allowed me to emphasize the contrast between dark and light surfaces, while highlighting the repetitive patterns of windows and panels. I was seeking a clean image where lines and shapes become the main subject, moving beyond mere architectural representation to reach a more graphic and contemplative dimension. This photo tells the story of my fascination with how modern architecture can be reinterpreted through a minimalist lens.
[...] Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star [...]
-- Quote by Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
Rome, Italy (March, 2008)
A visit to the Library of Congress and all its wonders. You can take the kid out of the library but you cannot take the knowledge learned out of the kid.