Duke University and WCS Researchers Study Seabird Colonies in the Falklands with Drones #drone #droneday

Hopefully some of this drone footage will be published – albatross and rockhopper penguin colonies oh my! From Bird Guides:

“Using drone surveys and deep learning gives us an alternative that is remarkably accurate, less disruptive and significantly easier,” said Madeline C Hayes, a remote-sensing analyst at the Duke University Marine Lab. “One person, or a small team, can do it, and the equipment you need to do it isn’t all that costly or complicated.”

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Making a Low-Poly Dog Sculpture

The wonderful work of artist Andrey Kazantsev was recently featured on The Awesomer.

Andrey Kazantsev of Dirt Customs makes amazing low-polygon-count metal animal sculptures. Watch as he welds together a wonderfully pointy Doberman sculpture from dozens of pieces of precision-cut metal. He ships internationally, and his contact info is on his Instagram page. That giant panda sculpture blew our minds.

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Making a Low-Poly Dog Sculpture

The wonderful work of artist Andrey Kazantsev was recently featured on The Awesomer.

Andrey Kazantsev of Dirt Customs makes amazing low-polygon-count metal animal sculptures. Watch as he welds together a wonderfully pointy Doberman sculpture from dozens of pieces of precision-cut metal. He ships internationally, and his contact info is on his Instagram page. That giant panda sculpture blew our minds.

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Biden pulls infrastructure deal back from the brink

President Biden today is walking back comments he made that linked the agreed-upon $1T infrastructure deal to a second, larger package Dems want. He did it because Republicans went wild, threatening over the past several days to pull their support. For now, it appears that Biden’s clarification worked…but there’s still a lot of work to be done to get the bill over the line. Alicia Menendez speaks with three Washington insiders about how it could all go down.

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Bad news and bitterness: a radicalizing day for Trumpworld

Rachel Maddow notes that even as President Biden shares his optimism about bipartisan progress on infrastructure, inside the Trump bubble there is bad news about the scheme to overturn the election, bad news about Rudy Giuliani, and Donald Trump and his media backers are dropping heavy hints about more violence. 

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Crack the Case With 5 SFF Detectives #SciFiSunday

Another fun list from Tor.com.

Harrison Ford famously called his third most iconic SF/Fantasy role “a detective who doesn’t do any detecting”. But Deckard, like the movie around him, is not about plot and Ford is playing less a character than the entire concept of the hard-bitten, morally compromised, hard drinking gumshoe. Yes, it’s all about the trenchcoat and the mood and the atmosphere. But what mood. What an atmosphere. What. A. Trenchcoat.

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X-Ray Audio, A Documentary About Soviet Bone Music #MusicMonday

We dare you to not crack a smile at 1:03

From The Vinyl Factory on YouTube:

The iconic images of gramophone grooves cut onto x-rays of skulls, ribcages and bones have captured the collective imagination way beyond the music scene. Now for the first time, the complete story of the Soviet x-ray record has emerged, as told by the people who made it happen.

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