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Insects and other ectotherms live their life cycles based on the ambient temperature. As such, they don't measure age in the same chronological way that endothermic animals (like humans) do. Their life cycle is measured in degree days, how much ambie...
Gravitaxis and phototaxis are the natural tendency of a plant to orient aerial parts against gravity, and orientation of the upper surface of the leaves towards a light source. Thigmotaxis is the natural tendency of specific plant parts, such as ten...
I live in San Francisco, and until I signed up for this task, I was completely unaware of what the highest point in the entire city of San Francisco was. Much to my surprise, it is Mount Davidson, the big mountain I live at the foot of, at 925 feet....
I decided to make pomanders and put them in trees. I also decided I would vary the locations. I would put three in suburban areas, 3 in an urban city area, and 3 in wooded areas. The last one would be in an artificial or dead tree.
"Installed" here is going to be interpreted in a very creative sense. I have included the message, the key, and a clue to interpreting the key in a bottle (whelk shell), sealing it in wax, and released it before low tide. I think this secret message...
"Six Persimmons" by Mu Qi is a good example of the pinnacle of Chan (known in Japanese as Zen) philosophy applied to Asian painting. This was during the Song Dynasty. Totally genuine. I swear. I got it from a friend of a friend, who told me it fell...
Prologue: I had originally planned to get a bunch of other tasks done, but unsuccessfully hunting for a single plant in Strybing Arboretum yielded no results. Searching for a small weedy shrub in 20 acres, with no idea where to look, I should have kn...
I hadn't even signed up for this task, but I saw the construction site when I was busy working on two other tasks. I realized there was an opportunity here. This is apparently the construction site for the future J-Pop Center. I have no idea what th...
I decided to map human emotions, more or less. The eastern hemisphere are less active emotions, an the western hemisphere is more exciting or arousing emotions. The northern pole concerns more positive, and the southern more negative. Map is not nec...
Picture of myself