Getting smarter 24/7 :)

A smart way to deal with fake news et al, eh? :)

Fake News - What the real owners of the country ...

One start point to understanding fake news is by Facebook's newsfeed as anonymous writers could, in the past, post virtually anything and, because FB has 2 billion users, this crap would get around to various parties all over the world within a blink of an eye. With luck, this nonsense involving Facebook will change but what people often forget about is the fact FN has been around for a long, long time. Think Yellow Journalism, William Randolph Hearst and the Sinking of the Maine as US examples of same writ large.

Frederic Remington, an artist hired by Hearst to provide illustrations to accompany a series of articles on the Cuban Revolution, soon became bored with seemingly peaceful Cuba and wired Hearst in January 1897:

"Everything is quiet. There is no trouble. There will be no war. I wish to return." To which Hearst's alleged[6] reply was: "Please remain. You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war." [7]

 How to spot it.

In closing ...

Critical Thinking anyone? G.C., RIP.

Inside/Outside - CT/NYC

A quick fun video using Luma Fusion, iPad and Smart Phone showing the environs of a mall, Bethel, CT & NYC. Enjoy.

Burger King Nails It.

Not a fan of Burger King per se but they nail it regarding Net Neutrality. Awesome.

The women come and go ...

A 2 Part Suite, NYC Day/The Met - NYC Night/The lights. Enjoy

NYC 1/19/18

Gozer's Residence :)

Or is it?

Juxtaposition

The Met

Pandora

Of Ice & the Notion of Time

Blue Ice

Bubbles Recording the Passage of Time

Isolation

Plateau

Peninsula

Alien Life Form :)

Ancient, weird and deadly to other spiders, the Pelican Spider from Madagascar, is a true wonder in every way possible. 

The unusual appearance of Archaeid spiders, like most traits selected for in the course of Darwinian evolution, has a very practical purpose: it makes spider-vs.-spider hunting, the specialty of the pelican spider, considerably easier. Most spiders aren’t picky eaters—they’ll feed on whatever they manage to catch in their webs. If that means a little cannibalism now and then, so be it. Archaeids, for their part, eat nothing but spiders (though they try to avoid making meals of their own species). Flies aren’t even on the menu.

Having stalked or lured out a target spider, an Archaeid will strike swiftly, thrusting its two chelicerae downward to impale the prey, then holding it at a safe distance (out of range of venom or web attacks) until dead. Archaeids are by no means the only spider-killer spiders out there—the “pirate spiders” of the widespread Mimetidae family, for instance, are well known for tugging on the webs of other spiders to coax them down, then feasting on them. The bizarre “pelican” morphology of Archaeidae is what sets them apart.

Tiny but deadly, they are the size of a grain of rice.

How they hunt.

Pelican spiders are active hunters, the paper said. Rather than spinning their own webs, they prefer to stalk the trails of silk left behind by other spiders scuttling around their leafy habitats. At night, pelican spiders follow these silky bread crumbs, moving slowly and often upside down through the leaves. While the spider's back six legs do the walking, their front two legs sweep through the air, feeling for prey. After finally reaching the edge of another spider's web, pelican spiders can wait for hours for the right time to strike (earning them the moniker "assassin spiders").

Then, they strike with deadly efficiency. The spiders swing their chelicerae away from their bodies in a rapid, 90-degree arc tojab the pincers into their prey. Thanks to the spider's long necks and pincers, they keep their prey held harmlessly at arm's length while deadly venom pumps through the predators' chelicerae and into their victims.



Intense without question. :)

ICE LINES

In winter, one sees how time unfolds with fractal branching of trees and the expansion of ice as the temperature goes below freezing. Enjoy.

From Land to Sea

From bitter cold inland to a preternaturally calm & warming coastline is the focus of this short clip. Enjoy.