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I want to know what creative hobbies people have that don't involve 1) screens, or 2) the gym. Like good old-fashioned analog activities that involve making something by hand, tending to critters (e.g. chickens, alpacas, star-nosed moles), gardening, etc etc.
Bonus points for photos.
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One day you’re young and wild; the next, it’s Tuesday, and you’re dialing into a video call.
ALT A brown bear staring intently while resting on a rock at Katmai National Park & Preserve,
Alison Atwell retweeted
I find it fascinating that the relationship between tiny mushrooms evokes a certain emotion. Tiny babies, a couple, the right combination of big and small all plays with the imagination.
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This is Stemonitis, a slime mold, forming delicate, feather-like sporangia to release its spores. Before this, it lived as a single-celled organism, flowing through the forest floor, seeking bacteria and decaying matter.
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An amazing macro video of Pilobolus by @ scottish.fungi on IG. This unique fungus starts as a spore eaten by a grazing animal, survives digestion, and grows in the excrement.
It has one of the fastest movements in nature, aiming itself toward the sun, building pressure, and launching its sporangium at 20 km/h in just 2 microseconds, over 20,000 Gs (more than a rocket launch!)
Why? To escape dung and land on fresh plants, ready to enter a new host. A stunning example of fungal intelligence and nature’s precision engineering.
