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KWolf12
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- How did you find PF?
- I was chasing links down rabbit holes with the goal of setting up the most self-regulating aquarium for my itinerant frog, pet leeches, and the herds of copopods and freshwater shrimps. I ran into this forum, and it looks nifty.
Hello, Folks.
My degree is in biology, but after that, I've been constantly educating myself about everything that interests me. Most of those interests are related entirely to the non-human components of the world; fungi, plants, protists, animals, nutrient cycling and soil-building. I'm active in a group that works to re-wild our local city park, and I forage for wild foods there. An associated hobby is to recreate the technology of ancestral humans by making things such as fire-drills and coracles, learning how to make leather and strong rope, and so on.
My understanding of physics is fairly basic: thankfully, my one college physics class was in-depth enough to open doors to all the other knowledge that interests me most. How an oak hollowed out by mushrooms stands a better chance of standing tall for a long time because it's become a hollow cylinder; how to balance compression and tension in one of the random things I build; how my new bullfrog's tongue uses elastic energy-storage to shoot out at prey at a speed greater than what could be accomplished by muscle-action alone. FUN stuff!
I'm short on money, but long on time; and I'd recommend that state of being to anyone who can hit the right balance of it, because it let's me pursue new curiosities all the time. What makes a brain happier than pursuing the questions of genuine curiosity?
This is Nim, a day-old turtle who was part of a research project on increasing the reproduction success of turtles in Wisconsin. Nim stopped by my place for a day for a photo shoot. Nim liked chasing copopods, but wasn't quite coordinated to catch one.
My degree is in biology, but after that, I've been constantly educating myself about everything that interests me. Most of those interests are related entirely to the non-human components of the world; fungi, plants, protists, animals, nutrient cycling and soil-building. I'm active in a group that works to re-wild our local city park, and I forage for wild foods there. An associated hobby is to recreate the technology of ancestral humans by making things such as fire-drills and coracles, learning how to make leather and strong rope, and so on.
My understanding of physics is fairly basic: thankfully, my one college physics class was in-depth enough to open doors to all the other knowledge that interests me most. How an oak hollowed out by mushrooms stands a better chance of standing tall for a long time because it's become a hollow cylinder; how to balance compression and tension in one of the random things I build; how my new bullfrog's tongue uses elastic energy-storage to shoot out at prey at a speed greater than what could be accomplished by muscle-action alone. FUN stuff!
I'm short on money, but long on time; and I'd recommend that state of being to anyone who can hit the right balance of it, because it let's me pursue new curiosities all the time. What makes a brain happier than pursuing the questions of genuine curiosity?
This is Nim, a day-old turtle who was part of a research project on increasing the reproduction success of turtles in Wisconsin. Nim stopped by my place for a day for a photo shoot. Nim liked chasing copopods, but wasn't quite coordinated to catch one.