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  1. Me: "I'm doing a podcast on scary animals and rewilding near us-"

    Them: "You gotta do an episode on fishers."

    What people know about fishers is often wrong, and everyone else doesn't know about them at all.

    Plus a somewhat goofy (but short!) audio drama, "Tonight on Creature Adventure!"
    With snippets from 5 friends of the show - thanks!!

    #fisher #wildlife #rewilding #wolverine #otter #eyewitness #podcast #nature #folklore

    "30% Wild- Legend of the Fisher (Cat)"

    deftspacelab.com/legend-of-the

  2. Me: "I'm doing a podcast on scary animals and rewilding near us-"

    Them: "You gotta do an episode on fishers."

    What people know about fishers is often wrong, and everyone else doesn't know about them at all.

    Plus a somewhat goofy (but short!) audio drama, "Tonight on Creature Adventure!"
    With snippets from 5 friends of the show - thanks!!

    #fisher #wildlife #rewilding #wolverine #otter #eyewitness #podcast #nature #folklore

    "30% Wild- Legend of the Fisher (Cat)"

    deftspacelab.com/legend-of-the

  3. Me: "I'm doing a podcast on scary animals and rewilding near us-"

    Them: "You gotta do an episode on fishers."

    What people know about fishers is often wrong, and everyone else doesn't know about them at all.

    Plus a somewhat goofy (but short!) audio drama, "Tonight on Creature Adventure!"
    With snippets from 5 friends of the show - thanks!!

    #fisher #wildlife #rewilding #wolverine #otter #eyewitness #podcast #nature #folklore

    "30% Wild- Legend of the Fisher (Cat)"

    deftspacelab.com/legend-of-the

  4. Me: "I'm doing a podcast on scary animals and rewilding near us-"

    Them: "You gotta do an episode on fishers."

    What people know about fishers is often wrong, and everyone else doesn't know about them at all.

    Plus a somewhat goofy (but short!) audio drama, "Tonight on Creature Adventure!"
    With snippets from 5 friends of the show - thanks!!

    #fisher #wildlife #rewilding #wolverine #otter #eyewitness #podcast #nature #folklore

    "30% Wild- Legend of the Fisher (Cat)"

    deftspacelab.com/legend-of-the

  5. Me: "I'm doing a podcast on scary animals and rewilding near us-"

    Them: "You gotta do an episode on fishers."

    What people know about fishers is often wrong, and everyone else doesn't know about them at all.

    Plus a somewhat goofy (but short!) audio drama, "Tonight on Creature Adventure!"
    With snippets from 5 friends of the show - thanks!!

    #fisher #wildlife #rewilding #wolverine #otter #eyewitness #podcast #nature #folklore

    "30% Wild- Legend of the Fisher (Cat)"

    deftspacelab.com/legend-of-the

  6. "#Fisher’s frustration with this #lackofthenew led to the development of what has become his most famous (and, arguably, most controversial) cultural critique: #hauntology. Through his work on this topic, written in blogospheric collaboration with the music critic Simon Reynolds, Fisher described how the potential futures we once looked forward to — in our fictions, our music and our politics — have repeatedly failed to materialise and, in their place, we have a culture defined by repetitive cycles of retrospection and #pastiche."

  7. It did get sunny again. I sat in the sun late afternoon but not for long, had to switch to shade. #Today is cooler.
    Got a tip to keep a lookout for fisher in the area! Can get up to 14 feet long, were over-trapped/ almost extinct in early 20th, for their fur. Ppl call them 'fisher cats' but they're not; altho the name comes from French for 'pole #cat'... A couple guys at #camp have seen them.
    #fisher #weasel #family #woods #predator #porcupine #lynx #CampGround #trees
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_(

  8. It did get sunny again. I sat in the sun late afternoon but not for long, had to switch to shade. #Today is cooler.
    Got a tip to keep a lookout for fisher in the area! Can get up to 14 feet long, were over-trapped/ almost extinct in early 20th, for their fur. Ppl call them 'fisher cats' but they're not; altho the name comes from French for 'pole #cat'... A couple guys at #camp have seen them.
    #fisher #weasel #family #woods #predator #porcupine #lynx #CampGround #trees
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_(

  9. It did get sunny again. I sat in the sun late afternoon but not for long, had to switch to shade. #Today is cooler.
    Got a tip to keep a lookout for fisher in the area! Can get up to 14 feet long, were over-trapped/ almost extinct in early 20th, for their fur. Ppl call them 'fisher cats' but they're not; altho the name comes from French for 'pole #cat'... A couple guys at #camp have seen them.
    #fisher #weasel #family #woods #predator #porcupine #lynx #CampGround #trees
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_(

  10. It did get sunny again. I sat in the sun late afternoon but not for long, had to switch to shade. #Today is cooler.
    Got a tip to keep a lookout for fisher in the area! Can get up to 14 feet long, were over-trapped/ almost extinct in early 20th, for their fur. Ppl call them 'fisher cats' but they're not; altho the name comes from French for 'pole #cat'... A couple guys at #camp have seen them.
    #fisher #weasel #family #woods #predator #porcupine #lynx #CampGround #trees
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_(

  11. Die #King #Fisher #Lake #School aus #Mosambik bestätigt den Erhalt von 4 #Laptops per Flugpaten von Köln:
    "We received the laptops. The impact of your contribution is already being felt among our students. These laptops are opening new doors to digital learning and practical ICT education, something that was previously a challenge for many of our learners."
    Die Fotos sprechen für sich...
    platform.labdoo.org/edoovillag
    #labdoo #Mozambique #Machavenga #schule #reise #travel #flugpate #laptop

  12. Grammy-nominated FISHER has teamed up with rising indie-dance duo AR/CO for their latest sun-drenched single, ‘Ocean’, released via the CATCH & RELEASE imprint. The track is an infectious blend of FISHER’s signature tech-house sound and AR/CO’s vibrant, feel-good energy, creating a wave of dynamic vocals and uplifting melodies
    retroworldnews.com/fisher-and-

    #Fisher #ARCO #Ocean #NewMusic #SingleRelease #DanceMusic #ElectronicMusic #MusicCollaboration #SummerVibes #MusicIndustry #HitSingle #Music

  13. A conversation.

    “When experts disagree, usually the best thing to do is listen to what the majority of experts say. There’s no guarantee that they’re right, but they’re more likely right than wrong. And if the majority view is overturned, it’s almost guaranteed that this will be done by other experts in the field presenting evidence for the minority view, not by random kibitzers.”

    “For the history buffs in here, while most scientific knowledge is advanced incrementally, the true breakthroughs are usually ridiculed by the reigning experts. That is why appeals to authority are the worst kind of logical fallacy for a scientist.”

    “That’s the pop-history version of scientific progress. The actual #history of #science is very different. Kind of like the difference between ‘history buffs’ and historians.”

    ===

    Yes, there are examples—a few—of genuine breakthroughs that were ridiculed by the scientific establishment of the day. I bet you know what they are, because everyone does. They laughed at #Semmelweis, they laughed at #Wegner, they laughed at Luis and Walter #Alvarez, they laughed at #Marshall and #Warren. These things happened.

    But they did not laugh at #Galileo: indeed, they took his work with deadly seriousness. (And there really wasn’t any such thing as a “scientific establishment” at the time.) They did not laugh at #Newton, or #Watt, or #Darwin, or #Gibbs, or #Pasteur, or #Einstein, or #Curie, or #Heisenberg, or #Fisher, or #Watson and #Crick and poor unacknowledged #Franklin, or #Tharp and #Heezen, or #Ostrom and #Bakker, or #Hansen, or the vast majority of scientists whose work has fundamentally changed our understanding of the universe.

    At least if by “they” you mean scientists working in relevant fields, who understood the questions at hand … not, in most cases, scientists from other fields, or those with no scientific experience at all. Nor the religious and political ideologues who muddy the waters by creating fake “controversies” to cast doubt on results they know are true, but cannot accept.

    In some cases they disagreed, quite vociferously. There were debates that descended into shouting matches, professional disagreements turned into personal feuds, once-eminent researchers become sad cranks, ruined careers and shortened lives. Yes. These things happened too, and that’s a tragedy.

    But most of the time, most researchers in the same fields as the revolutionaries said, “Oh, that makes sense!” Problems that had seemed insoluble suddenly became simple, or at least it was possible to see how there might be an elegant solution. Major discoveries spawned a host of medium-sized ones, each of which in turn spawned endless minor ones—and endless minor papers, academic bread and butter for when you can’t get steak and lobster. Everyone wins.

    Those ideologues I mentioned above? They really, really want you to believe the narrative of ridicule. You might want to consider why.

  14. A conversation.

    “When experts disagree, usually the best thing to do is listen to what the majority of experts say. There’s no guarantee that they’re right, but they’re more likely right than wrong. And if the majority view is overturned, it’s almost guaranteed that this will be done by other experts in the field presenting evidence for the minority view, not by random kibitzers.”

    “For the history buffs in here, while most scientific knowledge is advanced incrementally, the true breakthroughs are usually ridiculed by the reigning experts. That is why appeals to authority are the worst kind of logical fallacy for a scientist.”

    “That’s the pop-history version of scientific progress. The actual #history of #science is very different. Kind of like the difference between ‘history buffs’ and historians.”

    ===

    Yes, there are examples—a few—of genuine breakthroughs that were ridiculed by the scientific establishment of the day. I bet you know what they are, because everyone does. They laughed at #Semmelweis, they laughed at #Wegner, they laughed at Luis and Walter #Alvarez, they laughed at #Marshall and #Warren. These things happened.

    But they did not laugh at #Galileo: indeed, they took his work with deadly seriousness. (And there really wasn’t any such thing as a “scientific establishment” at the time.) They did not laugh at #Newton, or #Watt, or #Darwin, or #Gibbs, or #Pasteur, or #Einstein, or #Curie, or #Heisenberg, or #Fisher, or #Watson and #Crick and poor unacknowledged #Franklin, or #Tharp and #Heezen, or #Ostrom and #Bakker, or #Hansen, or the vast majority of scientists whose work has fundamentally changed our understanding of the universe.

    At least if by “they” you mean scientists working in relevant fields, who understood the questions at hand … not, in most cases, scientists from other fields, or those with no scientific experience at all. Nor the religious and political ideologues who muddy the waters by creating fake “controversies” to cast doubt on results they know are true, but cannot accept.

    In some cases they disagreed, quite vociferously. There were debates that descended into shouting matches, professional disagreements turned into personal feuds, once-eminent researchers become sad cranks, ruined careers and shortened lives. Yes. These things happened too, and that’s a tragedy.

    But most of the time, most researchers in the same fields as the revolutionaries said, “Oh, that makes sense!” Problems that had seemed insoluble suddenly became simple, or at least it was possible to see how there might be an elegant solution. Major discoveries spawned a host of medium-sized ones, each of which in turn spawned endless minor ones—and endless minor papers, academic bread and butter for when you can’t get steak and lobster. Everyone wins.

    Those ideologues I mentioned above? They really, really want you to believe the narrative of ridicule. You might want to consider why.

  15. A conversation.

    “When experts disagree, usually the best thing to do is listen to what the majority of experts say. There’s no guarantee that they’re right, but they’re more likely right than wrong. And if the majority view is overturned, it’s almost guaranteed that this will be done by other experts in the field presenting evidence for the minority view, not by random kibitzers.”

    “For the history buffs in here, while most scientific knowledge is advanced incrementally, the true breakthroughs are usually ridiculed by the reigning experts. That is why appeals to authority are the worst kind of logical fallacy for a scientist.”

    “That’s the pop-history version of scientific progress. The actual #history of #science is very different. Kind of like the difference between ‘history buffs’ and historians.”

    ===

    Yes, there are examples—a few—of genuine breakthroughs that were ridiculed by the scientific establishment of the day. I bet you know what they are, because everyone does. They laughed at #Semmelweis, they laughed at #Wegner, they laughed at Luis and Walter #Alvarez, they laughed at #Marshall and #Warren. These things happened.

    But they did not laugh at #Galileo: indeed, they took his work with deadly seriousness. (And there really wasn’t any such thing as a “scientific establishment” at the time.) They did not laugh at #Newton, or #Watt, or #Darwin, or #Gibbs, or #Pasteur, or #Einstein, or #Curie, or #Heisenberg, or #Fisher, or #Watson and #Crick and poor unacknowledged #Franklin, or #Tharp and #Heezen, or #Ostrom and #Bakker, or #Hansen, or the vast majority of scientists whose work has fundamentally changed our understanding of the universe.

    At least if by “they” you mean scientists working in relevant fields, who understood the questions at hand … not, in most cases, scientists from other fields, or those with no scientific experience at all. Nor the religious and political ideologues who muddy the waters by creating fake “controversies” to cast doubt on results they know are true, but cannot accept.

    In some cases they disagreed, quite vociferously. There were debates that descended into shouting matches, professional disagreements turned into personal feuds, once-eminent researchers become sad cranks, ruined careers and shortened lives. Yes. These things happened too, and that’s a tragedy.

    But most of the time, most researchers in the same fields as the revolutionaries said, “Oh, that makes sense!” Problems that had seemed insoluble suddenly became simple, or at least it was possible to see how there might be an elegant solution. Major discoveries spawned a host of medium-sized ones, each of which in turn spawned endless minor ones—and endless minor papers, academic bread and butter for when you can’t get steak and lobster. Everyone wins.

    Those ideologues I mentioned above? They really, really want you to believe the narrative of ridicule. You might want to consider why.

  16. A conversation.

    “When experts disagree, usually the best thing to do is listen to what the majority of experts say. There’s no guarantee that they’re right, but they’re more likely right than wrong. And if the majority view is overturned, it’s almost guaranteed that this will be done by other experts in the field presenting evidence for the minority view, not by random kibitzers.”

    “For the history buffs in here, while most scientific knowledge is advanced incrementally, the true breakthroughs are usually ridiculed by the reigning experts. That is why appeals to authority are the worst kind of logical fallacy for a scientist.”

    “That’s the pop-history version of scientific progress. The actual #history of #science is very different. Kind of like the difference between ‘history buffs’ and historians.”

    ===

    Yes, there are examples—a few—of genuine breakthroughs that were ridiculed by the scientific establishment of the day. I bet you know what they are, because everyone does. They laughed at #Semmelweis, they laughed at #Wegner, they laughed at Luis and Walter #Alvarez, they laughed at #Marshall and #Warren. These things happened.

    But they did not laugh at #Galileo: indeed, they took his work with deadly seriousness. (And there really wasn’t any such thing as a “scientific establishment” at the time.) They did not laugh at #Newton, or #Watt, or #Darwin, or #Gibbs, or #Pasteur, or #Einstein, or #Curie, or #Heisenberg, or #Fisher, or #Watson and #Crick and poor unacknowledged #Franklin, or #Tharp and #Heezen, or #Ostrom and #Bakker, or #Hansen, or the vast majority of scientists whose work has fundamentally changed our understanding of the universe.

    At least if by “they” you mean scientists working in relevant fields, who understood the questions at hand … not, in most cases, scientists from other fields, or those with no scientific experience at all. Nor the religious and political ideologues who muddy the waters by creating fake “controversies” to cast doubt on results they know are true, but cannot accept.

    In some cases they disagreed, quite vociferously. There were debates that descended into shouting matches, professional disagreements turned into personal feuds, once-eminent researchers become sad cranks, ruined careers and shortened lives. Yes. These things happened too, and that’s a tragedy.

    But most of the time, most researchers in the same fields as the revolutionaries said, “Oh, that makes sense!” Problems that had seemed insoluble suddenly became simple, or at least it was possible to see how there might be an elegant solution. Major discoveries spawned a host of medium-sized ones, each of which in turn spawned endless minor ones—and endless minor papers, academic bread and butter for when you can’t get steak and lobster. Everyone wins.

    Those ideologues I mentioned above? They really, really want you to believe the narrative of ridicule. You might want to consider why.