[Apologies for the phone photos.]

This is a picture of the capybara at the Stone Zoo, standing in its water dish:


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( Two pictures of an apple tree in November )

It turns out that I am looking for two housemates come September (there is some flexibility about dates). I would like help finding people! Here's an unlocked post you can link to! I have a much more detailed version in email that I can send to anyone who's interested.

I'll post separately to Facebook -- please don't link my LJ to Facebook or ( Read more... )

[I finally decided I didn't have good reasons for keeping this post locked, but I might change my mind again.]This post is about the "how" of what people do when they try to observe living things or tell one species from another, not from a psychology of perception perspective, but just general techniques (I usually write about the "why", which is ( Read more... )

No, I have no idea what this is.

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Behind the cut is an image that I have done stuff to. I thought it was obvious, but at least one person I have shown it to took quite a while to figure out what was wrong with it, so it might be a fun game to waste time with. Following it is a poll asking how long it took for you to get it.

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Behind the cut is a cropped image that I think will take most people a moment or two to resolve into something recognizable. Following it is a poll asking how long it took for you to decipher it.

( decontextualized image and poll behind cut )

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( I'm not sure how to categorize this, but it involves William Blake and pretty flowers )

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