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keithmalek

It is worth monitoring the chain of animal reactions when moving across remote areas. Some animals are notoriously fast at reacting and the slightly slower animals use them as a cue--mammals such as deer and rabbits will take flight shortly after birds have taken to the air.

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MysticFaerie
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Pickpick

5🌟/5🌟

I reread this book after my father died... at a later time in my life. I got so much more out of it and understood it so much more than I did the first time I read it. It just means a lot more to me this time around.

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julesG
The Salt Path | Raynor Winn
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Interesting article in today's The Observer

https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/the-real-salt-path-how-the-couple-b...

I haven't read the book. I'm just here sharing the link.

Leniverse I almost want to un-know this information 🙈🙉 but at the same time it's so wild it becomes fascinating 3w
Tamra Yikes, that is terrible! I hope they are guilted & shamed into making it right. Then she can write another book to recoup the 💰and no doubt she would too. (edited) 3w
julesG @Leniverse I forwarded the link to another friend who's working at a bookshop. She's contemplating moving it to the Fiction section. 3w
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kspenmoll Maybe I should throw this unread book in my #TBR in the trash. (edited) 3w
Bookwomble I haven't read the book (and won't), but thank you for linking to the article. The journalist has done a short YT report which includes footage of one of the victims of Winn's embezzlement taking about the impact of her crimes, which is very moving: https://youtu.be/UY2ivdm9obY?si=VVHeC3xG3-ialRWX 3w
squirrelbrain I saw this headline but haven‘t read the full article yet….very intriguing! 3w
Bookwormjillk This is wild. Surprised someone didn‘t do a background check before filming at least. 3w
rockpools I‘m with @Leniverse on this one. Can I not know, please? I really loved this book when I read it, so I‘m quite sad. I guess it opens the door for someone else to write the great South West Coast Path memoir…. 3w
quietlycuriouskate Wtf? 🤬 3w
CoffeeK8 I read this book with my bookclub and really found it off putting, maybe some of this is why 3w
RosePressedPages I‘d never heard of this book before but wow that is terrible and fascinating 3w
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keithmalek

That is the process of all human development and knowledge building. Some brave souls make a leap of faith, and if they succeed they are heroes; if they fail, the next in line step over their bodies and try a different approach.

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DGRachel
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Pickpick

An interesting look at how searches are conducted for missing hikers, the tools used by both amateurs and professionals including drones, psychics, in-person searches, and social media. It centers on 3 missing hikers, and while none are found, you get to know the hikers, their families, and the author, a former national park ranger, throughout the searches on the PCT (Pacific Crest Trail). It‘s informative and heartbreaking.

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keithmalek

A full moon will rise in the part of the sky that is opposite sunset for that day. A full moon rises well south of east in midsummer and north of east in midwinter. It will set approximately opposite sunrise direction for that day also.

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keithmalek

Meteors have a relationship with time and direction. You are likely to see more shooting stars after midnight than before, because this is when your part of Earth is facing “forward“ as it moves in its orbit around the sun.

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keithmalek

June 18
Noctilucy (n.) The shining of the moon.

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keithmalek

Yet for all its cultural luminescence, Polaris is only the forty-eighth brightest star in the sky. It stands out because it is the brightest star in its patch of the sky. If you see two stars of similar brightness close to each other you cannot be looking at the North Star, which always appears to be the only one of comparable brightness in its immediate vicinity.