Amartya Deb

Taking a break from...exploring the urban forest.

🍀🦋🍃🍄 Book: "Wild Spaces in Urban Development"

[Amartya Deb @TrailsofDeb]

Cities do need more of these wild spaces. The tiny worlds of insects right at our doorsteps spark a sense of wonder that turns everyday life from ordinary to remarkable.🪲

The real butterfly effect. 🦋 #WildlifeGarden

[Danica McKellar @danicamckellar]

On a day off from shooting my @GAfamilyTV Christmas movie, I got to explore @assiniboinepark's indoor waterfall and butterfly exhibit! 🦋

[Amartya Deb @TrailsofDeb]

Dedicated to England 🇬🇧 🤍
Until we meet again.

[𝐌𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 & 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 ✨ @ninhnguynt22334]

⏳No matter your age, this song will stand the test of time 🎶

[Amartya Deb @TrailsofDeb]

@AlexTran677026 Listening to it, I'm not entirely convinced they banned it because of those reasons. 😕

[Amartya Deb @TrailsofDeb]

If all knowledge were but patterns, then I'm honoured I had the privilege of seeing some. Sometimes I wondered if I would spot you walking to one of your classes, when I visited Oxford for a quiet day. Alas, I am to leave England soon.

Wishing the best for The Selfish Gene🙂

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

How often is the author of a book still around to witness its 50th anniversary edition? The Selfish Gene is 50. I’ll be coming to America’s two great cultural landmarks, Chicago’s Symphony Center and New York’s Carnegie Hall, to speak about it. Two nights only.

Tickets:
Chicago, 18 Oct: https://t.co/qAvch8uwII
New York, 20 Oct: https://t.co/EkfbckGBAk
@WBEZ @howtoacademy

[Amartya Deb @TrailsofDeb]

@danicamckellar Love the Pumpkin Portrait! 🧡

[Amartya Deb @TrailsofDeb]

It had come to discuss an important issue.

[Brian Wagner @DrummerBoy2112]

A squirrel on a fencepost in the bright Autumn sunshine. 🐿️🍂

[Amartya Deb @TrailsofDeb]

Whilst not entirely open access, @routledgebooks
has made parts of my🍀"Wild Spaces in Urban Development"🍀 book available to download under "Preview PDF".

The preface serves as a high-level summary.

Link to download 👉 https://t.co/SRx6bysXKN

#UrbanPoliticalEcology

[Amartya Deb @TrailsofDeb]

There is something about this story.

Over the years, it is posted many times, at least once a year by someone or the other, and with the same picture and explanation even. Each time, I find it equally fascinating.

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

This miniature ecosystem has been thriving in an almost completely isolated state for more than 60 years. It has been watered just once in that time.

The considered as the oldest one grown by David Latimer of England, started in 1960, when he planted a single tradescantia cutting inside, and last opened in 1972, when he added a bit of water, then sealed again, never to be reopened. That means it has been growing inside its bottle with no additional air, water or fertilizer for 47 years. The same photo has been circulating on the Internet for at least a decade. David has certainly aged since then, but the appearance of the terrarium probably hasn’t changed.

The original single spiderwort plant has grown and multiplied, putting out seedlings. As it has access to light, it continues to photosynthesize. The water builds up on the inside of the bottle and then rains back down on the plants in a miniature version of the water cycle.

As leaves die, they fall off and rot at the bottom producing the carbon dioxide and nutrients required for more plants to grow.

📷 : David Latimer’s terrarium hasn’t been watered in 47 years.

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#archaeohistories

[Amartya Deb @TrailsofDeb]

The hardcover and paperback editions🖊️

[Amartya Deb @TrailsofDeb]

A few days ago, I posted Part 1 of the three friends drawn into a waterfall. 🌊⛵️

Here is Part 2.

Just when they thought they wouldn’t make it out alive....
Something magical happened. ✨
Something they would never remember.
Yet it saved their lives.
🛕🦢💫

[Amartya Deb @TrailsofDeb]

Fly me up on a silver wing
Past the black where the sirens sing
Warm me up in a nova's glow
And drop me down to the dream below

Bennington et al., 2012.🎵

[Amartya Deb @TrailsofDeb]

Copy that, detective mom🕵️‍♀️
They say, don't give up before the miracle! 🎄🎃✨

[Amartya Deb @TrailsofDeb]

It goes something like this. Three friends on a raft, enter troubled waters... battling the rough waves, get drawn into a waterfall. As they fall, Zane realizes, that his grandfather's survival story... was just a story...

#Storytime. To be continued. 🍿🎬🎞️

[Amartya Deb @TrailsofDeb]

Had submitted my prediction the very next day, I think.🎄 Removed my "DnD bias" (Danica & Danza) of course. I don't expect to get all of them right. "That would be weird 😅". Statistically, the model had 5-6% error margin🧮 Let's see✨

[Danica McKellar @danicamckellar]

Today's the last day to enter!🎄
Heads up - I've heard that the ranking system slides around a little when you adjust the order, but you got this! Good luck! 🥰🎄

[Amartya Deb @TrailsofDeb]

Whilst I am taking a break from urban wild spaces, indulgence in Jurassic wildlife seems fair. Love the sound of rain, and insects, without a T-Rex.

An archaeologist friend once explained to me that not all dinosaur history is in the Jurassic period.

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

This is what a Jurassic forest may have sounded like.

By combining exquisitely preserved fossil wings with experiments on living insects, computer simulations, and machine learning, scientists have re-created what they say is a partial Middle Jurassic soundscape.

If the reconstruction is correct, one of the insect calls would be the oldest known evidence of ultrasonic communication in animals—long before echolocating bats appeared.

Learn more: https://t.co/lnWR48Hy45 @NewsfromScience

[Amartya Deb @TrailsofDeb]

Oh, what a beautiful sight! A red fox climbing the shed of my neighbour's house across the street, walking along its corrugated roof, to sit down and bask in the advent of winter sun. 🌥️

It was gone before I could take my eyes off it. 🏡🦊

[Amartya Deb @TrailsofDeb]

@danicamckellar @GAfamilyTV @PureFlix @billabbottHC Good luck received 😅 now, time to test a theory

[Amartya Deb @TrailsofDeb]

Getting a bit carried away, with the cinematics.
Or crushed by water buffaloes shall I say 🦬🎬

[Amartya Deb @TrailsofDeb]

📻🎵♪ If dreams were thunder and lightning was desire, this old house would have burnt down a long time ago ♪🎶🎵

🎙️John Prine, 1971. Souvenirs.

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

C. S. Lewis introduced The Chronicles of Narnia with a message to his goddaughter:

[Amartya Deb @TrailsofDeb]

Houston, we have a problem. I'm engrossed in making these little animations — trying to model the world of *Bear and Idiot Romance*.