What if my photography portfolio was a GTA loading screen?
45 of my photos: Manhattan skyline, Brooklyn Bridge, Lowcountry wildlife and coastal landscapes.
GTA IV theme: “Soviet Connection” — Michael Hunter.
Which frame would you hang?
#Nikon#ShotoniPhone
Plants don’t grow out of the soil. They grow out of the air. Roughly 90% of a plant’s dry weight is carbon and oxygen pulled from CO2. The classic willow-tree experiment showed a 5 lbs sapling becoming 169 lbs while the soil lost almost nothing.
@ColumbusState@BenNemtin I'm glad I attended. It was very insightful. I brought my sister, and she enjoyed it too. It gave her some things to think about. Mainly, finding her purpose.
Thank You for coming @BenNemtin.
5 pounds of willow. 200 pounds of soil. Five years of watering.
The tree ended up at 169 pounds. The soil had lost two ounces.
So where did the other 164 pounds of tree come from?
The air. 🌱
The oxygen you are breathing right now did not come from carbon dioxide.
A leaf takes in CO2 and water and gives off O2, so the obvious reading is that it strips the oxygen off the carbon dioxide and lets it go. That is not what happens. The oxygen comes from the water. The leaf tears H2O apart, keeps the hydrogen to build sugar, and vents the oxygen as waste.
We know because of an experiment in 1941. Ruben and Kamen fed plants water made with a heavy isotope of oxygen and watched which oxygen came back out. It matched the water. Feed the heavy isotope in as carbon dioxide instead and it never appears in the gas, because it stays behind in the sugar.
Every breath you have ever taken is plant exhaust. More precisely, it is water that a leaf ripped in half.
60 seconds on how photosynthesis actually works:
#photosynthesis #biology
Everything you are lives inside this structure.
Even the most beautiful face is shielded by the same layers of protection: bones, impact-distributing sutures, three meningeal layers, and cerebrospinal fluid.
The brain is soft like tofu.
Without the skull, everyday forces would destroy it.
ChatGPT has a new tool that’s basically an AI pen
Write down a question, and it can read what you wrote.
It then provides an answer on a little screen on the side.
The problem? The pen is the size of a marker.
So yes, your teacher might notice 😂
Writer: Marie