S Parnam-Harris

Science fiction author. I live on Exmoor and see life more clearly through the lens of a camera. #ExmoorThoughts #WritingCommunity #WritersOfTwitter

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My books are mysteries and thrillers that combine my two favourite subjects; science and history. Find out more at https://t.co/qf0Q04l363

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My book Dreamwalkers has now been republished. Thanks to Robin at authorhelp who once again waved a magic wand over the words, Henry Hyde who created the wonderful cover and Kat Morgan (EML) at seasideweb!

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Star/Astral Jelly. Folklore suggests it is deposited during meteor showers. More likely it‘s a slime mold, a single cell organism that groups together when food is in short supply. #nature #NaturePhotography #Science #ExmoorThoughts

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The growth of an icicle in length and width is calculated by a combination of air temperature, wind speed and water flux, the interior of the icicle is liquid water. #Science #Meteorology #NaturePhotography #ExmoorThoughts

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Not hair on bone but ice on wood! Hair Ice forms on moist rotting wood with the help of Exidiopsis Effusa a fungus which shapes the ice stabilizing it with a recrystallization inhibitor similar to antifreeze proteins. #Science #NaturePhotography #mycology #ExmoorThoughts

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Exmoor or Celtic pony, fossil remains date back 50,000BCE. They have a close morphological resemblance to Equuis Ferus. Archeology shows their domestic use on the moor 400BCE, in Roman carvings and the Doomsday Book... #archeology #nature #NaturePhotography #ExmoorThoughts

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Crows are a species from the family Corvidae. Intelligent and capable of tool construction and use, they are socially complex. The oldest corvid fossils are twenty five million years old. #NaturePhotography #ornithology #Science #ExmoorThoughts

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Owls have a layer of tissue (tapetum lucidum) behind the retina that reflects visible light, increasing the light available to the photoreceptors which give it effective night vision. #conservation #owls #photography #sciencetwitter #ExmoorThoughts

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Medieval recipe for preventing wound infection, ‘rediscovered’ in World War One. Ground sphagnum moss, (anticoagulant) add ‘spoiled’ milk, (antimicrobial) mix to a paste, pack wound. #medievalhistory #medicalhistory #photograpy #history #science #naturalscience #ExmoorThoughts

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@sirrahleumas It's good to meet a fellow writer. I’m working on my fifth book which will be sci-fi short stories.

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A rainbow is a phenomenon caused by ‘reflection’ ‘refraction’ and ‘dispersion’ of light particles through water droplets which causes a multi-coloured spectrum...#NaturePhotography #meteorology #Science #ExmoorThoughts

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Beatrix Potter, writer, mycologist, was treated disgracefully by the Linnaean Society, her empirical evidence on proving Schwendener correct about lichen is still studied today! #mycology #Science #BeatrixPotter #nature #photography #ExmoorThoughts

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Photosynthesis is the process that uses light to turn water and carbon dioxide into glucose the by product of which means we can breathe in and out. More trees please! #photography #Science #conservation #ExmoorThoughts

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Lichen. A symbiosis of fungi and an alga, antimicrobial, antifungal, a bioindicator for clean air, extremophiles able to resist high levels of radiation, are we missing something? #Science #photographylovers #mycology #EnvironmentalInnovation

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The Starfire Diaries has now been republished. I had been ’advised’ by an agent to write it as ‘chick lit’ as scifi wouldn’t sell. Without Robin Phillips (https://t.co/Vahof6Y6a6) this book would have stayed in the shadows. #amazon.co.uk #scifibooks #indieauthors #fridayreads

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If you stand still and look you can see more… but who is watching whom? #ExmoorThoughts #photooftheday #photography #wildearth #NaturePhotography

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#Autumn on the moor and Labyrinth spiders (Agelena Labyrinthica) webs in the early morning. #ExmoorThoughts #Wildlife #Photography #photooftheday #naturelovers

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Fly Agaric (Amanita Muscaria). We are more closely related to #fungus than fungus is to plants! #ExmoorThoughts #wildlife #photography #naturelovers

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You might see a #slug . I see the larval stage of a baby #dragon! The chrysalis of which burrows deep into the ground where it takes a hundred years to metamorphose! #Exmoorthoughts #imagination #photooftheday #wildlife #wildlifephotography #FridayFun

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The #sky is #blue because of a phenomenon called #Rayleigh scattering. The longer light-waves pass through the upper atmosphere and the shorter blue ones, 450 on the nanometer scale, are scattered. #ScienceTwitter #nature #Light #photography #exmoorthoughts #bluesky