Images from 2023, another 1000 words

“A picture is worth a thousand words”

Some of the Impacts of Political Polarization: A brief case study of the United States.

https://zack-florence.medium.com/impacts-of-political-polarization-427fdfd2db71

Getty Images: https://www.gettyimages.ca/

Can we measure what we cannot observe?

https://zack-florence.medium.com/can-we-measure-what-we-cannot-observe-af22b547dd9e

Source: Olaf Frahn, Space Observatories

Not All Conifers are Evergreen

https://zack-florence.medium.com/not-all-conifers-are-evergreen-2b2ee4d53880

Bald cypress thriving along the banks of the Medina River in south Texas (source: Pinterest).

This is Home, our only Home

https://zack-florence.medium.com/this-our-home-f9f7f9e7f749

The Pale Blue Dot. Arrow added by the author. Source: https://science.nasa.gov/resource/voyager-1s-pale-blue-dot/

If you eat, you’re involved in agriculture

https://zack-florence.medium.com/if-you-eat-youre-involved-in-agriculture-4e743d8d6b78

Source: https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/nadmdata/operational/png/202306/202306_nadm-en.png

Climate Talk, from Recent Days

https://zack-florence.medium.com/climate-talk-from-recent-days-6456995721b1

https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/extreme-heat-in-north-america-europe-and-china-in-july-2023-made-much-more-likely-by-climate-change/

How the decade 1935 -1945 set the world on an exponential path of climate change

https://lzed.substack.com/p/how-the-decade-1935-1945-set-the

By Dorothea Lange. One of the greatest chroniclers of the human condition during the Great Depression in the US.

When will we Transition to “Net Zero”?

https://zack-florence.medium.com/big-oil-will-let-us-know-when-it-is-time-to-transition-to-net-zero-6532dd24927b

ARAMCO (Saudi Arabia Oil Company: RasTanura refinery.: https://www.aramco.com/

Does animal research inform us about improving human health?

https://zack-florence.medium.com/transferability-does-animal-research-inform-us-about-improving-human-health-4b293a45b29

In honour of the Humble Lab Mouse, seen knitting a double strand of DNA. Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/russian-statue-honoring-laboratory-mice-gains-renewed-popularity-180964570/

A Look at Extreme Heat Waves in the United States over the Past 70 Years

https://zack-florence.medium.com/a-look-at-extreme-heat-waves-in-the-united-states-over-the-past-70-years-6a1282a0f587

Image by the author.

Great Mysteries of Physics: do we really need a theory of everything?

This was first published in The Conversation. The author is Miriam Frankel. I am sharing it here under a Creative Commons licence (ZF).

Source: Geospatial world, https://medium.com/r/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.geospatialworld.net%2Fprime%2Fbusiness-and-industry-trends%2Fhow-many-satellites-orbiting-earth%2F

What Will Remain Standing in 10,000 Years?

https://zack-florence.medium.com/what-ill-remain-standing-in-10-000-years-289a0f570644

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe

The Coming Transitions in Economics and Climate

https://zack-florence.medium.com/the-coming-transitions-in-economics-and-climate-907e59f574ae

Image by the author.

Hexagons, from Bee Hives to our Solar System, and Back

https://zack-florence.medium.com/hexagons-from-bee-hives-to-our-solar-system-and-back-c6edcb63ad16

Source: https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/october-2012/beehives

Balloons, Buoys, Probes: some of the Global Menagerie of Data Senders and Receivers

https://zack-florence.medium.com/balloons-buoys-probes-just-some-of-the-global-menagerie-of-data-senders-and-receivers-3386798cc21c

NOAA: https://gml.noaa.gov/aggi/aggi.html?source=post_page-----3386798cc21c--------------------------------

Links to some internet flotsam that I am sharing with you

https://zack-florence.medium.com/links-to-some-internet-flotsam-that-i-will-share-with-you-4d03ad72a9e9

source: https://64.media.tumblr.com/a581cc1c43e29bb6451e554e1320341b/aea3b11422e8b1b3-c4/s1280x1920/7d030fd98c18b00a7b2c351a1d027d4ba20e8cf3.jpg

1000 Words or More

https://zack-florence.medium.com/some-of-my-favourite-images-311884079fe8

https://www.flickr.com/photos/alberta_archives/

Thank you for having a look at what I have enjoyed and have made attempts to share information that added to my knowledge.

Happy New Year, all the best in 2024!

Zack Florence