Sunday surprise: concerning scale and zoom

January 18th, 2015 by Charles Cameron

[ by Charles Cameron — A DoubleTweet on earth, air and water, with IS for fire — plus a Gary Snyder poem ]

The ability to scale, including but not limited to ratio, is one of the great human cognitive skills:

The Daily Mail:

ISIS has doubled the land it controls in just a few months http://t.co/6yJsaoeUQy pic.twitter.com/gaJ1mUWiXq

— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) January 17, 2015

John Robb:

Wow. All the world's water and air shown to scale. pic.twitter.com/7PfhQXJkl2

— John Robb (@johnrobb) January 16, 2015

Or as Gary Snyder so excellently has it:

As the crickets’ soft autumn hum is to us so are we to the trees as are they to the rocks and the hills.

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