Sunday surprise: concerning scale and zoom
[ by Charles Cameron — A DoubleTweet on earth, air and water, with IS for fire — plus a Gary Snyder poem ]
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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
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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.
