Freezing Saddles 2021 – Daily Photo Scavenger Hunt

[mrhappy_onabike]

3/14/21 – Scientist

Scientist and all around polymath, Benjamin Franklin. Not yellow, though.

I learned that Franklin, through his own voyages and in interviews with ship captains, created a map of the Gulf Stream, which was the name he gave it. From Wikipedia:

Franklin published his Gulf Stream chart in 1770 in England, where it was completely ignored. Subsequent versions were printed in France in 1778 and the U.S. in 1786. The British edition of the chart, which was the original, was so thoroughly ignored that everyone assumed it was lost forever until Phil Richardson, a Woods Hole oceanographer and Gulf Stream expert, discovered it in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris in 1980.This find received front-page coverage in The New York Times.

It took many years for British sea captains to adopt Franklin’s advice on navigating the current; once they did, they were able to trim two weeks from their sailing time. In 1853, the oceanographer and cartographer Matthew Fontaine Maury noted that while Franklin charted and codified the Gulf Stream, he did not discover it.

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[camiller]

3/14/2021 Scientist

Scientist — Ronald Davis, PhD, a world-class geneticist at Stanford University whose legendary research helped crack the code of DNA. His breakthrough work led to dozens of patents and laid the groundwork for the Human Genome Project, revolutionizing modern biology by giving scientists a complete map of all genes in the human species.

After his son, Whitney Dafoe, then in his 20s, came down with myalgic encephalomyelitis — better known as chronic fatigue syndrome Davis turned his research to try to find a cure for ME/CFS.

During the global pandemic, Davis’ search for a cure for ME/CFS could also shed new light in understanding why some Covid-19 long haulers have stayed sick for more than a year.

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[Nadine]

3/14/21 – scientist for Einstein’s birthday

Wow everyone came up with such cool subjects! AlanA’s backup was my reach. I ended up falling asleep midday and waking up when the wind was too strong to bike east to the Rachel Carson place. (I like my rude headwind shocks upfront.) And the Jane Goodall place was in Tyson’s. Tyson’s isn’t far, but it’s such a no cyclist’s land. So much for getting a pic of a female scientist.

I do live right by banneker park, and I had a feeling maybe he’d been an interesting scientist, but then I decided that was probably wishful thinking. [emoji2358][emoji38] Good thing 2 others got it already.

So here’s one more for the birthday boy. Happy birthday Einstein!

Oh yeah and this makes 2 days in a row that I hadda go looking for something I have a perfectly good one of at home. My husband is a scientist. Drevil didn’t say it hadda be a famous one, did he? [emoji848]

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[Kbikeva]

@consularrider 209776 wrote:

Sir Issac Newton, no apple trees to test gravity in the vicinity. I tried to find the π to go with it, but had to settle for peanut butter “pie.” Thank you George Washington Carver.

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You just didn’t look far enough. On the far side of Isaac Newton Square over by NovaLabs there are some fruit trees next to the golf course.

[josh]

@drevil 209720 wrote:

3/14/21 – Scientist (Name or Likeness)

I already used a statue of Ben Franklin for the lightning/kite (I don’t actually remember what exactly the prompt was) task, but I figured I’d use another statue for today’s challenge. Ben Franklin was a polymath so science was one of many pursuits for him. He experimented with electricity, inventing the lightning rod and also killing/cooking turkeys via electric shock (I’m not sure how he reconciled this with his vegetarianism). He also studied ocean currents in the Northern Atlantic, and ended up naming the Gulf Stream current. He also made contributions to:

• Demographics
• Meteorology
• Thermodynamics

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This is young Ben Franklin, just making his way down to Philadelphia from Boston.

[Sophie CW]

3/14/21 – Scientist (Name or Likeness) – Bohrer Park
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Niels Bohr was one of the foremost scientists of modern physics, best known for his substantial contributions to quantum theory and his Nobel Prize-winning research on the structure of atoms.

[Boomer Cycles]

@drevil 209720 wrote:

3/14/21 – Scientist (Name or Likeness)

Kelley Phillips Cox

Is the namesake and a Tilghman Island native who founded Phillips Wharf Environmental Center in 2005 on property that once served as a seafood packinghouse as part of Cox’s family lineage. Cox’s family includes multi-generations of Chesapeake Bay watermen, with Cox receiving her marine biology degree from Salisbury University in pursuit of her passion for science. Her research and expertise are focused on estuarine aquaculture and the Chesapeake Bay’s ecosystem, with experience as a project WET certified instructor.
PWEC’s mission is to encourage, educate, and engage Chesapeake Bay stewards of all ages through interactive experiences highlighting the Bay’s ecosystem and its inhabitants

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[Indiana]

3/14/21 – Scientist (Name or Likeness)

Sir Issac Newton

According to biography.com, Isaac Newton was born prematurely and not expected to survive. His mother abandoned him to a grandmother to run off for several years with a new husband, coming back once he died. Isaac Newton apparently was so bad at farming that he had no other choice but to go back to school. He then was a less-than-stellar student who moonlighted as a waiter and housekeeper. He lost two years of University when Cambridge closed for the Bubonic Plague, but came back stronger than ever (a beacon of hope for today’s pandemic students?).

And then there’s the stuff we learned about in science class. Newton may not have actually been hit on the head with an apple, but was inspired by a falling one to understand gravity. He figured out key principles of light and the laws of motion that now bear his name. He also greatly advanced understanding of planetary motion among other achievements. Then after some hard times, breakdowns, and acrimonious scientific battles, he delved into alchemy.
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(May or may not be the Newtonian street name inspiration)

[NoVaNoobGA]

@drevil 209720 wrote:

3/14/21 – Scientist (Name or Likeness)

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I find this relatively non-consequential scientist on all of my bike rides, can’t seem to ditch her. She’s known for a few moderately significant findings about glutamate receptors in the brain.
https://science.gmu.edu/directory/greta-ann-herin

[drevil]

3/15/21 – Christmas Ornaments or Lights

On March 15, 270, Saint Nicholas was born. Historians aren’t totally sure about the exact date and details of his life because whatever may have been written about him would’ve been on papyrus or parchment (which isn’t as durable as modern paper), plus he lived in a turbulent time in Roman history. However, there are a lot of stories about him on his Wiki page, most notably that he was generous: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas

On your ride, find Christmas ornaments or lights. “This time of year???”, you say? Well, you know that neighbor that loves Christmas and never takes down their string lights, balls, or lawn reindeer? Look for them. They’re out there

Happy hunting!

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[Shawnbeast]

@drevil 209720 wrote:

3/14/21 – Scientist (Name)

Alexandra Harmon-Threatt is an assistant professor at Illinois’ Department of Entomology. Her research focuses on pollination ecology. For nearly two decades, she has researched how pollinators respond to disturbances, as well as the role invasive plants have on bee diet and nutrition. In addition, she investigates habitat fragmentation on bee communities and how fire and habitat management impact those communities.
https://publish.illinois.edu/harmon-threatt/

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[cvcalhoun]

3/15/21 – Christmas Ornaments or Lights
My first thought was that I was going to have a parade of Freezing Saddles participants coming by my house. Because I’m one of those people with Christmas lights up all year. I developed a socially distanced entertainment area in my back yard. And one of its features is a carport used as a canopy, with Christmas lights outlining the edges of the roof.

My next thought was that this was going to be easy. After all, since so many of my hunts had been at night, I’d had plenty of chances to see lights. And the day we were looking for red, yellow, and blue, I had photographed a display of Christmas lights in those colors not far away. So all I had to do was go back there, right?

Except they either weren’t there or were turned off tonight. I went forlornly back and forth, trying to figure out the exact house where I’d seen them. I then contemplated going up to the house and seeing whether I could take a picture of them unlit. However, good sense prevailed, and I decided creeping around someone’s yard in the middle of the night was probably not a good idea.

I then checked out nearby houses. Some of them had wreaths, but they didn’t seem to be specifically Christmas wreaths. So I kept biking around the neighborhood.

Fortunately, the other direction from my house proved more productive. I took several pictures of different ones, but this tree was the most dramatic. The only problem was, I left my bike out of the first photos of it, so I ended up going back to take ones with my bike.

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[sszibler]

@LhasaCM 209745 wrote:

3/14 – Scientist

I went with the obvious choice and the giant Albert Einstein statue outside the National Academy of Science.

Einstein’s Theory of Relativity is the backbone for one of my favorite “lesser known” Queen tracks from A Night at the Opera – ’39 (and what sort of time travel it allows).

https://youtu.be/kE8kGMfXaFU

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I suddenly remembered this hunt at 11:57pm on my way to hains point and this was the first scientist who came to my mind. Knew it would be fruitless to try to find him and get posted in time, but I’m glad others thought of our resident physicist!

[komorebi]

@drevil 209815 wrote:

3/15/21 – Christmas Ornaments or Lights

3/15/2021 — Christmas ornaments. Here’s a mini Christmas tree with mini Christmas ornaments on Cameron Street in Alexandria.

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[LhasaCM]

3/15 – Christmas lights

Of course the one day where it would be easier to see lights at night is the one day life has me getting out during the day. Plenty of lights still up, but of the ones I came across, these are the easiest to see during the day. Not easy…but easiest.

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