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Society of Women Geographers

I was going to head out to Reston to get the USGS Eastern Geographic Science Center, but then I decided I didn’t want to Metro so much even if the tailwind was nice on the way back. So, I found this locally (I guess Rumi did too!) and headed to Hains Point where I did not enjoy the headwind. So, I rode to Huntington and am now on the Metro (which feels like is falling apart! [but there’s better spots for bikes in the old cars]) anywho.

http://www.iswg.org/

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“With some of the first and longest standing Psychology programs at a Historically Black College or University, we are dedicated to bringing well-being and health to diverse groups in globally unserved settings by rigorously grounding psychological science in transcultural contexts.

The Department of Psychology offers admission to Ph.D. programs in the following major areas: clinical, developmental, neuropsychology, personality, and social psychology within the Graduate School. Each program builds upon the rich tradition of scholarship and advancing knowledge to improve the well-being of underserved communities with a focus on the Black experience.”

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GW Science & Engineering Hall from last night. I intended to stop by again, but no way. Too cold and windy!

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In the GW Science and Engineering Hall.

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This was a really cool gazebo. Just sayin’.

Please return to your regularly scheduled day. I think it was along Cameron Station Blvd in Alexandria? Arlington?

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Howard University

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Once again I forgot to post!

I saw these guys near 3rd & F NW, next to the Holy Rosary Church at the Casa Italiana. I figured at least one of these well-known men might have done some measuring. One was a composer, architect, politician, but “Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi FRSA was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer, known for his creation of a practical radio wave-based wireless telegraph system”. I don’t think you can get much more measurement-oriented than that!

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@cvcalhoun 216866 wrote:

2/20/2022 Metrology
This guy was stopped for speeding based on a device developed with metrology — in this case, measuring speed.

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That’s the one I was thinking of doing. Maybe with either a speed camera or one of those current speed signs. Cool!

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@Catedrew 216782 wrote:

2-19-2022

I’m out of town on s biking/hiking trip in Douthat State Park. This is a photo of a footprint we found in one of the books in the cabin. Stretch your brain to a million years from now, and it will be fossilized!

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“According to theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli, time is an illusion: our naive perception of its flow doesn’t correspond to physical reality. Indeed, as Rovelli argues in The Order of Time, much more is illusory, including Isaac Newton’s picture of a universally ticking clock. Even Albert Einstein’s relativistic space-time — an elastic manifold that contorts so that local times differ depending on one’s relative speed or proximity to a mass — is just an effective simplification.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-04558-7

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Start of the Downtown Breakaway ride on Wednesday evenings. Does anyone ride that? Great for all abilities from sensible racers to D pace riders.

“These shells sat on the bottom of an ocean, on sand that later became the Appalachian mountains. (Chris Barr)
Look at the outward-facing walls on the southwestern corner of the park and you’ll find gray and white shell shapes pressed into some of the stones. These were brachiopods, shelled creatures that dominated the ancient seas but are less common today. The brachiopods that left their mark here probably lived during the early Devonian period, a little less than 400 million years ago, in a coastal area that now makes up the Appalachian Mountains. “This park has been renovated many times, and at some point they put in one of the best fossil displays in the city,” Barr says.”

Mitchell Park
23rd and S streets NW

Here’s how to find D.C.’s accidental museum of paleontology
By Sadie Dingfelder

August 18, 2016

https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2016/08/18/heres-how-to-find-d-c-s-accidental-museum-of-paleontology/

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@Thor 216747 wrote:

2/19/22 – Paleontology

Dinosaur Park, Laurel, MD

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I was just there, but didn’t see the Dino head!

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@Catedrew 216727 wrote:

I was editing it because the photo was sideways. Try again and see if you can see it now. But go back to the original, since the other ‘attachment link’ no longer works.

Not sure what you mean by original. Attachment still doesn’t work, but Strava link does!! ♥️

By perspective I meant sense of time and purpose. History is interesting from that perspective.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-04558-7

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Ah, yes, I can see it on your Strava page now. Yup, the other link is still broken. By perspective I just meant the World War One people. It makes me think about time, history, and perspective.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-04558-7

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@Catedrew 216723 wrote:

2/18-2022 – War Memorial

Well, it looks like several folks already posted this one, but it’s the closes War Memorial to where I live, so I’m posting it anyway. However, rather than posting the overall photo of the entire memorial (which I was planning on, but which others have posted) I decided to opt for a closeup of the several of the plaques on the memorial.

This memorial was initially for World War I, although at the time, they didn’t know there was going to be a World War II, so it just says “World War.”

The original plaque lists a bunch of men, and then there is a space, and then two more names added at the bottom, with ‘colored’ listed after their names. Well, they must have discovered some others who died in that war, because there was another plaque added 100 years later that added more names. But this War Memorial has become so much more than just the World War (1) memorial, because additional plaques were added on the other side for the Korean War and the Vietnam War, and then another plaque under WWI one that lists those from the war in Afghanistan and Iraq. You can see more images of it on my Strava feed here: https://www.strava.com/activities/6702745244

And apparently, this memorial used to be in Arlington Cemetery adjacent to the tomb of the unknown soldier. It sits in a prominent location at the end of an ‘island’ that had Clarendon Metro at the other end. Many times, one might also see Arlington’s ‘Chooser Cruiser’ parked in front of – a vehicle that is painted half to look like a police car, and the other half to look like a taxi – to deter drunk driving.

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Interesting story and perspective. Can’t get the attachment to open though.

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@rumipumi 216704 wrote:

Jessica, today is war memorial. Saturday is paleontology

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Cool though! At least Jessica’s is before midnight, Saturday.

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