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Episode 120 (The Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin: Highlights of a Study of Counts, Behavior, Turnover, Movement, and Habitat) The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows. Music We move between three different pieces from Camille Saint-Saens’: Suite, Op. 90: II Menuet, and two from Carnival of… Source […]

How to Watch the Government’s UFO Hearing

Congress is holding its first public hearingon unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) in decades in light of a number of videos captured by U.S. Navy pilots that show odd-looking flying vehicles. The hearing will be held by a House panel today (Tuesday) at 9 a.m. EDT, and you can watch it live on the committee’s YouTube […]

Designers, (Re)define Success First

About two and a half years ago, I introduced the idea of daily ethical design. It was born out of my frustration with the many obstacles to achieving design that’s usable and equitable; protects people’s privacy, agency, and focus; benefits society; and restores nature. I argued that we need to overcome the inconveniences that prevent […]

Raspberry Pi Birdhouse Software

In my last post I went over the components of the bird house camera I set up this year to get a better look at the local black-capped chickadees. Today I’ll talk about the software that makes it work. Initial Setup Being relatively new to Raspberry Pi, I started off with a full install of […]

Raspberry Pi Birdhouse Camera

My current non-app related project has taken me out into the back yard, but brought along my coding and technical experience. Given this site’s name, the project might be called the atomic birdhouse. For the past couple of years I’ve had a bird house in my yard, in which black-capped chickadees have nested and raised […]