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Michael wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 2:13 pm Well so much for spending $600 million for an unnecessary election! We ended up where we started.

Hi everyone,
>
> In need of a pause in this busy month? Go on butterfly hunting for a few
> minutes!
>
> As part of a project led by researchers from CEFE (Montpellier, France),
> MNHN (Paris, France), and INRIA (Bordeaux, France) and the University of
> North Carolina (US), *we have developed a citizen science game to better
> understand camouflage* methods and their effectiveness against
> predation: https://findthebutterflyv2.cleverapps.io/
>
> If you have played the previous game "find the butterfly", no problem,
> just let us know by checking the box and play the new game! These are
> two independent games and your help will be precious this time too!
> If you have already played this very game, indicate it, but your
> contribution will not be taken into account. *We need inexperienced
> hunters to increase our sample size. *
>
> Play the role of a hungry predator looking for butterflies camouflaged
> in their environment and click as quickly as possible on the butterfly
> hidden in the image!
> To play, it's easy: take a card of the format of a credit card (so that
> we have an idea of the real size of the images on your screen), your
> favorite computer (the game is not designed to be played on a
> smartphone) and let's go: it will only take you about 10 minutes!
>
>
> Please share this link with your networks, friends, family, and
> colleagues...
>
> We need a lot of responses from all age groups, including children! The
> more players, the more consistent the results!
>
> Have fun and thank you for your contribution!
>

Randi wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 2:40 pm

https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/o/origin-navy-terminology.html wrote:LOG BOOK
Today any bound record kept on a daily basis aboard ship is called a "log." Originally, records were kept on the sailing ships by inscribing information onto shingles cut from logs and hinged so they opened like books. When paper became more readily available, "log books" were manufactured from paper and bound. Shingles were relegated to naval museums -- but the slang term stuck.

Bob wrote:Mon Jul 18, 2016 2:41 pm January 17, 1862
Hampton Roads

This day's remarks + columns
was accidentally erased from the
log slate before being copied.


They're keeping the rough log on a chalkboard?

https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorag ... 67_116.jpg

Bob wrote:Wed Aug 03, 2016 10:45 pm October 22, 1862

Another accidental erasure of the log slate before copying it...

https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorag ... 67_063.jpg

krwood wrote: ↑Wed Sep 29, 2021 11:12 pm Seems fishy to me. https://www.etymonline.com/word/log#etymonline_v_43590 is all I've ever heard.

Randi wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2024 9:09 pm December 27 — Valparaiso

6 to 8 pm.
Received the following stores; Engineers Dept, ..., 2 Log slates, 1 Doz Bottles Ink, 2 Doz Pencils, 100 Slate pencils;