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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> spike [mailto:spike66@att.net] <br><b>Subject:</b> four seasons tree<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>… how cool it would be if we could figure out some kind of systematic means of recording into some kind of web-based collective database or some means of recording systematically nature observations…How do we data-fy birds? Bugs? Spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>For instance…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Are all honeybees the same size? How does that happen? Why does that happen? We know that in mammals if food is plentiful during the rapid-growth phase, the organism is generally healthier and grows bigger, particularly if there is plenty of high-fat food available. We know that bees have good years and bad years where they thrive or starve. OK so do bees grow after they emerge? One would think so, ja? If it is an abundant year, do they grow bigger than a sparse year? If so, would not the frequency of their wings be slightly lower? And if so, could not we measure it and record it over time? Take a favored bee hangout (hover-out?) and set up a microphone with a RaspberryPi doing realtime Fourier analysis, couldn’t we figure out if the local bees are healthy and big or are hungry and puny?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If not bees, how about hummingbirds? Those guys definitely grow in proportion to available food, ja? I am not sure about bees, but birds do. Hummingbirds would be easier to Fourier some data, since their characteristic frequency is lower.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Perhaps we could get a jillion citizen scientists doing this kind of automated observation, and get it into numbers rather than useless verbiage, then put the data where we can all get to it and start extracting the signal from the noise. We have been rattling our jaws for so long about climate change this and that, but what we really need is this kind of data so see if we can find long-term correlations like this.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>