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We choose this life in the rural countryside, not because it fits into society’s idea of what success and wealth looks like – but rather because it fills us with purpose and fulfilment. This change has given us abundance and richness in the form of time, economic freedom and and the sense of money that only growing your own food brings. When we pick fruit, harvest from the garden and cook with the homegrown vegetables, we feel so rich – in a way that is hard to describe. Our book: http://geni.us/MothertheMountain
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Art prints: https://www.motherthemountain.com/store
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We are sisters, Julia and Anastasia Vanderbyl. A few years ago, we began a journey to live a life in perfect harmony with nature. A life of caring for animals, growing fruit, planting trees, gardening, cooking, creating, building and learning to live with the land.
In this time, nature has taught us more than we could have ever imagined.
Our environmental films document the landscape, the lessons we’ve learnt and our work as regenerative farmers here on Bundjalung Country.
We live on the land of the Arakwal and Minjungbal People of the Bundjalung Nation. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the Country we live on and recognise their continuing connection to the land and waters. We thank them for protecting this rainforest and its ecosystems since time immemorial.
Chapters:
0:00 What it means to live without money
2:24 Regenerative farming and the magical fruit trees of the rainforest
5:34 The abundance of living in a tropical food forest
8:36 How to own land
10:27 Building off grid
17:07 A garden harvest cooked on the fire
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Frogs aren’t known for their fabulous manes, but the claws of frogs are helping us learn why humans have hair — thanks to a homeobox gene and a weird evolutionary shift.
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November 19, 2024
Nature
Photography
Science
Kate Mothes
Dr. Kathryn Cooper uses a 19th-century photographic technique called chronophotography to reveal the complexities of starling murmurations.
Flocks of starlings share risk as hundreds—even thousands—of eyes are on the lookout for predators. “Remarkably, the group achieves this without any leadership structure, the simple interactions between individuals creating outcomes greater than the sum of their parts,” says scientist and photographer Dr. Kathryn Cooper.
Cooper’s professional background in physics and bioinformatics—a data science applied to biological systems—led her to study of the dynamics of networks. She uses a 19th-century photographic technique called chronophotography to reveal what she describes as “the robustness of self-organised systems in nature.”
Some of the earliest motion studies during the Victorian era employed chronophotography. Cooper’s remarkable panoramas of starling murmurations contain numerous individual photos that, when superimposed into a single image, display the incredible flight paths and coordination of the group.
Just before dusk, smaller groups from the same area gather together above a communal roosting site. As the flock grows larger, they cast about the sky in an undulating murmuration.
A few basic principles govern the group’s rhythmic complexity, namely that each bird responds only to those closest to it. “This means that when one bird turns to avoid attack from a falcon, the birds around it also turn,” Cooper says. The neighboring birds turn a split second later, then their neighbors turn, and so on, which sends “a wave of information through the flock,” she adds. […]
More: Kathryn Cooper’s Layered Photos Capture the Complexities of Starling Murmurations
