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Ryan Blakeley
Personal blog · ryanblakeley.net · on HN as ryanblakeleysciencewriting
Ryan Blakeley's personal blog at ryanblakeley.net covers science and writing. Since 2022, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “The headspace of flying squirrels and fossil rodents with 3D brain models”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite Ryan Blakeley's posts on animal biology, such as the metabolic energy of a worm compared with a human body. The comments give no judgement of the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The headspace of flying squirrels and fossil rodents with 3D brain models2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-02
- Animals construct disguises using local materials2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-10-04
- Mantis shrimp eyes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-04
What Hacker News says?
I interviewed a guy from the NOAA to ask about that. The gist is 1) the military has hardened satellites 2) they have a phone-tree system for alerting grid operators and 3) many high voltage transformers have back-up systems in hardened storage. [1] https://ryanblakeley.net/p/solar-flare
Comment linking /p/solar-flare
on “Researchers identify largest ever solar storm in 14,300-year-old tree rings”Submitted Are roads the biggest driver of ecological destruction? as a story · 131 points
HN discussionhttps://ryanblakeley.net/dogs - I train dogs part-time. I specialize in fixing extreme behavior problems, but I also do advanced training for dogs that are already well-behaved. I account it as less than breakeven because I do a lot of free sessions and give away equipment. I did not have a web page or a donation link setup for a long time. If I had someone video-taping sessions I think it would do a lot to showcase…
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on “Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell”Submitted The roots of remorse: do animals apologize? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMantis shrimp eyes, it turns out, aren't as extraordinary as you might think. Yes, they have twelve different color receptors... which means they can see twelve different colors. Near as I can tell they can't integrate all the input from their compound eyes into a single, cohesive image. Rather, different sections of their visual system are tied directly to ganglia that recognize features or movement characteristic…
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on “Researchers Taught Parrots to Video Call Other Parrots”Submitted Mantis shrimp eyes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://ryanblakeley.net is about animal intelligence
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Ecology in science fiction: interview with Adrian Tchaikovsky as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI love that a guy as brilliant as Darwin spent time cutting paper into triangles to give to worms to see how they stuffed it into their burrows. My favorite earth worm fact is you have approximately one hundred million worms worth of energy in your body *(the sum of the stored energy in all your mitochondria).[1] [1] https://ryanblakeley.net/p/metabolic-energy-of-a-worm-vs-a-h...
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on “Why Darwin Admired the Humble Earthworm”Submitted The headspace of flying squirrels and fossil rodents with 3D brain models as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The world-changing bag of tricks forged by mammals as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Animals construct disguises using local materials as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Phoresis, when animals hitch a ride on other animals as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How large is a panopticon text corpus? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Social Stomach: Repletes of the Australian Honey-Pot Ant as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Recursion in Language vs. Math as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting in the Headspace of Flying Squirrels as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Constructing camouflage: animals that make their own disguises as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Control loops as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Animal Vision as a story · 1 points
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