Mayuko fujino biography of williams

In this episode, I interviewed Kathryn Schneider, a Claverack native, who has spent decades studying the behavior, ecology, and distribution of birds. An award-winning author, teacher, and conservationist, she is a past president of the New York State Ornithological Association. We discuss her book Birding the Hudson Valley, a thorough guidebook that provides all the knowledge you need to start birding including where to go, what to bring, and how to join the birders community, and more. Her insights give us a deeper understanding of the natural landscapes that are home to the birds we see, and encourage us to support positive changes in conservation work.

This interview broadcasted on August 24th 2024 at Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7FM in upper hudson valley.

Kathryn Schneider: My name is Kathryn Schneider. I'm retired now, but I've spent most of my career doing things like teaching college courses. I also work for conservation organizations and for state and federal government

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Mayuko Fujino

Using the hand-cut paper skill she has practiced for over two decades, Mayuko Fujino creates stencil illustrations, collage art, and surface pattern designs. Mayuko’s organic shapes, simple compositions, and use of calming colors are influenced by the artists from the Mingei Japanese folk art movement such as Keisuke Serizawa, and graphic designers from the early 20th century who fused traditional Japanese aesthetics and Western art influences such as Hisui Sugiura.

Mayuko is a birder and often finds inspiration in the natural landscapes and country life in the Hudson Valley, New York, where she lives. Her goal is to connect with nature lovers and support environmental conservation works through her art.

Approach

Mayuko’s illustrations are hand-crafted using stencils, sometimes as a complete composition and other times as individual elements that are put together digitally. The stencil paintings are then scanned, composed, and finalized in Photoshop. This

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The Weird, Ever-Evolving Story of DNA

Science

Carl Zimmer’s sprawling new book, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh, forces readers to reconsider what they think they know about genetics and heredity.

By Nathaniel Comfort

In 1555, Holy långnovell Emperor Charles V announced his plans to abdicate, and his 28-year-old son, Philip II, became the king of Spain the following year. The throne was Philip’s natural—hereditary—right. The Habsburg dynasty, to which Charles and Philip belonged, had raised strategic matrimony to an art form eller gestalt, using marriage bonds among relations distant and close to seize control over much of Europe. Power came with a price, however: severe, recurring mental and physical problems. Charles’s mother was Joan the Mad; his son Philip was said to be “of weakly frame and of a gloomy, severe, obstinate, and superstitious character.” Philip’s descendant Charles II was 4 before he could talk and 8 before he could walk. He died in 1700, not yet 40, childless and s