Dead man’s fingers - found in a Scandinavian garden
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Dead man’s fingers - found in a Scandinavian garden

They say you should not eat the skin or the seeds, but the gel is tasty. Would you try? 😅

u/Powerful-Laugh-8842 — 4 days ago

Is this a house-eating thingy?

In southern Norway. A dry log placed on a cool and (apparantly) a bit moist concrete surface in a basement keeping 18-20 degrees Celsius.

u/Powerful-Laugh-8842 — 2 months ago

Large concretion from the Oslo Region, Norway – likely to contain fossils?

Nothing obviously fossil-like is exposed on the surface. Would anyone with experience with fossils from the Oslo region be interested in looking at something like this, or is it most likely destined to remain a piece of garden decoration?

u/Powerful-Laugh-8842 — 2 months ago

I mapped global media attention by anomaly instead of raw volume. -Would love your thoughts

I’ve been working on a project that maps how international news attention shifts between countries over time.

Instead of showing raw article volume, it compares each country’s current coverage to its own baseline. The idea is to surface places that are suddenly receiving unusually high or low attention, even if they are not among the countries with the most total coverage.

For each country, I’m trying to show things like attention shift, tone shift, top words, source count, and article examples. The data source is GDELT.

u/Powerful-Laugh-8842 — 5 months ago

I am mapping media attention based on anomalies.

What countries are getting more media attention than the baseline of the given country? Answer is in the map, day by day.

u/Powerful-Laugh-8842 — 5 months ago
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I made a live map for spotting unusual shifts in global media attention

I’ve been building a mobile/web-site called AttentionFlare:

https://attentionflare.com

It tracks which countries are receiving unusually high or low international media attention compared with their own recent baseline.

It currently tracks 167 countries and includes a live attention map, flare scores, a 30-day replay, tone shift indicators and a daily brief.

I’d be interested in feedback from people who follow world events: would this be useful as a daily “where is global media attention shifting?” view?

attentionflare.com
u/Powerful-Laugh-8842 — 4 months ago