Roope Kaaronen
Forager of information and mushrooms • Cognitive science, cultural evolution, cognitive anthropology • https://roopekaaronen.net • Kayaking, music, nature, photography
- Sunset run on the sea. I'll be kayaking this same route in two months. Helsinki can be really nice at times.
- Torille! 🇫🇮
- Very happy to see our ice-fishing paper on the cover of @science.org this week! 🎣🎉 We tracked large groups of Finnish competitive ice-fishers to study how social foragers use social information when searching for resources. 🐟 Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (contact me for open access)
- About a year ago I spent an ~hour learning to tie my shoelace knots optimally with the Ian knot. That'll save me approximately 5 seconds a day. This means that in about a year I'll break even in my time investment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O-x...
- I like that someone saved this post and plans to also invest their time rationally.
- Honestly though, the Ian knot is much superior to bunny ears and also results in a well-dressed (doubly-slipped) square knot. Many people tie their bunny ears into a (doubly-slipped) granny knot; that may be the root cause behind your shoelaces coming undone all the time. As I've explained here:
- One of my khipus-in-progress now hanging in my office. It's definitely been fun to learn the ins and outs of the system. Honestly, more intuitive than expected (except for the nuances where scholars disagree).
- I will encrypt all my passwords in these from hereon. (j/k)
- Next to the string figures, of course.
- The frozen sea in Helsinki. Ten day forecast looks like we might be able to walk to the islands this February. Been a few years since the last time that was possible.
