Sir David Leafenborough

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Sir David Leafenborough
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Needs more jpeg, there is almost enough pixels to read this.

I think we're just supposed to infer something generally heartwarming and nod vaguely and approvingly.

I read the letter by squinting , totally worth the read and the post

I copied it via Google Lens and pasted into a file to read.

YMMV.

Dear

Thank you for you

I am so glat you are interested in stick insects Tattoo and when I was your age talve kept son. They are indred fascinating

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Fascinatingly enough, Samsung's text from image produced this:

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Dear

Thank you for your letter

5 Park Road, Richmond, Surrey TW10 6NS
6.9.22

I am so glad you are interested in stick insects. Iam too and, when I was your
age I also kept some. They are indeed fascinating.

There are at least two thousand five hundred different species world-wide.
Most come from the tropics and only a few species ever reach this country.
Scientifically speaking they belong to a group called the Phasmatoidea which
contains two main groups - the leaf insects and the stick insects.
Stick insects really do look exactly like thin green sticks and are almost
impossible to spot in the wild - unless they move. They don't, in fact, move much
during the day but quite a lot during the night. The kind that is usually brought
over here are nearly females and lay eggs that are fertile without having being
fertilised by the male. The eggs look exactly like their droppings and sometimes
people who keep them don't know this and throw them away when they are
cleaning out their cages.

The one of which you sent me a photograph, however is not, however a stick
insect. It's a leaf insect. There are many many different species of these as well,
They vary in the food they prefer and many eat other kinds of leaves than the
hawthorn and bramble which you say yours prefer. Many of them are even more
like leaves than yours are, with outgrowths on their legs that look exactly like
leaves.
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Source. I found it in about 2 minutes. I would say "OP should have done the same instead of reposting this" but actually I can't find this image anywhere and it may be an original screenshot.

Anyway, here's the letter:

You are my hero. I was kinda sad that i couldn't read the letter.

THANK YOU FOR POSTING A LEGIBLE LINK.

Dunno if it's just a recent coincidence but both of the mander.xyz links on my feed are thumbnails of teeny images destroying their content.

Thank you for doing the lords work and finding a few more pixels.

Edit-did anyone else read that in his accent?

Of course, that's the law.

Posts like this make me think about who will be the David Attenborough, Bill Nye, Martyn Poliakoff etc of tomorrow, and how do we lift them up without politicization?

The next generation of learning celebrities are already here. I don't think they will be the same as those in the past though. Video sites allow far more niche versions of these great educators who don't need to work on getting TV contracts to spread their enthusiasm for their subjects. I doubt future generations will have singular celebrity educators, but a wide array of them that all get to add their own creative touch to learning.

I'm very excited about it.

Grant Sanderson (3blue1brown) for example will change future generations' relationship with learning math. We haven't have a celebrity math educator before!

Grant Sanderson is my personal hero! I've always had a deep love for maths, thanks to an absolutely stellar math teacher in school, and it's always saddened me how negatively most people look at the subject! I fully believe Grant's amazing style of teaching is capable of changing that for people and bringing the beauty of math to the wider world.

My first thought is Lindsay Nikole

She’s surely among the best—that we know of!

First that come to mind are Kyle hill, nilered and vsauce Michael Stevens. Love those guys.

Hank Green and Joe Hanson, too!!!

I feel like Kyle and Michael would be great friends if they met in person, and I would watch infinite content from the two of them. It would feel like Mythbusters all over again.

Michael Stevens is definitely up there. He takes a gentle "love your fellow person" approach to things but also teaches so very much.

Mr beast, Mark Rober, veritasium guy, bruspup

Awwww

I do wish we could afford a few more pixels though. This is a paltry sum.

I read that whole letter in his voice.

It's weird. Like, "I read it in his voice" could imply you "tried" to do it conciously. Like I could imagine it as a clown monologue or Goofy saying it. But for me (and possibly for you as well), the voice just happened, as if they were talking to you. No concious choice was made. And all because we looked at a bunch of squiggly lines that have meanings only to the people who know them. And through that meaning they seem to be carrying the voice of the person himself and a recognizable piece of themselves (of their personality, their soul).

The human mind is fucking weird man.

Because it’s a leaf insect not a stick insect. So the stick name is inappropriate.

Ah, thank you. I assume that's in the blurriness I decided not to read.

It is actually in the first sentence of the last paragraph of blurriness though I could only make this out after reading the comment above about stick vs leaf insects.

It is. The first couple paragraphs are more legible.

Stickenborough is not a stick insect, they're a leaf insect, so would be called Leafenborough

Can anybody read it? All I see is blurry text