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It’s been a hectic month both at work and at home, and for the first non-purposeful time in over three years I’ve allowed a twelfth to go by before posting the previous one. Panic not however, o vast readership: I do have material from both twelfths past. And here below is February’s.

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So, upon reading my pensive, introspective 12 of 12 from January, my wife’s daughter came up with this interesting suggestion:

I found the idea both insightful and intriguing, but frankly couldn’t see it happening. So imagine my surprise when on Saturday morning the 12th of February, my wife told me that she’d be taking the pictures.

I have to admit that after documenting 37 consecutive 12ths of the month, it was a very odd feeling giving over the perspective to someone else. But it was also somehow liberating. Anyway, evidently I spend a lot of time looking at a computer screen.

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I had a little existential dilemma this 12th, so this 12 of 12 is going to be a little different. Mouse over the pictures for their captions.

There is a phenomenon in particle physics known as the Observer Effect. You can’t observe an electron without changing its path.

And whether it’s an actual extrapolation or just a useful metaphor, I’ve always found it fascinating to contemplate that the actual essence of something can never be truly seen without being changed by the person doing the seeing.

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