The Thinking Tree - an ancient olive
tree in Puglia, Italy
Trees might be among our lushest metaphors
and sensemaking frameworks for
knowledge precisely because the richness of what they say is more
than metaphorical — they speak a sophisticated silent language, communicating
complex information via smell, taste, and electrical impulses. This fascinating
secret world of signals is what German forester Peter Wohlleben explores in
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They
Communicate
And this is how they make you feel!
My daughter Kersti in pink and Nicky, one of her very close friends. Strolling in the woods.
And with a little ingenuity this is how you can help them grow:
An ancient civilization that pioneered irrigation &
agricultural techniques.
"Persian agriculture relied heavily on the irrigation systems: Qanats and
Canals. In the early part of the 1st Millennium BC, the Persians started
constructing elaborate tunnel systems called qanats for extracting
groundwater/artesian water in the dry mountain basins of present day
Iran."
Amazing Historic Persian Garden in the
middle of Desert. Kerman, Iran
www.ancient-origins.netHere’s a really controversial theory that may or may not be a bit “wacky” but it is at least an interesting conjecture – it’s worth reading. It's more about timing than origin.
Aboriginal Australian archaeology findings prompt
rethinking of the “Out of Africa” theory
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/01/20/aboriginal-australian-archaeology/
Three interesting stories:
In the early 1920s, 23-year-old Inuit woman named Blackjack endured a two-year stay on frosty Wrangel Island.
Doris Miller wearing the Navy Cross
medal, having just been awarded from Admiral Chester Nimitz, onboard carrier
Enterprise, Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 27 May 1942. If you haven't read about him, well, now you can.
Members of Mexico's 201st Air
Fighter Squadron "Aztec Eagles" and a P-47 Thunderbolt during the
Philippines Campaign in 1945.
Bet you never heard about these guys either.
So much to learn,
eh?
Astronomy time
Latest photo of
the planet Venus with the Hubble telescope (worth every penny)
Venus w/o it's sulfuric acid cloud layer.
NASA's New Horizons probe - the same one that gave us stunning photos of Pluto- has just woken up, approximately 6 billion kilometres (3.7 billion miles) from home.
http://www.sci-techuniverse.com/2018/06/a-nasa-probe-just-woke-up-6-billion.html
Scientists working with telescopes
at the European Southern Observatory and NASA announced
a remarkable new discovery: An entire system of Earth-sized planets.
If that’s not enough, the team
asserts that the density measurements of the planets indicates that the six
innermost are Earth-like rocky worlds.
And that’s just the beginning.
On Friday the 13th, April 2029, Apophis “will come close enough to earth to dip below our orbiting
communication satellites…it will be the biggest, closest thing ever to come to
Earth in our recorded history,” he says, “now
the uncertainty in that orbit includes the keyhole – a narrow region within
these uncertainties…”
And NASA’s Big Announcement is: Ancient Organic Molecules Found on Mars!
However, this evidence is bolstered by the fact that Curiosity has also found evidence that the Gale Crater was once an ancient lakebed. In addition to water, this lakebed contained all the chemical building blocks and energy sources that are necessary for life. Next story
Our
Brains Are Too Puny to Fully Understand The Scale of The Universe
https://www.sciencealert.com/our-brains-are-just-too-puny-to-fully-understand-the-scale-of-the-universe?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Branded+Content&utm_campaign=ScienceNaturePageSign
From my
talented friend Anne in Canada.
Scientists
See Promise in Resurrecting These Rhinos That Are Nearly Extinct.
Scientists
See Promise in Resurrecting These Rhinos That Are Nearly Extinct.
Even if the
technology can bring back the northern white rhinoceros, should we do it?
Always one of my favorite critters
I have had the pleasure of swimming with the three largest critters here.
Creaturely Migrations on a Breathing
Planet
by David Abram
Through his observations of cranes, butterflies, and salmon
in the course of their annual migrations, cultural ecologist and philosopher
David Abram reflects on the deep intelligence that lies at the heart of
migration patterns.
Lets not piss off Mother Nature, OK?
A little anthropology:
An Ancient City Emerges in a Remote Rain Forest.
An Ancient City Emerges in a Remote Rain Forest.
The revelation of an ancient city in a valley in the
Mosquitia mountains, of Honduras, one of the last scientifically unexplored
regions on Earth, was a different story. This was the first time a large
archaeological site had been discovered in a purely speculative search using a
technology called LIDAR,
or “light detection and ranging,” which can map terrain through the thickest
jungle foliage, an event I chronicled in a story for the magazine in
2013. As a result, this discovery revealed something vanishingly rare: a city
in an absolutely intact, undisturbed, pristine state, buried in a rain forest
so remote and untouched that the animals
there appeared never to have seen people before. There is a full video here so you might want to see it.
The stairs in the Palace of Knossos.
www.ancient-origins.net
www.ancient-origins.net
A grave in southwest Russia dating to the 5th century B.C. has yielded an ancient bronze Corinthian helmet, the first Greek helmet of its kind to be found north of the Black Sea in the Greek Kingdom of the Bosporus, researchers say.
Some Science stuff:
One of the best-known regions of the brain, the cerebellum, accounts for just 10 percent of the organ's total volume, but contains more than 50 percent of its neurons.
Despite all that
processing power, it's been assumed that the cerebellum functions largely outside the realm of conscious
awareness, instead coordinating physical activities like standing and
breathing.One of the best-known regions of the brain, the cerebellum, accounts for just 10 percent of the organ's total volume, but contains more than 50 percent of its neurons.
But last year neuroscientists discovered that it plays an important role in the reward response - one of the main drives that motivate and shape human behaviour.
https://www.sciencealert.com/cerebellum-human-brain-neuroscience-discover-new-role-behaviour-reward-response?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Branded+Content&utm_campaign=ScienceNaturePageSign
Scientists Find Fractal Patterns &
Golden Ratio Pulses in Stars
Plato had theorized that the
Universe as a whole is simply a resonance of the “Music or Harmony of the
Spheres.” This new study may provide deeper insights to pairing the
Philosophies & Spiritual Sciences offered throughout the ages with modern
Astronomy, and how we may understand the underlying elegance of nature as a
whole.
https://www.qwaym.com/scientists-find-fractal-patterns-golden-ratio-pulses-stars/
Oh, to be 67 years old again!
