Oh WOW!
That’s…something else entirely.
So violent! Yet also subtle and quiet.
Yields immediate visceral reactions.
The entire instrument is so thoroughly explored.
How does one remember such a piece?
Or keep the original bow and strings to the end?
Striking. Marvelous. Beautiful. I’m all for it.

An amendment of something conjured by it:

It’s not safe out here. It’s wonderous; with treasures vibrations to satiate desires both subtle and gross, but it’s not for the timid.

TIL. Thank you!

but the piece that truly brought him to international attention was Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima (see threnody and atomic bombing of Hiroshima), written in 1960 for 52 string instruments. In it, he makes use of extended instrumental techniques (for example, playing behind the bridge, bowing on the tailpiece).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof_Penderecki

Username checks out.

Looks like iron sulfide, pyrite, and greigite in this case.

Highlights from this rabbit hole: “imbricating chitinous sclerites” and “conchiolin”.

https://www.marinebio.org/species/scaly-foot-snails/chrysomallon-squamiferum/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15522-3

https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/article-abstract/114/4/949/2415936

Dorothy Thompson, Who Goes Nazi?

That’s fucked up. I’m feeling like Lawrence on this one.

Here’s Sagan in a rooftop garden:

Astrology developed into a strange discipline; a mixture of careful observations, mathematics, and record-keeping with fuzzy thinking and pious fraud.

Carl Sagan, Cosmos, Astrology

Now I’m feeling the need for a CPBBD episode that covers restored habitats of PV facilities. Really curious what a walk through looks like.

Ceratocaryum argenteum
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/581940-Ceratocaryum-argenteum

Faecal mimicry by seeds ensures dispersal by dung beetles
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gary-Bronner/publication/282618768_Faecal_mimicry_by_seeds_ensures_dispersal_by_dung_beetles/links/569a066408ae6169e5532ca2/Faecal-mimicry-by-seeds-ensures-dispersal-by-dung-beetles.pdf

DOI: 10.1038/nplants.2015.141

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-cool-people-who-did-cool-96003360/

As long as there’s been oppression, there’ve been people fighting it. This weekly podcast dives into history to drag up the wildest rebels, the most beautiful revolts, and all the people who long to be—and fight to be—free. It explores complex stories of resistance that offer lessons and inspiration for us today, focusing on the ensemble casts that make up each act of history. That is to say, this podcast focuses on Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff.

Give Margaret Killjoy a listen.

Done. My 1st crosspost. Cheers!

Narcos Mexico.
I liked it.

Another source close to Trump describes to Rolling Stone what they call a “soft invasion” of Mexico, in which American special forces — not a large theater deployment — would be sent covertly to assassinate cartel leaders.

Oh yeah, that went so well previously, why not try again?
/s

Mitch Hedberg: Where the fuck you get that banana telophase cucumber at?

Yeeahh!

Kill Your Lawn, NYT