With the “your faves are problematic” acknowledgement, I love George Carlin. He was amazing at pulling apart words on phrases, and this has to be my favorite example:
(Yup, a second Self Care post today. I did say this would happen sometimes…)
If you’re still unsure whether or not I’m a Zephead, you haven’t been reading my blog. Their music is everything to me.
On this day 42 years ago, Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti was first released. I already listened to the entire album, twice, before posting this.
The album is an experience, frankly. And in honor of it, this Monday’s GGS post will be Ten Years Gone.
Feel free to seek out and listen to the whole thing.
This really should be obvious at this point, but the series has basically become anything that’s positive or good news and not related to the administration (the only time it will be related is if I have good news to report about the 2018 midterm elections, although my hope for that is non-existent).
You may also start seeing it more than once a day sometimes.
There’s so much terrible shit coming from the government that I need to subset that with happy, feel-good, unrelated stuff as often as possible, so…
There will still be a continued Self Care post around noon; but you’ll probably see it more often on some days.
This is a really cool article, written by Stephanie Pappas for LiveScience…
The earliest evidence for life on Earth arises among the oldest rocks still preserved on the planet.
Earth is about 4.5 billion years old, but the oldest rocks still in existence date back to just 4 billion years ago. Not long after that rock record begins, tantalizing evidence of life emerges: A set of filament-like fossils from Australia, reported in the journal Astrobiology in 2013, may be the remains of a microbial mat that might have been extracting energy from sunlight some 3.5 billion years ago. Another contender for world’s oldest life is a set of rocks in Greenland that may hold the fossils of 3.7-billion-year-old colonies of cyanobacteria, which form layered structures called stromatolites.
Some scientists have claimed to see evidence of life in 3.8-billion-year-old rocks from Akilia Island, Greenland. The researchers first reported in 1996 in the journal Nature that isotopes (forms of an element with different numbers of neutrons) in those rocks might indicate ancient metabolic activity by some mystery microbe. Those findings have been hotly debated ever since — as, in fact, have all claims of early life.
Still, the fact that suggestive evidence of life arises right as the rock record begins raises a question, said University of California, Los Angeles, geochemist Elizabeth Bell in a SETI Talk in February 2016: Is the timing a coincidence, or were there earlier forms of life whose remnants disappeared with the planet’s most ancient rocks?
Head on over and read the whole thing! It’s fascinating…
Saturn’s Moon Mimas and It’s Mountain
Man I wish I had seen the original cast live on Broadway…
(There’s no nudity, but you probably don’t want to watch this music video at work.)
Now we’re definitely going off the beaten path, here, but with good reason.
I’ve always been aware of Beyoncé, but it wasn’t until I started listening to a podcast called The Read back in early 2016 (or was it late 2015?… I can’t remember) that I went from thinking “she’s talented, but not for me” to “holy shit she’s incredible, I love her music, and I could listen to it daily”. You see, Crissle and Kid Fury are probably more obsessed with Beyoncé’s music than I am with Led Zeppelin’s (which, as y’all know, is saying a lot). And that was infectious, for me, at least.
The first Beyoncé album I bought (through Tidal) was Lemonade (on the recommendation of both TWiBPrime and The Read), both the audio and the visual albums. It was so good I decided that I had to go back and listen to the rest of her solo output. So I did… and I’m definitely now a dedicated fan.
And so we get here…
Tardigrades might be the single most adorable micro organisms in existence.
I’ve often wondered what it’d be like to have one as a pet. I mean… okay… I’m probably surrounded by a ridiculously large number of them. And growing one to the size of, say, a guinea pig could potentially have some pretty horrible results, so…
I still wonder, though… so much that, um… I went and got the next best thing…
But before I tell you what, here’s a bit of a confession…
This one is lighter than my last confession, I promise…
Another How To Cake It video. This one is the most recent…
I’m a really big fan of Yolanda Gamp.
Can you tell?