SONG: “Cloudbusting” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: This is a penitential cover. I was late with the last song. This is a song about Wilhelm Reich’s tragic life (through the eyes of his son), written by Kate Bush, although I kinda favor Gemma Hayes’ version.
ABSTRACT: I was never that big [...]
SONG: “Particle.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant (with apologies to Antonio Vivaldi).
SOURCE: Based on “How Fungi Create the Amazon’s Clouds”, Time, 5 September 2012, as used in the post “Mushrooms that make the weather.”
ABSTRACT: Unlike the last few songs, this one has nothing to do with a SongFu prompt; we’d [...]
Time travels to the Amazon to reveal the fungi that creates the clouds:
The clouds in the Amazon, just like everywhere else, consist of water vapor clinging to tiny clumps of carbon compounds. In forested areas, the carbon compounds are byproducts of plants’ metabolism; in populated areas, they are often from human pollution. Most of the time, atmospheric chemists [...]
MIT’s Technology Review takes an interesting look at some atmospheric findings – hot flashes in the air, basically – that could help predict earthquakes:
Dimitar Ouzounov at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland and a few buddies present the data from the Great Tohoku earthquake which devastated Japan on 11 March. Their results, although preliminary, are eye-opening.
They [...]
This video was shot out of the window of a night flight from San Francisco to Paris, one frame every two miles:
Hurricane Igor, from the International Space Station.
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Nature reveals a hidden connection between Sahara dust and the Amazon rainforest:
Significant amounts of plant nutrients have been found in atmospheric mineral dust blowing from a vast central African basin to the Amazon, where it could compensate for poor rainforest soils.
The basin, known as the Bodélé depression, is the site of a once-massive lake in Chad. Bodélé is [...]
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Landsat 7 gave us this memorable look at clouds moving rapidly over the Aleutian Islands. These whorls happen, as any canoeist knows, when a fluid moves around an object.
Hypnotic, even when the moment is frozen in time.
Found at the USGS Earth Resources and Observation Science (EROS) “Earth As Art 2″ gallery.
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June marks the official beginning of hurricane season. Here’s where they start from, whirling spirals off the coast of North Africa. Soon, I imagine, a couple of these youngsters will gain enough strength to pop across the Atlantic and cause all kinds of trouble in the Caribbean, the American Southeast and Gulf states and throughout South [...]
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