{"id":4308,"date":"2010-07-26T08:49:19","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T13:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=4308"},"modified":"2010-07-26T08:49:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T13:49:19","slug":"more-summer-noticings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/more-summer-noticings\/","title":{"rendered":"More Summer Noticings…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\u2014 Prehistoric Dildo<\/strong>, as reported by LiveScience<\/a> where Clara Moskowitz writes: “The carved bone was unearthed at a Mesolithic site in Motala, Sweden, that is rich with ancient artifacts from between 4,000 to 6,000 B.C. The area’s unique features may have allowed bone artifacts, which usually get destroyed over the millennia, to survive. ‘It’s an organic object<\/strong>, that’s why it’s special,’ Gruber told LiveScience. ‘Normally when we excavate early Mesolithic sites we never get the organic material. But this site where we’re excavating now is along the shoreline. The preservation is very good here – it’s been lying in the bottom sediments and clay layers of the river, and it’s been well preserved there.’ The dildo-like object is about 4 inches (10.5 cm) long and 0.8 inches (2 cm) in diameter.”<\/p>\n

\u2014 In a long article on one of the current Yoga Moguls<\/a> in The New York Times<\/strong>, Mimi Swartz writes: “Like many other small-stakes subcultures \u2014 the world of poetry, or academia, say \u2014 yoga has become embroiled in head-of-a-pin type arguments. In yoga\u2019s case it centers on authenticity.” Wonder what she thinks it is in the world of poetry or academia. Interesting to bring those three together as “small-stakes subcultures” \u2014 there must be many other such mini-worlds. Any suggestions?<\/p>\n

\u2014 From last Friday’s signandsight<\/a> resume, this tidbit re an article published in the German paper Die Welt<\/strong> on 07.20.2010:<\/p>\n

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The city of Weimar<\/strong> is seeking to twin itself with the Iranian city of Shiraz<\/strong>, the home town of Goethe<\/strong>‘s idol the Sufi poet Hafiz<\/a> – on the condition that the Iranian side recognises the Holocaust. The Iranian delegation has since been to Weimar but refused outright to visit Buchenwald<\/strong>. Weimar, however, is reluctant to sever ties with its new friends, as Matthias K\u00fcntzel reports<\/a>. “At the beginning of the week Fritz von Klinggr\u00e4ff, the Weimar press officer, confirmed the change of course. They had abandoned the bit about Buchenwald being an essential component of the friendship from the outset, in favour of the metaphor of ‘the long road<\/strong>‘. What was needed was an extended period of travelling in one another’s company in order to ‘see, as in an intellectual exchange, how compatibility can be created’.” (In other words: one lot is saying there was a Holocaust, the other lot says there was no Holocaust and the truth lies somewhere in between!)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"\"\u2014 While wondering how to clean up the hydrocarbon mess of the oilspill, and gloomily thinking on the whole bad eco-disaster scenario of the coming years, I came across a tidbit of scientific info \u2014 obviously still in an experimental stage \u2014 that could deal with some aspects at least of the problem of our polluted atmosphere. Via the Solar Thermal Electrochemical Photo (STEP)<\/strong><\/em> carbon capture process, the sun\u2019s visible light and heat would be used to capture large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and convert it to solid carbon for storage or carbon monoxide for fuel generation. This was reported on Physorg.com<\/a> (a worthwhile site to check out, btw) in an article entitled Solar-powered process could decrease carbon dioxide to pre-industrial levels in 10 year<\/strong>s. You can read the details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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