"The underworld was real, but its inhabitants were much smaller and stranger than anyone had imagined."
For The New York Times Magazine, Ferris Jabr writes about Earth-system #science, underground #microbes, and our planet's very active #subterranean world: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/24/magazine/earth-geomicrobiology-microbes.html
Okay - so who here knows how the Spotify Wrapped works? Do they wait until the first of the calendar year to start tracking your favorite and frequent listens?
Last year, we spent a lot of time in the car listening to a playlist that included music that my husband listens to (hard rock, classic rock). For some reason, I thought the "wrapped" would be the songs that I most "liked" (hearted) rather than the ones I listened to the most. Voila, the 2023 wrap-up had songs from Megadeath and Volbeat. They're okay, but I have much wider tastes in music, mainly focusing on trance/house /techno or jazz.
Anyway - as soon as I got the 2023 wrapped, I stopped playing my husband's playlist in the car. At the end of 2024, I'm hoping to see a more personal (to me) wrap of my favorite tunes.
The #Australian Town Where People Live #Underground
In one unusual outback town, everything is #subterranean – from churches to campsites. As the world heads for 2.7C (4.9F) of global warming, should we be heading underground?
by Zaria Gorvett, August 2023
"In the winter, this troglodyte lifestyle may seem merely eccentric. But on a summer’s day, #CooberPedy – loosely translated from an indigenous Australian term that means 'white man in a hole' – needs no explanation: it regularly hits 52C (126F), so hot that birds have been known to fall from the sky and electronics must be stored in fridges."
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