“Kings despair:/Scepters tremble in their jeweled hands/And dark thrones totter in the baleful air!”

[larryhammer]

Linkies covering future, present, and past:

Interactive tool for exploring how the climate of 70 global cities will likely change in 45 years. (via)

Updated advice about lightning safety when you’re outdoors. Lying down puts you in even more danger than standing up, and other useful nuggets. (via)

51,000 year old art found in Indonesia, oldest yet found. Over 50 thousand years ago, people. (via)

---L.

Subject quote from Sesostris, Lloyd Mifflin.

Comments

[sovay]

51,000 year old art found in Indonesia, oldest yet found.

That's cool.

[larryhammer]

It is!

[conuly]

Updated advice about lightning safety when you’re outdoors. Lying down puts you in even more danger than standing up, and other useful nuggets. (via)

Is that new information? I thought we already knew to crouch down or, ideally, squat if trapped in a thunderstorm.

[larryhammer]

Not really, but old bad advice sticks around.

[puddleshark]

Fascinating links, thank you.

I thought I was pretty savvy about being out in thunderstorms - run for the low ground, find a hedgerow with no tall trees - but even I had absorbed some misconceptions. We were always taught to untack horses if caught in a thunderstorm because the metal would "attract" lightning. Wrong!

[larryhammer]

The amount of metal in tack won't affect anything as powerful as lightning very much, no.

[asakiyume]

I'd heard the story about the art on the radio, but it was fun to see a photo--thank you!

And I liked the description of lightning ~ripping nitrogen from the air ~ and then making it available to the soil. NICE.

[larryhammer]

:g:

[sunlit_stone]

Learned something about lightning safety!

Man that art is really something. When I think about the texts we have--what, the Epic of Gilgamesh is like four thousand years old, writing itself like five-six thousand--and then this art! more than fifty thousand years old! Weird to think about how recent my preferred medium is, considered against human history... I don't have anything intelligent to say on the subject, just, damn

[larryhammer]

I know. The timelines of human invention is ... mindblowing.