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sophia_sol) wrote2024-05-08 09:53 am
sophia_sol) wrote2024-05-08 09:53 am
five things: bird recordings, xie lian's hat, vaccine history, dino art, paleo podcasts
one
I love how in the Merlin recordings of bird noises you can listen to, some are quite recent but some are decades old. The file for the song of the sora is from 1960! When I play it to learn what a sora sounds like, I'm listening to a bird from a different world... but its song is still relevant to me today
two:
xie lian's bamboo hat is a ship of theseus situation, right? there's no way it could survive intact for so many centuries, without any spiritual power to maintain it, so xie lian repairs it whenever necessary, and over time every single bit of bamboo is replaced (multiple times), bit by bit. but it's still the same hat!
three:
damn, early vaccine people were hardcore:
(was I furiously googling tick-borne illnesses after finding a tick attached to me? MAYBE. ughghhhh I hate ticks)
four:
LOOK AT THIS DINOSAUR ART I COMMISSIONED. I'm gonna tattoo it on my body!
https://www.tumblr.com/sophia-sol/749827050436755456/artists-tags-commissionsart-by
five:
I enjoy that I've now been listening to enough paleontology podcasts that I can hear someone say "another case of ontogeny recapitulating phylogeny" and just, like, nod along
translation: it's not unusual for the baby version of an animal to have traits that are shared with a more basal part of its lineage, which it loses as it grows up, just as its species lost that trait from its ancestors over time
in this particular case the animal being discussed is a beaked toothless archosaur, which comes from a toothed lineage, and the baby of this archosaur has teeth and then loses them and develops a beak as it grows up into an adult. very cool!
I love how in the Merlin recordings of bird noises you can listen to, some are quite recent but some are decades old. The file for the song of the sora is from 1960! When I play it to learn what a sora sounds like, I'm listening to a bird from a different world... but its song is still relevant to me today
two:
xie lian's bamboo hat is a ship of theseus situation, right? there's no way it could survive intact for so many centuries, without any spiritual power to maintain it, so xie lian repairs it whenever necessary, and over time every single bit of bamboo is replaced (multiple times), bit by bit. but it's still the same hat!
three:
damn, early vaccine people were hardcore:
On May 19, 1924, Spencer put a large dose of mashed wood ticks, from lot 2351B, and some weak carbolic acid into his arm by injection. This vaccine worked, and for some years after it was used by people in that region to convert the illness from one with high fatality rate (albeit low incidence) to one that could be either prevented entirely (for many of them) or modified to a non-deadly form
(was I furiously googling tick-borne illnesses after finding a tick attached to me? MAYBE. ughghhhh I hate ticks)
four:
LOOK AT THIS DINOSAUR ART I COMMISSIONED. I'm gonna tattoo it on my body!
https://www.tumblr.com/sophia-sol/749827050436755456/artists-tags-commissionsart-by
five:
I enjoy that I've now been listening to enough paleontology podcasts that I can hear someone say "another case of ontogeny recapitulating phylogeny" and just, like, nod along
translation: it's not unusual for the baby version of an animal to have traits that are shared with a more basal part of its lineage, which it loses as it grows up, just as its species lost that trait from its ancestors over time
in this particular case the animal being discussed is a beaked toothless archosaur, which comes from a toothed lineage, and the baby of this archosaur has teeth and then loses them and develops a beak as it grows up into an adult. very cool!