Get PhyloPic posters and Pocket Phylogenies as reward add-ons for backing the PALEOCENE #4 crowdfunding campaign by @keeseycomics! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keesey/paleocene-4-comic-book/posts/3905852 #sciart #scicomm #biology #evolution #evolutionarybiology #paleoart #deeptime #prehistoric #silhouette

The first page of the issue #4 of PALEOCENE! The campaign to print it is half over -- discover what happens in Mamma and Brother's search for Sister. https://kickstarter.com/projects/keesey/paleocene-4-comic-book

#paleoart #paleofiction #comic #comicart #comicbook #evolutionarybiology #evolution #deeptime #animals #primates

Scientists say a new epoch marked by human impact—the Anthropocene—began in 1950s

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/11/1187125012/anthropocene-crawford-lake-canada-beginning

#ClimateChange #Climate #anthropocene #ecology #science #deepTime

i am irked by the use of tree metaphors for conveying a deep sense of unity in and with the #anthropocene or as a root of all wisdom on being.. but i just got way too moved by a passage on how hybrid plants with separated parents still thrive in places where one of the parents may have disappeared due to exogenous factors in the passage of #deeptime #careofthespecies

Most recent episode of Common Descent podcast has a great overview of geologic dating.

https://commondescentpodcast.com/2023/06/10/episode-167-geologic-dating/

There are some places where I wish it was more in depth, but I think greater depth really requires a textbook - my favorite coverge of geologic dating is probably in the 2nd edition of _How to Build a Habitable Planet_ , by Wally Broecker and Charles Langmuir .

But I think that book is now 11 or 12 years old?

#dinosaurs
#geology
#deepTime

what but imagination could have read granite
boulders back to their molten roots?
And how far back was back, and how far on
would basalt still be basalt, iron iron?

—Edwin Morgan certainly though so, and was inspired – by Burns & Hutton – to write “Theory of the Earth” (first published in New Writing Scotland 2, 1984)

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #EdwinMorgan #poetry #DeepTime #geology
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James Hutton met Robert Burns in 1787. Later that year, Burns chose to visit some of the sites discussed in Hutton’s THEORY OF THE EARTH. Is there an echo of Hutton’s “deep time”—oceans evaporating, rocks melting—to be heard in Burns’s “A Red, Red Rose” (pub. 1794)?

#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #poetry #Enlightenment #18thcentury #DeepTime
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https://sunnydunny.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/robert-burns-and-geology/

James Hutton (1726–1797), father of modern #Geology, was born #OTD, 3 June. One of the first European proponents of “deep time”, the concluding sentence of his 1788 paper “Theory of the Earth” has been called one of the most lyrical sentences in all of #science. It reads,

The result, therefore, of our present enquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning,—no prospect of an end.

#Scottish #literature #Enlightenment #18thcentury #DeepTime
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@otterlove
oh how I wish
for the great diplopodes
of carboniferous swamps
with thousands of feet
on the detritus of trees
they would calmly feast
those ancient millipedes

#Arthropleura
#Carboniferous
#DeepTime
#millipedes
#poetry

@jhaue
from the news item after examining the 80 million years old fossil they concluded
“...the external morphology of this pollen cone is different from living cycads today. This finding suggests cycads aren't really 'living fossils' and they probably have a more dynamic evolutionary history than previously thought."..
#cycad #ecoevo #evolution #DeepTime

There would be no games like #minecraft if it wasnt for #TaleOfTheSun i was the first open ended survival game. And on of the best examples of #lowpoly3d

I remember hunting mammoths (ironic...) in this game to use there tusk to get to the tail of the sun. As a kid, and I started my fascination with prehistory. Concepts such as #DeepTime would haunt me because of this game.

Up there with ape escape or baroque as my favorite weird ps1 game.

#FredAdams - Will the #Universe Ever End?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC-Osd3wm_w&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#PhilosophyOfScience #PhilosophyOfCosmology #Cosmology #Physics #Astrophysics #Time #DeepTime #DegenerateEra #BlackHole #BlackHoles #DarkEra #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

"Sweden approves nuclear waste storage site"

Both Sweden and Finland conducted extensive surveys of the "best" location for their deep geological nuclear waste storage site.

Coincidentally....both decided on sites that where their #nuclear power plants are located.

How oddly convenient that the "best" location for millennia long waste storage is already owned by the industry and where they employ the local community. Two times!

I write about this dynamic and other ways that you can see that our deep-time decisions are made largely on the politics of the present in my book *Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha*

#Sweden #NuclearWaste #SKB #Forsmark #DeepTime #Anthropocene

https://www.politico.eu/article/sweden-approve-nuclear-waste-storage-site/

#GregoryBenford - What is the Far Far #Future of #Humans in the #Universe?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPTF_KZnzOE&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Physics #Futurology #DeepTime #Engineering #PlanetaryEngineering #Time #Human #HumanSpecies #Earth #PlanetEarth #Climate #HotSun #Mars #Terraform #Terraforming #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

A recent addition to my Recommended Reads list on @medium...

Joelle Marlin's article about an extinct North American mammal, which has no descendants and is unlike any mammal living today, was amazing to me! For some reason, they kind of remind me of hobbits.

#archaeology #paleoart #deeptime #prehistory #recommendedreads

https://medium.com/@fossilfantasies/fanged-forgotten-ruminants-6d6892cd9d87

STILL MOAR LICHENS

From the old stone wall surrounding the burying ground of old Hugenot Street in New Platz in the Catskills of New York state.

I haven't tried to figure out how many different lichens are visible here.

https://flic.kr/p/2okwcCv

#LichenLandscapes
#Lichen #Lichens #LichenSubscribe #Fungi #Symbiosis #Ecology #Catskills #DeepTime #Photography #Botany #NaturePhotography

If you aren't following *Shannon Mattern* you may well be missing giant chunks of time re-examined, multi-disciplinary critical thinking, and a kind of hyper-sublime curiosity summoning new found critical epiphanies.

She explores historical medias, digital overlays onto archeology and social intersections that challenge our modern cultural reliance on siloed singular discipline knowledge bodies.

I just boosted one of her posts. Reflexively. Without examining it. It had the vibe. Upon examination I got lost in the rabbit hole. Wound up in an adjacent article on the same site regarding architecture and climate.

"Both material and social-cultural, both product and agent, architecture and climate therefore also have an opportunity to create alternative material and social-cultural configurations that nurture a different set of forces and functions. If architecture is climate, then climate breakdown is inherently accompanied by an architecture breakdown as well. Responding to the urgent need for reinvention in the way we understand, practice, and teach architecture demands an engagement with activism, politics, and education. Architecture must become relational, subjective, and interconnected; both planetarily bound and supported; inclusive beyond the human; caring, curious, and brave."

Nature, design, climate and consilience are here under the rubric of architecture.

Enjoy.

H/T @shannonmattern

https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/chronograms/519512/architecture-is-climate/

#DeepTime #CRT #ClimateDiary #ClimateChange #ThickTime

MOAR LICHENS

I found 6 different lichens on this Bicentennial (U.S.) granite marker. I'm sure there are others I didn't have time to photograph. (Husbear continued walking and I had to catch up to him.)

https://flic.kr/p/2ojyG1j

#Lichen #Lichens #LichenSubscribe #Fungi #Symbiosis #Ecology #Catskills #DeepTime #Photography #Botany #NaturePhotography

Mind slightly blown by this #NewScientist article on our solar system travelling through interstellar space. The timescales of 2000 & 8 million years time are both incomprehensibly long and also but-a-blink-of-an-eye when thinking about the 4.5 billion year age of the Earth 🤯

#science #universe #interstellar #deepTime

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2359129-were-hurtling-into-a-new-region-of-interstellar-space-what-now/

Thinking about the NYT (and other) pieces about the collapse of both time and world view in pandemic, and pieces in Atlantic (and elsewhere) about the collapse of time and post #ww2 worldview in the accumulating/ staggering local and global crises. These are such deeply related phenomena. Braudel had some things very right in terms of how we think about human history and what matters and when. #history #DeepTime #Braudel #histodons