A Little Freeze Library in Petoskey, Michigan. (h/t Laughing Squid)
“You’ve heard of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault – did you know Chile has one too?
In the Atacama Desert, one of the world’s driest regions, the Initihuasi Seed Bank is freezing thousands of native plant species to safeguard them against climate change, extinction and disaster. Stored at –20°C in earthquake-proof vaults, the collection now underpins species recovery, supports rewilding pilots, and acts as a genetic backstop for a country where 46% of plant species exist nowhere else on Earth. OPB“
Dana sez–the work will continue. Maybe not here in the United States, where the primary concern of our current government is the looting of it, but it will continue. (h/t Fix the News)
I’ve watched this video at least three times all the way through. A sublime combination of artistry and craft. She doesn’t “attack” the ice (have always hated that cliche), she embraces it. She’s like YoYo Ma with the ice as her cello and two blades as her bow. And best. serpentine. EVER.
Two thoughts: As always I wish the on-air talent would shut up during the performances, and I hope that the US skating establishment takes to heart the obvious benefits of the equivalent of a gap year (or years) on what are essentially children pitchforked into a sport far too young. (Gymnasts also please note.)
But really, just watch and rejoice with her.
I’m sharing this video first because “Love your neighbor” works for me as a Christian reason for being (Shout out to Minnesota!), and second because CBS said The Late Show couldn’t air it. Nothing gets my back up more than First Amendment violations. When I last checked this video was at 7,622,270 views. Come on, click, share, let’s make it 10 million. (And in your eye, CBS Trump suckups.)
Quote for the day
Yet [Jeff Bezos] appears to have checked out of the Post some time after his libido was liberated by his pneumatic new paramour Lauren Sánchez. And that personal transition coincided with an acceleration in wealth that saw his net worth rise from $28 billion in 2013 to $222 billion today. You might think a fortune that stratospheric would make it easy to say no to paying out $75 million to make and market a Roman tribute to Melania. Or not feel the need to curry favor with Trump by precipitously ending the Post’s 36-year tradition of endorsing presidential candidates, just 11 days before the 2024 election, a decision that instantly lost the paper 250,000 hard-won subscribers. Entertaining War Sec Pete Hegseth at Blue Origin, two days before the Post apocalypse, and saying nothing about Hegseth’s Pravda-like restrictions on Pentagon press coverage, was not a great look either. The purpose of having f##k you money is to say f##k you, but it seems the purpose of f##k you money is to have more f##k you money. —Tina Brown
Outro…
Chatter Lagniappe Sunday Alysa Liu Fix the News Initihuasi Seed Bank James Talerico Jeff Bezos Little Free Library The Late Show Tina Brown