I waited a day respectfully to see if President Biden, a big fan, would post here first but Pádraig Ó Maoldomhnaigh Paddy Maloney, founder of The Chieftains and Claddagh Records died on Monday. The Chieftains put Irish Trad on the world stage not leas…
Pomes pounded out
Luke Davis waits for the muse to strike [16 mins] sitting on a lawn-chair in the sun on the South Bank in London: paper loaded in a Brother de Luxe manual typewriter, ready for someone, anyone, to ask for a poem on a pay-what-you-will contract.
A[BillionBillionBillion]undant Prochlorococcus
Penny Chisholm won the 2019 Crafoord Prize for her 1985 discovery of the most abundant living thing on the blue dot. Obligatory TED talk. Exec summary. Maybe Procholorococcus qualifies for “weird forms of life”? In 1985 Penny Chisholm and Rob Olsen too…