The Strange Sound of Happiness


At age 40, after years of drifting, Diego returns to Sicily, his dreams of becoming a musician dashed.
But then he discovers the mouth harp, which captivates him and propels him on a journey from the torrid coasts of Sicily to the frozen flatlands of Yakutia in Siberia, where he becomes part of a prophecy from a century ago.
The “sound of happiness” is at last there.

Byfusion machine + Plastic Bricks

and, when all is said and tried, and plastic ‘needs’ to be discarded send it to a ‘brick maker’.

Introducing Peter Lewis from Dunedin, New Zealand.
‘Peter Lewis spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to patent plastic blocks in August 2002, and millions since then to develop industrial scale equipment. The Byfusion machine required to make the bricks is manufactured in New Zealand and can be exported in shipping containers. Their mass production techniques are appropriate for many areas of the world, including turning the massive plastic garbage patches in the oceans into useful products. 

See Great Pacific Garbage Patch for details on the extent of the problem. ‘ excerpt from article Recycled Plastic Block Houses  (http://www.motherearthnews.com)


‘These rock-hard bricks could be used for garden retaining or landscaping walls, and had other potential uses including shock absorbers behind crash barriers’. Read Peter’s full story from the Otago times 2010 article – by clicking on the image below.

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Harvey Lacey a Texan man who evolved Peter’s idea further over the last few years, first by enlisting Peter’s help, machines and knowledge set up his own operation based in Texas, USA.

Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq - MELT THE ICE IN YOUR HEARTS!

Joy Harjo: The Blaney Lecture, Poets Forum 2015

What is a microburst?



 I had not heard the word microburst growing up and now it's every day.

Just-world hypothesis



The just world fallacy explains so much about what’s going on today.

Zuni Rocket Accident 1967

On July 29, 1967, an accidental rocket launch on the deck of the supercarrier USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin resulted in a fire and explosions that killed 134 servicemen. (Among the survivors was future Arizona senator John McCain, a U.S. Navy lieutenant commander who narrowly escaped with his life.)
In July 1967, a fire broke out on board the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal. An electrical anomaly had caused the discharge of a Zuni rocket on the flight deck, triggering a chain-reaction of explosions that killed 134 sailors and injured 161. At the time, Forrestal was engaged in combat operations in the Gulf of Tonkin, during the Vietnam War. The ship survived, but with damage exceeding US$72 million (equivalent to $511 million today), not including the damage to aircraft.

I read a great book about this called "Sailors To The End"; another problem here was that many of the bombs were WWII era ordnance, the explosive in them unstable and more prone to heat and shock, considered much more sensitive than the modern '60s bombs. As for McCain, he did nothing to cause this -it was his plane that was HIT by the Zuni rocket, NOT the one that accidentally fired it.
A ZUNI rocket was fired accidentally from an aircraft being readied for a mission on July 29, 1967. The rocket screamed across the flight deck, struck another aircraft and ignited a fuel fire. The initial fire could have been contained, but 90 seconds after the fire started a bomb detonated, killing or seriously wounding most of the fire fighters. The detonation ruptured the flight deck, and burning fuel spilled into the lower levels of the ship. Bombs, warheads, and rocket motors exploded with varying egress of intensity in the fire, killing 134 and wounding 161 men. Twenty-one aircraft were destroyed.
After this incident, the Navy established a flag level committee to pursue improvements to the systems used to control flight deck fuel fires. An ordinance safety program was also initiated to characterize flight deck fuel fires and study ways to delay the "cook-off" times of munitions. As a result; insulation is now applied to some bomb casings, delaying "cook-off" times 5 to 10 minutes in a fuel fire, but does not diminish the violence of its explosive reaction.

Black Bear Brawl



PSA: Run and Scream #grasshopperinvasion



WHOA?

Just when you think you're floating through life, Sara Wong's illustration reminds us to watch out for falls ahead...

READ TO GO DEEPER:
Burnout became a seriously hot topic a few months back, thanks to this Buzzfeed article.
I wrote a piece about how to resist Amazon Prime.
Facebook was fined $5b. And Mark Z is now personally responsible for privacy.
The utopian portrayal of moms who surf. This article made Jen cringe.
Please tell me you read about this professor talking to white men about privilege?

Whoa!
Two years ago, our fabulous Radiotopia colleague Helen Zaltzman and her husband, Martin Austwick, gave up their London apartment to travel the world. They paid their bills by continuing to produce her two podcasts, The Allusionist and Answer Me This, from the road.

Things were going well until a visit to Tasmania, when Helen got a serious infection in her neck and had to be hospitalized. After nearly a month in intensive care, she was finally released and was, of course, relieved to be alive. But Helen soon discovered that her brain no longer functioned the same way…and her work habits needed to change.... listen

Vibrio


Donnie Humfress loved wade fishing in Hancock County. But he doesn’t do it anymore.
An uptick in the number of reported Vibrio cases in recent years has kept him and his family out of the water.
“I’m just not willing to risk that, and I’m not willing to risk family members and friends becoming infected with it,” he told the Sun Herald. “Until officials can confirm that the threat is no longer present, neither myself or my family will be in the waters of the (Mississippi Sound.)"

Read more here: https://www.sunherald.com/news/local/article233017462.html#storylink=cpy

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