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Blog tour continues: M.J. writes about ISSEY MIYAKE – LE FEU D’ISSEY
Blog tour continues: M.J. writes about ISSEY MIYAKE – LE FEU D’ISSEY The latest release in M.J.’s Reincarnationist series, THE BOOK OF LOST FRAGRANCES, is ripe with sensual references to perfume and M.J. has done significant research into the mysteries of scent. …And so, she is leaving a gorgeous trail of guest posts about lost fragrances. Tune in here for blog tour updates and links to her delicious posts . Your senses will thank you! Here’s an intro to M.J.’s on ISSEY MIYAKE – LE FEU D’ISSEY… A creation that came well ahead of its time, Le Feu d’Issey was launched amidst countless androgynous, unisex releases in the mid 90s,…
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Russia brings 30,000-year-old flower back from the dead
Russia brings 30,000-year-old flower back from the dead One you’ve read M.J.’s new book you will know why this incredible news would be extremely interesting to the character’s in M.J.’s book… Russia regenerates 30,000-year-old flower (AP) MOSCOW – It was an Ice Age squirrel’s treasure chamber, a burrow containing fruit and seeds that had been stuck in the Siberian permafrost for over 30,000 years. From the fruit tissues, a team of Russian scientists managed to resurrect an entire plant in a pioneering experiment that paves the way for the revival of other species. The Silene stenophylla is the oldest plant ever to be regenerated, the researchers said, and it is…
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Mars Quakes!
Mars Quakes! Basically, what this new finding tells us is that the chances of microbial life being found on Mars are quite a bit higher now! - Marsquake! Scientists Find New Signs of Rumblings on the Red Planet By Michael D. Lemonick (TimeScience) When space probes first began taking closeup images of Mars in the early 1970s, the pictures revealed what appeared to be a long dead world. Ancient waterways were visible on the surface, but they had been dry for billions of years. Crater-topped volcanoes dotted the planet — some of them a mile or more higher than Everest — but they had stopped erupting eons ago. It all…
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Are These The First Paintings Ever Made By Humans?
Are These The First Paintings Ever Made By Humans? These Are the Earliest Human Paintings Ever (Gizmodo.com) According to new dating tests, these are the first paintings ever made by humans. They are seals painted more than 42,000 years ago, located in the Cave of Nerja, in Málaga, Spain. And they may change our ideas about humanity’s evolution. Until now, archeologists thought that the oldest art was created during the Aurignacian period, by modern humans. But these are way older, way more primitive than the ones in Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave, the 32,000-year-old paintings featured in Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams. According to the latest dating of the charcoal found next to…
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Through The Wormhole…
Through The Wormhole… Our friends at the Long Now Foundation never cease to amaze. You will see what I mean in this segment from Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman… Long Now on Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman is a show on Discovery’s Science Channel that features cosmological and metaphysical questions about science and the universe. Mr. Freeman, as it turns out, is quite the geek. An episode from the show’s second season recently asked, “Can We Live Forever?” Well known scientists such as Michio Kaku and Aubrey de Grey provided perspective on the challenges and research underlying the the science of human…
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Stonehenge Precursor Found?
Stonehenge Precursor Found? We love discoveries like this! And with a name like “the Ness of Brodgar” it can’t help but have an air of mystery and an intriguing long lost history… Stonehenge Precursor Found? Island Complex Predates Famous Site by James Owen for National Geographic News Photograph courtesy Hugo Whymark, ORCA On an island off Britain’s northern tip, new discoveries suggest a huge Stone Age ritual complex is older than Stonehenge. But age is only the half of it. Researchers say the site may have in fact been the original model for Stonehenge and other later, better-known British complexes to the south. First discovered in 2002, the waterside site—called…
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2012 » February
Archive for February, 2012 Blog tour continues: M.J. writes about ISSEY MIYAKE – LE FEU D’ISSEY The latest release in M.J.’s Reincarnationist series, THE BOOK OF LOST FRAGRANCES, is ripe with sensual references to perfume and M.J. has done significant research into the mysteries of scent. …And so, she is leaving a gorgeous trail of guest posts about lost fragrances. Tune in here for blog tour updates and links to her delicious posts . Your senses will thank you! Here’s an intro to M.J.’s on ISSEY MIYAKE – LE FEU D’ISSEY… A creation that came well ahead of its time, Le Feu d’Issey was launched amidst countless androgynous, unisex releases…
