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  <title>The Mandelbear's Musings</title>
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    <title>Songs for Saturday:  The Songs of Pando</title>
    <published>2023-05-14T01:54:25Z</published>
    <updated>2023-05-14T01:54:25Z</updated>
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    <dw:music>see post</dw:music>
    <dw:mood>enthralled</dw:mood>
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    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt; If you've been reading this blog for a while you may have noticed that &lt;a href="https://mdlbear.dreamwidth.org/tag/s4s"&gt;Songs for Saturday&lt;/a&gt;, in
    addition to having a highly irregular schedule (only 102 entries since I
    started the tag in 2011), occasionally strays away from the usual run of
    music-with-vocals that most people consider "songs".  But I don't think
    I've ever strayed quite &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; far, though that's only because I
    haven't tagged whale songs or &lt;a href="https://physicsworld.com/a/ligo-detects-first-ever-gravitational-waves-from-two-merging-black-holes/"&gt;the chirp and ringdown of colliding black holes&lt;/a&gt;.  Let me fix that.

&lt;p&gt; So with a tip of the hat to &lt;a href="https://ysabetwordsmith.dreamwidth.org/13983176.html"&gt;ysabetwordsmith&lt;/a&gt;, here is &lt;a href="https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/listen-to-the-pando-largest-tree/"&gt;The Sweet Song Of The Pando, The Largest Tree On Earth&lt;/a&gt;.  (Ysabet
    actually pointed to &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; NPR article:  &lt;a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/05/10/1175019538/listen-to-one-of-the-largest-trees-in-the-world"&gt;Eavesdropping on Pando, one of the largest trees in the world&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)"&gt;Pando&lt;/a&gt; is an aspen
    clone, spreading over more than 100 acres (43 hectares), with 47,000
    tree-like stems growing from a single root system.

&lt;p&gt; I'll get to black holes and whales eventually.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mdlbear&amp;ditemid=1862357" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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