https://mdlbear.dreamwidth.org/ The Mandelbear's Musings - Dreamwidth Studios Sun, 14 May 2023 01:54:25 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios mdlbear personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/15740388/505737 https://mdlbear.dreamwidth.org/ 96 96 https://mdlbear.dreamwidth.org/1862357.html Sun, 14 May 2023 01:54:25 GMT https://mdlbear.dreamwidth.org/1862357.html <p> If you've been reading this blog for a while you may have noticed that <a href="https://mdlbear.dreamwidth.org/tag/s4s">Songs for Saturday</a>, 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 <em>this</em> far, though that's only because I haven't tagged whale songs or <a href="https://physicsworld.com/a/ligo-detects-first-ever-gravitational-waves-from-two-merging-black-holes/">the chirp and ringdown of colliding black holes</a>. Let me fix that. <p> So with a tip of the hat to <a href="https://ysabetwordsmith.dreamwidth.org/13983176.html">ysabetwordsmith</a>, here is <a href="https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/listen-to-the-pando-largest-tree/">The Sweet Song Of The Pando, The Largest Tree On Earth</a>. (Ysabet actually pointed to <em>this</em> NPR article: <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/05/10/1175019538/listen-to-one-of-the-largest-trees-in-the-world">Eavesdropping on Pando, one of the largest trees in the world</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)">Pando</a> is an aspen clone, spreading over more than 100 acres (43 hectares), with 47,000 tree-like stems growing from a single root system. <p> I'll get to black holes and whales eventually.</p></p></p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mdlbear&ditemid=1862357" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://mdlbear.dreamwidth.org/1862357.html nature music trees s4s see post enthralled public 2