TOM CLARK: Ergodic Theory 5.2 (cavewall copy) / a weird red glow from deep in tomorrow

Tuesday 30 January 2018

Ergodic Theory 5.2 (cavewall copy) / a weird red glow from deep in tomorrow

Walking stick with a runic inscription, radiocarbon-dated to the 11th century AD found in a glaciated mountain pass in Norway: image via The Ice Age @Jamie_Woodward_, 28 January 2018

The Tibetan Plateau was created by continental collision some 55 million years ago. It is the world’s third largest store of glacial ice. This image shows meltwater streams feeding alluvial fans on the southern edge of the plateau #geomorphology: image via the Ice Age @Jamie_Woodward, 29 January 2018

Glacial Retreat at a Non-glacial Pace #NASA: image via NASA Earth @NASAEarth, 25 January 2018

Distributary channels of the mighty Yukon River in summer 2017 feeding finely-ground suspended sediment from glaciers into the Bering Sea #Arctic #geomorphology: image via the Ice Age @Jamie_Woodward, 28 January 2018

Why did the lower portion of a glacier break off and slide 6 km down-slope?: image via the Ice Age @Jamie_Woodward, 28 January 2018

At current melt rates, the Gueshgue glacier and others in the Cordillera Blanca of Peru could disappear within 50 years #glaciers #Peru #climatechange: image via the Ice Age @Jamie_Woodward, 28 January 2018

Glacial archaeology – team from Norway and UK discover more than 2,000 ancient (pre-Viking) artefacts in the mountains of Oppland #Norway #glaciers: image via the Ice Age @Jamie_Woodward, 24 January 2018

Old Hrothgar threw
   a glancing glance
      across the puddly permafrost
upon the shining tundra
   nestled mongst the fjords
      in the direction of
Old Edgethrow
   who had been waiting
      through lo how many impatient
glaciations
    long drawn out
      ship burials
and rounds of tedious pan-Viking
   clan horseshoes
      for this moment

Some of my favourite #IceAgeArt has a childlike simplicity yet is wonderfully accomplished. This charcoal horse head was drawn in the Magdalenian (~17,000-12,000 years BP) in Tito Bustillo Cave in Spain #IceAgeHorses: image via the Ice Age @Jamie_Woodward, 28 January 2018

Old E being
   the generous sort
      he allowed a near miss
to count as close enough
   just this once
      yet again
and then
   from the dissolving centuries
      piled up beyond the hoardings
a single piercing cry
   echoed back
      like some night haunted rune
across the glistening
   alluvial meltwater pools --
      Hey, hands off my woolly
rhino
   hair
      shirt!

Norway’s melting glaciers release over 2,000 artefacts including this beautifully-preserved Iron Age tunic: image via the Ice Age @Jamie_Woodward, 28 January 2018

This remarkably well-preserved woolly rhinoceros carcass is ~39,000 years old. It was discovered by gold miners in the permafrost of eastern Siberia in 2007. Look at those woolly socks! Photograph by Vladimir Filippov: image via the Ice Age @Jamie_Woodward, 28 January 2018

Model Coco Rocha and her daughter present creations by Jean Paul Gaultier, and more highlights from Haute Couture week in Paris: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 29 January 2018

Alessia Cara responds to backlash over her Best New Artist win at the #GRAMMYS via Instagram: "I will not let everything I’ve worked for be diminished by people taking offence to my accomplishments.": image via Pop Crave @PopCrave, 29 January 2018

#Lebanon A Syrian youth walks at a refugee camp on the outskirts of Zahle. Lebanon, a country of four million, hosts just under a million Syrians who have sought refuge from the war raging in their homeland since 2011. Photo @JOSEPHEID1 #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 27 January 2018

#GRAMMYS #FASHION Armani Privé @giorgioarmani I’m so excited to have been nominated twice tonight and to be a part of this wonderful world of music!: image via Lady Gaga @ladygaga, 28 January 2018

WEST BANK - A Palestinian student from the Balata refugee camp near Nablus protests against the reduction of the services of the UN agency and against US President's decision to cut aid Photo @saidkhatib #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 28 January 2018

Beyoncé's #GRAMMYS weekend looks, inspired by the Black Panthers: image via BEYONCE LEGION @Bey_Legion, 28 January 2018

Police officers take position during an attack on the compound of the Save the Children aid group in Jalalabad, Afghanistan: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 28 January 2018

This week, Colombia evicted over 200 homeless Venezuelans who had been sleeping in a sports field, highlighting growing unease over an influx of migrants from the crisis-hit neighboring country: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 28 January 2018

More than 1,000 impoverished African migrants huddle in rooms built to house 300 competitors at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 28 January 2018

DSC02653 India 2014 [Trivandrum, Kerala]: image via Pierre Wayser, 14 January 2014

A police officer fights with a protester who grabbed a fence from a police cordon during a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump in Haiti: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 27 January 2018

SYRIA - Syrian children play with cardboard guns in the rebel-held town of Harasta, in the Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of Damascus. Photo @abdbfree2 #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 25 January 2018

SYRIA - Displaced Syrians who fled from Jandairis in the southwestern corner of the Afrin border enclave, where Turkey and allied rebels have been conducting an offensive to oust Kurdish militias, sit in a shelter in #Afrin Photo George OURFALIAN #AFP #OliveBranchOperation: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 25 January 2018

I try to channel the flamenco emoji for as many events as possible #Grammys: image via camila @Camila_Cabello, 28 January 2018

SYRIA - Kurds bury their dead as Turkey presses Syria offensive Photo @Delilsouleman #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 29 January 2018

#Turkey Turkish jets bomb mountains on the border as Turkey presses on with Syria offensive. Photo @ozannkosee#AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 28 January 2018

#Turkey Turkey intensifies Syria campaign against Kurdish militia. Photo @ozannkosee#AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 28 January 2018

SYRIA - Small trucks loaded with sacks of potatoes stand abandoned after their windows were blasted from their frames following airstrikes by government forces which hit the vegetable market of Saraqeb in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib. Photo @omar_hajkadour: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 29 January 2018

GAZA STRIP - A Palestinian woman sits on a pile of food donations at a United Nations food distribution centre in Khan Yunis. Photo @saidkhatib #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 29 January 2018

GAZA CITY - A Palestinian demonstrator, wearing the traditional checkered keffiyeh, sets makeshift US, Israeli and British flags during a protest against the US move to freeze funding for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees. Photo @mohmdabed #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 29 January 2018

#Bangladesh A Rohingya refugee child walks back to his makeshift shelter after collecting water at Hakimpara refugee camp. Photo @uz_munir #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 28 January 2018

A Rohingya refugee girl poses for a photo at Balukhali refugee camp in Bangladesh's Ukhia district. Photo @uz_munir #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 27 January 2018

GAZA CITY - A horse is pictured in a stable on the beach in Gaza City during a storm. Photo @MahmudHams #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 28 January 2018

SYRIA - Turkish-backed Syrian rebel fighters patrol a street in the centre of the Syrian town of #Azaz Photo @ozannkosee #AFP #OliveBranchOperation #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 27 January 2018

#Afghanistan 95 killed, 158 wounded in Kabul ambulance bombing Photo @kohsar #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 27 January 2018

SYRIA - A Syrian boy and a man stays next to a armed vehicle at #Azaz. The Turkish military on January 20 launched @OliveBranchOperation , its second major incursion into Syrian territory during the seven-year civil war. @ozannkosee #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 27 January 2018

Ambulance bomb kills 40, wounds 140 in Kabul attack Photo @kohsar #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 27 January 2018

#Philippines Children play on Jones bridge as they take a bath in Pasig River in Manila. Photo @herime23 #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 27 January 2018

SYRIA -Syrian men fill barrels with fuel oil in a street at the Syrian town of Azaz. Photo @ozannkosee #AFP #OliveBranch #Afrin #Azaz #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 26 January 2018

#Afghanistan Afghan labourers unload crates of fruit from a truck at a fruit market in Mazar-i-Sharif. Photo @Farshadusyan #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 26 January 2018

SYRIA - A barber cuts hair of a Syrian boy at the Syrian town of Azaz. Photo @ozannkosee #OliveBranch #Afrin #Azaz #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 26 January 2018

GAZA CITY - Palestinian demonstrator huddle around a fire to keep warm during clashes with Israeli security forces on the eastern outskirts of Gaza City, near the border with Israel. Photo @mohmdabed #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 26 January 2018

GAZA STRIP - Palestinian demonstrators clash with Israeli forces near Khan Yunis. @saidkhatib #AFPTV: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 26 January 2018

Turkish-backed Syrian rebel fighters are seen in the area of the Barsaya Hill, which overlooks both the Syrian town of Azaz, which is held by pro-Ankara rebels, and the Turkish town of Kilis just across the border. #Syria #Turkey #Afrin #AfrinOperasonyu OliveBranchOperation #AFP: image via Nazeer Al-Khatib @NazeerAlk, 26 January 2018

#Philippines Misery again for Philippine volcano evacuees 'since birth' Photo Ted Ajibe #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 26 January 2018

#Philippines Authorities have imposed a no-go zone around the Mayon volcano as they warned of a hazardous eruption within days, leaving more than 77,000 people stuck in crowded shelters, likely for months. Photo Ted Ajibe #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 29 January 2018

#Afghanistan Kabul on edge as IS gunmen launch fresh attack on military compound. Photo @kohsar #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 29 January 2018

SYRIA - Smoke rises following a reported air strike in the rebel-held town of Mudayra, in the Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of Damascus. Photo @abdfree2 #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 28 January 2018

SYRIA - Syrians make their way through heavy fog in the rebel-held town of Mudayra, in the Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of Damascus. Photo @abdfree2 #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 29 January 2018