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Did an Ancient Magnetic Field Reversal Cause Chaos for Life on Earth 42,000 Years Ago? The study links new, detailed data about Earth’s atmosphere to a series of unfortunate events that occurred around the same time The study begins with fossilized Kauri trees (pictured) that died over 41,000 years ago.  ( Nelson Parker via University of New South Wales ) By  Theresa Machemer SMITHSONIANMAG.COM FEBRUARY 23, 2021 Humans today take Earth’s magnetic North Pole for granted. But over the course of the planet’s history, the direction of its magnetic field has shifted.  A new study suggests that the last time the field flipped around and flopped back again, the effects on Earth’s surface were cataclysmic, Carolyn Gramling reports for  Science News . The study, published on February 19 in the journal  Science , makes use of massive, fossilized Kauri trees from New Zealand to create a timeline of how cosmic rays impacted Earth’s atmosphere during their lifetimes, which o...

Some of our friends may have already seen work by  Wheeler Winston Dixon .  David King presented this fine piece   at last year's Bellarine Avant Garde Festival: I Am Lost to the World by  Wheeler Winston Dixon  /  9 months ago Image: Wheeler Winston Dixon Track: Gustav Mahler In memory of Taylor Mead “I am lost to the world With which I used to waste much time; It has for so long known nothing of me, It may well believe that I am dead. Nor am I at all concerned If it should think that I am dead. Nor can I deny it, For truly I am dead to the world. I am dead to the world’s tumult And rest in a quiet realm! I live alone in my heaven, In my love, in my song!” – lyric by Friedrich Rückert, Trans. Richard Stokes This video was created using footage in the Public Domain, or released as CC0 Public Domain materials, and is made entirely from recycled, repurposed and refashioned images and materials. Copyright © 2020 Wheeler Winston Dixon. All rights reserved. Forw...