{"id":5,"date":"2003-03-28T13:01:13","date_gmt":"2003-03-28T20:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/?p=4"},"modified":"2003-03-28T13:01:13","modified_gmt":"2003-03-28T20:01:13","slug":"living-fossils-science-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"living fossils, science music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thinking I might have to go down the blog road. I&#8217;ve been trying to correlate disparate elements in my fevered little mind, such as an exceptional treatise on relic Paleozoic, living fossil,  forests in Western China (home of my favorite tree, &#8220;Dawn redwood&#8221;-metasequoia glyptostroboides <a href=\"http:\/\/flora.huh.harvard.edu\/china\/Harvard_Papers\/hu-shiu-ying1980.htm\">(metasequoia )<\/a>,  which apparently used to grow in the Canadian arctic during the periglacial hotspell and learned to lose their needles in the long but warm arctic night, now living only in a remote valley in Hupeh province, (I&#8217;ve been planting them everywhere) with the rise of &#8220;Science&#8221; based music such as GRANDADDY  and the FLAMING LIPS. I sense a deep nostalgia for the language of science as we understood it in &#8220;the space age&#8221;  without the tyranny of the corporatism that has so taken it over. In a way, we may be living through science&#8217;s last gasp. We&#8217;re starting to no longer trust it. It again points to diminished faith in the &#8216;general model&#8217; and the appreciation of the need for empiricism and criticality. Perhaps this is the high baroque of post modernism.<br \/>\nAnyway, this is what keeps me awake at night, in addition to, of course, the unsettling perception that we are about to consumate many of our planet&#8217;s collective Armageddon cosmologies in the Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thinking I might have to go down the blog road. I&#8217;ve been trying to correlate disparate elements in my fevered little mind, such as an exceptional treatise on relic Paleozoic, living fossil, forests in Western China (home of my favorite tree, &#8220;Dawn redwood&#8221;-metasequoia glyptostroboides (metasequoia ), which apparently used to grow in the Canadian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oliverk.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}