Sunday, June 10, 2012

Sunday, fossils, Kali Gandaki and ballet

Funny take on the Diamond Jubilee

DJ Ear Worm's Summer 2012 dancetune mashup of pop songs via Metafilter:

Fly (Capital FM Summertime Ball Mashup)

Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe
Cheryl Cole – Call My Name
Coldplay – Charlie Brown
Coldplay – Paradise
Conor Maynard – Can’t Say No
Cover Drive – Sparks
Cover Drive – Twilight
DJ Fresh feat. Dizzee Rascal – The Power
Ed Sheeran – The A-Team
Example – Stay Awake
Flo Rida feat. Sia – Wild Ones
Flo Rida – Whistle
Jessie J – Domino
Jessie J – Laserlight
Justin Bieber – Boyfriend
Katy Perry – Part of Me
Katy Perry – The One That Got Away
Kelly Clarkson – Dark Side
Lawson – When She Was Mine
Pitbull Feat. Chris Brown – International Love
Rita Ora – R.I.P.
DJ Fresh feat. Rita Ora – Hot Right Now
Usher – Scream
The Wanted – Chasing the Sun

Fly

I prefer his last year's mashup of pop songs: World Go Boom

Sounds like an interesting book

Places to know about. The Kali Gandaki River in Nepal

View Larger Map

High way .... a suspension footbridge above the Kali Gandaki river. Photo: AFP

Photo credit

View of the Kali Gandaki River at Kagbeni
Author: Arne Hückelheim (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported)

Kali Gandaki 2002 Pilgrimage diary and panoramic views

What I ate in Nepal.

Once upon a time, when the subcontinent of India broke away from what is now the continent of Africa, it crashed, 10 million years ago, into what is now China and the Himalayan mountains were created. What was once under the sea, full of coral and sea creatures, was thrust up.

From this site about plate tectonics

As a result there are fossils of sea creatures way up in the Himalayan mountains.

There are Ammonites and other sea fossils found in the Himalayas that are worshiped by the locals as symbols of the god of life, Vishnu. There are a few names these fossils are given by locals, one name is Shaligram, another name is sila.

Here are some examples of ancient fossils from the sea, now found high up in the Himalayan Mountains, in the river bed and around the beautiful Kali Gandaki River. There are various websites that sell these stones, such as this one or this.

The fossils are typically of black volcanic lava around the ammonite

Here are the typical sea creatures that became fossils near the Kali Gandaki river

When these fossils are kept as holy objects by the locals in Nepal, they are usually adorned with leaves or a sprig of the plant associated with Vishnu, called holy basil, tulsi.