16 Mar 01

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I heard on the radio the other day about genome music. There's this guy who is encoding DNA into musical notes and rhythmic patterns, and making some startling discoveries about nature, and the patterns that occur in our very nucleii. These works were haunting and beautiful, some of them upbeat and jazzy, some of them etherial, but none of them random and discordant. I was just amazed.

I also heard about this guy who went a whole work week dead. He died of a heart attack on a Monday but wasn't discovered for dead until Saturday, despite the fact that he worked in an open plan office with twenty something other folks. They said he was always the first to arrive every day and the last to leave, and that he was a proofreader for medical texts. It was the cleaning crew who asked him what he was doing at work on a Saturday, and realized the nature of his condition. Hm.

What *I* wanna know is this: is he gonna get paid for that week or not? I think it's the least they owe him.

Then I heard about these enormous salt mines under Cleveland. Ohio, not Mississippi. Apparently, deep deep beneath the Great Lakes, there is this massive layer of salt, and under Cleveland, amazingly huge caverns of the stuff, with like an entire city of buildings and factories and roadways. Because of the tendency of salt mines to collapse, because as a rock, salt shifts a lot, they have to leave back a good bit of it in the form of great pillars to hold the ceiling up. Apparently this cavern was discovered a long time ago when somebody sunk a shaft into an island out in the lake, and they sunk it so deep they hit the cavern under the lake. It was just amazing.

Nearly all the salt used in the Northeast and Midwest comes from this mine. 

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