Week of June 14th

That noticed and that necessary, there's something incredible under the North Pole + more

Author

Arianna Gilbert
June 10th, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes

Intro

To all the dads, grandpas and uncles out there

Happy Father’s Day

This week we have the usual and a few newsletters for you to sign up for.

Table of Contents

That Unnoticed & That Necessary

“CORRUPTING THE YOUTH WITH OUR RAINBOW HEARTS”

Highlights

  • We don’t need poetry. What we need is relief from pain

  • Pain is extremely difficult to put into words

  • Poetry translates our aches into something potentially healing

This month’s Ask Anna columns

Freebies

Clare Egan on coming out in your 30s

fundraiser for Palestine Children’s Relief

Elizabeth Mitchell has tips on writing with disabilities

Music Choice #1

The first song is picked i called Coping. It’s sung by Rosie Darling. iykyk I featured her song Witness in one of my posts. They come from the same album. Funnily it’s also called Coping.

There’s Something Incredible Under the North Pole

The 1,800 kilometer long ridge

Highlights

FUN FACTS

  1. One of the pictures has 300,000 never-before-seen objects

  2. The belt of continental crust is more than 1,800 kilometers long

  3. It’s between 3.3km and 3.7km above the sea floor.

  4. It gets within 400 meters of the surface at it’s highest point

  5. It’s now called the Lomonosov Ridge after the guy who predicted it’s existence 200 year earlier

  6. The island is called Qeqertaq Avannarleq. The name is Greenlandic for “the northernmost island”

  7. The island is 30 by 60 meters

Music Choice #2

My second song choice is Super Freaky Girl by Nicki Minaj. This is one of a couple of her songs that I like. I’m not that into rap like most people are. but this one is enjoyable.

The Truth About Watering

Highlights

  • You should go buy a plant. Big small it doesn’t matter. Get something you have to keep alive.

  • Countless studies show that loved plats grow better

  • The things that most of go through seem impossible to share

Music Choice #3

My third pick is Flowers by Phem. It’s a pop-punk song that is really lovable.

Recommendation

I have been subscribed to BAN since it was at Substack. Since last year actually. It was one of the first publications that I subscribed to.

Here Are of few other recommendations:

  1. Midweek Crisis By Stygi

  2. Unruly Figures by Valorie Clark

  3. The Daily Respite by Clara Parkes

Bad Astronomy NewsletterEverything, the Universe, and Life

Outro

Have a lovely week and a lovely Father’s day to all you dads.

1  In no way shape or form am I basing anything in this article on my political views.

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