Five Bullets 2.14.25
Neutrinos, Coltrane, Journaling & more.
Good Morning & Happy Friday Friends.
Happy Valentines Day. This morning in New York City is cold and sunny as the end of a series of winter storms moves on for now.
This week I’m reading Alfred Lansing’s Endurance - reading about Shackleton’s men surviving on the freezing pack ice during a cold and snowy February helps their words come to life. Alexander Macklin, the expedition’s surgeon, described the pressure of the gigantic ice floes on the ship: “The whole sensation was of something colossal, of something in nature too big to grasp.”
Here’s five bullets which caught my attention this week:
Architecture: Never Too Small invites viewers to consider making the most of small living spaces through creative design. I’m a big fan of tiny homes and camper-vans and this channel’s inspiring designs help me re-think how I’m using space in my own apartment.
Art: Allison Janae Hamilton turned her studio into a family archive. Hamilton’s collection includes over 1,000 documents and photographs going back generations, all traced back to her family’s farm in Tennessee. Hamilton has the photos arranged all around her: “there’s a frequency I’m able to tap into just by being surrounded by them while I’m working.”
Journaling: 100-year old Evie Riski has kept a diary since just before her 11th birthday. She’s journaled every night before bed for 90 years. Her entries are short sentences simply recording the day’s events. “No matter where you are in life it’s fun to write down what you are doing so you can look back,” Riski said.
Music: A Love Supreme. A Love Supreme. A Love Supreme. Ted Goia reflects on John Coltrane’s spiritual masterpiece on it’s 60th anniversary. The first few seconds of the album, the gong and Coltrane’s opening saxophone notes always brings me to a higher vibration and listening to the entire piece is a moving experience. I’ve always loved Alice Coltrane’s story of her husband emerging from his room upstairs saying that he “received” the music for the album.
Science: Researchers captured evidence of an “ultrahigh energy” neutrino hurtling through the Mediterranean Sea while using the Kilometer Cube Neutrino Telescope. Neutrinos can pass through matter so studying them could lead to understanding the force that put them in motion, perhaps a supermassive black hole or even the Big Bang. The particle discovered contained 220 million billion electronvolts of energy - the same amount of energy in a moving ping-pong ball but the neutrino’s energy is contained in a single particle instead of the billions in the ping-pong ball. When the telescope is completed in 2028 scientists hope to learn more about the hard-to-detect neutrinos.
That’s all for this week! I really enjoy writing this newsletter. I get to explore my interests, learn more, and share it with you. Get five bullets in your inbox every Friday.
Have a great weekend,
Keith.