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#DIADVENT2022 | Day 3

Snail of the Day: Alviniconcha strummeri

‘Punk rock’ snail named for the Clash’s Joe Strummer

Scientists have named a spiky shelled, deep-sea snail after Joe Strummer, the late lead vocalist and guitarist from the famed British punk band the Clash. The researchers say the name highlights the “hardcore” nature of the snail, now known as Alviniconcha strummeri, which lives in one of the hottest, most acidic environments on the planet -- right up against hydrothermal vents in the Indian and western Pacific oceans.

A paper describing the Joe Strummer snail and four similar species was published this month in the journal Systematics and Biodiversity.

“I do a lot of outreach, and when I talk to kids I always tell them these snails are punk rock,” said Shannon Johnson, a scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and the lead author on the paper. “So, when it came time to name them, we were like -- we should totally name them after a punk rocker.” Johnson said the team chose Strummer not just because of his iconic punk status, but also because he was an environmentalist who strove to be a carbon-neutral artist.

“The deep sea is the biggest unexplored environment in the world,” she said.

Alviniconcha strummeri and the other snails named in the paper are what are called cryptic species, meaning it is impossible to tell them apart by looks alone. They have relatively thin shells, and grow quite large --somewhere between the size of a golf ball and a softball. The color of their shells changes depending on the chemical makeup of their environment. They have been found as deep as 11,500 feet beneath the ocean surface and as shallow as 1,150 feet. But specimens have never survived a journey to the surface. “Their proteins are unfolding by the time we get them up,” said Johnson.

Most Alviniconcha are found in piles around the deep-sea vents, eating the microbes that mine the chemicals shooting into the water for energy. Scientists are not sure why the snails’ shells are so spiky, but Johnson said one thought is that it increases the surface area of the shell, allowing more bacteria to grow on it. “These guys are covered in bacteria, but we don’t know what they are doing with it,” she said.

However, there is no denying that the spikes add to the punk-rock look of the snail. Strummer, who died in 2002, is not the first musician to have an animal named after him. For example, in June 2013, scientists named an ancient, giant lizard after the “lizard king” Jim Morrison.
- https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-punk-rock-joe-strummer-snail-20141216-story.html

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This sea snail is so punk rock it was named after The Clash's Joe Strummer

'They look like punk rockers in the '70s and '80s and they have purple blood.'

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nadloriot@diaspora.psyco.fr
nadloriot

Un fossoyeur nommé Joe / A gravedigger named Joe

ce mélancolique fossoyeur, employé municipal du cimetière de St Woolos à Newcastle n'est autre que John Graham Mellor, plus connu sous son nom de scène : Joe Strummer.
En 1973, le Joe, 21 ans, a déjà de la suite dans les idées : ayant rompu avec son milieu bourgeois (père diplomate, mère infirmière) il accepte tout boulot pour survivre dont celui-ci, à 15 livres la semaine, en attendant de connaître la gloire grâce à son premier groupe The Vultures.

This melancholic gravedigger, municipal employee of St Woolos cemetery in Newcastle is none other than John Graham Mellor, better known by his stage name: Joe Strummer.
In 1973, the 21 year old Joe was already thinking ahead: having broken away from his middle-class background (father a diplomat, mother a nurse) he took on any job to survive, including this one, at £15 a week, while waiting to make it big with his first band The Vultures.
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#joestrummer #theclash #music #toussaint #death #mort #cestlavie #halloween

https://radioherbetendre.blogspot.com/2022/08/un-fossoyeur-nomme-joe.html

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psych@diasp.org
Michael

Well, "if you can't beat them, join them". And I've no excuse, having had the glorious chance to see a bit of London, where all the action is now, just days before the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Fate.

So here are a few favorites I've culled (from a great many), some personal favorites mostly from Central London (Westminster, South Bank, a bit of Waterloo, Charing Cross, etc., along with the icons like Big Ben, Parliament, & Westminster Abbey.

Any comments, reactions, favorites, hates, whatever.... welcome. I know it's not easy "here", as you can't just +1 or like individual images. But if anything strikes you, please say so! I'm just swimming in images of London coming at me from both computer and television! Eerie.

Well, R.I.P. dear Queen, Long live the King!

And yeah...

London Calling!

#MyPhotos #London #TheClash #music #Fenfotos #musica #musique #UK #QueenElizabeth #travel #photography

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artsound2@diasp.eu
HU Art Sound

The Clash - Hate and War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnpMZiJvL6g
2:20 min live music video

Hate and war
The only things we got today

And if I close my eyes
They will not go away
You have to deal with it
It is the currency

Hate, hate, hate
Hate, hate, hate

The hate of a nation
A million miles from home
And get war from the junkies
Who don't like my form
I'm gonna stay in the city
Even when the house fall down
I don't dream of a holiday
When hate and war come around

Hate and war
The only thing we got today
Hate and war
The only thing
#music #rock #punk #TheClash

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