You can hear the bones humming

[sovay]

How did we know we were human? We made music and devoured our own. The juniper tree's roots run deep. I am waiting for the flute that, blown, cries out in the voice of an ancient child.

There is salt on Enceladus.

Comments

[sovay]

I'll have to see if I can finagle access to the full article from Nature.

Argh. I forgot it might not be accessible without subscription. This is the article I first read.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Ah, thank you! But it's the piece about the flutes I wasn't able to get at. I'm sure I can get it, somehow, through NYU's library--I'm simply less accustomed to doing so for Nature than I am for archives like JSTOR and such.

I've read about the flutes in the usual media--AP and such through Yahoo. Very interesting.

[sovay]

But it's the piece about the flutes I wasn't able to get at.

Gah! I copied the wrong link. Here.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Thank you! That's an interesting piece--I'd not seen the bit about the replica having been tried out.