Bringing back the extinct moa bird

 The scientists who brought back the direwolves are now interested in bringing back another extinct animal. This is a giant moa bird native to New Zealand. The moa bird was large and flightless. Various different species of them came in similar shapes. They were tall with long necks but were wiped out by humans several hundred years ago. 

The idea of bringing back the giant South Island moa sounds promising and likely. I'm not an expert although it feels like a door opening here, when science can restore species that have been lost. 

Bringing back animals made extinct by humans is a wonderful advancement as it fills the gaps in nature, healing the world and restoring balance. It shows that humans have moved on today and bringing back extinct animals is not only a move with a more compassionate motive, but as a way to apologise for the cruelties of the past done to wild animals by people.

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Nebra sky disc

 

One of the most prettiest and interesting relics of ancient times is the Nebra Sky Disc. This resembles a child's clock, complete with cute looking designs of the heavens but it was an important calendar. It shows stars, moons and the sun made in bright metallic golden yellow, with the cyan blue colour of the sky background. 

Found buried in a hill at Nebra in Germany, it's been dated as coming from the Bronze Age. Found buried with the disc were weaponry and jewels, with metals of tin, gold, copper and bronze. After radio carbon dating the artifacts, it seems they were from between 1700 BC to 1500 BC. 

More research done on the ancient findings found that the objects were created from different sources. The gold itself comes from the Carpathan Mountains, and other traces of gold and tin within the objects come from River Carnon in England. 

Its believed the symbols on the disc represent the crescent moon, the sun and partial eclipse, the Pleiades stars or Seven Sisters, the Summer and Winter solstices, sunrise and sunset, North and South. 

For more information on the charming Nebra sky disc:   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebra_sky_disc    

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Being grateful

 Everyone needs oxygen. We all need water. People can go without some things but not others. Being ungrateful can come with an extreme over indulgence. Many have appreciated the abundance of food in markets, the warmth of a Summer beach, the fresh rainfall and the pretty butterflies. Find the small things to love and cherish as much as greater things. 

Inspirational quotes:

Never let the things you want make you forget the things you have." - Sanchita Pandey

"Appreciate what you have been given and you will be promoted higher." 

"The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely." — Louisa May Alcott

“Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.” — Doris Day

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Keep cool with plants

 

There are many plants that can help during a heatwave or a time of Summer with drought and hot weather. If it feels like there's no air, or even when you're so thirsty and dehydrated, you need to take plenty of fluids. Water is a need, as instinctive traits urge to drink water and cold fluids such as fruit juices, cocktails, fizzy drinks, ice creams and so on. There's plants who can help.

Snake plants, often indoors can give a pleasant atmosphere and moisten the air. It can also help to purify the humid indoors and clean out floating toxins in the atmosphere, therefore reducing mould. It offers a cool oxygen during night time and helps during sleep.

Rubber plant or Ficus elastica can sooth heat indoors and create a more subtle relaxing home, calm and airy. 

Weeping fig is an indoor tree that manages the conditions of the air and reduces toxins. It creates a pleasant airy environment with a little coolness. 

Aloe vera is from a hot dry region and so can control indoor temperatures.

Lavender is an outdoor growing flowering plant that tolerates severe heat. 

More plants to have during Summer includes Rosemary, Thyme, Sage, Oregano, Chives, Basil, Dill, Sedums, succulents, cacti, palms, Dianthus and Chinese evergreen. Most of all keeping in the shade of trees can keep you cool.

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