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Wednesday, May 02, 2018
THYLACINES IN THE NEWS
Could Gene-Editing Technology Bring Back the Extinct Tasmanian Tiger?
With the stripes of a tiger, the body shape of a dog and
the pouch of a kangaroo, the Australian thylacine was a unique
combination of animals. Unfortunately, humans drove it to extinction, and the
last one perished in 1936. However, as gene technology advances and the science
of “de-extinction” ...
'Not science fiction any more': The
Tasmanian tiger could soon be back from extinction
Andrew Pask, a scientist from the University of
Melbourne, was part of a team who worked for 10 years to discover all the
genetic information of the thylacine. They did this with the help of a
four-week-old thylacine joey that had been preserved in a liquid chemical
when it died a long time ago. This joey is ...
'It's not science fiction, it's science
fact': Australian scientists plan to CLONE the Tasmanian tiger ...
'You would have to make a lot more changes to make the
numbat DNA look like a thylacine but the technology for making those
changes has gotten exponentially easier in the last five or so years because of
the people who are doing the mammoth work,' Professor Pask said. The Tasmanian
Tiger ...
FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES
What has Corinna's column of Fortean bird news got to do with cryptozoology?
Well, everything, actually!
In an article for the first edition of Cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans wrote that cryptozoology is the study of 'unexpected animals' and following on from that perfectly reasonable assertion, it seems to us that whereas the study of out-of-place birds may not have the glamour of the hunt for bigfoot or lake monsters, it is still a perfectly valid area for the Fortean zoologist to be interested in.
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN GETS ON WITH IT
The Gonzo Daily: Wednesday
Ummm my name is Jonathan and it has been two weeks since my last drink.
Ummm that is totally true, but how long I shall keep it up for I don't know, but
I am detoxing for a bit.
Graham is currently somewhere over the Atlantic on the way to Boston and
then Phoenix, Arizona. he will be away for three weeks, and I am missing him
already. Today is Andy the Druid's birthday,and we wish him all that he would
wish himself. In other news.......ummm: there isn't any, except for me having
finished Jon Dunn's wonderful book about British orchids; in which he sets
himself the task of seeing every British orchid species in a single summer. I
would recommend it to anyone.
Changing the subject completely, is there anyone reading this who has any
experience in coding apps? Even more importantly, if you do, would you be
prepared to lend your expertise to us for a few hours? Email me please at
jon@eclipse.co.uk.
Forgive me for always banging on about our webTV show, but it matters a lot
to me, and I would be grateful for as many people as possible to see it, and
spread the tidings of it far and wide:
And if you fancy supporting us on Patreon:
And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore
seems to be in order: if you want to make me a happy fellow, you can:
buy my novel:
buy the record by the main protagonist of the novel who isn't me in an
elephant mask, honest:
buy my single:
But for now, here is the news:
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Al Atkins - Victim Of ...
Discography: Frank Zappa: Episode 4 – Them Or Us t...
LEONARD COHEN TRIBUTE CONCERT
YES NEWS
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Gonzo Weekly #284
THE NO LOVE LIKE STRANGE LOVE ISSUE
In the week where things get stranger than strange, Doug interviews the
mighty Strangelove, we interview Biff Vernon about a series of maritime art
projects in Lincolnshire, John gives us a debriefing about Record Store Day
2018, Alan remembers the Necessaries, and Jon muses on Morrissey and remembers
Anarchopunk LPs.
#Hail Eris!
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit's Neil Nixon doing something
rather naughty, AND Mack Maloney, AND Friday Night Progressive, there are
columns from all sorts of folk including Neil Nixon, Kev Rowlands AND the
irrepressible Corinna, and Roy Weard, and C J Stone, tho' Mr Biffo are sadly
absent this week. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views,
interviews and long nosed potoroos who have stood around waiting for other
potoroos (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have decided to stage a
reading of the Samuel Beckett classic, but I got carried away with things that
rhymed with OOOOS) than you can shake a stick at. And the best part is IT's
ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!
This issue features:
Morrissey, Biff Vernon, Marcus Vergette, Time and Tide Bell, Nile Rodgers,
Asia, Kate Bush, Prince, Rod Stewart, Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Strange
Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Paul Gray, Bob
Dorough, Tim Bergling (aka Avicii), Ian Stuart Colman, Ramon Conchas, Robbee
Mariano, Brian Henry Hooper, Inuka, Nabi Tajima, Rick Wakeman, Natural Gas,
Ashton, Gardner and Dyke, Michael Bruce, Man, Doug Harr, Depeche Mode,
Strangelove, Alan Dearling, Event Horizon, The Necessaries, John Brodie-Good,
Record Store Day 2018, Kev Rowland, The Dark Element, Deluge Grander, Diable
Swing Orchestra, Eden Shadow, Elaine Samuels & Kindred Spirit, Electric
Wizard, Eye of Nix, Flames of Genesis, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Chris Stone,
Hawkwind, Jon Downes, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin Springett, Gary Miller,
Steve Ignorant, Anarchopunk, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Neil Nixon,
Peter Frampton,
And the last few issues are:
Issue 283 (Record Store Day)
Issue 282 (Neil Finn and Fleetwood Mac)
Issue 281 (Carl Palmer)
Issue 280 (Steve Andrews)
Issue 279 (Biffo)
Issue 278 (The Beatles)
Issue 277 (Auld Man's Baccie)
Issue 276 (Dukes of the Orient)
Issue 275 (Martin Gordon)
Issue 274 (Steve Took)
Issue 273 (Live Dead 69)
Issue 272 (George Butler)
Issue 271 (Mark E Smith)
Issue 270 (Eric Clapton)
Issue 269 (Narnia)
Issue 267-8 (Happy New Year)
Issue 265-6 (The Who)
Issue 264 (John McLaughlin)
Issue 263 (The magic Band)
Issue 262 (DikMik)
Issue 261 (Leonard Cohen)
Issue 260 (Amsterdam Squat Festie)
All issues from #70 can be downloaded at www.gonzoweekly.com if you prefer.
If you have problems downloading, just email me and I will add you to the Gonzo
Weekly dropbox. The first 69 issues are archived there as well. Information is
power chaps, we have to share it!
You can download the magazine in pdf form HERE:
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journalist, and want to join a rapidly growing band of likewise minded weirdos
please email me at jon@eclipse.co.uk The more the merrier really.
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widely as possible. We need people to read us in order to grow, and as soon as
it is viable we shall be invading more traditional magaziney areas. Join in the
fun, spread the word, and maybe if we all chant loud enough we CAN stop it
raining. See you tomorrow...
* The Gonzo Daily is - as the name implies - a daily online magazine
(mostly) about artists connected to the Gonzo Multimedia group of companies. But
it also has other stuff as and when the editor feels like it. The same team also
do a weekly newsletter called - imaginatively - The Gonzo Weekly. Find out about
it at this link: www.gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk
* We should probably mention here, that some of our posts are links to
things we have found on the internet that we think are of interest. We are not
responsible for spelling or factual errors in other people's websites. Honest
guv!
* Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an
old hippy of 58 who - together with a Jack Russell called Archie, an infantile
orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, and two half grown kittens, one
totally coincidentally named after one of the Manson Family, purely because she
squeaks, puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown
cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish. He is ably
assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his elderly
mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we
mention Archie and the Cats?
NESSIENEWS (Caveat Lector)
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OTD 1933: Loch Ness monster hunting
craze begins
Last year, alleged sightings of the Loch Ness
monster rose to eight - the highest number since 2000. In recent years, the
most sightings were made in 1996 when 17 accounts were logged with the official
register. More sightings were made in the 1930s and the 1960s, when sometimes
more than 20 a ...
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CBF Morning Run: Seeing how the sausage is
made, pruning jobs at Scotts, booking a room in ...
1933, Loch Ness Monster sighted. The newspaper
Inverness Courier ran a story about a local couple that said they saw “an
enormous animal rolling and plunging on the surface.” The story of the “monster”
(the Courier editor chose that name) became worldwide news when London reporters
descended ...
The Loch Ness Monster could be a
freak of nature
It was on this day 85 years ago, May 2, 1933, that an
extraordinary story appeared in The Inverness Courier newspaper and began a
global phenomenon. Aldie Mackay, a hotel manager, and her husband were driving
past Loch Ness on a sunny, cool and calm afternoon in April 1933 when
they saw ...
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CFZ MONTHLY NEWSLETTER #31
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AND TO WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK... (Music that may have some relevance to items also on this page, or may just reflect my mood on the day)