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Samantha Morgan's avatar

Yo, I think about the late Ordovician extinction event all the time! We don’t go calling Cyanobacteria evil, now do we?

Chad O's avatar

Wow you even remember the name! Or maybe you looked it up for your comment. “Late Ordovician”—maybe I’ll remember it now, too 😄

It’s true, no one assigns any moral leanings to cyanobacteria! Hahaha.

Fun fact: there’s a bit of a recurring cyanobacteria theme in my writing here. I ponder their ghosts in this one: https://scientificanimism.substack.com/p/on-ghosts?r=ax57k

Samantha Morgan's avatar

Indeed I do know the name because I am constantly reading about it to try to better understand it, and I am also doing my best shot at a little poetic piece regarding it too. It really lit me up to read this! Awesome, I look forward to reading the next one.

Chad O's avatar

Not sure it will have any new information for you, but I really liked xkcd‘s Randall Monroe’s explanation of the oxygen catastrophe in the article I linked in this poem: https://www.vulture.com/2014/08/book-excerpt-randall-munroes-what-if.html

Susanna Musser's avatar

Where were you open-mic-ing??

Chad O's avatar

The Turning Wheel! No website but there’s an Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/turningwheelreadingseries) and an email list from someone’s personal email. I’ll DM you for your email address so I can ask him to add you!

Susanna Musser's avatar

Thank you!