In this weeks Quantum we look at the world through the lens of Leonard Cohen and the documentary Hallelujah! Kenyan elections; which country is warming faster?; the Great Barrier Reef; Carbon Offsetting; Rain in Seoul; Olivia Newton John and Judith Durham; self-identifying disabled authors; trans and non trans athletes; Woke jobs for the ‘Brahmin Left; Tracy Ullman’s Woke Self Help Group; Glen Scrivener and Lousie Perry; June Spencer; Lauren Daigle; Spotify Playlist….with music from PSY, Barwick Green, Kenya, the Lord’s Prayer, the Seekers, Grease and of course Leonard Cohen.
Catch up with last week here – Quantum 210 – Games and Wars, Heresy and Hope
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And due to popular demand we have a new monthly Spotify playlist – here is August’s (so far!)…
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/49KGnITp4ydOqH4oeNnn7p?si=3f2419376cc24b9a
Here is the original version of ‘The Carnival is Over’: Stenka Razim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKZJddUnZY4
In 2016, 64 members of the Alexandrov Red Army Choir died in a plane crash.
Judith Durham singing the Lord’s Prayer reminds of a story a friend told, about when, as a non Christian, he was sitting in the Wild Boar, a hostelry in Aberdeen, sometime in the 90’s. A woman from the Salvation Army came in, collecting for charity. One of the patrons, in high alcoholic jocularity, shouted “Sing us a song, then!”. Without breaking a beat, she sang a hymn there and then. The whole bar fell into silence, when she finished burst into applause.