Signpost 47 (22 March)

Good afternoon,

Welcome back to Signpost. It has now been a year since the first lockdown and we continue to provide a selection of links and resources that might entertain, intrigue and educate you. This week we bring you various resources around nature and geology. If you would like a trip through Yosemite National Park, a better understanding of Stonehenge or fancy meeting the Flintstones, please read on!

REFLECT

Many people find peace and spirituality in nature, whether it be in our own garden, a park or out in the wilderness. In keeping with this week's theme of the natural world, we have a reflection titled “Nature’s beauty is a reflection of our inner beauty” by Mike George.

CONNECT

The Google Arts & Culture website offers a mind-boggling selection of resources to explore art, museums and places from all over the world. You could take a short trip to our own Jurassic Coast, fly to America to visit Yosemite National Park and then pop down to South America and explore the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu. For the last link, click on the white arrows in the centre of the screen to move around.

LEARN

How many continents are there on Earth? Whilst many of us would answer 7, in recent years there has been a lot of evidence to identify the 8^th missing continent, “Zealandia”. You can read more about it here.
Keeping within the discussion of continents, this article and the connected 40-second video show some amazing detail about how the Earth’s tectonic plates have moved over the last billion years!
If we leave Earth for a moment, there has been a lot of news lately about NASA’s Perseverance rover landing on and navigating across the surface of Mars. This article from NASA gives a great overview of the mission and some fascinating images from Mars.

For something closer to home, why not try this recent documentary about the hidden secrets of Stonehenge? Join professor Alice Roberts as she uses cutting edge research and a team of archaeologists to find the previous life of the famous bluestones.

FUN

You can’t celebrate rocks and geology without a visit to the Flintstones! This documentary explores the development and evolution of the first prime-time animated series.

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