The Petrifying Lake

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While traveling by Lake Natron in northern Tanzania, photographer Nick Brandt discovered several petrified animals.

The lake has an alkalinity between pH 9 and pH 10.5, resulting from the volcanic ash accumulated from the Great Rift Valley. Animals that dip themselves in such a solution die and are calcified.

Image via Nick Brandt.
Via New Scientist.

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Spike Marlowe and her Siamese twin sister were born to academics in Provo, Utah during the region’s speculative fiction renaissance. Since her teenage years, when Spike’s parents and sister entered the Federal Witness Protection Program--which necessitated the surgical separation of Spike from her sister (if you buy her a couple drinks and ask nicely, Spike may show you the scars)--she has held a variety of odd jobs, including a performer in a wild west show, detective, Bigfoot researcher and writer for an Internet content farm. Recently she found her calling as a Bizarro author. When she’s not writing fiction she works as a street busker in San Francisco. At night she fights crime. Her first novel, Placenta of Love, will be released by Eraserhead Press in November 2011.

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