🏝✨The Nexialist #0039

Hy-Brasil | Zealandia, the 8th continent | Thassalophobia | James Webb Telescope | Kátia Flávia

Hello and welcome to a vacation edition of brain-sparking content

I found some time to share a few things with you while on a break. It’ll be a quickie and I trust you’ll see the nexus and sparks between them. Sending kisses on your brain.

🏝Hy-Brasil

Brasil, also known as Hy-Brasil or several other variants, is a phantom island said to lie in the Atlantic Ocean west of Ireland. Irish myths described it as cloaked in mist except for one day every seven years, when it becomes visible but still cannot be reached.

Read: Hy-Brasil - Wikipedia

🌏Zealandia, the 8th continent

In 2017, a group of geologists hit the headlines when they announced their discovery of Zealandia –Te Riu-a-Māui in the Māori language. A vast continent of 1.89 million sq miles (4.9 million sq km) it is around six times the size of Madagascar.
Though the world's encyclopaedias, maps and search engines had been adamant that there are just seven continents for some time, the team confidently informed the world that this was wrong. There are eight after all – and the latest addition breaks all the records, as the smallest, thinnest, and youngest in the world. The catch is that 94% of it is underwater, with just a handful of islands, such as New Zealand, thrusting out from its oceanic depths. It had been hiding in plain sight all along.

Read: The missing continent it took 375 years to find - BBC

🌊Thassalophobia

“Thalassophobia (Greek: θάλασσα, thalassa, "sea" and φόβος, phobos, "fear") is the persistent and intense fear of deep bodies of water such as the sea, oceans, pools, or lakes. Though very closely related, thalassophobia should not be mistaken with aquaphobia which is classified as the fear of water itself. Thalassophobia can include fear of being in deep bodies of water, fear of the vast emptiness of the sea, of sea waves, sea creatures, and fear of distance from land.

Explore: /Thassalophobia - Reddit

🔭James Webb Telescope

Exploring strange new worlds. Understanding the origins of the universe. Searching for life in the galaxy. These are not the plot of a new science fiction movie, but the mission objectives of the James Webb Space Telescope, the long-awaited successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA is building and launching the Webb in partnership with the European Space Agency and Canada.
The launch, which will propel the Webb to nearly a million miles away, is now scheduled for December 18, 2021. When it fully deploys in space, the Webb will usher in a new age of astronomy, scientists say, and show humanity things it has never seen before.
“The Webb represents the culmination of decades, if not centuries, of astronomy,” says Sara Seager, a planetary scientist and astrophysicist at MIT. “We’ve been waiting for this a very long time.”

Read: The largest space telescope in history is about to blow our minds - VOX

🦄Kátia Flávia, A Godiva do Irajá

Growing up I heard a few songs from Fernanda Abreu and had fun with them, especially Katia Flavia, a favorite of my dad. Now I’m super happy I can hear some of her greatest hits remixed by some of the best Brazilian DJs.

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