The bees of Notre Dame, whose escape from the inferno seemed almost miraculous, are thriving and conserving their energy ready to produce honey this summer, just as they have every year since they took up residence on the sacristy roof in 2013.
To remember the 75th anniversary of the Holocaust
This is not about Notre Dame but it is to remember all the millions of people who died in the 2nd World War because of their beliefs.
Now I’m not a traditional believer, as a scientist I think their are lots of problems with the belief in any God, but I believe you should respect the belief of others, provided their belief is not violent.
Why removing the melted scaffolding from Notre Dame may be the key
Removing that scaffolding will be as complicated as it is crucial. Multiple levels of steel beams will need to be placed around the scaffolding to provide support and stabilization. Technicians, who will be lowered into the web of tangled scaffolding by telescoping crawler cranes, must carefully coat the pipes to minimize lead pollution from the burned roof before ultimately cutting the obstructions away.
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/notre-dame-fire-melted-scaffolding
Podcast episode seven
The Runcorn Ferry, a poem by the late Marriott Edgar.
Notre Dame rebuild won’t be rushed
Jean-Louis Georgelin told a French parliament commission Wednesday that workers are still securing the structure. Concerns persist that Notre Dame’s vaulted ceilings could collapse.
“Even if we are rather confident and even if all the indicators seem positive, it is still too early to affirm that the cathedral is saved,” he said.
And so Trump mentions Notre Dame at Davos
At Davos, Trump devoted almost the entirety of his 40 minutes on stage listing what he said were his economic achievements at home. But in one small gesture to Europe, Trump invoked the continent’s rich history and its development of wealthy commercial centers before launching into a long-winded tangent about last year’s fire at the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. Trump used it as an example of how Europe once had “unbridled ambitions,” and said that the church would one day be “restored magnificently” to once again be “giving glory to god.”
Trump made no mention of buying Notre Dame and turning it into a hotel.
https://qz.com/1788421/davos-2020-trump-decries-climate-change-alarmists/
Notre Dame to reveal secrets from its medieval history
Alexa Dufraisse, a dendroanthropologist, suggested that studying this nearly 1,000-year-old wood of the now-gutted attic of Notre Dame could give us insight into historical weather patterns, which could in turn teach us about modern climate change. She told Science News that this study could not have been undertaken had the fire not occurred.
Someone doesn’t want the spire reconstructed
Okay well the link is just to a blog post about Notre Dame but the author, Kevin Drum, doesn’t think the spire should be reconstructed, and describes the old spire as ‘ugly’ amongst some other words.
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2020/01/notre-dame-needs-no-stinking-spire/
Update on efforts to restore Notre Dame
A bell of Notre Dame, when they were in the place before the fire
Science News reports that archaeologists are among the more than 200 researchers in the Association of Scientists in Service of the Restoration of Notre Dame of Paris, France’s National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS), and the French Ministry of Culture who will examine the twelfth-century cathedral damaged by fire.
https://www.archaeology.org/news/8355-200115-france-notre-dame
Scientists get a glimpse of the origins of Notre Dame
There’s little documentation of the building process of Notre Dame, which began in 1163 and continued for about 200 years. Olivier de Châlus has devoted himself to teasing out the unwritten rules of construction — how builders decided the size of columns or the height of flying buttresses, for example. He notes that builders lifted 100-kilogram stones more than 60 meters off the ground without the benefits of modern technology. Exactly how this was accomplished has been lost to time, he says.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/after-notre-dame-fire-scientists-glimpse-cathedral-origins