10 years after the extraordinary survival story when a Nigerian cook survived three days in the air pocket of a capsized boat on the ocean floor, he now works as a diver theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…
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Trillions of pounds of water may be strewn across the moon, trapped in tiny glass beads that could have formed when asteroids struck the lunar surface, according to a new study. cnn.it/3nheFLs
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The misconception that there is no sound in space originates because most space is a ~vacuum, providing no way for sound waves to travel. A galaxy cluster has so much gas that we've picked up actual sound. Here it's amplified, and mixed with other data, to hear a black hole!
Good podcast from @guardian on how the common representation of urgent responses of large groups of people to difficult circumstances as 'panic' misrepresents reality, shifts blame from those responsible for shared infrastructure to those who rely on it theguardian.com/news/audio/2…
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🚨 Sobre el incendio registrado en aguas del Golfo de México, en la Sonda de Campeche, a unos metros de la plataforma Ku-Charly (dentro del Activo Integral de Producción Ku Maloob Zaap)
Tres barcos han apoyado para sofocar las llamas
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Bob Dylan at 80: in praise of a mighty and unbowed singer-songwriter theguardian.com/music/2021/m…
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“Taking in the whole sweep of Earth’s history,” @PeterBrannen1 writes, “we see how unnatural, nightmarish, and profound our current experiment on the planet really is.” A deep history of climate change: on.theatln.tc/sAA9pND
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"The current speed of human-induced CO2 change & warming is nearly without precedent in entire geological record, w/ only known exception being the instantaneous, meteorite-induced event that caused the extinction of non-bird-like dinosaurs 66 mil yrs ago" jgs.lyellcollection.org/cont…
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'Sistine Chapel of the ancients' rock art discovered in remote Amazon forest theguardian.com/science/2020…
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What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.
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People in Japan who watched it on NHK (our public broadcaster) had to watch three men shout over each other while three interpreters interpreted over each other simultaneously soooo yes but not really?🤔 xitter.cf/mi2_yes/status/1311114…
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Recycling plastic doesn’t work.
The makers of plastic – the nation’s largest oil and gas companies – have known that all along, even as they spent millions telling Americans the opposite. @frontlinepbs trib.al/6k35Wjr
“People are always asking, ‘Is this the new normal?’” he said. “I always say no. It’s going to get worse.” nytimes.com/2020/09/10/us/cl…
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The Unraveling of America: Anthropologist Wade Davis on how COVID-19 signals the end of the American era rol.st/33Fnt24
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1/ I've spent the last 6 yrs investigating serial sexual abuse and the power structures that enable it for a doc film I’m directing, while standing against abuse within the photo industry. Given the recent ethical failings of a prominent photog and his agency, I have thoughts.
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As of this month, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory – SDO – has spent ~10 years watching the Sun non-stop. During this time, SDO has gathered 425 million high-res images & amassed 20 million gigabytes of data.
Here is a Decade of Sun ...
Full video: youtu.be/l3QQQu7QLoM
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Without climate change, the hundred degree day last weekend in the arctic circle would have been a 1-in-100,000 year event. If you’d run the entire history of human civilization ten times back to back, you would’ve only seen such an outlier once. nymag.com/intelligencer/2020…
