Sticks, stars, sickness: How early charts plotted the way we were
From dots and dashes on cave walls to maps of ocean tides and then the earliest graphs, see how we’ve been visualising data ...
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Watch This Mysterious Octopus Boing Across The Ocean Floor
The abyssal depths of the world's oceans are a place of eerie mystery. The creatures that lurk therein live strange lives, ...
Scientific American28d
Ancient Seafloor Discovered Slowly Sinking into Earth’s Mantle
An ancient slab of seafloor that was around when Earth’s earliest known dinosaurs emerged has been discovered beneath the Pacific Ocean ... rely on the way seismic waves travel through them.
WBUR28d
New book lays out optimistic possibilities for climate future, asking 'What if we get it right?'
We don't think about seagrasses and wetlands and oyster reefs, but those ecosystems can dramatically reduce the impacts of waves and storm surge. Urban Ocean ... On the Venn diagram she encourages ...
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Pseudosteady shock refractions over an air–water interface
In ballistics, detonation over an ocean surface or an explosion in a partially filled liquid tank can cause a spherical blast wave to interact with the liquid ... M_S=1.46$, along with the shock polar ...
The Columbian9d
The thousand-pound pumpkin weathered water and waves in the October journey
It was just after midnight when the support boat’s rack of lights cut out, leaving Gary Kristensen in near-darkness as he ...
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46 miles on the Columbia River in a giant pumpkin lands Oregon paddler a world record
The recent trip was the culmination of more than a decade of pumpkin breeding that sprouted into giant pumpkin regatta racing before evolving into a world record.
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‘Tattoos for the climate concerned’: Why people are getting inked for the planet
He recalls a researcher who asked for a coral tat to celebrate their work making reefs more resistant to heat waves, and a New ... “In circuit diagrams, the ground symbol is where the electric ...
The New York Times19d
Russini’s what I’m hearing: Trade deadline chatter on Kupp, 49ers and big-name defensive players
After Thursday night’s win over the Minnesota Vikings got them to 3-4, Rams head coach Sean McVay sounded like a man who was going to toss GM Les Snead’s phone in the Pacific Ocean.