Random Musings
This is equal parts bizarre and horrifying. Centuries-old whaler remains thawing out of Arctic permafrost and sliding downhill. Climate change isn’t just a future problem.
Climate change is an obvious danger to future generations, but it also threatens our link to the past by accelerating the erosion and degradation of its material remains.
via ‘Corpse Point’ In the Arctic Is Melting, Disturbing Centuries-Old Bodies
The water is so clear you can see straight through the ice. Absolutely stunning — and absolutely terrifying. One crack away from disaster. No thank you. 😅
It’s hard to believe we’ve only cataloged around 15% of animal species — so much of life on Earth is still out there, undescribed and unseen. And the ocean makes it even wilder: roughly 75% of the seafloor hasn’t been mapped, and we’ve explored only about 5% of the total ocean volume. There’s a lot of world left to find.
Even after centuries of effort, some 86 percent of Earth’s species have yet to be fully described, according to a new study that predicts our planet is home to 8.7 million species.
If you want to learn American Sign Language (ASL), learn basics like ABCs and signs. Enjoy and happy learning.
Says what? A lab grown leather bag for $600,000 and claimed it is from T-Rex leather but actually from chicken. Will it fool people thinking it is T-Rex leather?!?! 🙄
🔁 Reblogged from futurism.com"In fact, it's more chicken than anything else."
Scientists Say $600,000 Lab-Grown T-Rex Leather Handbag Is Actually Something Laughable
The scientific community remains skeptical about claims that a one-of-a-kind luxury handbag is made from "T Rex leather."
Amazing.
This piece is a digital artwork by Yehan Wang titled “Wired Metropolis.” The image is created using an “endless line” technique, similar to scribble art, to form complex cityscapes.
Haiti declared independence in 1804 — the first nation founded by people who freed themselves from slavery.
The world’s response was not celebration. France demanded a massive indemnity. The US was the last country in the Atlantic world to recognize Haiti’s independence. They waited 58 years.
Frederick Douglass called Haiti
“bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh.”
Same revolution. Same hunger. Same stakes.
Two hundred years later, Haiti has no stable government. Gangs control the streets. And still, Haiti fights to simply be free.
Being stranded on a ship in the ocean like that, with all the uncertainty about what is happening, is frightening. I would be scared, too.
“What’s happening right now is very real for all of us here. We’re not just a story. We’re not just headlines." — travel vlogger Jake Rosmarin
TIL a new word: hantavirus.
hantavirus
noun
: any of a family (Hantaviridae and especially genus Orthohantavirus) of bunyaviruses transmitted especially by rodent feces and urine and including viruses causing serious pulmonary disease or hemorrhagic fevers marked by renal necrosis
via CNN
“For too long, multilateral climate forums have felt like rooms where everyone speaks, but no one understands. Santa Marta broke that pattern. It spoke the language of hope.” — Fatima Eisam-Eldeen, University of Barcelona
Nearly 60 countries just agreed to develop roadmaps to phase out fossil fuels — no mandatory deadlines, no petrostates, just a coalition of willing nations finally saying the quiet part out loud.
‘Historic breakthrough’: Colombia climate talks end with hopes raised for fossil fuel phaseout
An 8-year-old on vacation spotted a hooked Kemp’s ridley sea turtle — the world’s most endangered — off a North Carolina pier and called for help. That call saved it. Good story.
“It’s amazing that we can put so many of these endangered species back out into the ocean, giving them another chance at life." — Kira Canter, an assistant rehab biologist with the National Aquarium in Baltimore
Brighton release plans for Europe’s first purpose-built £80m women’s stadium - BBC Sport