Andrew D Thaler

Deep-sea mining could harm remote ocean ecosystems Deep-sea mining in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean could harm ocean life including whales and dolphins, new research shows. The Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ) of the Eastern Pacific is a vast area…

Deep-sea mining = chronic ocean noise.

Two new studies warn of the damage deep-sea mining could have on ocean life, including endangered whales and dolphins.

Chronic noise can mask communication and drive species from key habitats, disrupting their survival. @exeter.ac.uk @greenpeace.org

www.newsweek.com Deep-Sea Mining Threatens U.S. Security and Ocean Peace | Opinion

Deep-Sea Mining Threatens U.S. Security and Ocean Peace | Opinion https://twp.ai/4iovYp

Petition to Oppose Imposition of Deep Seabed Mining on American Samoa/Petición para oponerse a la minería de los fondos marinos profundos en Samoa Americana This petition is organized by Right to Democracy and America the Beautiful for All Coalition in support of leaders and communities from American Samoa and all U.S. territories. When signing the petiti...

There are 10 days remaining in the public comment period to oppose deep sea mining in American Samoa. Right to Democracy and America the Beautiful have organized this petition to marshall the voices of people living in all five territories

forms.gle/9vwst1nvH5Hd...

Hyperbole aside, 2000 was the most consequential election of my life, and everything that's happened after is the result of that failure.

Dammit, it was supposed to say 2000

Feels like Duke Nukem would be more appropriate.

11 more NYC libraries will soon open on Sundays A $2 million City Council deal will expand seven-day service to more than 30 branches citywide.

Eleven more libraries will reopen on Sundays, thanks to the leadership of the City Council. They never should've been closed in the first place.

As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.

Historic black-and-white photo of a woman launching a weather balloon, featured in NOAA's "NOAAstalgia: Picturing Our Past" series.

🧵 Introducing a new series, NOAAstalgia: Picturing Our Past. Every other week, The NOAA Heritage Program will be sharing photos from NOAA's history.

In this week's photo, a young woman launches a pilot weather balloon.

They think Ron Swanson would vote for a man who just leaves his gold out for everyone to see?

I have already coded a Death Bot that will troll my friends relentlessly online in the event of my passing. It includes thousands of lines of bespoke wisdom, snark, and hilarity, handcrafted by a human mind. You do not need AI to become a digital ghoul.

The Charisma Machine by Morgan G. Ames is absolutely essential reading to better understand the concept of these "technically precocious boys" and the impact they have on systems they can't be bothered to understand.

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📽️ I made this new film for Scientific American. You can watch it for free now:
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Marine Conservation Happy Hour The Marine Conservation Happy Hour Podcast looks at the many different sides Conservation Science (Marine, Environmental, Animal and Human) in an informal setting - during a pub Happy Hour, chatting c...

The latest Marine Conservation Happy Hour podcast - Andrew Thaler discusses Deep Sea Mining marineconservationhappyhour.libsyn.com

Handsome lad, there.

In 2024, researchers reported a startling finding: deep-sea rock formations—known as polymetallic nodules—may be producing oxygen in total darkness. The phenomenon, dubbed “dark oxygen,” challenged assumptions about life-supporting chemistry in the deep ocean.

Watch the full video: bit.ly/4foQbHp

Pulp scifi is amazing for young readers. Fun, simple stories with giant stacks of weird nonsense words with poor context clues helps build strong readers. In this essay, I will explain why Warhammer novels should be including in K-5 curricula...

I see the complaint among millennials that we don't want to watch videos, we just want to read a damn paragraph, especially for things like instructions.

But if you were a whole language kid, reading instruction manuals with lots of unfamiliar words without context clues takes a lot of effort.

My hypothesis is that a lot of current video dependence comes from a generation trained on the Whole Language approach reaching adulthood as fairly week readers. But that trend is reversing and the kids I work with in elementary school are voracious readers.

She did. And was a TED fellow. Maxwell used the ocean conservation movement for reputation laundering the same way Epstein used MIT to elevate his status among the intellectual elite.

In the penultimate episode of this series, we chat with Professor Kerry Sink about the importance of scale in ocean governance. Join us as we explore marine spatial planning, the design of marine protected areas, and the stakeholder onion!
#ThinkDeep #DeepOcean #DeepSea

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It's both a delightful game and fun to troll @whysharksmatter.bsky.social with!

Thank you!

Thanks!

Finished and now fully loaded. Only slightly reigns in the chaos of our board game/D&D/Warhammer/Lego cabinet.

Experimental Marine Phosporite mining off the California coast in the 60s. Had to shut down operations due to the discovery of undisclosed ordinance.

I told you that, after all the fun we had with the "what happens is a deep sea mining company dredges up a lost nuke in the Pacific" I discovered that it, like, happened? Right?

He has a brand.

Did you lick it?

OMG they look so different at this angle! They have the prettiest beaks!