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Gaudí's partner in iconic Barcelona design finally gets the limelight  

Josep Maria Jujol's contribution to Gaudí's Barcelona masterpieces, and those he created himself in Catalonia, have been overlooked. A new documentary seeks to give him the recognition he deserves

Visitors to Barcelona will all sooner or later find themselves in Antoni Gaudí's fairytale Park Güell, admiring the view of the city from one of the sinuous benches made up of fragments of coloured tiles. For many, the benches of Park Güell are the essence of Gaudí, but they are in fact the work of another artist and architect, Josep Maria Jujol.

“When tourists go to Parc Güell, what do they look at? They look at Jujol's work,” says the architect's son, also Josep Maria. “I mean, what they most rave about in Gaudí's work is Jujol's contribution.”

Related: Gaudí's Catalan shadow: the art of Josep Maria Jujol

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This girl isn't real, and it's proof that CGI isn't creepy anymore  

CGI is moving fast, very fast. Not just for added effects in movies, but also for creating completely lifelike 3D models. The biggest problem facing the animation community is an effect called the ‘uncanny valley'. We're confronted with this when we see something that looks nearly human, but just not quite. Humans are so good at recognizing other humans, that's it's extremely hard to create a thing that looks like a normal, healthy person and not a zombie or a corpse. It's explained in the graph below: We've become pretty good at making CGI look like it's almost real, but the real challenge is making…

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OSGEMEOS infill lehmann maupin with immersive installations + music-making machines  

blending drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, and kinetic and audio media, 'silence of the music' presents a multi-sensory experience that embraces the power of human imagination.

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Meet the underwater artist inspired by a near-death experience  

It took a rogue wave crashing over him for Peter Matthews to realise his calling now he makes all his work while bobbing about on or under the ocean, with only the seals for company and rockpools to store his wet and wild work

‘When I have fears that I may cease to be,” as the old poem goes, “before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain ... then on the shore / Of the wide world I stand alone, and think / Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.” The artist Peter Matthews has gone one step further than John Keats: he's actually waded into the sea.

The 37-year-old, who hails from the stubbornly landlocked hills of Derbyshire, has made a career of drawing and painting in the ocean. That's right: floating in the sea, using an old piece of plywood as a desk-cum-flotation aid and scrawling across huge sheets of paper with the charcoal pencils and gel pens that he keeps tucked under his hat.

Related: Europe's first underwater sculpture museum in pictures

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Nick Serota, Martin Roth and Tracey's bed  the week in art  

There's a changing of art's top guard (if not sheets), while Mark Zuckerberg runs into censorship issues and London is set ablaze all in your weekly art dispatch

Tracey Emin and William Blake
Two British mavericks meet as Tracey Emin's works, including My Bed, are mixed with those of the visionary romantic artist and poet who wrote The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
• Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, 16 September to September 2017.

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Nick Serota, Martin Roth and Tracey's bed  the week in art  

There's a changing of art's top guard (if not sheets), while Mark Zuckerberg runs into censorship issues and London is set ablaze all in your weekly art dispatch

Tracey Emin and William Blake
Two British mavericks meet as Tracey Emin's works, including My Bed, are mixed with those of the visionary romantic artist and poet who wrote The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
• Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, 16 September to September 2017.

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Nicolas Deshayes's cast-iron sculptures find beauty in the repulsive  

By exploring relationships between humanity and materials, the young artist is creating ripples in the Thames

These cast-iron sculptures by the young artist Nicolas Deshayes are oddly beautiful. They cling to the gallery wall like the rococo ribbons and twirling flora that encrusted 18th-century ceilings. They ripple, like the Thames water they're named after.

Related: Artist of the week 133: Nicolas Deshayes

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oliver astrologo uncovers venice's hidden history and little-known locales  

the film journeys above the city's terracotta terrain, through its crystal blue canals, and inside its otherwise unknown workshops.

The post oliver astrologo uncovers venice's hidden history and little-known locales appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

 
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A prayer for Mecca: the city that many hajj pilgrims don't see  video  

As the hajj begins once again, Saudi artist Ahmed Mater has revealed unprecedented changes to the holy city from flashy new hotels to the loss of priceless neighbourhoods. In the third episode of Crossing the Line, our series connecting the US and Middle East, he takes us inside Islam's urban heart

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Beam me up to the video conference  
When science fiction heroes communicate, they don‘t use landlines or cell phones. The caller simply appears in virtual form in the middle of the room; full sized and three dimensional. This vision is already within reach, say researchers.  
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French poster for LITTLE MEN (Ira Sachs, USA, 2016)

Illustrator: Pierre-Julien Fieux; Designer: Le Cercle Noir

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NYFW models wear your favorite Snapchat filters down the runway  

The models for Spanish clothing brand Desigual walked the runway at New York Fashion Week yesterday with faithfully recreated Snapchat filters as their only makeup.

The brand, known for zany prints and patchwork, showed off a denim-heavy, '70s-inspired collection. It paired pretty well with the whimsy of Kim Kardashian's favorite filter, the flower crown, as well as my mom's favorite, the bee face! Other models sported the deer lens, a crown of yellow butterflies, and of course, a dog nose.

#preview Snapchat inspired make up for @desigual show ! #DesigualNYFW #nyfw #backstage #snapchatfilter #model

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Air Pollution Costs $255 Billion A Year  
Worldwide air pollution caused 5.5 million deaths in 2013 from lung cancer stroke, bronchitis and other diseases -- more than malaria or AIDS; And the cost of pollution-related illness and deaths is $255 billion in lost labor last year, the World Bank said in a new report on Sept 8.

One tenth of all deaths in 2013 came from air pollution, said the World Bank.

But the real cost is even higher - more than $5 trillion in 2013 a year - when the Bank economists included what they call "welfare costs" - the money people would be willing to pay to prevent an early death.

One in ten deaths around world is from air pollution, said the Bank's report authors.

And even if London, New York and other wealthy cities have greatly cut pollution in recent decades, the toxic fumes have greatly increased in China, India and other growing economies.

Regarding outdoor pollution, some 87 percent of world population lives in areas above World Health Organization guidelines, said the Bank report.

About half the deaths are from outdoor air pollution, often from cars, industry and clearing forestland. The other half comes from indoor pollution, mainly from billions of people cooking with wood, dung and other smoke-producing biomass, said Urvashai Narain, senior environmental economist at the World Bank and one of the report authors, in an interview.

U.S. and other aid agencies have pushed for many years for people to shift from biomass to gas and electricity; or to adopt efficient cook stoves with metal or clay vents to expel smoke.

For example, U.S. foreign aid delivered to rebuild homes in Pakistan after a 2005 earthquake included a sheet metal cooking stove plus a few feet of exhaust pipe per family.

However, all the improvements from such new technology has been swallowed up, said the World Bank official, by the continued increase in population in developing countries. The planet is set to surge from seven billion today to 10 or even 15 billion in coming decades - depending on whether donor nations are willing to invest in family planning or not. In the United States and in Catholic countries such as the Philippines, providing birth control is a controversial political move.

Pollution causes respiratory disease, especially among children who stay close to their mothers in those smoky kitchens, as well as chronic bronchitis and lung cancer said the report authors said.

"We need to get the private sector to provide technology," said Ms. Narain. "Previous cheap fixes did not penetrate the market, or the technology breaks down and there is no support to maintain it."

The Bank works with a number of governments to develop policies and has made $6.5 billion in loans to cut all forms of pollution between 2009-2016. But the report does not say how to reduce air pollution and save those millions of lives lost each year.

"The report just shows the cost of pollution. It is a call to action," she said.

"We hope the report will lead to more resources to fight pollution."

However, the report confines itself to air pollution and ignores the huge number of toxic waste sources poisoning the soil and water.

In addition, the Bank report should have made a plan of action that could begin to reduce pollution, said Richard Fuller, head of the non-governmental organization Pure Earth, which cleans up toxic waste sites in developing countries.

"What is needed is a plan that varies from city to city to fix this nonsense," said Fuller in an interview.

"For example, city X needs those three power plants converted. City Y needs to shut down burning biomass in winter. Another city needs to convert to stringent European diesel standards.

"We have got to move way from hand-wringing and move to specific actions," Fuller said. "It is not rocket science. It is easy. We won't need to reinvent anything."

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Weekend Roundup: China's Slump Tests Brazil's Democracy  
What global interdependence giveth it can also take away. As long as China's economy grew rapidly, as it did over recent decades, the demand for Brazil's iron ore, oil and soybeans generated enough rising prosperity to disguise the cracks in the democratic system of Latin America's largest country.

China's slump has now exposed the malignant corruption and mismanagement that festered in the shadows of the "Brazilian miracle," sending the nation into a downward spiral of deep recession, high inflation and burdensome debt. Social unrest and massive demonstrations have regularly filled the streets, culminating in the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff.






Writing from Sao Paulo, Brazil's revered former president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso says, "Brazil has turned a sad page in its history. I would have much preferred that Dilma Rousseff had proved the political and administrative capacity to complete her mandate. Unfortunately the crime of responsibility was compounded by the collapse in her overall ability to govern." But, for Cardoso, Brazil's troubles reflect a larger calamity. Representative democracy is in crisis across the West, he writes. "At the core of this crisis is the widening gap between people's aspirations and the capacity of political institutions to respond to the demands of society. It is one of the ironies of our age that this deficit of trust in political institutions coexists with the rise of citizens capable of making the choices that shape their lives and influence the future of their societies." The challenge for all democracies, he concludes "is to bridge the gap between demos and res publica, between people and the public interest, reweaving the threads that may reconnect the political system with the demands of society."

Writing in HuffPost Brazil, Raphael Tsavkko Garcia warns of further turmoil ahead. "Don't fool yourself; Dilma's impeachment won't alleviate Brazil's current crisis," he says. "For the next two years, [President Michel] Temer's government will be under strong (and necessary) pressure. Cuts on the social programs that Dilma started may be increased and accelerated. ... Our problems didn't start yesterday, and they won't go away anytime soon."

On the other side of the globe, China is seeking to expand its integration with the economies of Central and South Asia through reviving the Silk Road by building out new infrastructure and trade routes. Peter Cai reports on the wariness over China's plans he found during a recent visit to India. "At the heart of India's reluctance to embrace Beijing's promise of road building and connectivity," he writes, "is strategic mistrust. The country is wedged between two nuclear-armed neighbors and has fought wars against both in the last 60 years." Cai cites local experts who see China's effort to build roads and bridges "as instruments of Beijing's intention to build influence in its neighborhood." Some, he says, even suggest that a "new Great Game," not unlike when Russia and Britain jostled for power in the region in the early 20th century, is now underway.

In a WorldPost debate, China scholars Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Kate Merkel-Hess spar with Beijing-based scholar Daniel A. Bell over claims in an essay I wrote recently arguing that Chinese President Xi Jinping's current crackdown on an independent civil society must be understood in light of that country's long history as a unitary state with no autonomous realm beyond its fold. Wasserstrom and Merkel-Hess argue that President Xi is selectively reading China's history, dismissing periods of pluralism as a way to justify authoritarianism. Bell argues that Wasserstrom and Merkel-Hess display a "colonial mindset" by engaging in their own selective reading of Chinese history to suit Western notions of human rights and democracy. All agree, as Bell puts it, that "It's a mistake to say that there is only one political tradition in Chinese history and to draw implications for contemporary China based on that assumption."

In an essay in HuffPost France, Prime Minister Manuel Valls condemns what he calls the "proselyte contestation" of those in France who "seek to defy two of the fundamental principles of our country" -- the equality of men and women and secularism. Marc Steinau, Benjamin Reuter and Nicholas Miriello report that political violence is rising in Germany along with the right-wing Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party.

Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a former member of Iran's National Security Council, and Hesam Rahmani assess the state of the Iran nuclear deal, which continues to be attacked by opponents both in the U.S. and Iran. The fear, they write, is that "radical voices on both sides that have sought to undermine the deal will win, and escalation will once again become the name of the game between Iran and the U.S. The path to peace will diverge back onto the path to war."

As if it couldn't get worse, Willa Frej reports that child suicides are escalating in the besieged Syrian town of Madaya. Rowaida Abdelaziz, however, has a glimmer of hope from there -- a family suffering from meningitis has been evacuated for treatment just weeks after one member, an 11-year-old boy, had himself been removed due to the same illness. On the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, Dean Obeidallah surveys how the lives of Muslims in the Middle East have been impacted.

Arthur Molella contends that the 1900 world's fair in Paris has shaped our present-day attitudes toward technology He recalls Henry Adam's reflections at the time. "In a chapter titled 'The Dynamo and the Virgin,' he cites Adams as "ponder[ing] the implications of the machine age, expressing deep concern over what he sees as a dangerous clash between the seductive grandeur of modern science and technology -- what he calls 'the Dynamo' -- and the essential undergirding of humanity, religion and traditional values, which he christens 'the Virgin.'"

Finally, our Singularity series this week talks to virtual reality pioneer Chris Milk, who says, "I don't think the future of VR looks like video games; I don't think it looks like cinematic VR; I think it looks like stories from our real lives."

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CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: Moises Naim (former editor of Foreign Policy), Nayan Chanda (Yale/Global; Far Eastern Economic Review) and Katherine Keating (One-On-One). Sergio Munoz Bata and Parag Khanna are Contributing Editors-At-Large.


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NASA launches OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission  
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Air Pollution Costs $255 Billion A Year  
Worldwide air pollution caused 5.5 million deaths in 2013 from lung cancer stroke, bronchitis and other diseases -- more than malaria or AIDS; And the cost of pollution-related illness and deaths is $255 billion in lost labor last year, the World Bank said in a new report on Sept 8.

One tenth of all deaths in 2013 came from air pollution, said the World Bank.

But the real cost is even higher - more than $5 trillion in 2013 a year - when the Bank economists included what they call "welfare costs" - the money people would be willing to pay to prevent an early death.

One in ten deaths around world is from air pollution, said the Bank's report authors.

And even if London, New York and other wealthy cities have greatly cut pollution in recent decades, the toxic fumes have greatly increased in China, India and other growing economies.

Regarding outdoor pollution, some 87 percent of world population lives in areas above World Health Organization guidelines, said the Bank report.

About half the deaths are from outdoor air pollution, often from cars, industry and clearing forestland. The other half comes from indoor pollution, mainly from billions of people cooking with wood, dung and other smoke-producing biomass, said Urvashai Narain, senior environmental economist at the World Bank and one of the report authors, in an interview.

U.S. and other aid agencies have pushed for many years for people to shift from biomass to gas and electricity; or to adopt efficient cook stoves with metal or clay vents to expel smoke.

For example, U.S. foreign aid delivered to rebuild homes in Pakistan after a 2005 earthquake included a sheet metal cooking stove plus a few feet of exhaust pipe per family.

However, all the improvements from such new technology has been swallowed up, said the World Bank official, by the continued increase in population in developing countries. The planet is set to surge from seven billion today to 10 or even 15 billion in coming decades - depending on whether donor nations are willing to invest in family planning or not. In the United States and in Catholic countries such as the Philippines, providing birth control is a controversial political move.

Pollution causes respiratory disease, especially among children who stay close to their mothers in those smoky kitchens, as well as chronic bronchitis and lung cancer said the report authors said.

"We need to get the private sector to provide technology," said Ms. Narain. "Previous cheap fixes did not penetrate the market, or the technology breaks down and there is no support to maintain it."

The Bank works with a number of governments to develop policies and has made $6.5 billion in loans to cut all forms of pollution between 2009-2016. But the report does not say how to reduce air pollution and save those millions of lives lost each year.

"The report just shows the cost of pollution. It is a call to action," she said.

"We hope the report will lead to more resources to fight pollution."

However, the report confines itself to air pollution and ignores the huge number of toxic waste sources poisoning the soil and water.

In addition, the Bank report should have made a plan of action that could begin to reduce pollution, said Richard Fuller, head of the non-governmental organization Pure Earth, which cleans up toxic waste sites in developing countries.

"What is needed is a plan that varies from city to city to fix this nonsense," said Fuller in an interview.

"For example, city X needs those three power plants converted. City Y needs to shut down burning biomass in winter. Another city needs to convert to stringent European diesel standards.

"We have got to move way from hand-wringing and move to specific actions," Fuller said. "It is not rocket science. It is easy. We won't need to reinvent anything."

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90013 Dunston Hall 08-09-16  

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The sun sets on a fine late Summer's evening near Dunston Hall as 90013 heads for the capital with the 1900 Norwich - London Liverpool Street AGA service on 8th September 2016.

 
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Will The First Robot In the Boardroom Be A "Woman"?  
With the approach of Autumn, with Fall leaves getting ready to change: I made a short list of upcoming changes facing us humans, as we begin to make room on Planet Earth for more women on top, robots in the boardroom, and greener leaner communities.

By 2018: Major medical screenings including several types of cancers, by computers, may overtake human analysis in the lab.
By 2018: Seeing a 6% gain in NET profit based on 30% women in leadership, 30% women in leadership and management will become the standard. Fast-growth companies seeking higher NET profit will boost that figure to 40-50%.
By 2019: The Fossil Fuel Industry will diversify after admitting that their assets in the ground (coal)(oil) will soon = ZERO
By 2019: The dematerialization of the modern world will shift to small scale, local and sustainable.
By 2020: The corporate world is dematerializing. Your office may be at home or a seat in a collaborative, co-working space.
By 2020: The driverless car - in its own designated lane, will share the public streets with bikes and pedestrians.
By 2020: Pedestrians and bicyclists clothing or smartphone will include a device to alert driverless cars to their presence.
By 2020: Robots will guide humans to their seats at the Tokyo Olympics
By 2025: 25% of men will require a woman to support them.
By 2025: 50% of the workforce, mostly boomers, will be retiring. Will their knowledge go with them?
By 2026: The first robot will take a seat in a corporate boardroom
By 2028: 2/3rd's of America's wealth will be in the hands of women

QUESTION: What will women do with all that money?

By 2017: Women in government will begin moving government monies away from weapons, tanks, bullets and warfare, the the direction of education, healthcare, infrastructure and the eradication of poverty.
By 2028: The shift will be complete by 2028 and we'll enter the Earth/Brain era, using the dynamic male/female synergy, human centric creativity and innovation to preserve Planet Earth, sustainably.

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Sunset 9 Sep 2016  

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Why I Donated My 9-11 Triage Tag To The Memorial & Museum  
Before tubes were put down my throat to help me breathe, I was put in an ambulance. An emergency responder found me barefoot and terrified just blocks from Ground Zero. I was on the corner of West and Vesey when the second tower collapsed and had run out of my favorite pair of slip-on shoes escaping the downpour of debris, abandoning them somewhere a few blocks away. The bottoms of my feet were bleeding, lacerated from sprinting across pavement strewn with broken glass. The crisis worker (was my lifeline a he or a she? In the mind-blanking terror of that morning I still don't recall) thrust a triage tag around my neck. Scrawled in black ink and shorthand, the rectangular piece of paper lists my medical conditions: "diff breathing," "inhalation," "abd pain."

My triage tag is just one of 11,000 artifacts in the official collection of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. A decade after the attacks I donated it, along with my press pass working as an investigative producer for WNBC-TV. And while seeing the triage tag on display and reading the accompanying description likely makes some visitors wonder whatever happened to me, I wish there were a button next to the plexiglass case that played an audio recording of how I feel 15 years later. "I'm so happy," the voice would proclaim again and again. "Some days are harder than others, but mostly I'm at peace."

I've come to learn this sense of healing is the experience of many individuals who've donated belongings to the museum, some in recognition of their own experience, others in memory of loved ones who died. In a just-completed, yet to be published study called A Theory of Psychotherapeutic Object Dynamics, researchers conclude that the act of donating objects to the 9/11 Museum has made moving forward easier for many people.

Brenda Cowan, Associate Professor of Exhibition Design, School of Graduate Studies at SUNY/Fashion Institute of Technology, led the investigation and partnered with the museum to find participants. I was part of that group, each of us interviewed separately. At the conclusion of the report, which the National September 11 Memorial & Museum shared with me, Cowan writes that every subject of her study expressed "deep themes" of "personal healing," "renewal," "transformation," and "growth."

There are several reasons why donating objects sparks this surprising uptick in happiness, even years after a donation is made. In the process of bequeathing possessions, the 9/11 Museum became viewed as a partner in keeping our personal survivor stories and the memories of our loved ones alive. Donors came to recognize the museum as a protector of belongings and recollections, a place to keep them safe, in perpetuity. One person even referred to the museum as a "therapeutic ally." Cowan calls this phenomena the result of "Releasing/Unburdening."

This has certainly been the case for Eileen Fagan who lost her older sister, Pat, on September 11. Pat worked as an insurance adjuster on the 98th floor of the south tower. Eighteen months after she was killed, Fagan learned her sister's black purse had been located, covered in dirt and dust, but miraculously, fully intact. Among the items still inside were an extra pair of eyeglasses, a few credit cards, a driver license, and the ID card she used every day to get into her job at Aon. There was also Pat's signature coral-pink creamy lipstick. The most evocative items for Fagan, though, were the small denomination dollar bills and rosary beads.

"My sister would often stop in church for mass on the way to work," she told me. "She'd always wanted to light a candle, and she'd needed a few dollars to do that. When I see that pocketbook, it's not a reminder of her death. It's a wonderful and inspiring reminder of her life."

Like Fagan's donated pocketbook, my triage tag is also a surprising reminder of good memories. It helps me recall that after I was released from the hospital, with the triage tag cut off and in my bag, I had somewhere in Manhattan to go that felt completely safe -- my father's apartment. My mother had been dead five years by then, and even though my dad was frail and desperately ill from lung cancer, a day-long wave of panic gradually transformed into a nighttime oasis of love and support -- a safe harbor that included much-needed parental doting and affection.

September 11 was the last time I saw my father sitting up, able to talk to me, or hold my hand. It was also the final Tuesday I got to be somebody's daughter. That Friday, my dad died in another New York City hospital, a few miles from where I'd nearly suffocate on soot and rubble.

In many ways my triage tag is a symbol of survival and a job performed. But it's also a reminder that my father wanted to protect me even as our world was shifting and his was ending. His love endures and that knowledge bubbles up and makes me happy every time I think about my triage tag on display at the museum. And the realization that loved ones who have passed away can still be part of our present? That makes Eileen Fagan smile, too.

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Thames sunset  

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U.S. Gov't Pauses Dakota Access Pipeline Construction on Army Corps Land  

[The following text is from an official press release by the U.S. Department of the Interior.]

 
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Critical information needed in fight to save wildlife  
An international group of 22 scientists is calling for a coordinated global effort to gather important species information that is urgently needed to improve predictions for the impact of climate change on future biodiversity.  
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In the ghost town. Skrunda by Lena Osmolovska

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little boy in barbershop getting head shaved by Joshua Resnick

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Can you see me?  

Kev Gregory (General) posted a photo:

An owl, silhouetted amongst the branches of a tree in the Marataba Game Reserve, near Thabazimbi in South Africa.

 
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Mass chimpanzee transfer begins in effort to protect endangered species  

Project Chimps sanctuary in Georgia will house 200-plus chimpanzees after they were declared endangered, effectively ending experimentation on the animals

More than 200 chimpanzees are being transferred to a new sanctuary in Georgia, as the US winds down the controversial practice of using chimps for scientific research.

Related: Eastern gorilla now critically endangered while giant panda situation improves

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Evolution Is True. So What?  
There can be no debate about the truth of evolution. Genetic mutations and adaptations to local environments result in traits that can be passed down to descendants. Intelligent design is false, and there can be no debate about this either (although there are many debates between creationists and scientists that take place, which often result in the debaters talking past each other).

What can be pondered over is the mechanism or mechanisms of evolution--and what we can do about it, but more on that later. For a while, because of my strong belief in kindness as a basic constituent of reality, I eschewed the notion of the world as an uncaring place. I even entertained the long disproven theory of Lamarkian evolution for a while, which holds that traits one organism develops in a lifetime can be passed down through DNA. While epigenetic changes can in fact play a role in the inheritance of traits, these do not change the DNA itself. This changes the phenotype but not the genotype.

My favorite biologist, Stephen Jay Gould, was a proponent of natural selection and Darwinism. Yet he left room for other possible factors that can influence evolution, including neutralism--an idea that holds that evolution guards against change in order to slow random and possibly harmful genetic change. Gould was sympathetic toward a soft version of the Bauplan, which posits some mechanism of internal change, though he did not embrace it. For Gould, natural selection remained primary.

Modern geneticist Jeremy England at MIT is trying to formulate a thermodynamic theory on the origin of life. Scientist Robert Lanza and philosopher Thomas Nagel posit that consciousness must have a role in the origin of life and thus evolution. Even more speculative is the idea of Rupert Sheldrake, a Cambridge scientist who holds that morphic resonance has some role to play in evolution. Morphic resonance is the theory that as certain patterns accumulate, they reinforce each other, which can create the type of life forms we see today.

While all of these ideas are interesting, we cannot ignore the fact that natural selection is the best bet to explain how life changes materially, even if the mind or other forces play a role. For physical things, randomness rules and purpose, while very important, is small. In psychology, the tendency to see what we want to see is called confirmation bias. If we're already looking for what we want to see, then we believe it. Therefore many have discarded evolution because of their distaste for its cruelty and its leveling of the living world. We want to be special, but our universe is vast and we are very small. Important, but small.

Evolution polices the material world. And this is why I believe in evolution as a material theory. A grand theory that can explain the origin of life and its role in the universe may be years in the offing because of the borders materialists erect to explain evolution. We may never have one because of this bias. Nevertheless, Darwinian evolution answers the questions we have now in the material world. It is up to us to attempt to fine tune our understanding of how it operates with non-material quiddities. While denying evolution flies in the face of science, we may recognize evolution for what it does on its side of the equation and seek to change the way we relate to each other, to "vote" on how we may change ourselves socially and culturally on the non-material side of the equation. But this would extend beyond materialism and certainly raise the hackles of pompous types like Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker. These thinkers seem to think they represent the lone candles battling the darkness of faith.

Modern science has gone from the non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA) of Stephen Jay Gould to Jerry A. Coyne's negative dogma that science and religion are incompatible. This is not going to help us find out the truth.

Rather, we must accept material evolution for what it is and our mental and social worlds for what they are. The fact that we know more about the former than the latter does not negate the importance of mind and interaction in shaping who we are and what we can become.

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Photos of the Week: 9/3-9/9 (35 photos)  

A German sunrise, the opening of the 2016 Paralympics in Rio, the ‘Day Of The Goose' in Spain, Roman soldiers on Hadrian's Wall, a 300-year-old lighthouse in Boston Harbor, and much more.

 
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IMG_7435  

Kev Gregory (General) posted a photo:

Having just come out of the river, an elephant checks out the way ahead, in the Marataba Game Reserve, near Thabazimbi in South Africa.

 
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Global treaty set to halt invasive species ravaging our oceans  
Many ships will soon have to install systems to deal with stowaways species in their ballast water that have caused havoc when dumped far from home  
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Joel Rubin: I was in the Peace Corps and believe in Hillary. Here's why you should too.  
This is why we need to expand our engagement with the rest of the world, just as the vision of the Peace Corps demands. We must deepen our commitment to diversity and service; we must strengthen our commitment to education; and we must elect leaders who demand that we aim to meet these goals, not ones who deride them.

Read more: Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Costa Rica, International, Peace, Peace Corps, President Obama, John F. Kennedy, 2016 Election, Environment, International Development, Public Service, Politics News

 
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Photos of the Day: Sept. 9, 2016  

Explore the news of the day with these images from around the world.  
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The O2  

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View of London from Cable Car Emirates Air Line

 
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Windy day by Junichi Hakoyama  

Windy day by Junichi Hakoyama

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Как мне приятно, Макдональд гладит мою морду by Marat Safin  

Как мне приятно, Макдональд гладит мою морду by Marat Safin

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***Myst*** by Joachim Bergauer

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I want to sip the last light with a straw until th ... by Oscar Nilsson

I want to sip the last light with a straw until that annoying slurping starts, and then keep slurping until everyone else leaves the room!

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Set Sail by Jake Olson Studios  

Set Sail by Jake Olson Studios

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Persefoni by Magnus Brynestam  

Persefoni by Magnus Brynestam

Model Persefoni, Stockholm Natural light only

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NASA's OSIRIS-REx is off to nick some rocks from asteroid Bennu  

Did space rocks bring us life? Just 7 years and we'll know!

NASA has successfully launched its first mission sending a spacecraft to an asteroid with the aim of returning samples of space rocks back to Earth.…

 
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Clinging to Power: Is The Merkel Era Coming To an End?  
Chancellor Merkel's refugee policies have divided the country and the right-wing populist AfD party is rapidly gaining support. Conservatives are calling on Merkel to change course, but she is refusing to admit fallibility. Could this be the end? By SPIEGEL Staff  
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The Origin of Dogs  

How and when did wild wolves turn into domestic pets? Science tells us that humans were behind the domestication of what is now man's best friend—but the timeline of the transformation has always been mysterious. In this video, Atlantic science writer Ed Yong explains the surprising origin of dogs in light of new research.

 
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To celebrate yesterday's launch of “Overview” in the UK, here is...  

To celebrate yesterday's launch of “Overview” in the UK, here is a mesmerizing view of residential development in the London suburb of Dagenham. Thank you to everyone who has ordered the book, left an Amazon review, or simply helped to spread the word about the project so far. As I write this in New York, it is very powerful to see this idea resonate not only across the pond, but across the globe. If you have friends in the UK that you think would enjoy the Overviews or the book, a tag or share would be enormously helpful to keep the momentum going. I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend, wherever you are in the world!

Instagram: http://bit.ly/2cji8CZ

“Overview” in the UK: http://amzn.to/2bYpAkY

 
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NASA's Other Asteroid Mission: Grab A Chunk And Put It In Orbit Around The Moon  

Flying people to an asteroid is really hard, so NASA wants to bring part of it to them. But some former astronauts say the $2 billion plan was born of politics and budget cuts, and makes little sense.

 
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Elon Musk says SpaceX Falcon 9 fireball robe is 'biggest challenge yet'  

'Anomaly' wasn't rocket engine's fault, he claims

SpaceX are still investigating the explosion that caused its Falcon 9 rocket, and the Facebook satellite it was carrying, to erupt into flames last week.…

 
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Pacific island states take lead role on #shark & #ray conservation ahead of #CITES #COP17 https://t.co/84h0CHNHeu https://t.co/X9RZkvvf1S 
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How Will Big Data Change The Way We Live?  

What's the future of technology and design that's driven by Big Data? Kenneth Cukier of the Economist looks at what's next for machine learning and human knowledge.

 
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How Do We Approach Big Data With A Critical Eye?  

Collecting more data doesn't always lead to better understanding. Data analyst Susan Etlinger explains why we need to deepen our critical thinking skills as we come to rely more on big data.

 
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Can New Technology Decode The Biggest Data Set Of All?  

Scientist Riccardo Sabatini says we have the technology to read the human genome and predict things like height, eye color, age — all from a vial of blood.

 
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Tray Tables Stowed, Seat Backs Upright — And Galaxy Note 7s Off, Please  

The Federal Aviation Administration is warning owners of the Galaxy Note 7 smartphone not to turn their phones on or charge them during flights — and not to put the devices in checked bags, either.

 
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FCC Wants To Replace Your Cable TV Box With An App  

The FCC has seen the future of cable TV, and it looks like the apps on your smartphone. The agency will vote later this month on a proposal to free consumers from the set-top box.

 
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The Next iPhone Can't Do These Two Things At Once  

With Apple doing away with the ubiquitous headphone jack on its new iPhones, lots of people are puzzled about how they'll be able to charge their phones and listen to wired headphones simultaneously.

 
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Airbnb Unveils Changes To Address Racial Discrimination  

One study found booking requests from Airbnb users with African-American sounding names were roughly 16 percent less likely to be accepted; another found discrepancies in hosts' profits.

 
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The Rise Of The Drone, And The Thorny Questions That Have Followed  

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Move Beyond "Dieselgate" At National Drive Electric Week  

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Have you ever thought about switching to an electric vehicle (EV)? Duped drivers of so-called "clean diesel" Volkswagen cars in particular may be in the market. This week, you have a terrific opportunity to check out truly cleaner cars at more than 200 National Drive Electric Week events nationwide.

After Volkswagen knowingly cheated emissions standards and manufactured cars that spewed illegal amounts of dangerous pollution, fueled sickening smog, and threatened the health of millions of people, the disgraced company is now offering their misled consumers a buy-back of their polluting vehicles. Almost half of the 475,000 affected U.S. drivers have already registered to participate in the Volkswagen AG settlement program. That means there are roughly 210,000 people in the market for vehicles that don't dirty our air or harm our climate.

Saturday, September 10 marks the start of National Drive Electric Week (NDEW). From September 10 to September 18, the VW owners now in the market for a clean set of wheels--and anybody else--can attend one of the more than 200 National Drive Electric Week events. Here they can get behind the wheel and talk to happy owners of vehicles that are fun to drive and cleaner for the air. Without dirty tailpipes, it's hard to cheat on tailpipe emissions tests.

Even factoring in the emissions associated with electricity used to charge EVs, these cars are significantly cleaner than conventional vehicles (and of course using solar power to charge them is the cleanest choice). EVs only get cleaner over time as we shift to more renewable sources of power.

National Drive Electric Week, organized by the Sierra Club, Plug In America, the Electric Auto Association, and many other local partner groups was founded on the idea that nothing converts the drivers of gasoline-fuelled cars to electric vehicle (EV) owners faster than conversations with existing owners and test-drives in cleaner, quiet and powerful plug-in vehicles. This week, we're expecting to hit the half-million mark for EV sales in the U.S. Will it be you that gets us there?

In San Diego, while parents check out the latest EVs, kids can get behind the wheel of a mini electric car. At the Poolesville, Maryland event, with an expected 10,000+ visitors, attendees will have the opportunity to win a wall mount charger for their EV. In Bakersfield, Cupertino, and Los Angeles, California, attendees can munch on food from delicious food trucks while test-driving the available EVs. In Knoxville, Tennessee, you can check out an EV tailgate party at the UT vs Ohio State football game. In cities like Juneau, Alaska and Richmond, California, event-goers will be able to check out electric transit buses. Mayors and other elected officials are expected to attend events in cities like Burlington, Vermont and Rochester, New York where people can encourage their local and state leaders to accelerate EV adoption through smart policies. The Mayor of Boise, Idaho will even be making a proclamation in honor of National Drive Electric Week.

Right before the launch of National Drive Electric Week, the White House announced several EV-related awards for federal agencies and leaders who have accelerated EV fleets, charging stations, and workplace charging programs.

An analysis by NerdWallet, created in honor of National Drive Electric Week last year, shows that owning or leasing the electric Nissan Leaf is significantly cheaper over a five-year period than the gasoline-powered Toyota Camry or the hybrid Toyota Prius--without even factoring in state rebates available to many. Thanks to federal, state and industry rebates and tax credits, decreasing prices in EV technology, and the much cheaper price of electricity versus gasoline, the cost of owning and operating an EV is notably lower than that of gasoline-fuelled vehicles. And with fewer moving parts--no mufflers, catalytic converters, or even oil changes--EVs are not only cheaper to fuel than any gas car, but they're cheaper to maintain.

With events in more than 200 cities, chances are there's a National Drive Electric Week event near you. So if you're looking to get rid of your dirty diesel car or generally thinking about making the switch from gasoline to electric, come out and see all the benefits EVs have to offer.

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National Parks in the Battle for Soul of America  
Whoever said you can't go back home again was wrong. On a 10-day retreat to my Jamaican homeland in celebration of my 65th birthday I rediscovered the places and the ethos of the people that made me a fierce defender of Nature, our National Parks and public lands system, and a believer in Rep. John Lewis' "Beloved Community" where all are as one.


Our friend Sheena invests her days maintaining her lavish estate and gardens so luminous that they attract visitors from across the country and was featured in Health Home & Garden Jamaican Magazine, Fall/Winter 2015.

In a deliberate digital detox, I put my phone on airplane mode, did not get on my computer and watched no TV. Frank and I, our daughter Lisa from Atlanta, friends including Carolyn Hartfield of Hartsfield Hikers entered the mystical garden retreat nurtured by my high school friend Sheena, and surrendered to beauty and harmony.

Other friends privileged to still live in Jamaica came to our party and we ate by candlelight on the lawn. A nationwide power blackout was broken just in time for the dancing to start, and I danced to the carefree song I loved most as a teenager, "Wash all my troubles away," by Prince Busta.

Behind the house where I was born, the gully bed is filled with grass. I was ready to bemoan the end of the stream where I sat quietly for hours as a child, absorbing the feel and view and sounds of nature.
"Come man! I'll show you!" my eight year old cousin urged.


My twin cousins twice removed took me back to my gully and shimmied up the tree to bring me back unbruised otaheite apples.

Running up the street behind him, after a few yards he turned right and disappeared in the bushes. I followed and suddenly, there it was! Falling over a jutting rock, at this point the gully ran wild and free tumbling into a 3-foot pool below.

"Do you still see mangoes bobbing down the river?" I asked.

"Mangoes? No! Apples!"

"Apples?" I asked, thinking American varieties.

"Yes," he said, pointing.

And there it was. A gigantic Otaheitie apple tree FULL of delicious delicate red apples on the opposite bank - my second favorite Jamaican fruit that I'd been yearning for. My nephews shimmied up the tree and brought down apples in their pockets to protect them from bruising.

Visiting my high school Clarendon College I walked the campus with some of my classmates, a retired civil servant and a banker of almost 40 years. On the campus set on a hill overlooking a 300-degree panorama of undulating hills with shocks of flowering color, I realized how lucky I was to be socialized in this place. My friends referred to me as our class' English standout, and mentioned I was such a formidable debater that few thought they could win against me. Evidently, I was good at formulating the logical argument then that I've put into service on behalf of our national parks for 21 years.

With eight of us heading to Montego Bay for a concerningly pricey weekend, our hostess called her friends and in short order we had a villa in the mountains, a five minute walk from the Caribbean Sea, for the price of paying the helper to cook for us. Not only was she a fabulous cook but sitting out on the verandah and overlooking the pool, we were inspired by her stories of how she lives in faith and how it manifests in supply. She confided that she had an obligation which she had no way of meeting and was praying when we showed up.

So that's where I learned community, I thought. The unseen hand is moving us all in the direction where all needs are met, if we only love and comply. Our national parks can play such a big role in resetting us, which is why I cannot let go of the subject.


Our little band of travelers arrives in historic Accompong Town where we walked back in time to the successful rejection of British enslavers.

It'd take a while to mention all the friends and relatives who welcomed us, made our special foods, transported us, and gave us gifts from the land. In Accompong, the town high in the mountains founded by Africans that successfully resisted British enslavers, I sat under the tree where the resolute leader Cudjoe may have strategized with his generals, where descendants own the land and there's no taxes, police or crime. I found that courage, generosity and openness of spirit lives within me and was implanted without my even knowing.

I've often asked park leaders how it is that our national parks can be considered the "soul" of America yet so few people associated with soul are ever in them? And now I'm asking you to rouse yourself sufficiently to take an interest in Nature and our national parks as we are at a dire point. Go back to the place where you were socialized and find your innocent attunement to Nature, then bring it back to join the battle for the soul of our country with a focus on our founding values, "liberty and justice for all."

The tenor of the discourse in our society is particularly jarring to return home to after being away from it for awhile. Given that the Republican platform for our public lands is to tear the system apart and return parts to the states for predictable exploitation, it is no longer enough for everyone who cares to make sure we vote against that. Now it is imperative that each one commits to educating him or herself on the issues and find out where your elected representative or candidate stands. Then you must make them know what is important to you, and why. You must commit to make sure everyone in your circle gets out to vote and send an overwhelming message that we care about our country and the future of our children.

"We have fallen heirs to the most glorious heritage a people ever received, and each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune," President Teddy Roosevelt said of our public lands at the turn of the 20th Century.

It's decision time.

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Luigi Galvani Scientist of the Day

Luigi Galvani, an Italian physician, was born Sep. 9, 1737.

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Questions are being asked why no one has ever seen pallid, 11*-fingered WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and NASA ‘naut Jeff Williams in the same room at the same time, after sharp-eyed observers noted the pair's startling physical resemblance.…

 
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Jetting off into the sunset 8 Sep 2016  

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Uh, So, Giraffes Are Actually Four Different Species  
You would think that giraffes, the tallest land animals in the world, would be hard to overlook. Yet, for centuries scientists may have missed a fundamental fact about these long-necked creatures: They aren't one species , but rather four distinct ones.  
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Time to look after your best friend - the one you never knew you had!  
In this modern era of social media where we end up with many more friends than we ever thought we had, we all know deep down who our best friends are. Friendships have their ups and downs and when we get it wrong, like me, you feel that pang of guilt to make things right. So what if I told you that you had been ignoring one of your best friends - and for years! They were in touch with you from your earliest days, they made sure you were fed, they provided you with great holidays, they can be moody, sometimes even scare you, but at heart they have nurtured you from day one. Of course I am not talking about someone but something - the ocean.

We are all intimately connected to the ocean, but do we really know the scale of that friendship? Just in the last two months whilst researching the impacts of ocean warming for the biggest launch event we will hold at the World Conservation Congress in Hawaii in September, I was staggered to find out just how much the ocean has been helping us of late. Everyone knows about global warming, but fewer of us know about ocean warming, and where exactly all that extra 'greenhouse' heating of the Earth has been going. The reality is truly staggering. If the same amount of heat that has gone into the top 2km of the ocean between 1955 and 2010 had gone into the lower 10km of the atmosphere, then the Earth would have seen a warming of 36°C. Though most of us know that we owe it to the ocean that life goes on, we just might not have realised the degree of that debt.

So how can we repay that debt? Well it is not surprising that this role in shielding us from harm has come at a great cost. Our new best friend is feeling stressed - to put it mildly - so, just as with other friends, we should 'give the ocean some space'. We have been abusing this relationship, taking more out of the ocean than it can stand, and making it accept far more of the damage and impacts from our activities than is good for it.

So the urgency is to protect it, so it can recover. Whilst we have made promises to do so we have not been keeping up our end of the bargain. We promised by 2010 to protect 10% of the ocean but we failed on that, so we just moved the goal posts to 2020. If that was one of your friends, how might you feel? 'Lacking commitment' might be your mildest thought! The reality is we have barely protected 4%, and now even gone in the wrong direction and increased our activities in the remaining 96% to do things like seabed mining - years before we actually have the ability to check what effects this really will have. So what WE do in the coming years will make all the difference. Just as the ocean is made up of many drops of water, so the effort to save it will only come from a commitment from everyone. Politicians still seem surprisingly reluctant to take the lead, so let's create that situation so they want to head the procession.

The solutions are there for everyone to see. We must immediately and dramatically cut our emissions of greenhouse gases that are getting the ocean so hot and bothered. If we don't the ocean won't give up on us, but it will definitely change, and in ways that hold far less attraction and benefits, and many more problems. We need to challenge authorities to stop hiding behind closed doors and tell us what they are doing out on the ocean - how many of you know that an area of the seabed 80% the size of the contiguous United States of America has now been given over to mining companies to explore, just within the last few years? On land there would be an outcry, but in the ocean they are getting away with it. If you must eat fish only buy from truly sustainable and traceable sources. Avoid buying sunscreens and personal care products with the ingredient oxybenzone, as it is shown to damage corals. Don't use plastic bags and throw them away - always reuse and adopt a 'bag for life'. But we must also create many more areas to let the ocean recover - we call them marine protected areas. Join with ocean leaders and key conservation organisations to send clear messages that more must be done to protect the ocean. After all, we know rest and recuperation are some of the best tonics for recovery - so let's extend that hand of friendship to the ocean, and start repaying our debt with gratitude.

This post is part of a series produced by The Huffington Post in partnership with Ocean Unite, an initiative to unite and activate powerful voices for ocean-conservation action. The series is being produced to coincide with the UN's Preparatory Committee Meeting (Aug 26-Sept 9) on an internal legally binding instrument on marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction and is a part of HuffPost's "What's Working" initiative, putting a spotlight on initiatives around the world that are solutions oriented. To read all the posts in the series, read here.

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North Korea's largest nuclear test still lacks missile capacity  
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Our Changing Climate: The True Global Warming Hot Spots  
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We're counting down to the CITES CoP! The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna... https://t.co/NGQhVrA0gj 
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The Maritime Silk Road: China's High Seas Ambitions  
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Britain's dormice have declined by a third since 2000, report shows  

Effects of habitat loss and climate change mean the future of the tiny native mammal is uncertain

Numbers of Britain's native dormouse have declined by more than a third since 2000, according to the first definitive report on the state of the species.

The tiny, golden-brown animals were once widespread throughout England and Wales, but have become one of Britain's most threatened mammals due to loss and fragmentation of their woodland habitat, changes in land management and a warmer climate.

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Genetic analysis uncovers four species of giraffe, not just one  
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Colours of the morning - East London  

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Indigo bunting  

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Indigo buntings often migrate by night, using the stars to navigate. The seasonality of bird migration is shifting in response to climate change. As a result, birds in the United States are arriving at their northern breeding grounds earlier in spring -- and may be departing later in fall. Scientists supported by the National Science Foundation made the migration shift discovery thanks to information aggregated from two sources: remote-sensing data from weather surveillance radar and ground-based data collected in citizen science databases.

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Smartphone hacks 3-D printer by measuring 'leaked' energy, acoustic waves  

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The ubiquity of smartphones and their sophisticated gadgetry makes them an ideal tool to steal sensitive data from 3-D printers. That's according to a new University at Buffalo study that explores security vulnerabilities of 3-D printing, also called additive manufacturing, which analysts say will become a multibillion-dollar industry employed to build everything from rocket engines to heart valves. Unlike most security hacks, the researchers did not simulate a cyberattack. Instead, the researchers programmed a common smartphone's built-in sensors to measure electromagnetic energy and acoustic waves that emanate from 3-D printers. These sensors can infer the location of the print nozzle as it moves to create the three-dimensional object being printed. According to the researchers, the tests show that smartphones are quite capable of retrieving enough data to put sensitive information at risk.

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