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[Randi]

And the female Chinese alligator should have shared the prize!
Sexism, racism, and speciesism

[Randi]

What’s Green, Soggy and Fights Climate Change?
You might be surprised: Protecting peat bogs could help the world avert the worst effects of global warming, a new study has found.

[jil]

Lancashire Wildlife Trust have several projects to maintain and restore the lowland peat bogs in the region including creating a 'Carbon Farm' - taking over fields adjacent to remaining peat bog and replanting with sphagnum moss.

[Randi]

[Morgan]

In case anyone wants to follow up on the worms, you are just in time.

October 22, 2020, Thursday, 4 pm Australian Eastern Time. Q&A Session with the 2020 Ig Nobel Physics Prize winners, Swinburne University, online.—Ivan Maksymov and Andrey Pototsky will answer any and all questions about how and why they vibrated an earthworm at high frequency.

https://www.improbable.com/improbable-r ... -schedule/

Also shown on the web page is a link to

Luxurious Hair Clubs for Scientists

. www.improbable.com
Any Citizen Scientists members out there?
What a group!

[AvastMH]

October 22, 2020, Thursday, 4 pm Australian Eastern Time. Q&A Session with the 2020 Ig Nobel Physics Prize winners, Swinburne University, online.—Ivan Maksymov and Andrey Pototsky will answer any and all questions about how and why they vibrated an earthworm at high frequency.

https://www.improbable.com/improbable-r ... -schedule/

Might have to make a date with that one!

[Michael]

I was looking to see if I could get a position for the Columbia River Bar, and I found this. Seven and a half minutes to test your sea legs and see just how good they are:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/ByGSMmenPDM

[AvastMH]

I was looking to see if I could get a position for the Columbia River Bar, and I found this. Seven and a half minutes to test your sea legs and see just how good they are:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/ByGSMmenPDM

You have got to be joking.....

That was a white knuckle ride - and that's just sitting here watching it

[jil]

Eeeeeek!

[Hanibal94]

Yikes!!!

[Morgan]

I've not been in more than a 6.5 M, but the thing you know about an earthquake is, it is not going to last too long. Those waves went on and on! I was sure the one fellow was a goner in the first 20 seconds.
Morgan

[Michael]

I suspect these fishing boats work out of Astoria, so they would be quite used to sailing these waters, and they know just how to get through these waves. I suspect that they would also sit offshore and wait for a tide change if things were really bad. Mind you, it is one wild ride.

[AvastMH]

So much doom and gloom around. This gave me such a chuckle...the UK changed back from British Summer Time to Greenwich Mean Time on Saturday/Sunday.



(I'm pretty sure that this is actually Avebury - so big that it contains a village )

[Randi]

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/news/m ... ummer-time

[Michael]

[AvastMH]

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/news/m ... ummer-time

That's such a laugh Randi - very well found! Great April Fool

[pommystuart]

I was looking to see if I could get a position for the Columbia River Bar, and I found this. Seven and a half minutes to test your sea legs and see just how good they are:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/ByGSMmenPDM

Engine failure would not be a good thing.
Those guys certainly earn there money.

[Morgan]

As I recall, someone in the group is a penguin enthusiast. You probably already know all about this; but in case not:

Drama at the zoo: Egg-napping male penguin couple steals the nest of a female penguin couple

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/27/us/pengu ... index.html

You have to watch out for those dominant penguin couples.
Watch the Nest!
Morgan

[krwood]

Sorry - back to doom & gloom for a moment: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/clim ... -noaa.html

[Michael]

You'll have to re-frame your ice research from climate change to opening the Arctic Ocean for oil exploration.