Mapping the Future: Cartography Stages a Comeback Silicon Valley companies are snapping up cartography graduates, leading to a boom in degrees. cross-posted on Facebook

Volunteering Abroad? Read This Before You Post That Selfie You may think it’s a noble idea to photograph yourself helping poor children in a faraway country. A new campaign has a different perspective. cross-posted on Facebook

WATCH: The Hurricane Season, As Shown By Salt, Smoke And Dust A NASA visualization uses computer models to show how recent hurricanes shifted salt from the Atlantic, dust from the Sahara and smoke from fires in Portugal and the Pacific Northwest. cross-posted on Facebook

I think the canal crossing will be tonight. The new bridge is positioned to be moved onto the barge, but there is still canal traffic coming through.ProRail Spoorverdubbeling Utrecht – Live Webcam 1 – Plaatsing spoorbrug 17 t/m 20 nov Om de groei van het treinverkeer mogelijk te maken, werkt ProRail aan de verdubbeling van …

Starting this morning, construction crews are moving a 3000 ton bridge on 640 wheels over the Amsterdam-Rhine canal just down the street from my place in Utrecht… you can watch live!!ProRail Spoorverdubbeling Utrecht – Live Webcam 3 – Plaatsing spoorbrug 17 t/m 20 nov Om de groei van het treinverkeer mogelijk te maken, werkt ProRail …

BILL NYE THO THE KEYSTONE PIPELINE REALLY SPILT 210,000 GALLONS OF OIL IN SOUTH DAKOTA??? DAMN. IF ONLY SOMEBODY HAD WARNED US OH WAIT cross-posted on Facebook

Good overview of the testimony Social Media gave to the Senate.Spy Terms of the Internyet – Note to Self Russian spy tactics have gotten an upgrade since the Cold War. This week how they work now: bad actors, active measures, advanced persistent threats. Cyberwar has its own vocabulary. So we got ourselves a tutor. Join …

Mysterious Radioactive Cloud Over Europe Hints At Accident Farther East Ruthenium-106, an artificial isotope, was detected in early October and is now gone. European safety officials say it poses no health risk to residents and that it might have come from Russia. cross-posted on Facebook

Excellent read, factually debunking recent White House comments on the Civil War.Did Lincoln ACTUALLY Set Out to Free Enslaved People? OG History is here to explain what you thought you knew about the Civil War. cross-posted on Facebook

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This is another piece about Weinstien but also discusses the broader treatment of women in the film industry. This sentiment especially jumped out to me, the idea of meritocracy where the tests of merit are selectively applied. “Women in technical jobs were almost nonexistent, and when they were there, they were constantly being tested to …

More attempts at friendly science writing.A Model of Dynamic Ocean Topography In the last few posts I’ve introduced you to the concept of dynamic ocean topography (DOT) and what causes it. In this post I’d like to introduce you to one of the global models or estimates of mean DOT and explain a little about …

L.P.D.: Libertarian Police Department I put a quarter in the siren. Ten minutes later, I was on the scene. It was a normal office building, strangled by public sidewalks. cross-posted on Facebook

Seafoam timelapse at the beach. cross-posted on Facebook

Seafoam on the beach cross-posted on Facebook

I’m a little obsessed with the game Mini Metro right now. cross-posted on Facebook

Jeremy, The Lonely, Left-Twisting Snail, Dies — But Knows Love Before The End OK, “love” might be overstating it. But the little lefty — whose seemingly hopeless search for a mate sparked an international quest — did manage to procreate before he slithered off this mortal coil. cross-posted on Facebook

Friendversary Video with Anna cross-posted on Facebook

Nautilus Live Why do we map with multibeam sonar? While most of the planet’s surface has been mapped by satellites registering gravity changes on the ocean’s surface, only 13% of the oceans have been *acoustically* mapped–and the difference in the maps is clear! Here’s an image of a recent seamount we mapped off Baja California, …

The Rock Test: A Hack for Men Who Don’t Want To Be Accused of Sexual Harassment Are you a man confused on how to treat the women you work with? Do you feel like if you can’t say or do *anything* you don’t know what to… cross-posted on Facebook