Have you ever rushed through an #airport security check only to realize some change fell out of your pocket along the way?
— Statista (@StatistaCharts) July 26, 2021
In fiscal year 2019, just before the pandemic, the #TSA collected a whopping $926,030.44 in loose change across #US airports. https://t.co/uka0CSpmA7 pic.twitter.com/SvO5rhnEbo
Tag Archives: Reviews
Science: What A ‘Mega’ Earthquake In The Pacific Northwest Will Look Like
Top New Book Catalogs: ‘Taschen – Summer 2021’
Covid-19: How The Delta Variant Spread Globally
Covid-19’s Delta variant is proliferating world-wide threatening unvaccinated populations and economic recovery. WSJ breaks down events in key countries to explain why Delta spreads faster than previously detected strains. Composite: Sharon Shi
Science: Blood Tests For Alzheimer’s Treatment, Seismic Events on Mars
Books: ‘The Tiny Bee That Hovers At The Center Of The World’ – David Searcy
An ethereal meditation on longing, loss, and time, sweeping from the highways of Texas to the canals of Mars–by the acclaimed essayist and author of Shame and Wonder
David Searcy’s writing is enchanting and peculiar, obsessed with plumbing the mysteries and wonders of our everyday world, the beauty and cruelty of time, and nothing less than what he calls “the whole idea of meaning.” In The Tiny Bee That Hovers at the Center of the World, he leads the reader across the landscapes of his extraordinary mind, moving from the decaying architectural wonder that is the town of Arcosanti, Arizona, to driving the vast, open Texas highway in his much-abused college VW Beetle, to the mysterious, canal-riddled Martian landscape that famed astronomer Percival Lowell first set eyes on, via his telescope, in 1894. Searcy does not come at his ideas directly, but rather digresses and meditates and analyzes until some essential truth has been illuminated–and it is in that journey that the beauty is found.
Journal Views: Science Magazine – July 23, 2021
Zoology: The Evolution Of Seahorses (Video)
Sea horses are amazing animals because of many of their strange features like male pregnancy but also due to their beautifully unique body shape. However, this may be the reason why seahorses are famous but it actually makes them very bad swimmers so why did they evolve to have this unique body shape?
A seahorse is any of 46 species of small marine fish in the genus Hippocampus. “Hippocampus” comes from the Ancient Greek hippókampos, itself from híppos meaning “horse” and kámpos meaning “sea monster”.
Ocean Science: Can Kelp Forests Survive Climate Change, Trawler Fishing
Kelp locks up millions of tonnes of carbon globally, provides a nursery for fish and is a buffer against coastal flooding. But climate change, weather and fishing are taking their toll. Now, Mika Peck and his team at the University of Sussex are monitoring kelp off the south coast of the UK, to see if it can recover from the damage done to it by trawling and help improve biodiversity in the area.
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