"Even when I wasn't in the lake, I was in the lake. Frozen."
For @NautilusMag, @maryxdennis wrote this powerful tender essay about the grief that consumed her for years after her brother died, and her efforts to find her way back to herself. #longreads
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I'm writing today about kennings in Old English. Essentially these are two word-metaphors that were used instead of concrete nouns, and they are exquisite. A ship was a 'wave-horse', the sea was a 'whale-road', the mind was a 'thought-chamber', and the sun was a 'sky-candle'.
The bass voices of the seas have been getting 30-40% lower for the last 60 years, and it’s a bit of a mystery why, writes @kristenfrench: https://t.co/Kbl84uimox
Really enjoyed writing this article on my 3 greatest revelations while writing Adventures in Volcanoland for @NautilusMag and working with @KristenFrench!https://t.co/EfX2rf7r1h
Tom Kuhn was my colleague at MIT, a lovely man, but the massive popularity of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions entrenched the pernicious idea that science (& intellectual inquiry more generally) lurches between incommensurable "paradigms" & cannot pursue truth. Filmmaker Erroll Morris defends objectivity in recalling "Thomas Kuhn Threw an Ashtray at Me." https://t.co/lYpxUPYyRs
"What might people learn if they set aside preconceived notions about nativity and nonnativity and if they looked with clear eyes at what these species actually did?"
Read an excerpt from MEET THE NEIGHBORS about convention-challenging ecologist @ejlundyy and wild donkeys:
Crazy how the punishment is a fine and not the immediate liquidation of the company and disbursement of all its assets as reparations to the workers and communities.
Iceland will soon have a phenomenal new climate president in @HallaTomas!
Read more on this, rising sea levels, and more climate voices to follow here: https://t.co/etuVKAiO3u
I love travel. And I think it's vital to reckon with the dark side of tourism in places like Mexico, where swaths of coast have been transformed for the benefit of outsiders at the expense of the people who live there. I spent a year reporting this: https://t.co/Pm7ykB4Fe9
"One has to listen very carefully to hear them and to distinguish them from the ambient noise...”
Learn why auroras sizzle with sound, and we can hear it on Earth:
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Last January, I noticed something peculiar in my 2yo’s bedroom that - after a year of obsessive reporting - led me to a profound cosmic revelation about what’s even possible in our universe. A 🧵.