The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is 16 times larger than we thought, according to the journal Scientific Reports — Quartz
▻https://qz.com/1234953/we-underestimated-the-size-of-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch-by-16-times
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Geocomputation with R [book]
▻https://geocompr.robinlovelace.net
Mapping road network communities for guiding disease surveillance and control strategies | Scientific Reports
▻https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-22969-4
60 years in orbit for ’grapefruit satellite’ – the oldest human object in space, by Alice Gorman
▻http://theconversation.com/60-years-in-orbit-for-grapefruit-satellite-the-oldest-human-object-
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Sixty years ago, a grapefruit-sized aluminium sphere with six antennas and some tiny solar cells was launched into Earth orbit. The Vanguard 1 satellite is still up there and is the oldest human-made object in space. It’s our first piece of space archaeology.
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SeedVault - Seed Portal of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault - hosted by NordGen
▻https://www.nordgen.org/sgsv/index.php
Causes du cancer : pourquoi le travail échappe aux radars | Santé & travail
▻http://www.sante-et-travail.fr/causes-du-cancer-pourquoi-travail-echappe-radars
Les politiques de prévention du cancer sont définies à l’aide d’outils élaborés par l’épidémiologie : les parts attribuables à diverses causes. Or leur calcul, discutable, indique que le poids du travail serait faible. Au détriment de toute justice sociale
Merchants of Death Ultimate Winners in Escalating Military Conflicts | Inter Press Service
▻http://www.ipsnews.net/2018/03/merchants-death-ultimate-winners-escalating-military-conflicts
“All five permanent members of the Security Council”, ridicules one UN diplomat, “preach the doctrine of peaceful coexistence and the principles of disarmament — while having no compunctions in simultaneously selling lethal weapons in battle zones.”
How Can the Large-Scale Poaching in the South Atlantic Be Stopped? | Inter Press Service
▻http://www.ipsnews.net/2018/03/can-large-scale-poaching-south-atlantic-stopped
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A satellite image shows the great concentration of ships along the boundary of the Argentine Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), taking advantage of the lack of regulations to poach huge quantities of seafood. Credit: Courtesy of Milko Schvartzman
Les vélos en libre-service, une double « tragédie des communs »
▻http://theconversation.com/les-velos-en-libre-service-une-double-tragedie-des-communs-92638
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Un système avec stations fixes comme celui des Vélib’ oblige les individus à considérer l’espace public comme une ressource rare et « rivale » (une borne de stationnement occupée par un Vélib’ ne peut l’être par un autre). Les vélos en free floating modifient cette perception en faisant de l’espace une ressource en apparence « abondante », puisque n’importe quel coin de trottoir devient un point de stationnement potentiel.
Les villes qui ont expérimenté les vélos en free floating connaissent généralement des désordres semblant donner raison à Hardin
Bangladesh is building a camp on Bhasan Char to house the Rohingya from Myanmar — Quartz
▻https://qz.com/1216031/bangladesh-is-building-a-camp-on-bhasan-char-to-house-the-rohingya-from-myanmar
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Tes cheveux démélés cachent une guerre de sept ans - un film de Fatima Sissani
▻http://www.film-documentaire.fr/4DACTION/w_fiche_film/49903_1
Rien ne prédestinait Eveline Safir Lavalette, qui appartenait à la bourgeoisie coloniale vivant en Algérie depuis trois générations, à rejoindre le #FLN (Front de libération national) dans la lutte armée. C’est la découverte d’une femme libre et sans concession, d’une droiture exemplaire qui ne plaisante pas avec l’Histoire, l’engagement et la politique. Il y a aussi sa grande générosité, celle avec laquelle elle a adopté à bras le corps, instinctivement, sans réserve, le combat pour l’ de l’#Algérie.
« Iter Auto » et « Plus Fours Routefinder » – Les systèmes de navigation automobile des années 1920 / 1930 | Ufunk.net
▻http://www.ufunk.net/gadgets/iter-auto-plus-fours-routefinder
Je vous présente le « Iter Auto » et le « Plus Fours Routefinder« , deux systèmes de navigation automobile des années 1920 / 1930 ! L’électronique, le #GPS, la 3G et les écrans tactiles n’étant pas vraiment d’actualité à cette époque, il fallait choisir son itinéraire à l’avance, et insérer la cartouche correspondante dans le lecteur du « Iter Auto » ou sa version portable pour motard dans le bracelet du « Plus Fours Routefinder« . On faisait ensuite défiler les cartes pour se repérer et suivre l’évolution de son trajet… Si il fallait tourner manuellement une molette du « Plus Fours Routefinder » pour trouver sa position, le « Iter Auto » se branchait directement sur le cable du compteur de vitesse pour un défilement de la carte automatique !
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Casting a wider net
▻http://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/rngs/GLOBAL-FISHING/010061031ZS/index.html
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Newly released data shows the true extent of industrial fishing. More than 55 percent of the surface of the world’s oceans is fished, with China accounting for vastly more than any other country.
#pêche #cartographie #chine #poisson #mer #datasource
’Africa’s Satellite’ Avoided Millions Using A Very African Tax Scheme - ICIJ
▻https://www.icij.org/investigations/paradise-papers/africas-satellite-avoided-millions-using-african-tax-scheme
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The New Dawn Satellite was proudly African – partly funded by local investors and promoted as a way for African schoolchildren, nurses, civil servants and businesses to access world-class internet and mobile phone networks.
But if its purpose was to promote African development, its tax strategy did exactly the opposite.
The companies behind the New Dawn Satellite channeled millions of dollars in payments from African companies and governments through offshore companies in Mauritius, one of the continent’s premier tax havens.
Hyperdrive (“The Cartographic Arms Dealers”) - Bloomberg
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-02-21/nobody-wants-to-let-google-win-the-war-for-maps-all-over-again
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self-driving maps are far more demanding than older digital ones, prompting huge investments across Detroit, Silicon Valley and China. “An autonomous vehicle wants that to be as precise, accurate and up-to-date as possible,” said Bryan Salesky, who leads Argo AI LLC, a year-old startup backed by a $1 billion investment by Ford. The “off-the-shelf solution doesn’t quite exist.”
Machine Visions, by Yannick Assogba
▻http://clome.info/work/machine-visions
This exploration uses four of Wes Anderson’s films as source material. One frame is extracted every 10 seconds of each film, producing our sample of 2309 frames in total. You can see them arrayed in sequence here.
This investigation only touches on visual motifs, i.e. repeated gestures that are present in individual frames of film.
ITER is a showcase ... for the drawbacks of fusion energy | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
▻https://thebulletin.org/iter-showcase-drawbacks-fusion-energy11512
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One may wonder how that expended energy could ever be paid back—and of course it won’t. But the very visible embodiment of the tremendous energy investment represents only the first component of the ironic “Unlimited Energy.”
(…) ITER’s anticipated 500 MW of thermal fusion power is not electric power. But what fusion proponents are loathe to tell you is that this fusion power is not some benign solar-like radiation but consists primarily (80 percent) of streams of energetic neutrons whose only apparent function in ITER is to produce huge volumes of radioactive waste as they bombard the walls of the reactor vessel and its associated components.
Lessons from Optics, The Other Deep Learning – arg min blog
▻http://benjamin-recht.github.io/2018/01/25/optics
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People don’t fear this design process. Each year, the US graduates hundreds of optical engineers who go on to design lenses that work. And they’re not scared of their job.
That’s not because optics is easy. It’s because the mental models in optics are organized well.
Blotter.js - A JavaScript API for drawing unconventional text effects on the web
▻http://blotter.js.org
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Blotter.js requires #Three.js and Underscore.js.
Photo of an atom: A scientist captured an incredible photograph — Quartz
▻https://qz.com/1205279/photo-of-an-atom-a-scientist-captured-an-incredible-photograph
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Using long exposure, PhD candidate David Nadlinger took a photo of a glowing atom in an intricate web of laboratory machinery. In it, the single strontium atom is illuminated by a laser while suspended in the air by two electrodes. For a sense of scale, those two electrodes on each side of the tiny dot are only two millimeters apart.
New Museum Triennial Takes a Global View of Aesthetic Resistance
▻https://hyperallergic.com/426674/new-museum-triennial-2018-songs-for-sabotage
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on dirait bien que j’ai une carte (ou plutôt une animation vidéo-carto) dans un musée à New York ; réalisée pour Inhabitants ▻http://inhabitants-tv.org
Royaume-Uni : les coupes budgétaires dans la #santé auraient causé quelque 120 000 morts de 2010 à 2017
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source ▻https://twitter.com/pochaput/status/961185454853967876
@cqfd
AI and climate: On the “bleeding edge” with a pioneering researcher | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
▻https://thebulletin.org/ai-and-climate-%E2%80%9Cbleeding-edge%E2%80%9D-pioneering-researcher115
Disappearing Rivers
▻https://disappearingwest.org/rivers/map/index.html
Today, nearly half - 49% - of all river miles in the West are no longer in their natural state. In all, 140,000 miles of rivers in the American West – a distance long enough to circle the Earth nearly 6 times – have been modified by dams, diversions, suburban sprawl, legacy mines, and other human development.
Click anywhere on the map to explore how and why rivers in the West are changing and disappearing.