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Julia Barnes on Bright Green Lies and Cars Vs. Fish

Mark Leiren-Young Biology and Life Sciences, Environmental and Earth Sciences, Policy and Politics
Filmmaker, Julia Barnes, on the dirty secrets of clean energy, how electric cars are running over the oceans and her new documentary Bright Green Lies – debuting online April 22 (Earth Day), 2021 https://www.brightgreenlies.com/ Skaana connects you to stories about oceans, eco-ethics and the environment. Join the Pod……https://www.patreon.com/mobydoll Spotify……………www.bit.ly/spotify-skaana Apple Podcasts………www.skaana.ca The Orca Bites Podcast (on anchor) ………www.orcabites.com – Skaana home……www.skaana.org Skaana on Medium……www.orcatales.com Our Latest Orca Videos…www.jpod.news – Facebook…………https://www.facebook.com/skaanapod/ Twitter……………https://twitter.com/leirenyoung Instagram…………https://www.instagram.com/skaanapod/ Books on Amazon **Amazon links are affiliate links…

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Roadtripping

Sarah Boon Biology and Life Sciences, Environmental and Earth Sciences
We haven’t been on a road trip in eight years. It feels like a lifetime, given that we used to do cross-province road trips two to three times a year over a span of eleven years. We drove from Edmonton, Prince George, and Lethbridge to Vancouver Island to see my mother-in-law and get a dose of the Coast before heading home again. From Edmonton we took Highway 16 in Alberta and switched to Highway 5…

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A (useless) map of geo-mathematics

Matt Hall Environmental and Earth Sciences
Most scientific problems involve at least a bit of maths, even if it’s just adding things up or finding averages.But some problems require quite a bit of maths, like solving an equation, or throwing vectors around, or even a Fourier transform or two. A lot of people switch off at this point.Yet other problems require a lot of maths. Maybe we need a finite difference model, a volume integral, or a deep neural network. Most…

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A (useless) map of geo-mathematics

Matt Hall Environmental and Earth Sciences
Most scientific problems involve at least a bit of maths, even if it’s just adding things up or finding averages.But some problems require quite a bit of maths, like solving an equation, or throwing vectors around, or even a Fourier transform or two. A lot of people switch off at this point.Yet other problems require a lot of maths. Maybe we need a finite difference model, a volume integral, or a deep neural network. Most…

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Two Months in Joshua Tree, What Two Naturalists Got Up To

chloevanloon Biology and Life Sciences, Communication, Education and Outreach, Environmental and Earth Sciences
From the beginning of February till the end of March we lived in Joshua Tree, California. Yes there is an actual city named Joshua Tree. It holds two of three entrances to Joshua Tree National Park. Apart from short trips we’ve never spent an extended amount of time in a desert environment, and I can definitely see the appeal! In this post I highlight what we saw and where we explored. Hope you enjoy! RIP…

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Which programming language should you learn first?

Matt Hall Environmental and Earth Sciences
The question I get asked most often is: “I want to learn to code, where should I start?” To which there’s really no perfect answer. It depends on a lot of things… Why do you want to learn to program? What domain are you in? Have you tried before? Do you like computers? Do your colleagues use anything in particular? Undeterred by the futility, and inspired by an awesome blog post on freecodecamp.org, which advises…

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Seen Last Week

Sarah Boon Biology and Life Sciences, Environmental and Earth Sciences
This past week has been a busy time in the garden, as we worked on getting the veggie garden beds ready for planting. Last week I wrote about turning over the cover crop, which we continued to do this week. However, we also discovered that several of the raised beds need to be fixed because they are bursting at the seams and the wood is rotting, so there is extra work to be done before…

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(Repost) Fool Me At All, Shame On You

Lisavipes Biology and Life Sciences, Environmental and Earth Sciences
This is a repost from my old blog site from April 2016 when, I swear to the Great Grey Owl, a marketing company tried to recruit me for what is a plot from a Simpson’s episode…except they were dead serious. *** April Fools’ Day is tomorrow, and I am waiting with mild trepidation over what faux science gags I am going to see on the Internet. What I was not prepared for was to have…

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Gardening Thoughts

Sarah Boon Biology and Life Sciences, Environmental and Earth Sciences
The other day I was digging in the garden, turning over the cover crop in the raised beds and burying it under a layer of soil. It’s slow work – pulling up a strip of cover crop, digging up the soil underneath it, laying the cover crop green side down in the trench and then covering it up again with soil. It’s also physical work – lots of stomping on the shovel, bending over, and…

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Undo the theft. Give us back Owl’s Head

Elisabeth Kosters Environmental and Earth Sciences, Science in Society
I sent this Open Letter to premier Iain Rankin and my MLA Keith Irving on March 22, 2021. I will be demonstrating in front of the courts on April 1 in defense of Owl’s Head. I moved to Nova Scotia in the summer of 2002, having summered here for 5 years before that. I had fallen like the proverbial ripe apple out of the tree for this stunning part of the world. It took a…

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