Perspective.

contact@thinknew.ca (admin) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:38:36 -0800

Geoff talks a little bit about how, when it comes to water, ‘access’ is relative:

Icebergs, Ocean Currents and Oxygen Levels

contact@thinknew.ca (admin) — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:56:37 -0800

Interesting news story on the CBC website this morning discussing some potential impact of disrupting ocean currents in key locations. From the article:

An iceberg about the size of Luxembourg that struck a glacier off Antarctica and dislodged another massive block of ice could lower the levels of oxygen in the world’s oceans, Australian and French scientists said Friday.

[…] The new iceberg is 78 kilometres long and about 39 kilometres wide and holds roughly the equivalent of a fifth of the world’s annual total water usage, Young told The Associated Press.

Experts are concerned about the effect of the massive displacement of ice on the ice-free water next to the glacier, which is important for ocean currents.

This area of water had been kept clear because of the glacier, said Steve Rintoul, a leading climate expert. With part of the glacier gone, the area could fill with sea ice, which would disrupt the ability for the dense and cold water to sink.

This sinking water is what spills into ocean basins and feeds the global ocean currents with oxygen, Rintoul explained.

As there are only a few areas in the world where this occurs, a slowing of the process would mean less oxygen supplied into the deep currents that feed the oceans.

“There may be regions of the world’s oceans that lose oxygen, and then of course most of the life there will die,” said Mario Hoppema, chemical oceanographer at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany.

Rintoul also notes in the article that we might gain observations from this event that could be telling in terms of global climate and current models.

Anupam Mishra on Water Harvesting in India's Golden Desert

contact@thinknew.ca (admin) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:28:56 -0800

'Play Time' Should Be Required Viewing for Designers

contact@thinknew.ca (admin) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 07:39:10 -0800

An illustrative clip from Tati’s coup de force circa 1967:

Quoted: Modern Ideas and Ideas on Modernism

contact@thinknew.ca (admin) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:23:50 -0800

To be against what is new is not to be modern. Not to be
modern is to write yourself out of the scene. Not to be in the
scene is to be nowhere.

— Tom Wolfe, in The Painted Word.

Science - Sealed, Delivered.

Perspective.

Icebergs, Ocean Currents and Oxygen Levels

Anupam Mishra on Water Harvesting in India's Golden Desert

'Play Time' Should Be Required Viewing for Designers

Quoted: Modern Ideas and Ideas on Modernism