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Hot air for windmills, oceans get layered, and North Korean ghost ships – What’s up with the Oceans this Week

Posted on September 30, 2020September 30, 2020 By Andrew Thaler
News

Nothing but hot air. Trump bans windmills. The President made bemused news last week during his oddly partisan attempt to ban offshore oil in several key states (though for some reason, seismic testing in those states continue, making it seem less like a ban and more like a request to “stand by”). Unsurprisingly, the offshore … Read More “Hot air for windmills, oceans get layered, and North Korean ghost ships – What’s up with the Oceans this Week” »

Monday Morning Salvage: January 30, 2017

Posted on January 30, 2017January 29, 2017 By Andrew Thaler
Weekly Salvage

Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)

  • Ensuring that our friends and colleagues who are legal residents of the United States of America, and those suffering under oppressive regimes who heard the promise of the Mother of Exiles and chose to find a better life in our country, can still trust us with the privilege to fulfill that promise.
  • Rejecting the triumph of cruelty.
  • Also, these incredible thousand-year-old windmills, still in use today, milling grain in Iran.

Jetsam (what we’re enjoying from around the web)

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