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We’ve taken light data detected by four of our telescopes—@ChandraXray, @NASAWebb, @NASAHubble, and Spitzer Space Telescope—and turned them into sound. Hear what some galaxies and stars sound like: go.nasa.gov/3PjoNzt
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Happy #WorldOceansDay, everyone! Today is the day for us to celebrate and honor our oceans. 🌊🐋
Did you know that the ocean covers 71% of the Earth’s surface? It also holds about 96.5% of all Earth's water — that's a volume of 320 million cubic miles! Living in all of this ocean is an unknown number of eukaryotic species, but some studies estimate that a quarter of all eukaryotic life on Earth lives in the ocean. That would imply that there are ∼2.2 million eukaryotic marine species!
(All animals, plants, fungi, and many unicellular organisms are eukaryotes)
Information provided by Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program / USGS research
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.@Hidden_Compass honored our founder @amandacastleman, featuring her essay "Love in a Time of Abundance" in its first legacy issue! It explores navigating grief with the last generation of hunter-gatherers in Botswana's Okavango Delta.
bit.ly/bushmanplains
ALT A cheetah mother sits tall in green grass, which three cubs peek through. Behind her are taller golden grass, trees and a hint of blue sky. Image copyright amandacastleman.com
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Have your read our Solas Award Grand Prize Gold Winning essay “The Weight of Paradise” from Cherene Sherrard? You’ll love it! travelerstales.com/the-weigh… #WritingCommmunity #TravelWriting #Oahu #Hawaii
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.@travelerstales honored my @Hidden_Compass essay about my brother's 11-day, 1,600-mile Full Viking funeral! I love that friends, editors & @write_badger alumni won too. Equally thrilling: unfamiliar bylines showing #travelwriting is welcoming more voices!
bit.ly/goodbyeERH
ALT A blazing driftwood raft races across a jade-colored inlet towards a turquoise iceberg in Alaska. Steep forested mountains — wreathed in cloud and laced with snow — are visible in the background. Image copyright amandacastleman.com.
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Loved this gorgeous essay about the life and love of French painter Rosa Bonheur by Anna Polonyi for @Hidden_Compass #FridayReads #RepresentationMatters
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Sometimes it's hard to find a home for stories that aren't already trending. I'm thankful @Hidden_Compass gave me this space to write about the nonprofit @FirstDescents & the life-changing adventures it provides for people like this burned-out ICU nurse. hiddencompass.net/story/beyo…
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Went to Chellanam to write about a movement to save the town from the sea, and whether their plan will be enough: hiddencompass.net/story/the-…
(For @Hidden_Compass, with support from @pulitzercenter)
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An engrossing weekend read from @Longreads' Best of 2022: Gazawood Dreams, the real-life story with cinematic twists and turns of two unlikely filmmakers born a year after all of Gaza City's movie theaters were closed. By @tencents77 for @Hidden_Compass
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“It’s the story of two Palestinian brothers who, despite ongoing violence around their home in the Gaza Strip, just want to make films.” @tencents77 @Hidden_Compass
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30 minutes to showtime! 2022 Ethos of Exploration with @JadAbumrad and our first-ever #PathfinderPrize winners is about to begin! @SabineKBergmann
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The new issue of @Hidden_Compass magazine is here! Can't wait to read the piece on Nepal. The photos and format of this travel e-zine are always beautiful.
hiddencompass.net/issues/
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2. “@tencents77 travels to Gaza to profile cinema-living twin brothers…who are united in their movie-making obsession, their ‘greatest defence against death’ in a country beleaguered by war.”
—@kristastevens features this moving @Hidden_Compass article: hiddencompass.net/story/gaza…
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It is World Edible Insect Day today! Didn't know? Me neither! Until I started researching this fascinating topic. If you're curious, check out this piece I wrote for @Hidden_Compass & consider supporting it #WorldEdibleInsectDay hiddencompass.net/story/inse…
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#RoadTrippers alert: This new interactive map predicts when #FallFoliage will peak across the #USA.
bit.ly/3eDEm4L
#LeafPeeping #Travel #AutumnLeaves #TravelTuesday
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The misconception that there is no sound in space originates because most space is a ~vacuum, providing no way for sound waves to travel. A galaxy cluster has so much gas that we've picked up actual sound. Here it's amplified, and mixed with other data, to hear a black hole!
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MC Tekovete is making amazing hip hop music in Guarani.
An act of resistance in Paraguay, where the language of indigenous origin has long been excluded from cultural, political and educational fields despite being the country's most spoken tongue.
Me: tinyurl.com/2c9pm3fv
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I believe that insect protein can be part of a more sustainable food system. For @Hidden_Compass, I wrote about Florence Dunkel, a pioneering entomologist who has spent the last 40 years making that argument by organising an annual "Bug Buffet" in Montana. hiddencompass.net/story/inse…
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Tonight! See you there!
Join us TONIGHT (6pm PT) for “Uncharted Territory: Two Expeditioners Probe the Unexplored Amazon and Reconsider the Modern Explorer,” an online event with @Lucysheps and Macushi tribesman Vivian Smith. Snag your tickets here! buff.ly/3aqJCq0
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Tonight @Hidden_Compass is hosting Lucy Shepherd to talk redefining exploration.
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