April 25, 2013

Thomas Jefferson, Drowned by Global Warming

The picture above is an illustration of what the Jefferson Memorial would look like 25 feet underwater.

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The picture above is an illustration of what the Jefferson Memorial would look like 25 feet underwater.

Nickolay Lamm of StorageFront.com applied data on sea level rise to contemporary images, and the results are truly worth a thousand words. The data was produced Remik Ziemlinski of Climate Central.

Here is another comparison. South Beach today:

South Beach + 25 feet of sea level rise:

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Books

What sea slugs can teach us about the nature of consciousness

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The Well

Even AI is self-censoring. Here’s why that matters.

If the people controlling AI are biased, the output will also be. Free speech scholar Jacob Mchangama makes the case for completely open-source AI.

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Books

How neuroscience is rewriting the story of war

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The Present

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