One of my cronies, Joyce, has had the presence of mind to document the last 6 months of the Peace Wall.

I only took photos. :D

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The Ancient Mosaics like the Cretan, Greek, Roman, Minoan, Phoenician are very different to today's new and modern mosaics. Old mosaics were made of rocks, and eggshells. Before there was glass.
Roman Octopus Mosaic

Minoan Octopus made of rocks Mosaic

Hafez Tomb Mosaic with complex geometry More old style on this wikipedia page ( Read more... )

Introduction:I read two papers that published results in the peer reviewed literature about the state of Arctic Ice Mass. I started this project with the research: Arctic sea ice variability and trends, 1979-2010, Cavalieri and Parkinson, in the Cryosphere, [publication], published 2012, 7 years ago. Cavalieri and Parkinson studied a lot of numbers ( Read more... )

Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling Data Portal

Has nice colour ramped sea ice thicknesses derived from freeboard measurements. So they don't necessarily indicate the bumpiness or keels on the bottom surfaces of the floes.

Animate this.

The Brisbane Tool Library - towards a circular economy. I was astounded when I found this place. Now at the State Library underneath the Edge.

https://brisbanetoollibrary.org/

CAMPING EQUIPMENT! My mind went off in so many different directions.

Go there, before it melts.

Reading A Farewell to Ice

I found A Farewell To Ice, a book, by Peter Wadhams after I read an article in the Guardian, that reported on a prediction for the first ice free summer in the Arctic. It said “this coming summer or the next”. I was actually shocked. This was a significant assessment, and under represented. What surprised me most was the ( Read more... )

The Arctic’s rapidly shrinking sea ice cover: a research synthesis Stroeve et al 2011: A ReviewThe Arctic Ice Mass is a radically different place to how it once was. It was a place that was like a continent of ice in its own right. The two land continents of North America, and Asia were connected by solid ice like a bridge at the times of maximum ( Read more... )

Arctic sea ice variability and trends, 1979-2010, Cavalieri and Parkinson, in the Cryosphere, [publication] published 2012, 7 years ago.

If I were to put it in a nutshell, I am afraid, very afraid. The climate that we are used to, in fact for all of my life, since 1969, since the birth of the satellite imagery has seen a decline in the Arctic ( Read more... )

The Ice Giant. Wow. Now this story has morphed already from what i thought i could remember. I think that is confabulation ( Read more... )

if energy can't be created or destroyed, and entropy is building up since the Dawn of Time, where is it? isn't that actually measureable?