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Ray Manzarek: “Crystal Ship” live performance, 2012

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Friday Video Cheer: Seal holds “hands” with diver #Igetbywithalittlehelpfrommyfriends

Go on, watch this gray seal’s underwater adorable-ness. You need a little cheering up.

Brooklyn <3 Boston

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Projections by NYC Light Brigade and The Illuminator, earlier this evening at Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Watch This: Rescuers free entangled whale

Dept. of Restoring My Hope for Humanity: According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), this whale assist took place on Monday, when “a team of specially trained rescuers freed an entangled male humpback whale near Lahaina in the waters of NOAA’s Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary, saving the animal from a potentially life-threatening predicament.”

According to a NOAA press release, the team cut away two buoys and over 200 feet of line from the whale, but didn’t find or retain the key buoy that might have allowed them to identify where the gear came from.  Entanglement in fishing gear is a major threat for whales and other marine wildlife.

Latest Byline: “Tackling a Hidden Threat to Marine Mammals,” for Ensia

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Hot off the pixel presses, a new piece surveying the impact of persistent, bioaccumulative, toxic pollutants like PCBs and flame retardants on harbor seals, and potential for change: Tackling a Hidden Threat to Marine Mammals

Photo of harbor seal by Andres Trepte, www.photo-natur.devia Wikimedia Commons

 

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Best. Traceroute. Ever?

Star Wars humor will jump the shark any day now. In the meantime, there’s this:

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One Writer’s Process for Finely Crafting Tweets

Writer Teju Cole’s news tweets are among the most compelling reading on Twitter. He calls them “small fates”:

They’ve inspired @dronestream, a project by @joshbegley to tweet every U.S. armed drone strike since 2002:

Today Cole explained how he composes his small fates.
It’s about craft and polish: working and re-working pace, punctuation, word choices until he gets what he wants.

Cole’s got me thinking about how I currently use Twitter, how I could better engage readers, and convey information more powerfully.

“…all hearts unbroken”

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Billboard piece by Robert Montgomery, Berlin 2012