Marine Transportation
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3 Hidden Messages from Rose in ‘Titanic’ | Mickey Z.
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FanPop.com Mickey Z. -- World News Trust August 18, 2020 Rose DeWitt Bukater Dawson Calvert is a pretty nuanced female character by Hollywood standards (for 1997 or at any time). Written by a man, no less. Throughout Titanic, she has a palpable character arc. Ironically, it is her love interests who seem mostly one-dimensional. Caledon “Cal” Nathan Hockley is your garden variety villain. Jack Daw ...
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Everybody Knows What Titanic Lifeboats Can Teach Us About The Coronavirus Response | Mickey Z.
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Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 14, 2020 Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows ...
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Baltic Dry Index Collapses To Historic Low
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Coal ship unloading. Eric Kilby/Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)Feb. 15, 2015 (World News Trust) -- The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) -- a measure of commodity shipping costs -- fell to an historic low. China has cut ...
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The Mariner's Rule | John Michael Greer
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John Michael GreerJan. 21, 2015 (Archdruid Report) -- One of the things my readers ask me most often, in response to this blog’s exploration of the ongoing decline and impending fall of modern indust ...
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Captain Erikson's Equation | John Michael Greer
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Captain Gustaf EriksonMarch 26, 2014 (Archdruid Report) -- I have yet to hear anyone in the peak oil blogosphere mention the name of Captain Gustaf Erikson of the Åland Islands and his fleet of windj ...
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New York City floods as Sandy slams into eastern U.S. | Anna Louie Sussman and Michael Erman
Read more...The skyline of lower Manhattan sits in darkness after a preventive power outage in New York October 29, 2012. Hurricane Sandy could be the biggest storm to hit the United States mainland when it come ...
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Sandy Strengthens as Hurricane Barrels Toward New Jersey | Esme E. Deprez and Brian K. Sullivan
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Oct. 29, 2012 -- NEW YORK (Bloomberg) -- Hurricane Sandy strengthened on its path toward New Jersey, where it is predicted to make landfall today while bringing a life-threatening storm surge as it w ...
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It Sucks to be You! | David Glenn Cox
Read more...SS William G. Mather David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Sept. 17, 2012 It has been a strange weekend; fabulous, interesting, maudlin, magnificent and informative. Sometimes, even though you already ...
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Greenhouse gas levels pass symbolic 400ppm CO2 milestone | AP
Read more...The Arctic Ocean with leads and cracks in the ice cover of north of Alaska. Photograph: Courtesy Eric Kort/Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA Monitoring stations in the Arctic detect record levels of car ...
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Cold War in Warm Waters: US-China's Dangerous Contest for Asia-Pacific | Ramzy Baroud
Read more...South China Sea. Source: Demis Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Feb. 22, 2012 -- On two occasions in my life I found myself living close to the South China Sea. The sea became my escape from life’s p ...
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Oceans in Distress Foreshadow Mass Extinction (Marlowe Hood)
Read more...Pollution and global warming are pushing the world's oceans to the brink of a mass extinction of marine life unseen for tens of millions of years, a consortium of scientists warn. June 20, 2011 -- PA ...
