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Three large portions of the Filchner Ice Shelf
—dubbed A22, A23, and A24
—calved into the Weddell Sea off of Antarctica in 1986.
For National Geographic, Chris Heath documents the life and death of an iceberg called A23a,
known at one time as the largest iceberg in the world.
Born when it broke off A23 in 1991,
it was “at least 44 nautical miles long, 40 nautical miles wide, and somewhere close to 2,000 square miles in area, or roughly the size of Bali.”

Ahh ... Mubi komt met een nieuwe collectie waar Godzilla centraal staat. Eigenlijk in het verleden aan me voorbij laten gaan, maar zo'n overzicht van 8 films van 1954 - 2001 is dan wel aardig om dat in te halen.
Met een longread over de geschiedenis en achtergrond.
Radioactive Dreams | MUBI
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Climbing culture has a storytelling idiom I call “Close Calls.”
They’re an inversion of just-so stories;
instead of tales of creation like “How the Zebra Got Its Stripes” or “How the Giraffe’s Neck Got So Long,”
Close Calls focus on tales of destruction like
“How Rebecca Lost Her Leg” or
“How Johnny Lost His Partner.”
Years ago at the base of the Incredible Hulk, a gorgeous granite outcrop in the Sierras,
Owen and I were preparing to climb the class…

Going Up and Going In - Longreads
A solo climber considers the outermost reaches of risk, and the unlikely ways in which they redefine us.

#Deepwave.org All you need to know about Deep Sea Mining. Surprise: It is not about energy transition, not to secure resorces, not the good future for all of us. It's about profit for the very very few. https://www.

All you need to know about Deep Sea Mining
  All you need to know about Deep Sea Mining A longread by Josefa Beyer, Nico Czaja, Friedrich Enders and Anna Groß   What comes to mind when you think of the deep sea? A pitch-black world with freezing temperatures and creatures as if from another planet , glowing in the dark? Or huge machines trawling the ocean floor, lighting up the abyss with their massive spotlights? While the deep sea may seem like one of the last places on Earth untouched by humans, this may soon change. A growing pus…

Automattic,
the parent company of WordPress, Tumblr, and Longreads,
just announced drastic changes to its executive team. 
Yesterday, the web development company’s board put its founder and CEO, Matt Mullenweg, on a paid leave of absence.
The board voted to appoint Automattic’s current CFO Mark Davies to take over the reins as interim CEO. 
According to 404 Media, Mullenweg announced the news in a companywide Slack ahead of an executive leadership meeting schedul…

Automattic's Board Just Put Founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg on Leave. He Says Directors Conspired Against Him
The tech leader has been placed on a leave of access. Automattic's CFO will now step into the role of interim chief executive.

"How the World Made the West".
The West, so the story goes, was built on the ideas and values of Ancient Greece and Rome, which disappeared from Europe during the Dark Ages and were then rediscovered by the Renaissance.
Josephine Quinn shows in a fascinating longread that this is an oversimplification.
A connect-the-dots history lesson well worth reading.
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