A shot from the documentary The Loneliest Whale: The Search For 52. Courtesy of Bleecker Street
A whale, apparently the only one of its kind, wandering the Pacific and persistently calling with no answer, is the subject of Joshua Zeman’s documentary The Loneliest Whale: The Search For 52, or more precisely, a search for the whale no one had ever seen. That search of the seas aboard a ship named Truth is the framing devise, but director Zeman also examines at the human response to the whale’s plight, anthropomorphized reaction reflecting at a time when people were talking about social media and loneliness, as well as a brief exploration of humankind’s history with whales. Aboard a ship named Truth It adds up to a mix of sea-going adventure,
In 2004, the New Times posted an article about a whale that struck a chord with many people. “For many years,...
A whale, apparently the only one of its kind, wandering the Pacific and persistently calling with no answer, is the subject of Joshua Zeman’s documentary The Loneliest Whale: The Search For 52, or more precisely, a search for the whale no one had ever seen. That search of the seas aboard a ship named Truth is the framing devise, but director Zeman also examines at the human response to the whale’s plight, anthropomorphized reaction reflecting at a time when people were talking about social media and loneliness, as well as a brief exploration of humankind’s history with whales. Aboard a ship named Truth It adds up to a mix of sea-going adventure,
In 2004, the New Times posted an article about a whale that struck a chord with many people. “For many years,...
- 7/9/2021
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The massive oil spill off the Gulf Coast has left a bitter taste in our mouths, and for good reason--how could this happen at the same time that the environmental movement is finally rallying popular support? But all is not lost, according to a new report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The U.S. managed to slash carbon emissions by a record 7% in 2009--a drop of 405 million metric tons. That's the biggest percentage decline since emissions data collection began in 1949.
Some of the decline can be attributed to the economic downturn. This is worrying, as Andrew Revkin points out in the New York Times, because different parts of the economy change at different rates. That means we need to pay attention to the possibility, for example, that customers of coal-burning utilities were hit harder by the recession than other citizens.
But the recession is far from the only...
Some of the decline can be attributed to the economic downturn. This is worrying, as Andrew Revkin points out in the New York Times, because different parts of the economy change at different rates. That means we need to pay attention to the possibility, for example, that customers of coal-burning utilities were hit harder by the recession than other citizens.
But the recession is far from the only...
- 5/7/2010
- by Ariel Schwartz
- Fast Company
Disasters in Haiti and Chile show architecture is the problem--and the solution--for earthquake-prone cities.
This week in The New York Times, Andrew Revkin published a wake-up call for megacities: Learn from Haiti; you might be next. And the problem is architecture. Earthquakes don't kill people, he says. Buildings do. "In recent earthquakes, buildings have acted as weapons of mass destruction," Roger Bilham, a seismologist who Revkin interviews, wrote in Nature. Most of the buildings in the world's fastest-growing cities are "rubble in waiting."
Joel Achenbach's article in the Washington Post says if you live in one of the biggest cities on the planet, you're probably at risk. (The Times has a similar map here.)
The next Big One could strike Tokyo, Istanbul, Tehran, Mexico City, New Delhi, Kathmandu or the two metropolises near California's San Andreas Fault, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Or it could devastate Dhaka, Jakarta, Karachi, Manila,...
This week in The New York Times, Andrew Revkin published a wake-up call for megacities: Learn from Haiti; you might be next. And the problem is architecture. Earthquakes don't kill people, he says. Buildings do. "In recent earthquakes, buildings have acted as weapons of mass destruction," Roger Bilham, a seismologist who Revkin interviews, wrote in Nature. Most of the buildings in the world's fastest-growing cities are "rubble in waiting."
Joel Achenbach's article in the Washington Post says if you live in one of the biggest cities on the planet, you're probably at risk. (The Times has a similar map here.)
The next Big One could strike Tokyo, Istanbul, Tehran, Mexico City, New Delhi, Kathmandu or the two metropolises near California's San Andreas Fault, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Or it could devastate Dhaka, Jakarta, Karachi, Manila,...
- 3/1/2010
- by William Bostwick
- Fast Company
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