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SciSchmoozing 2024

Parker Solar Probe - NASA

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ሰላም በድጋሚ የሳይንስ ደጋፊዎች!
(Many of the Bay Area’s 20,000 Ethiopians live in Oakland.)

The weekly SciSchmooze reliably delivers the latest in science, especially for the San Francisco Bay Area. Give friends and fa


Labor Day SciSchmooze

Green Water 01: A fully-electric 10,000 tonne container ship
Image: China Ocean Shipping Company

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Bonjour à tous les fans de science.
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CLIMATE

Above is the world’s second all-electric cargo ship. It’s 120m long, 24m wide, and has the battery capacity of a thousand Model Y Teslas (50,000,000 Wh). Like the other and smaller electric cargo ship - the Yara Birkeland - it is plying inland rivers instead of the open oceans. Ocean shipping ac


SciSchmoozing with Feathered Friends

Hanging at International Bird Rescue

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Здравствуйте еще раз, любители науки!
(Over 50,000 Bay Area residents speak Russian at home.)


ENVIRONMENT

“You can’t always get what you want,” and you can’t always see what you want. That is thought to be why Brown Pelicans are starving in California. These prehistoric-looking birds hunt for fish near the water’s surface, then plummet ou


An Uplifting SciSchmooze

Dave Almandsmith
August 19, 2024

¿How were the massive stones transported to Stonehenge? (image credit: Davey Mac)

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ARCHAEOLOGY


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