Constant interaction with electronics deprives us of the daydreaming time necessary to solve problems.
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Disruptions: Resolved in 2012: To Enjoy the View Without Help From an iPhone
Startling new images from the depths of the Pacific Ocean reveal one of the planet’s most violent processes – the destruction of massive underwater mountains.
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Subsea mountains’ ‘march to ruin’
The breach called into question the progress that the plant’s operator appeared to have made in bringing its reactors under control.
China’s navy is to carry out military exercises in the Pacific Ocean, officials say, amid continuing maritime disputes in the region.
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China navy in Pacific exercises
Lionfish — those poisonous, spiny sea creatures most often seen in exotic aquariums —are delectable fare, says the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration . And scientists from the department are encouraging fishermen, chefs and consumers to eat up. NOAA launched the “Eat Lionfish” campaign in June as an effort to quell the rising population of the fish, which have exploded along the Gulf Coast and Atlantic coast in the last 10 years. A native of the western Pacific Ocean, the fish has no natural predators in the area and voraciously feeds on young stocks of snapper and grouper. Read full article > >
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Lionfish invade the Gulf…and the dinner table
Nasa says its falling, six-tonne UARS satellite entered the earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean early on Saturday.
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Nasa satellite falls over Pacific
Enric Sala remembers the exact moment he decided he wanted to be a National Geographic explorer — one of the few lucky souls who launch expeditions financed and documented by one of the nation’s most venerable institutions. A decade ago he was sitting in his office at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif. — an academic perch with an idyllic view of the Pacific Ocean — as he unwrapped the brown paper that used to cover issues of National Geographic. “There’s a guy walking in the African jungle looking like a maniac, with a bunch of pygmies behind him, exhausted,” Sala recalled. “I said, ‘Wow, this is what I want to do.’ ” Read full article > >
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National Geographic’s Enric Sala is a man on a mission
A new type of eel that inhabits undersea caves in the Pacific Ocean is dubbed a “living fossil” because of its primitive features.
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New Pacific eel a ‘living fossil’
A leak of highly radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean from Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has been stopped, its operator reports.
A leak of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has been stopped, its operator reports.
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Japan plugs reactor leak into sea
Landlocked Bolivia says it will take Chile to international tribunals to recover access to the Pacific Ocean, which it lost in a 19th Century war.
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Bolivia to put sea claim to court
NASA is out $424 million after one of its Earth-observation rockets failed to reach orbit and crashed into the Pacific Ocean early Friday morning. The rocket, named Glory, was launched at around 2:10 a.m. for a three-year mission to study how airborne…
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NASA Rocket Crashes in the Pacific
Japan’s Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara visits Moscow amid a growing row over the Kuril islands in the Pacific Ocean, which are claimed by both countries.
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev orders the deployment of more weapons on the Kuril islands in the Pacific Ocean, which are claimed by Japan.
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Russia to boost weapons on Kurils
The capsule’s splashdown in the Pacific Ocean went as smoothly as the launching of the Falcon 9 rocket.
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Private Spacecraft Returns Safely From Orbit
Disruptions: Resolved in 2012: To Enjoy the View Without Help From an iPhone
Sunday, January 1st, 2012
