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Want to Help Study Hurricanes? Stick a Jar Out Your Window
Stable isotopes in the water could help answer questions about how water is being moved around inside this giant storm system.
Ryan Haupt
10.30.12
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Conspicuously Missing During Sandy: Oysters
In New York and New England, we'll see the loss of historically-massive populations of oysters.
Derek Mead
10.30.12
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We've Gotten Way Better at Hurricanes Since 1938
8 million lost power, New York’s subway is underwater. Yet we’ve still gotten a hell of a lot better at hurricanes over the years.
Brian Merchant
10.30.12
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STORMFURY: Remembering the U.S.'s White-Knuckled Mission to Kill Hurricanes
Sandy, the Frankenstorm, may be nearly history, but the hurricane season is just hitting its stride.
Brian Anderson
10.30.12
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These Are Actual Words Spoken by Bush's FEMA Director About Sandy and President Obama
Do you remember noted United States’ national embarrassment Michael Brown? You know, the director of FEMA during Katrina?
Michael Byrne
10.30.12
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It's Time to Hurricane-Proof the Grid
It’d be amazing if Sandy’s 90 mph winds and roaring storm surges didn’t put out the lights, so precarious is our patchwork and aged electrical grid.
Brian Merchant
10.30.12
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Sandy's HurriCrane Could Use a Drone
Hurricane Sandy has, if anything, made a perfect case for using small unmanned aerial systems to size up damage and to carry out search and rescue operations in otherwise treacherous environments or scenarios.
Brian Anderson
10.30.12
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Apocalypse #Sandy: Hurricane Photos Worthy of a Dystopian Film
Those pics we see on Facebook and Instagram tell the story of the world crumbling around us, while we live on. Here are some of them. Here’s Apocalypse Sandy.
Brian Merchant
10.30.12
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Rescue Robots Activate! The Pentagon Calls for Disaster-Ready Bot Squad
A robot would need to be able, for example, to break down a door or climb a staircase, to recognize human objects like “levers and valves,” and to do human stuff like drive a car or use a power tool, according to the contest announcement.
Greg Thomas
10.30.12
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Watch a Shark Eat a Dead Pig for Science
What happens when a big, juicy pig gets dropped in the ocean? Well, shrimp and sharks devour it, of course.
Derek Mead
10.30.12
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The Worst Hurricane Sandy Climate Change Column Has Already Been Written
It’s great to see that a least one jerkass has already published an asinine attack on climate science. How topical!
Derek Mead
10.30.12
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This Data Visualization of America's Wind Is Beautiful
About a third of the country’s wind is being pulled into a massive whirlpool by Sandy’s force, and it’s all at a pretty high rate of sustained speed.
Derek Mead
10.30.12
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