Reality Checks: Mussel Extinction, Half a Degree Celsius, the Mark Zuckerberg Apology Tour, and the Policy Implications of The Bell Curve

On July 12, 2011, crew from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy retrieved a canister dropped by parachute from a C-130, which brought supplies for some mid-mission fixes.
The ICESCAPE mission, or "Impacts of Climate on Ecosystems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacific Environment," is NASA's two-year shipborne investigation to study how changing conditions in the Arctic affect the ocean's chemistry and ecosystems. The bulk of the research takes place in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas in summer 2010 and 2011.
Credit: NASA/Kathryn Hansen
For updates on the five-week ICESCAPE voyage, visit the mission blog at: go.usa.gov/WwU
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- We’re losing America’s freshwater mussels. (via Scientific American)
- A tiny change in global temperatures can have a dramatic effect on Arctic sea ice. (via ImaGeo)
- Mark Zuckerberg has been on a decade and a half apology tour and it hasn’t fixed Facebook. (via Wired)
- The Bell Curve is a book about policy, not science. And it’s wrong. (via Vox)
Featured image credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center via Flickr
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