DJ Spooky and David Buckland concert at Nuit Blanche, Toronto
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Daily Archives: September 18, 2010
Welcome to the Arctic
Science
The science on this year’s Cape Farewell has been split into two (linked) sections. We want to build on previous visits to Svalbard (2003,04 and 07) by repeating a cross section through the West Spitsbergen current (part of the extension[…..]
How a boat is like an instrument
Read Ruth’s post on how a boat is like an instrument. Continue reading
Day of adventure
Today was an incredible day of adventure and a little scary at the same time. We began our day exploring an island about 600 miles from the north pole. We got back on the boat to learn that we had[…..]
Kinnvika Bay cont.
From Kinnvika Bay with Deborah Warner. Continue reading
The Romance of Catastrophe
I spent some of this morning slowly reading a terrific book by Francis Spufford, about the polar expeditions, gloriously subtitled ‘Ice and the English imagination’; I read the chapter about the sublime, and, among other things, the romance of catastrophe[…..]
