99% of ocean plastic is missing

Unexplainable

Vox

Life Sciences, Science, Natural Sciences

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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How can we solve the problem of ocean plastic if we don’t know where most of the plastic is? For more, go to http://vox.com/unexplainable It’s a great place to view show transcripts and read more about the topics on our show. Also, email us! unexplainable@vox.com We read every email. Support Unexplainable by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for this week's episode of Unexplainable comes from UC San Diego.
0:05.0	UC San Diego is working with artificial intelligence to try to get
0:08.6	closer to answering some enormous challenges.
0:11.7	Whether they're using AI to inform the development of complicated
0:15.2	cures or creating predictive models that could help fight wildfires,
0:19.5	researchers at UC San Diego want to help move us forward,
0:23.1	improve our communities, and shape our future.
0:25.6	You can learn more about how UC San Diego is advancing AI
0:29.3	at ucsd.edu slash AI.
0:33.6	Support for the show comes from Into the Mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and
0:41.5	justice produced with Fox Creative.
0:44.6	Florida School teacher Andrea Phillips always loved her job,
0:48.4	and she spent years collecting hundreds of books to help struggling readers
0:52.1	discover new possibilities.
0:54.4	But then her district informed her and her colleagues that their classroom
0:58.0	libraries were off limits until every book was approved,
1:01.5	all because of an intentionally vague new law.
1:05.1	Here her story on the latest episode of Into the Mix, subscribe now.
1:29.0	He was out there on a boat in the middle of the ocean for five weeks.
1:33.0	Every morning I woke up, I would get a coffee, I would go to the deck,
1:37.0	and I would just look over the ocean.
1:43.0	A few weeks into the trip, the captain called for man overboard practice.
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