Fri. 01/07 - Boaty McBoatface and the Doomsday Glacier

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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🗓️ 7 January 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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How Boaty McBoatface is helping diagnose the severity of the situation at the Doomsday Glacier in Antarctica. Plus, it looks like solar shingles are finally actually a thing. And something to try this weekend––the Dutch practice of uitwaaien. Sponsors: ExpressVPN, ExpressVPN.com/kottke for an extra 3 months FREE on a one-year package Shopify, Get a 14-day free trial at shopify.com/kottke Links: How Explosives, a Robot, and a Sled Expose a Doomsday Glacier (Wired) Boaty McBoatface Is Set to Confront Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier (Gizmodo) Doomsday Glacier in Antarctica Could Collapse Soon: New Research (Rolling Stone) Scientists explore Thwaites, Antarctica's 'doomsday' glacier (AP) What Antarctica's 'Doomsday' Glacier Could Mean For The World (Science Alert) 10/19/2020 - Grand Duke Travis of Westarctica Wants To Save the Planet (Kottke Ride Home) The solar roof could finally become a reality thanks to GAF's nailable solar shingles (The Verge) Solar shingles you can nail to a roof unveiled by GAF Energy (Venture Beat) GAF Energy's easy-install solar shingles aim to outshine Tesla roofs and traditional panels (Tech Crunch) Forget hygge, it's time for uitwaaien (Washington Post) Uitwaaien: the Dutch invention you never knew you needed, until now (Dutch Review) Uitwaaien, or Outblowing, Is the Dutch Cure for the Winter Blues (Mental Floss) 09/17/2020 episode - Practice Friluftsliv This Winter (Kottke Ride Home) Corona's New Beer Adds Vitamin D, Removes Alcohol (AdWeek) Corona Looks to Conquer the "Vitamin D Beer" Market With Odd New "Sunbrew 0.0" Non-Alcoholic Beer (Paste) Wes Anderson to Direct Benedict Cumberbatch in Roald Dahl Film Adaptation (Collider) Wes Anderson to make new Roald Dahl adaptation with Benedict Cumberbatch (The Guardian) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.6	Welcome to the Kotky Ride Home for Friday, January 7th, 2022.
0:40.5	I'm Jackson Bird today.
0:42.6	How Booty McBoatface is helping diagnose the severity of the situation at the Doomsday Glacier in Antarctica.
0:50.9	Plus, it looks like solar shingles are finally actually a thing.
0:56.6	And something to try out this weekend, the Dutch practice of outvayn.
1:01.6	Here are some of the cool things from the news today.
1:07.7	Boady McBoatface is currently on its way to the Doomsday Glacier in Antarctica to find out just how doomed we really are.
1:16.2	You may remember Boaty McBoatface from the 2016 public vote run by the UK's Natural Environment Research Council to name their upcoming world-class polar research ship.
1:27.4	Despite Boaty McBoatface being the clear winner of the public vote,
1:31.2	the council ended up giving the ship the punitively, more respectable name,
1:35.0	the RRS Sir David Attenborough.
1:37.6	There was justice for Bodie McBoatface yet, however, as the name went to one of the
1:42.8	National Oceanography Center's auto-sub long-range
1:46.4	autonomous vehicles. And since then, Bodie McBoatface has been hard at work helping scientists
1:52.3	explore Antarctic ice shelves on multiple missions over the years. Boady, which is able to
1:59.0	autonomously travel beneath ice to depths of 6,000 meters, is about to
2:03.5	embark on its most ambitious mission yet, helping map the underside of the Thwaites Glacier
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