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Fri. 03/04 - How Hybrid Work Could Change Cities & the Workforce

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Is it possible for ocean cleanup programs to do more harm than good? And how might offices, cities, and the nature of work itself change if––as looks increasingly likely––many office jobs never return to fully on-site work. Plus, the latest Wordle-style game recommendation. Sponsors: DeVry University, Learn more at DeVry.edu/Future Jenni Kayne, Use code KRH at jennikayne.com for 15% off your first order Links: Why marine biologists think ocean cleanups are a bad idea (Vox) Ocean Cleanup struggles to fulfill promise to scoop up plastic at sea (Reuters) Tech Companies Are Reopening Their Offices, but Tech Work Has Changed Forever (Wall Street Journal) The Five-Day Workweek Is Dying (The Atlantic) Heardle  A piece of a Chinese rocket slammed into the Moon this morning (The Verge) 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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0:00.0

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Subject to availability ends 14th of february welcome to the

0:26.6

khaki ride home for friday march 4th 2022 i'm jackson bird today is it possible for ocean cleanup programs

0:35.6

to do more harm than good?

0:38.2

And how offices, cities, and the nature of work itself might change if, as looks increasingly

0:44.9

likely, many office jobs never return to fully on-site work.

0:50.4

Plus, the latest Wordle-style game recommendation.

0:54.0

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

0:59.9

So building on yesterday's story about the United Nations agreeing to begin negotiations on a global treaty to eliminate plastic pollution, let's talk about ocean cleanups. Ocean cleanups sound like a

1:13.7

great idea. On the surface, we humans have polluted the ocean with our single-use plastic junk

1:19.8

endangering the lives of so many sea creatures, so any efforts to clean up that huge island of

1:25.4

plastic in between California and Hawaii is great, right?

1:29.7

According to a number of marine biologists and a new article in Vox, maybe not so much.

1:36.0

First, that island of trash, sometimes called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch,

1:40.4

it turns out isn't so much a cohesive island of large plastic objects as it is a much

1:46.6

more dispersed area with pea-sized or smaller waste, much of which isn't even visible on the

1:52.2

surface of the water, all of which makes trying to clean it up quite a bit more difficult.

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