Sublime

Global Freshwater Use.

But when we account for the share of runoff that is too remote to get to (about 19 percent) or that runs off in floods (about 42 percent),

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crust are large beyond imagination,” the bulk of these minerals “might as well not be there” because of the energy required to extract them.

the ice sheet’s surface. That summer—a record-breaker—Greenland shed almost six hundred billion tons of ice, producing enough water to fill a pool the size of California to a depth of four feet.

The tiny community that had sustained such a dream through the dark ages began, tentatively, quietly, to organize.

Does the half-life of information correlate with the decay of our attention? Is the Internet a kind of temporal gyre, sucking up stories, like geodrift, into its orbit? What is its gyre memory? How do we measure the half-life of its drift?