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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2025

WBZ reports on plans to turn the long-abandoned Forbes Manufacturing site on Chelsea Creek into a large park with housing: Developers and green organizations team up to revitalize area in Chelsea for climate resilience […] [Original post on sciencemastodon.com]

Conceptual illustration from the air of a large site on Chelsea Creek turned into a park plus housing.

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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2025

Mass Audubon, GreenRoots, and The Neighborhood Developers Plan New Climate Resilient Park with Housing in Chelsea The Superior Court has approved an offer to purchase 18 acres of waterfront property "to create a broadly accessible, climate-resilient park […] [Original post on sciencemastodon.com]

Conceptual illustration of people walking along the Mill Creek waterfront in a future climate-resilient park with housing in Chelsea, MA.

Conceptual plan, seen from the air, of a future climate-resilient waterfront park with housing, along Chelsea Creek and Mill Creek in Chelsea, MA.

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2025

#April5 #HandsOff protest will not topple the regime. But it is a necessary step for keeping truth and democracy alive. Here’s what we can accomplish: 1. Cultivate active, engaged citizenship. 2. Build and foster broad solidarity. 3. Incentivize political leadership. 4. Take control of the […]

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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2025

As hurricane and wildfire seasons loom, the Trump administration works to disable the Federal Emergency Management Administration: Musk Targeted FEMA. Storm-Battered Communities Are Paying a Price […] [Original post on sciencemastodon.com]

A car and landscape destroyed by the 2023 wildfire in Lahaina, Hawaii.

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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2025

In MOD. Museum's Beyond Endings exhibit, visitors enter an interview booth and "step into the year 2125 for a job interview at leading death tech service provider Eterna.Life." "Inside they have a five minute conversation with a metahuman employee.... In […] [Original post on sciencemastodon.com]

Screen of a "metahuman" figure, a woman with white and dark hair, starting a simulated job interview in the year 2125.

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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2025

Melbourne's recently opened National Communications Museum (ncm.org.au) features several engaging AI-powered interactive exhibits. One exhibit is an arcade-style game that lets visitors design a "future collection object" for the museum and print […] [Original post on sciencemastodon.com]

Screen image showing rather silly concepts of furry communications devices, which visitors to the National Communications Museum can create with an arcade-style game based on generative AI technology.

Three posters showing rather silly concepts of furry communications devices, which visitors to the National Communications Museum can create with an arcade-style game based on generative AI technology.

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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2025

Hoping to visit the main London Museum when it opens next year! For now its website (www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections…) has been thoughtfully enhanced with AI-powered features. Among them, AI tools generated alt-text for more […] [Original post on sciencemastodon.com]

London Museum record of a photograph showing Queen Elizabeth on a train visiting the city's Dockland neighborhood. The generative AI tool described the photo technically correctly but did not recognize the Queen.

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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 23/03/2025

Another note for fellow maritime history geeks, this one on Boston sailors and ships during the Quasi War: When the U.S. went to war against France at sea. ericbender.co/history-of-the-harbor #history #Boston #maritime

Print of the frigate Boston, which was funded by people from the city, capturing the French frigate l'Berceau in 1799.

Photo of frigate Constitution firing a 21-gun salute during the ship's annual July 4th turnaround in Boston harbor in 2013. Photo by Thomas Rooney for the U.S. Navy.

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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 23/03/2025

Dozens of miniature ships moored inside Philadelphia’s Seaport Museum for its new exhibition “Small but Mighty” is an armada of toys and models representing 400 years of maritime history […] [Original post on sciencemastodon.com]

Photo of a paper-and-wooden model of the steamship Priscilla. launched in 1893 in Chester, Pennsylvania. Three years later, the steamship was recreated as a child’s toy by R. Bliss Manufacturing in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, known for making inexpensive but realistic toys. Made of chromolithographed paper attached to a wooden frame and equipped with wheels for motion, the model measures 37 inches long by x 20 inches high and 5 inches wide, is in pristine condition and illustrates the color and beauty of late 19th-century ships. Photo by Joseph Painter, courtesy of Independence Seaport Museum.

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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2025

Another take (mine) on the bold proposal to remake a decrepit Charlestown' pier into an imaginative public park: A Courageous proposal for Pier 5 ericbender.co/safe-harbor Biggest unanswered question: what this project would cost and who […] [Original post on sciencemastodon.com]

Conceptual illustration with an aerial view of a park on a pier, looking out into Boston harbor.

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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 21/03/2025

Update on funding efforts for the proposed "Ike Dike" project in Texas, whose total cost might now exceed *$57 billion.. Yes, that's *57 billion* […] [Original post on sciencemastodon.com]

People on a very large brown seawall looking out onto stormy seas. Photo by "V. Lawhorn" courtesy Houston Public Media.

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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 21/03/2025

More on plans to turn Boston's decrepit Pier 5 into an amazing public park: Sailing Organization Touts Big Plans For Charlestown Navy Yard wbznewsradio.iheart.com/content/sai… "They […] [Original post on sciencemastodon.com]

Conceptual illustration from the air of a harborside park with a building topped by a vegetated "wave" structure. This is a proposal for Charlestown's Pier 5, looking toward downtown Boston.

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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2025

“There’s Just No More Land” Community-led Planned Relocation as Last-resort Adaptation to Sea Level Rise in Solomon Islands "Members of the Walande community imagined, financed, and executed their planned relocation, largely without support from the […] [Original post on sciencemastodon.com]

A wharf of wooden pilings in the new Walande site on mainland Malaita Province, Solomon Islands. Photo by Cyril Eberle for Human Rights Watch.

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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2025

The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 were four famously ugly and unconstitutional laws enacted during the Quasi War, an undeclared shooting war between the US and France. (Here, a 1799 naval battle in which at least 33 men were killed.) Abuse of this […] [Original post on sciencemastodon.com]

Watercolor of the 1799 battle between two frigates, France's l'Insurgent and the US's Constellation. L'Insurgent is nearer, with most of its rigging shot away. At least 33 men died, mostly on the French frigate. Painting by Worden Wood in the Yale University collection.

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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 16/03/2025

For decades Charlestown has asked for its abandoned Pier 5 to be turned into a public park. Two new proposals are at bpda.app.box.com/s/4kydopxi7tuetfbo… Charlestown Marina would extend its floating docks into the space, after the […] [Original post on sciencemastodon.com]

Conceptual illustration of Pier 5 waterfront park from the air, looking toward downtown Boston.

Conceptual illustration of Pier 5 waterfront park, seen from the harbor.

Conceptual illustration of the "learning lagoon" and the rest of the Pier 5 public park, seen from shore.

Conceptual illustration of the Pier 5 public park, seen in an aerial view from the shore.

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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2025

Gray morning but first time out on Boston Harbor since October. Here, the Sapphire Coast and its cement barge swing on the tide. #Boston #harbor #paddling #kayaking

Gray calm morning in Boston inner harbor with pusher tug Sapphire Coast and a cement barge at anchor.

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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2025

A Story About Salmon That Almost Had a Happy Ending "Completion of the world’s largest dam removal project — which demolished four Klamath River hydroelectric dams on both sides of the California-Oregon border — has been celebrated as a monumental […] [Original post on sciencemastodon.com]

Black and white photo of the Klamath River flowing by a breached dam, by Jordan Gale for the New York Times.

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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 12/03/2025

A good snapshot of work by MIT's remarkable Miho Mazereeuw on disaster prevention: newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2025/… Her Urban Risk Lab’s Housing Recovery Toolkit ( […] [Original post on sciencemastodon.com]

Miho Mazereeuw, arms folded and with face mask pulled down, looking out over a landscape of wrecked buildings, with water in the background.

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Ellie Kennard Photography @elliek.pxlfd.ca.ap.brid.gy · 10/03/2025

Pemaquid Point Lighthouse, Maine This nearly 200 year old lighthouse in Maine sits atop one of the most beautifully striated rock formations I have ever seen. The seams of different coloured layers running up from the shore to the building could have kept me there […] [Original post on pxlfd.ca]

The perspective is looking up a steep, striated rock towards a white lighthouse. The rock has a pool of rainwater in the middle with the lighthouse reflected in it. There is natural, solid rock formation to the right of the frame. The sky is a deep blue and there are a few evergreen trees and a small red building to the left of the frame with some people in front of it.

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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2025

The annual Shamrock Splash, which raises money for the excellent programs of Save the Harbor/Save the Bay, went off swimmingly today on East Boston's Constitution Beach despite the freezing wind. More photos: ericbender.co/safe-harbor #Boston […] [Original post on sciencemastodon.com]

A diverse group of people, some in costume, dashing down a beach on a sunny day to plunge into a very cold harbor.

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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2025

Ed Yong Wants to Show You the Hidden Reality of the World www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/magazine… (shared) Science "is one of the only areas of human endeavor that […] [Original post on sciencemastodon.com]

Science writer Ed Yong in Dr. Aurelia Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park in Oakland, California, looking up with a monocular in his hands. Photo by Deanne Fitzmaurice for the New York Times.

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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2025

The latest round of proposals for Charlestown's long-abandoned Pier 5 includes two contenders that both abut the pier: Charlestown Marina and Courageous Sailing. The city will post the proposals later today. #Boston #Charlestown #park #harbor #environmentaljustice @universalhub

Photo from above looking out the abandoned Pier 5 in Charlestown, toward Boston harbor and a rainbow. Photo courtesy Pier5 Association.

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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2025

Sea-level rise: a new method to estimate the probability of different outcomes – including a worst case (A slightly technical but clear update for non-scientists on predictions for sea-level rise) […] [Original post on sciencemastodon.com]

A man walks through water flooding over Long Wharf, on a gray chilly day in Boston. Photo by Robin Lubbock for WBUR.

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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2025

This morning in East Boston, the tower at Belle Isle Marsh Reservation and the hill at Condor Street Urban Wild.

A wooden tower in the distance across a snowy marsh on a sunny day with clouds.

A small snow-covered hill topped with a bench, on a sunny day with clouds.

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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2025

The One That Got Away: This Small Town Is Left in Limbo After Betting Big on GMO Salmon "Even with so much public assistance, the project fell apart, and the village that hoped for a transformative industry is carrying the cost." […] [Original post on sciencemastodon.com]

Aerial photo of the stalled AquaBounty construction site in Pioneer, Ohio, on Dec. 4. Photo by John D’Angelo for ProPublica.

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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2025

Why children's books? "Those who write for children have the chance to point them towards beauty that they do not yet know exists: towards versions of joy that they have not yet imagined possible." (Best essay I've read in months, by Katherine Rundell […] [Original post on sciencemastodon.com]

A Moomin (a famous imaginary creature created by Tove Jannson that looks a bit like a friendly hippo) reading a book.

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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2025

We're in our 'global weirding' era www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2025/02/06… "We’ll continue to have big snows. They will break records. But what we’re losing is predictability […] [Original post on sciencemastodon.com]

A plow rolls down a street buried in snow as people trudge forward in Boston’s Beacon Hill neighborhood on Feb. 9, 2015. Photo by Jesse Costa for WBUR.

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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2025

Registration is now open for the Run of the Charles, Boston's premier paddling race, to be held on Sunday April 27 www.crwa.org/events/runofthecharles "The Run of the Charles features 3-, 6-, 9- and 14-mile races within the basin of the Charles […] [Original post on sciencemastodon.com]

Poster for the Run of the Charles Race, with an illustration of a kayak in front of a sunny-day scene on the river, bordered by photos of people paddling.

Simple map of the Run of the Charles race, showing starting points for the various races.

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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2025

Community groups push for economic equity as state reimagines industrial waterfront (Planning for tough challenges in Boston inner harbor's Designated Port Areas.) […] [Original post on sciencemastodon.com]

A black bulk carrier ship seen bow-on, with cranes unloading buckets of road salt onto huge mounds of salt on the shore. This is the Eastern Minerals wharf in the Chelsea Creek Designated Port Area, just inside the McArdle drawbridge that links Chelsea and East Boston. Photo by Chris Burrell for WGBH.

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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2025

Sunk costs: a mega-airport in the path of climate disaster "Flights from one of the world’s largest airport projects may be grounded within 30 years due to the risk of sinking land and rising sea levels, Global Witness finds." […] [Original post on sciencemastodon.com]

Aerial photo of large coastal construction project, the the $15 billion New Manila International Airport. Photo by Basilio Sepe for Global Witness.

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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 27/01/2025

All scientifically based predictions of sea-level rise will come true. It's just a question of when. Today there's a second wave of stories about a SLR study that was published last year, predicting a "very likely rise between 0.5 and 1.9 metres by 2100 […] [Original post on sciencemastodon.com]

Map by Climate Central showing portions of metropolitan Boston that would flood with an additional 1.9 meters of water above current high tides.

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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 27/01/2025

Brickwrecks: Sunken Ships in Lego Bricks "Devised by professional Lego constructor Ryan ‘The Brickman’ McNaught in partnership with the Australian National Maritime Museum, the show explores nine famous shipwrecks from ancient to modern times through […] [Original post on sciencemastodon.com]

Museumgoers checking out a model of a 17th-century Dutch full-rigged ship under sail, built with Legos. This is the Batavia, which sank off western Australia in 1629.

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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 26/01/2025

Five ways to cut emissions from shipping "Shipping generates 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions. This could increase to 10% if current trends continue... Shipping must adopt major changes and embrace large-scale innovations." […] [Original post on sciencemastodon.com]

Blue-and-white cruise ship tied up in harbor taking on fuel from a red-and-black barge. This is the Celebrity Summit in Boston's Reserve Channel.

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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2025

OK, this is 250 years out of date, but here's a snapshot of the Revolutionary War breaking out here in Boston in 1775, particularly looking at why the British navy couldn't do much about it. ericbender.co/history-of-the-harbor #history #maritime #Boston

18th-century color print of Boston inner harbor kin 1768 with numerous anchored British ships sending ashore an occupying force of soldiers. Photo courtesy Boston Public Library.

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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2025

My daughter the pediatrician says that her community clinic suddenly is seeing far fewer children, apparently because parents are afraid to bring them in. @vida_latina

Photo from WIkimedia Commons of pediatrician smiling at young girl being held apparently by her mother during an examination.

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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 17/01/2025

Living seawalls designed both to protect shorelines and foster marine life keep popping up in the U.S. and around the world. A few examples: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/envi… […] [Original post on sciencemastodon.com]

Sunny-day photo of a seawall at low tide with "living seawall" panels bolted on the lower half of the wall. This is Stone Living Lab's pilot installation at the Condor Street Urban Wild, on Chelsea Creek in East Boston.

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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2025

In New England, climate change is moving fast. The fishing industry is not “The more that we disrupt the climate, it's making it very difficult to make a living on the traditional stocks. The fish are just not here anymore.” […] [Original post on sciencemastodon.com]

Aerial photo of a white fishing boat on a gray sea, with two crew working on a crate full of dark-colored catch. Photo by Columbia University's Duy Linh Tu.

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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2025

Ten Must-See Museums Opening Around the World in 2025 New institutions dedicated to artificial intelligence, West African art, barbeque and more are expected to welcome visitors this year […] [Original post on sciencemastodon.com]

Conceptual illustration of a plaza in front of a museum, with a tall twisting green, orange, white and black sculpture. This is Kazakhstan’s Almaty Museum of Arts, scheduled to open this summer.

Conceptual illustration of the entrance to the Museum of BBQ in Kansas City, Missouri, in red and brown, with icons of sauce bottle and pig. The museum is scheduled to open this spring.

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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2025

Mauro Morandi, Italy’s Robinson Crusoe, Dies at 85 He was the sole resident of Budelli, an undeveloped sliver of paradise off the northern coast of Sardinia. He embraced the solitude, until he was evicted. "Mr. Morandi lived in an abandoned World War […] [Original post on sciencemastodon.com]

A gray-haired man in a red shirt, sitting on a log on a sandy beach on a sunny day. This is Mauro Morandi on his beloved Budelli Island, in a photo by Michele Ardu.

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Eric Bender @ebender00.sciencemastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2025

Feds, state close in on building new island in Bay The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Maryland Port Administration are finalizing their proposal to resurrect an island that has vanished beneath the waves of the Chesapeake Bay. If all goes according to […] [Original post on sciencemastodon.com]

Aerial view of two tiny almost-submerged islets in calm muddy waters in the Chesapeake Bay in 2020. Photo by Dave Harp of Chesapeake Bay Journal.

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