@marybattenauthor
Author, nature/science books, articles, TV documentaries. Emmy nominee for work on Children’s Television Workshop’s series, 3-2-1 CONTACT. Recent book, Life in Hot Water: Wildlife at the Bottom of the Ocean. #AuthorsGuild Website: MaryBatten.com
War gives the merchants of death orgasm. No other animals treat members of their own species with such cruelty. Life is so precious, so short, yet the warmongers invest in death.
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#animalbehavior
#war
#agression
Alpha male primates often threaten subordinates with ferocious displays. These displays are usually enough for the animals to avoid killing each other. I thought the buildup of carriers and verbal threats would be enough to avoid war. But one alpha male preferred war.
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#animalbehavior
Lying is part of the human behavior repertoire. We use it to deceive others in courtship and religion as well as politics. We also use it to deceive ourselves. I will not be watching tonight’s State of Deception.
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#animalbehavior
#deception
#liars
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if Congress took law-breaking as seriously as the Brits do? Can we have a proclamation renewing national commitment to the foundational principle that no one is above the law?
#equalityunderthelaw
#democracy
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Trump’s white nationalism on full display at Munich.
#racism
#authoritarianism
#christiannationalism
#patriarchy
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This myth has been going around for decades. Sadly so many people, led by this administration’s denial of science, buy into falsehoods.
Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
Trump’s rollback of greenhouse gas regulations marks another of his backward, anti-science policies. Denying well established scientific
data does not erase the facts of rising seas and temperatures and melting in Antarctica and the Arctic.
Get the facts.
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Norwegian Ingrid Christensen was the first woman to set foot on Antarctica. She was part of her husband’s expeditions during the 1930s. Since then many women scientists have worked in Antarctica.
#womenscientists
#picturebook
#scienceteachers
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The Ross Ice Shelf, the size of France, is the largest floating body of ice in the world.
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Arts are the heart and soul of community. They give voice to our rage and love and all the passions in between. Sing, dance, write. Resist!
#resist
#democracy
#vote
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This is a dangerous slope. When you damage the trust in elections, you damage the success of democracy. People need to trust that their voice is heard. Check out my full recap in my Weekend Video available at the Substack link in my reply.
Warnock on the arrest of Don Lemon: It’s chilling, and I think that is the intent. They intend to send chills down the backs of journalists. The authoritarian march is happening in real time, and it’s way past the time to wake up.
10,000 New Mexicans Demand: Abolish ICE!
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On a sealing expedition on 1820, Nathaniel B. Palmer, for whom Palmer Station is named, was the first American to sight Antarctica.
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#Antarctica
#polarstudies
#picturebook
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I’m watching a PBS Nature documentary about killer whales (orcas) in Antarctica. They hunt cooperatively. Learn more from my book, Baby Orca.
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The lowest temperature recorded on Earth, -128.6F (-89.2C) was measured at Russia’s Vostok Station on July 21, 1983.
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#sciencewriter
#picturebook
#antarctica
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The first person to reach the South Pole was Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. He planted Norway’s flag there on December 14, 1911.
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#antarctica
#polarstudies
#picturebook
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NASA discovered that about 14 billion tons of ice from under the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica has melted. This cavity is about two-thirds the size of Manhattan Island in New York.
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The Southern Ocean around Antarctica is the only one that connects with every other ocean on Earth.
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#Polarscience
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#antarctica
#oceanography
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The South Korean icebreaker carrying 40 scientists from around the world has reached the Thwaites glacier. Follow the expedition with The NY Times. Learn about Antarctica from my book.
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#glaciology
#sciencewriter
#Antarctica
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The circumpolar current that flows clockwise around Antarctica is the largest current on Earth. It affects climate around the world.
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#sciencewriter
#antarctica
#librarians
#glacier
#authorsky
#icecores
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Ice.
As far as the eye can see,
blanketing the continent on the bottom of the world.
Antarctica.
The coldest, windiest, driest place on Earth.
From my book
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#antarctica
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The scientific expedition to
study the melting of Antarctica’s Thwaites glacier is halfway there. More about the warming of Antarctica in my book, Life in a Frozen World.
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#Antarctica
#Thwaitesglacier
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#glaciology
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Science teachers—great opportunity for your students to interact with this expedition. Couple with my children’s book, Life in a Frozen World: Wildlife of Antarctica.
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#writingcommunity
#antarctica
#sealevelrise
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Happy Holidays, everyone! Wishing you good health, strength, and courage for resisting the tyrant in the coming year. Remember we the people have the power to protect democracy.
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#democracy
#womensrights
#votingrights
Millions of years before humans began farming, leafcutter ants were farming fungus in vast underground nests. They “deserve recognition as Earth’s ultimate superorganisms,” said experts Bert Holdobler & E.O. Wilson.
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#symbiosis
#authorsky
#coevolution
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Post-Thanksgiving thoughts. I am thankful for my life, for loving parents who birthed and raised me, for my children and grandchildren, for the opportunity to help make a positive difference in this wondrous world.
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Hegseth acts like he’s playing a video game, blowing up small boats and killing people. Take away his remote and lock him up.
Anemones look like plants but they’re really animals. They catch prey with harpoon-like tentacles that sting and paralyze small fish that get too close. But damselfish seem immune and live among the tentacles
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#symbiosis
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