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Coal shouldn’t be in our neighbourhoods – here’s how one B.C. community fought back

Enviromental Defense

In 2013, after moving with my husband and young children to the beautiful coastal community of White Rock/South Surrey, BC, I learned that there was a plan to develop a US thermal coal transfer facility at Fraser Surrey Docks, about a 30-minute drive from our home with the intent of shipping 8 million metric tonnes of coal to Asia.

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How to celebrate 17-year cicadas – eat one!

Academy of Natural Sciences

I tasted Brood 2 back in 2013, and they tasted remarkably like pistachios. Isa Betancourt is a Curatorial Assistant of Entomology at the Academy of Natural Sciences who first tasted and called cicadas “Shrimp of the land” back in 2013 when Brood II emerged. How do cicadas taste? They taste rather nutty.

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General relativity passes crucial neutron-star test

Physics World

A breakthrough came 2013 when Nicolás Yunes of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Kent Yagi of the University of Virginia, discovered the “I-Love-Q” relations. Lovely relations.

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Why is future sea level rise still so uncertain?

Real Climate

The last major revision (BedMap2) was in 2013 ( Fretwell et al., 2013 ), but many areas remain without good data and important revisions are still being made (Morlighem et al., 375-393, 2013. Both of these effects make a straightforward connection between global mean warming and WAIS mass loss tricky. But there is more.

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The Turing Test 2.0

Physics World

The current reigning champion is Mitsuku , which first won in 2013 and then again every year between 2016 and 2019 – making it the most successful Turing Test chatbot of all time. Last year there was no Turing Test competition due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but it’s clear a bot would have beaten the test again.

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