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And when permafrost thaws and drains, it makes it possible for microbes to come in and rather quickly decompose all this carbon, with the potential to release hundreds of billions of metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere in the form of greenhouse gases.

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It's being produced in large amounts, 150 to 180 metric tons per year in the Canary Islands in Peru, and it's big business.

In our mind, the relevant metric is: student-to-valuable-human-time- with-the-teacher ratio.

It's an internal metric; there's an internal metric about us, saying, do we understand the world, am I making predictions, and so on.

He's about four or five times as fast with this simple little performance metric.

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