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My students produced these info-graphics as a result of a unit that we decided to do at the end of the year responding to the oil spill.
People got very upset when the BP oil spill happened, for very good reason.
So oil and petrochemicals are not just a problem when there's a spill; they're a problem when there's not.
It might spill off into the Hudson a little bit before it destroyed the Earth.
And then when you add the lens to that, you can bundle the light and send it wherever you need it without any need to spill any light to the sky or anywhere else.
Their DNA starts to synthesize new proteins, which spill out and interact with adjacent nerves, and they start releasing their neurotransmitters, and those neurotransmitters spill out and activate adjacent glial cells, and so on and so forth, until what we have is a positive feedback loop.
The future holds the promise that new drugs will be developed that are not symptom-modifying drugs that simply mask the problem, as we have now, but that will be disease-modifying drugs that will actually go right to the root of the problem and attack those glial cells, or those pernicious proteins that the glial cells elaborate, that spill over and cause this central nervous system wind-up, or plasticity, that so is capable of distorting and amplifying the sensory experience that we call pain.
When these heartbreaking images of oiled birds finally began to emerge from the Gulf of Mexico last year during the horrific BP oil spill, a German biologist by the name of Silvia Gaus was quoted as saying, "We should just euthanize all oiled birds, because studies have shown that fewer than one percent of them survive after being released."
The first penguins to make that transition to free feeding were the ones that had a metal band on their wing from the Apollo Sea spill six years earlier.
About a year prior to this oil spill, a 17-year-old student had invented a degreaser.
And it's not that he's not eating; it's that when he eats, his intestine basically opens up and feces spill out into his gut.
That's a totally different experience than going down the narrow staircase to, say, an old pub, where you spill into the room.
So, the first marine sanctuary was in 1972, after the oil spill in Santa Barbara, people got interested in taking that concept and applying it to underwater environments.
How do you seduce an open ocean creature like that to spill its secrets?
And it was almost like a sheet of paper, like a cutout of a childlike drawing of an oil spill or a sun.
But then, of course, there was the Deep Horizon oil spill.
First, let me introduce myself, I'm Fred, I've been an environmentalist since I was a kid, when I watched the fish and the frogs in my neighborhood pond die from a chemical spill.
And you can arrange these things as kind of more for encampments and more of a city grid type layout, or you can circle the wagons, essentially, and form these circular pods out of them, which give you this semi-private communal area for people to actually spill out into so they're not actually trapped inside these units.
On the top line, this is the BP oil spill: billions of barrels of oil gushing in the Gulf of Mexico.
When the BP oil spill happened, I was working at MIT, and I was in charge of developing an oil spill-cleaning technology.
So I quit my dream job, and I moved to New Orleans, and I kept on studying how the oil spill was happening.
That is the source of many of Africa's problems where the struggles for political power emanate and then spill over onto the informal and the traditional sector, claiming innocent lives.
A good forensic expert also has to be a good educator, a good communicator, and that's part of the reason why we take the pictures, to show not only where the light sources are, and what we call the spill, the distribution, but also so that it's easier for the trier of fact to understand the circumstances.
It naturally doesn't spill, no matter what the quad does.
And part of that increased abundance would spill over into the countries' waters, helping to replenish them.
If they're not taking away trash efficiently and effectively every day, it starts to spill out of its containments, and the dangers inherent to it threaten us in very real ways.
For every hacker that's trying to steal your identity there's one that's building a tool that will help you find your loved ones after a disaster or to monitor environmental quality after an oil spill.
Here's another problem: we've conquered darkness, but in the process, we spill so much extra light out into the night that it disrupts the lives of other creatures, and fireflies are especially sensitive to light pollution because it obscures the signals that they use to find their mates.
Could we create bacteria that eat different kinds of oil, maybe to clean up an oil spill?
This was a child, probably under 10, cleaning up an oil spill bare-handed, in the Sundarbans, which is the world's largest mangrove forest in Bangladesh.
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