So as the kids get older, we get into the bigger robots, obviously, that becomes more challenging, and we're working on figuring out how to address that need. "Polar Extremes," I think, was the title of that program, for those who are interested in learning more about it.
Given widespread anxieties about the melting of the polar ice caps, it's not surprising that the 21st century has produced a good deal of arctic and Antarctic horror. Polar gothic is a recurring subgenre of horror, drawing on the long unexplored, and thus fundamentallyimaginary, geography of the polar regions.
But when I was pregnant, I had no interest in those things. Polar exploring is insane.
Now you come up with four or five factors, like you got to invest in Greenland or the role of polar bear or whatever.Then suddenly somebody gives you another set of five, you can't keep those five in along with the other four.
the North Pole. So regarding that first misconception about polar bears, the scientific reality is that polar bears do not live in a single population with all of the bears just sort of wandering throughout that entire Circumpolar Arctic region.Instead scientists have determined that there are actually 19 separate sub populations of polar bears in the Arctic, and each of these 19 regions represents an area where the circumscribed
that the polar bear lives, what's going on in those regions and does it really matter then if the U.S. has all this great protection and 90 percent of the terrain not protected? Polar Bear Treaty, in 1994 the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act was amended to once again allow the import of trophy hunted polar bear carcasses into the U.S. Since that time
my polar apprenticeship looking back uh it was a two Monon Expedition with a guy called pen pen had we Ben and Pen the polar men one radio station called us our plan was to walk um I go over hereso this isort of looking down at the top of globe so the North Pole is in the middle geographic North Pole uh Top Gear
per hour so there there's no way you can outrun the bear so you have to stand your ground and try and convince the polar bear uh largest landbased carnivore in the world that you arebigger and scarier than it is pen was in charge of the gun now we had a pretty
point in how we deal with uh climate change and and this is the part of the story that really hasn't come out the polar bear decision got a lot of press it's kind of like the rock star of endangered animals everybody loves bulerbears I guess but the real um
OpenAI and Altman is it's the only figure that I've seen this degree of polarization with where people cannot decide whether he's the greatest or the worst. You mentioned Dario there and I found it really what I found really interesting is to look at how people's quotes evolve
without a doubt that this story um it is tense, it is complicated, it is polarizing. And I think no matter what your feelings are about the allegations themselves, learning last Friday about Ard's sudden death was shocking. We still, my
prison and Robben Island for years, and he died. And we're only left with the Mandel, so we didn't have a proper polarization, even within the black community, to show that black people are not a homogeneous group. Not everyone in South Africa is Mandela. There are many variations in there. There's Mandela, and there's Roberts, a book. There's Steve Biko. Maybe Steve Biko is in the middle. Or maybe he's closer to Roberts. A book. Then
where we can actually have courageous conversations. Polarities can exist, but we can extend that love of humanity that you're talking about because it's on that platform of respect and were grounded there from a value standpoint. No, it Zaveri riel. And it's important to that. Love is not reduced to some kind of manby pamby sentimentality. Um, that has to do with a
Is that the lesson of history Here I think the lesson of history is that polarization processes don't necessarily stop themselves, that you can think this country is very polarized today, and you can go on Twitter and look at the extraordinary vehemence with which people debate political issues, but don't think it couldn't get worse because this is nothing compared with what this country did to itself in the 19th century over the central issue of slavery.
Sometimes it's not just a recording. Polaris seems to be something that's more pull driven.
Sometimes it's not just a recording. Polaris is not the only answer, I'm sure.
So this is quite a different picture, if you will, of what an online media environment, a high-choice media environment, might look like in a country that is less politically polarized than the US and where people generally have higher levels of confidence in the media, though declining, perhaps, after Brexit. Now, the next topic I wanted to quickly walk through is this question of the evolving role of platform companies, and how we find and access news, and the way
have seen a real increase in the number of people who have been willing to pay for their journalism, perhaps in part because of this more polarized political environment, where there's been attacks on the value of journalism but also a certain rallying, if you will, around the importance of journalistic organizations as part of the functioning democracy.
I want and then extract from that and go bring that to the person instead of what polarizing and so the structure that we uh have developed and took us about 20 years to it may look simple but took
I want and then extract from that and go bring that to the person instead of what polarization you want to create safety then you have integration and then you have cre creativity that doesn't have a
polarizing conversation about gun violence in America that was my goal and
Polarization, it's a binary property, so it's just easier to deal with.
Polaroid stopped making film in 2008.
Polaroid used to have a slogan back in the '60s for one of its inexpensive models that was advertised on TV.
Polaroid, in its heyday, was a company whose founders really believed in that kind of pure social moment.
Polaroid, in the 1970s, built a very special large-format camera.
Polaroid had invented, among other things, a CCD, the center that goes into a digital camera, And actually built a lab to refine that business and produce them, and
Polaroid made virtually all its money by manufacturing film.
Polaroid, because they were so obsessed with patenting, kept everything.
Polaroid is back now, investors have gotten together, started Polaroid again and you know who is the Chief Creative Officer of the new, newly reborn Polaroid camera is Lady Gaga.
Polarizing filter reduces glare on water, glare on ice, glare on windows, glare on leaves, but it could also make your pictures look sharper because it cuts down
Polaroid cameras out and went to the bars took two pictures of the bartender making the Moscow Mule gave one to the
polarization um this is the um at the idea that presidential candidate John
polarization is we have the rich poor lifestyle and the liberal conservative lifestyle and in some ways they line up in some ways they
So as the kids get older, we get into the bigger robots, obviously, that becomes more challenging, and we're working on figuring out how to address that need. The polar ice caps are melting.
The polar ice caps are shrinking.
with polar bears. Well, not with them.
No polar bears were hurt.
The polar bear was sniffing around where we had just been.
Antarctica in 1938, 1982, and 2011, northern Alaska in 1951. So polar horror, then, is not a new phenomenon, but it has gained exponentially in intensity in the last decades Roland Emmerich's The Day After Tomorrow opens in the Antarctic, where a slice of the ice shelf, quote, the size of Rhode Island
Its polar opposite is beneath it.
Open polar sea.
and polar bears-- lots and lots of polar bear.
At Polar Bear Books, I was an editorial assistant in the business books imprint, helping to acquire and edit scintillating treatises on brand management
The polar bear has sort of become the icon of species that are endangered by climate change.
of polar opposites in the universe so I became a marketing guy.
It is essential for polar bears to eat a very high fat diet consisting of blubbery marine mammals. All polar bears in all regions of the Arctic prey on ice dependent Arctic seals. In some areas some polar bears occasionally eat other types of big, fat marine mammals, for example, walruses if an appropriate opportunity arises, but for the most part the bottom line
become more common as sea ice increasingly disappears and it becomes increasingly difficult for polar bears to hunt for seals. So as a result of being stranded on land for increasingly lengthy periods of time and suffering
North Polar area and this is what it found. It doesn't look like a big deal but that is water ice and its right below the surface. And this kind of confirms in a way what that
to start my story back in 2001 this was my first polar Expedition um very much my polar apprenticeship looking back uh it was a two Monon Expedition with a guy called pen pen had we Ben and Pen the polar men one radio station called us our plan was to walk um I go over here