#antarctic

For more than a century, the inhospitable conditions, which present a challenge even for modern icebreaker ships, helped to protect the lost wreck, which was discovered in 2022, its structure still largely intact.

Purpose: The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is looking for a Sustainability Data Manager to join the Innovation Team, who will be working closely with different teams across BAS to help the organisation decarbonise its operation and drive the delivery of the different carbon reduction strategies. The successful candidate will need excellent analytical skills and previous experience in energy and…

Purpose: The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is looking for a Sustainability Data Manager to join the Innovation Team, who will be working closely with different teams across BAS to help the organisation decarbonise its operation and drive the delivery of the different carbon reduction strategies. The successful candidate will need excellent analytical skills and previous experience in energy and…

Ermaid Fun Fact 3. Not even she is affected by the icy waters of Antartica.

@brandontheoutcast's half-yokai girl is back with fins for Mermay this year and this time she's befriended a mother leopard seal and her pup (even though this seal species is known to be very dangerous due to their aggressive nature, sharp teeth, and the fact that one time, a marine biologist was killed by one in 2003. But in 2014, another marine biologist actually befriended a leopard seal who'd often give him penguins to eat. Weird but true).

Isn’t the Antarctic too cold for any non-fictional life to survive, other than intelligent life?‘I mean life that can make fire, to stay warm, much like us humans.’ As a realist, I am all for the findings of ancient climate changes to help us understand and deal with today’s climate changes.‘The microbial life found under the Firm Ice might help humans find a way to survive on planets with…

We Live Solely Thanks To And Because Of Adversity

The universe tends toward disorder, as described by entropy. Structures do not hold themselves together without input, and left alone, they disperse.

Life however did not emerge in opposition to this law so much as within it, as a process that continuously counteracts it on a local scale. Living systems take in energy, organize it, and maintain patterns that would otherwise dissolve. In that sense, life is not exempt from the drift toward disorder, but it is a rare configuration that pushes back against it, moment by moment.

This gives a different weight to effort. Effort is not an artificial struggle against reality, but part of how reality operates at the level of living systems. Stability, coherence, and what we call progress are not given states but ongoing achievements. They exist only because something is actively sustaining them. To live, then, is already to participate in this counterforce, to take part in the continuous work of holding form together in a world that does not preserve it for free.

From that perspective, organizing effort is not just a practical necessity but a structural role. It is how life continues to exist at all. The privilege lies in being part of a system that can shape and direct this process, and the responsibility lies in not abandoning it. The universe may lean toward disorder, but life is the place where that tendency is met, redirected, and temporarily overcome.

However when you say it is our duty to constantly organize against collapse, it subtly turns life into a continuous uphill struggle against a dominant force. But in reality, much of this “counteracting” is already happening without strain. Your body regulates, repairs, and stabilizes itself continuously. Not all order comes from conscious effort, and not all stability is fragile. If you treat everything as requiring force, you end up overestimating how much you must carry.