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This is a continuing series of online activities to undertake on your computer or tablet during your quarantine quandary.
Lectures & learning
• Gelson’s presents
“Firestone Walker Beer Tasting” at 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 28, online. The virtual event features brewmaster Matt Brynildson leading a tasting of three beers that are available for pickup for $8.99 each per six-pack at Gelson’s markets in Pacific Beach, Del Mar and Carlsbad.
• The Yiddish Arts and Academics Association of North America presents
“Yiddish Fun Breyshis: Let’s Learn the Yiddish Alphabet Together!” beginning at 11 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 31. The weekly 90-minute online class, taught by Dave Fried, will start with vowels and add consonants each week, aiming to teach literacy along with culture, idioms, jokes, curses and songs. $15 per class or $75 for all six classes. Visit
The hosts of the Changing Waters podcast are Brad Warren and Thane Tienson. Brad is a veteran journalist who spent decades covering fisheries and marine conservation, and now heads the National Fisheries Conservation Center (known as NFCC) and its Global Ocean Health Program. Thane is an attorney with deep experience in fisheries and maritime law and policy, and a founding board member of NFCC.
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Ask people to name the world’s largest river, and most will probably guess that it’s the Amazon, the Nile or the Mississippi. In fact, some of Earth’s largest rivers are in the sky – and they can produce powerful storms, like the one now soaking California.
Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow bands of moisture in the atmosphere that extend from the tropics to higher latitudes. These rivers in the sky can transport 15 times the volume of the Mississippi River. When that moisture reaches the coast and moves inland, it rises over the mountains, generating rain and snowfall and sometimes causing extreme flooding.
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Number of sharks, rays have fallen more than 70 percent between 1970-2018
While climate change and pollution also imperil shark survival, increased fishing pressure is the greatest threat for every oceanic shark species.
Jan 28, 2021 12:27:39 IST
When marine biologist Stuart Sandin talks about sharks, it sounds like he’s describing Jedis of the ocean. “They are terrific predators, fast swimmers and they have amazing senses they can detect any disturbance in the ocean from great distance,” such as smells or tiny changes in water currents. Their ability to quickly sense anything outside the norm in their environment helps them find prey in the vastness of the open ocean. But it also makes them especially vulnerable in the face of increased international fishing pressure, as global fishing fleets have doubled since 1950.