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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Imagine a giant aquatic vortex between Hawaii and California where converging ocean currents stir a toxic soup of discarded fishing nets, bottles, ropes, toilet seats, toothbrushes, bottle caps, bags and microplastics smaller than your pinky nail.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s out there, and it has a name: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You could sail right through it without noticing you are in the midst of almost\u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-22939-w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> 2 trillion\u003c/a> pieces of plastics churning between the surface and the bottom of the ocean. 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That is just not accurate,” says Kara Lavender Law of the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sea.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sea Education Association\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Think of it more as an accumulation of little things — a balloon, a red rubber flip-flop, a coffee can — far from where they belong. In 1972, the sight of these plastic objects in midocean surprised an observer enough that she wrote about it for the first time.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Elizabeth Venrick, a biologist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, was aboard a research vessel that broke down in the Central North Pacific Ocean. “From this vantage point,” she wrote, “it was obvious that the sea surface is littered with a startling array of man-made objects, even 600 miles from the nearest major civilization (Hawaii) and outside the major shipping lanes.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Venrick’s log marked the first scientific record of the garbage accumulation in the Pacific Ocean. The journal \u003cem>Nature\u003c/em> published a paper based on the researchers’ observations in 1973.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the time, Venrick and her colleagues dismissed the plastic as an aesthetic affront unlikely to enter the food chain and threaten human well-being. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But her article concluded with a warning and a reference to a nursery rhyme:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Unless we find adequate means of disposing of our plastic products soon,” she wrote, “we can anticipate that the ‘\u003ca href=\"https://poets.org/poem/wynken-blynken-and-nod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wynken, Blynken and Nod’\u003c/a> of our children will set sail into a plastic sea, accompanied by all the ‘no-deposit, no-return’ products of our technology.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Almost 50 years later, researchers continue to study what Venrick saw, and some ambitious enterprises are trying to apply technological solutions. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Desire to Clean\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://theoceancleanup.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ocean Cleanup\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a Netherlands-based nonprofit, has promised that its technology would remove half of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in just five years. From a list of donors that included Silicon Valley billionaires Peter Thiel and Marc Benioff, the organization raised $40 million.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last year, it launched a giant \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11691328/massive-barrier-sets-out-from-san-francisco-to-collect-the-pacific-oceans-plastic-trash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U-shaped barrier\u003c/a> on the San Francisco Bay. The structure is supposed to function like a coastline that collects plastic from the Pacific Ocean. In a couple of months, a 59-foot end-section fell off and the system \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11716204/an-engineering-wunderkinds-ocean-plastics-cleanup-device-hits-a-setback\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">returned\u003c/a> to land for repairs. The organization relaunched it in June.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">International media have been paying attention to cleanup efforts. and to the growing realization that ocean plastics are an ugly, harmful and potentially toxic pollution problem for marine wildlife, one that’s expensive, and maybe impossible, to solve. Some environmentalists wonder if it’s even possible to clean up the Great Pacific Patch.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“The goal isn’t to get everything,” explained Mary Crowley, founder and director of the Sausalito-based\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oceanvoyagesinstitute.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ocean Voyages Institute\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. “I think that is an unrealistic goal. But I think we can help make the ocean a healthier habitat for all the life within it.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier this year, with the help of satellite-based GPS trackers, the Institute extracted \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1944183/pacific-plastic-purge-attempt-serves-as-a-reminder-of-the-daunting-task-ahead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">40 tons\u003c/a> of “ghost” fishing nets and other plastics from the North Pacific garbage patch. The expedition’s haul accounted for less than 0.1% of the abandoned nets scientists believe are still in the Pacific.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1944194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1944194\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/0027-Net-3._DSC1046-1-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/0027-Net-3._DSC1046-1.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/0027-Net-3._DSC1046-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/0027-Net-3._DSC1046-1-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The crew of the Greenpeace ship MY Arctic Sunrise voyage into the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, documenting plastics and other marine debris. 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It’ll take time, money, political will and technologies that might not exist yet to collect all the microplastics from the vast, constantly moving ocean. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One ocean expert, Sherry Lippiatt with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Marine Debris Program, offers an idea of how to get our heads around this. “If you walk into a bathroom and the toilet is overflowing, would you grab a mop or turn off the water at the source?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To approach this problem at its source, her program makes it a priority to remove debris near the ocean shore.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NOAA has funded a volunteer-based beach cleanup that’s cleared over two tons of debris and lost fishing gear from the Channel Islands. It’s also paying for Surfrider San Francisco’s Hold on to Your Butt program aimed at changing smokers’ habits on and around beaches. On Aug. 15, NOAA announced $2.7 million in grants for onshore marine debris removal and research.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“It’s easier to collect a floating bottle in the harbor than it is – some number of years later – to try to pick up 5,000 pieces of broken bottles, distributed over hundreds of square kilometers in the middle of the ocean,” says the Sea Education Association’s Kara Lavender Law.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[ad fullwidth]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Consumer Choice\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Experts like her remind us that the enormity of the problem is no excuse for inaction. Consumers can choose to recycle, refill and reduce the amount of plastic we use and throw away. “The convenience lifestyle [of single use plastic] is not essential,” says Law.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The idea is to learn from what people did decades before they relied on plastic. 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The expedition’s haul accounted for less than 0.1% of the abandoned nets scientists believe are still in the Pacific.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1944194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1944194\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/0027-Net-3._DSC1046-1-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/0027-Net-3._DSC1046-1.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/0027-Net-3._DSC1046-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/06/0027-Net-3._DSC1046-1-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The crew of the Greenpeace ship MY Arctic Sunrise voyage into the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, documenting plastics and other marine debris. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a soupy mix of plastics and microplastics, now twice the size of Texas, in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean. \u003ccite>(Ocean Voyage Institute)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Start Near the Shore\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are no cost-effective fixes for the offshore trash problem. It’ll take time, money, political will and technologies that might not exist yet to collect all the microplastics from the vast, constantly moving ocean. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One ocean expert, Sherry Lippiatt with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Marine Debris Program, offers an idea of how to get our heads around this. “If you walk into a bathroom and the toilet is overflowing, would you grab a mop or turn off the water at the source?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To approach this problem at its source, her program makes it a priority to remove debris near the ocean shore.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NOAA has funded a volunteer-based beach cleanup that’s cleared over two tons of debris and lost fishing gear from the Channel Islands. It’s also paying for Surfrider San Francisco’s Hold on to Your Butt program aimed at changing smokers’ habits on and around beaches. On Aug. 15, NOAA announced $2.7 million in grants for onshore marine debris removal and research.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“It’s easier to collect a floating bottle in the harbor than it is – some number of years later – to try to pick up 5,000 pieces of broken bottles, distributed over hundreds of square kilometers in the middle of the ocean,” says the Sea Education Association’s Kara Lavender Law.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>An unusual glow lights Charlize and Dayleen Sánchez’s faces. They brighten from cyan blue to red to green, and back again. Big sister Charlize, 12, and Dayleen, 9, are turning knobs to brighten or dim the lights, trying to create the color brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re mixing primary colors inside a light cube at San Francisco’s bayside science museum, the Exploratorium. As they experiment, they come up with a new shade – a brilliant magenta. Their mother, Brenda Tovar, gives her daughters’ luminous creation a smile of approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s refreshing to get them to be excited about learning,” Tovar says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The girls’ grandmother Julia Jimenez, stands next to \u003cem>her\u003c/em> mother, Virginia Sayes, explaining in Spanish what the girls are doing. Sayes sits in her wheelchair looking cozy and happy, like Mama Coco from the Disney film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spirit of inquiry illuminates four generations of this family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Science-Minded Household\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Catherine Lee']‘Watching the toilet flush- that is science.’[/pullquote]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tovar – like other parents I spoke with during a summer weekday at the Exploratorium – hopes her children will continue to nurture this spirit. Kids are born to wonder. Parents who wish to foster curiosity and exploration in their children can do plenty to encourage their kids to think critically, explain their reasoning, and solve problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visiting museums like the Exploratorium is a step in that direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Science in the Toilet?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nate Miller, 8, can’t believe what he is seeing. With one eye, he looks straight at his hand. With the other eye, he sees his 11-year-old brother, Sam, who sits in front of him. As Nate moves his hand to reveal a cat on the wall, he sees a cat’s face with his brother’s smile. Their mom Catherine Lee watches this experiment in sight perception at the Exploratorium. She explains to Nate that his eyes saw two very different views, so his brain combined the two views to create a single image.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1946639\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1946639\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/Sam_Miller_Exploratorium-800x565.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/Sam_Miller_Exploratorium-800x565.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/Sam_Miller_Exploratorium-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/Sam_Miller_Exploratorium-768x542.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/Sam_Miller_Exploratorium-1020x720.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/Sam_Miller_Exploratorium-1200x848.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/08/Sam_Miller_Exploratorium.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam, 11, smiles at his brother, Nate, 8, while he looks through a mirror at him while in the Exploratorium on Thursday August 1, 2019. 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He plays the violin and seems as drawn to the math of music as to the melody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My teacher,” he says, “is doing this math science thing with the violin, with sound waves and scales.” To encourage his interests, Sam’s parents hired a music teacher who incorporates science into his lessons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paint a Picture of What’s Possible\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellen Ochoa’s journey to nearly 1,000 hours in space began with her realization that she could push beyond limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a child she wanted to be a lawyer or the President of the United States, because those were the only careers she knew about. “I didn’t really know about what careers were really like in [science] subjects, I did not know anybody to talk to,” Ochoa says. “I just couldn’t picture it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only after she enrolled at San Diego State did she express interest in a math-related degree. 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Crews from all these ships attached the trackers to tangles of fishing nets they encountered, so that a Hawaiian-based cargo ship could later round up the refuse. The Institute reported on Friday that its 2019 Ocean Cleanup Expedition successfully used the GPS trackers to pull 40 tons, or 80,000 pounds of debris from the ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each tracked net has a way of leading us to areas of higher density,” explained Crowley at a post-expedition media event. “One of our tracked nets led us to all sorts of small nets and one five-ton monster ghost net.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tagged debris served to locate areas of dense plastic pollution. 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