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You’ve probably heard of an artist named Edgar Degas, but even if you haven’t, I’d bet you’ve seen his sweet and whimsical ballerina paintings. Degas was obsessed with the ballet and created approximately 1,500 works of the subject. When we sift through them, we see dancers and instructors, musicians and mothers, but once in a blue moon, Degas depicts these mysterious figures wearing black suits, watching and waiting usually backstage or in the wings. But who are these men and why are they at the ballet? Here’s the story!
References and further reading:
Coons, Lorraine. (2014). Artiste or coquette? Les petits rats of the Paris Opera ballet. French Cultural Studies. 25. 140-164. 10.1177/0957155814520912.
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-e…
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/20/667448…
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-c…
https://blog.artsper.com/en/a-closer-…
https://smarthistory.org/edgar-degas-…
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smiths…
https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/edga…
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21 Sept 2025
Climate scientists (and communicators like me) have been telling you for years that Arctic Sea ice is dwindling so quickly that it might all be gone as soon as the end of this decade. Now a new research paper published in the American Geophysical Union journal points out that there has been NO statistical reduction in Arctic Sea ice surface for the last two decades! So what’s going on?
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Reference Links:
Main Paper : Minimal Arctic Sea Ice Loss in the Last 20 Years, Consistent With Internal Climate Variability – England et al
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c…
Article on Sea Ice volume
https://psc.apl.uw.edu/research/proje…
Info on 2025 Arctic Sea ice record low maximum
https://nsidc.org/sea-ice-today/analy…
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/global…
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5522
Previous papers on Arctic Sea ice minimum
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4146…
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4161…
NSIDC Arctic Sea ice tracker
https://nsidc.org/sea-ice-today/sea-i…
US Navy Sea Ice Charts
https://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/GLBhy…
Professor Michel Tsamados
https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/11855-mich…
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