Information from Ice (VIDEO)

Santa Fe Institute

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The West Antarctic Divide ice core contains over a million data points, and 68,000 years of Earth's climate history. Joshua Garland, a mathematician at the Santa Fe Institute, explains how his team uses information theory to quickly flag which portions of massive data set stand out.

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Antarctica and ice core processing footage provided by the National Science Foundation. Interview with Joshua Garland provided by the Santa Fe Institute and Mountain Creative.

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