Great #histSTM story this - Cold War and whales, different kinds of knowledge and different kinds of attention, as well as ranging scales, spaces and geographies. Naval personnel were (secretly) expert in ignoring whale-shaped background noise.
Rebekah Higgitt
The Cold War’s Accidental Whale Observatory nautil.us/the-cold-war... | Built to track enemy submarines, the Navy’s underwater listening network inadvertently revealed that whales may be singing across entire oceans
The Cold War’s Accidental Whale Observatory: Built to track enemy submarines, the Navy’s underwater listening network inadvertently revealed that whales may be singing across entire oceans
