Rick at Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea Lice, and Sunset recently reviewed Kona Deep awhile back and promised to send along a bottle to taste. Previously, I…
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Temperature Not Pressure
Sunday evening the intelligent and lovely Sheril Kirshenbaum posited a question that I have received many times. The question is always a good one because…
View More Temperature Not PressureOne Less Variable I Have To Keep Track Of
Pangea Ultima: Earth in 250 Million Years? Credit & Copyright: C. R. Scotese (U. Texas at Arlington), PALEOMAP In 250 million years from now, my…
View More One Less Variable I Have To Keep Track OfLost years for sea turtles revealed
Researchers used stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen on old and new parts of the shells of 44 Bahaman green turtles (Chelonia mydas) to examine…
View More Lost years for sea turtles revealedSb'ling Bagging
My absence from DSN is soon to come to an end as I head back to California today. Part of my hiatus is due to…
View More Sb'ling BaggingFriday Deep-Sea Picture (9/21/07): Inverts From the Deep Gulf of Mexico
The Johnsen Lab at Duke University has several great high resolution (warning: slow loading) photographs of specimens from the Gulf of Mexico (Brine Pool, Garden…
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture (9/21/07): Inverts From the Deep Gulf of MexicoTGIF: QM2 Entering San Francisco Bay
A spectacular entrance: The Queen Mary 2 luxury liner made its maiden call to the Port of San Francisco on February 4, 2007. Surrounded by…
View More TGIF: QM2 Entering San Francisco BayWho's your favorite?
I can’t bribe you for your vote for best life science blog without raising questions of impropriety, so instead I will attempt to coerce you with insidious logic and campaign strategery. Look at it this way…
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Hungry For Plastic
CNN as an interesting article on plastic. We now consume around 100 million tons of plastic annually, compared to five million tons in the 1950s…
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