We’ve covered the MEG series by author Steve Alten in the past in the context of the original book being turned into a movie. For…
View More TGIF: MEG, Aquarium From HellMonth: July 2009
Deep-sea crinoid discovered in real time
If you didn’t get a chance to follow along with the Bioluminescence 2009 Expedition last week, you can catch up online at the NOAA Ocean…
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It’s been eight days since Miriam posted at Double XX This Wired piece on the 10 Worst Evolutionary Designs also made me want to smash…
View More Worst Evolutionary Designs? No! Brilliant Solutions to the Complexity of Nature and ConstraintsFinally The Research I Have Been Waiting For
Guinness IS actually good for me! Not just a clever marketing scheme…Guinness is good for you! or Guinness for strength!… now there is scientific evidence!…
View More Finally The Research I Have Been Waiting ForThe New Navy Has Both Faster and Unmanned Subs
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which commissions research for the Defense Department, gave Electric Boat a truckload of money in 2006 to design a…
View More The New Navy Has Both Faster and Unmanned SubsSend a Blogger to Antarctica!
The blogger’s blogger, GrrlScientist from the blog Living the Scientific Life, is trying win a competition to get sent to Antarctica to blog about for…
View More Send a Blogger to Antarctica!Seawater Redefined
What do you think of when see the term “seawater”? Salty water? Perhaps fish-poo-covered-bacterial-ooze-slime-haven-so-salty-I-puke-in-my-snorkel-every-time-it-touches-my-tongue? Well, the definition of seawater has been limited by how we…
View More Seawater RedefinedNautical Phrase/Term Wednesday: Cup of Joe
From our ol’ friend Navy lore: Josephus Daniels (18 May 1862-15 January 1948) was appointed Secretary of the Navy by President Woodrow Wilson in 1913.…
View More Nautical Phrase/Term Wednesday: Cup of JoeU Hav Plasicz In Yr Oceanuz
This Sunday, August 2nd, a major scientific expedition to study the issue of plastic accumulation in the North Pacific Gyre will depart San Diego. The…
View More U Hav Plasicz In Yr OceanuzForbidden Love
He was a squid from the wrong side of the ocean. She, a mild mannered but inquisitive squash from a rural farm. Theirs was a…
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