I celebrated another lap around the sun this weekend, and in honour of that my friend Betty, who lives in Arizona, sent me a rather…
View More Extinct life is like a box of chocolatesMonth: January 2012
I Am Science
Kevin’s I Am Science is quite frankly one of the most beautiful and best posts ever posted at Deep-Sea News. If you haven’t read it,…
View More I Am ScienceGuest Post: True Confessions of a Dolphin-Loving Marine Biologist
This is a guest post from Alexis Rudd, who is a doctoral student at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology on the island of O’ahu.…
View More Guest Post: True Confessions of a Dolphin-Loving Marine BiologistAs close as you’ll get to legal Cetacean porn
I must have been suffering from post conference delirium, because I decided to watch A Dolphin Tale on the plane ride home from ScienceOnline2012. Plot…
View More As close as you’ll get to legal Cetacean porn#IamScience: Embracing Personal Experience on Our Rise Through Science
Magical things can happen when you enthusiastically open your mouth on the internet. One of these magical things is learning how personal experience shapes people’s…
View More #IamScience: Embracing Personal Experience on Our Rise Through ScienceKnow Your Tall Ships
An absolutely charming video that explains the different rigs of tall ships. (Thanks Rachel W!)
View More Know Your Tall ShipsSuper Jellyfish?!
The above photo is making the rounds (see here and follow the link trail). In it the a scuba diver is next to Lion’s Mane…
View More Super Jellyfish?!For Want Of A Shark…
Causal relationships can be fiendishly tricky. Spend an hour watching any of Star Trek Voyager’s time travel episodes and you begin to understand why the…
View More For Want Of A Shark…Dr. M’s Merit Badges for the Order Of The Science Scouts
I had forgotten about the Order of the Science Scouts of the Exemplary Repute and Above Average Physique. Stickers in our swag bags at Science…
View More Dr. M’s Merit Badges for the Order Of The Science ScoutsA glass more than half full of awesome
The other deeplings (except RickMac) are at the fantastic Science Online conference this week, meeting with other scientist communicators and hatching various plots for DSN’s…
View More A glass more than half full of awesome