For your Friday viewing pleasure, I bring you the “Story of Sushi” – this video is kind of like Thomas the Tank Engine (the PBS…
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Making The Connection: The Oceans In Contemporary American Culture
The following post is write up of the talk I delivered last week at Capitol Hill Ocean Week When we see images like the above…
View More Making The Connection: The Oceans In Contemporary American CultureThe Ocean We Want to Know
It’s Monday, but I feel in need of a little video pick-me-up, and maybe so do you. Please enjoy this yery cute parody of Gotye’s…
View More The Ocean We Want to KnowCan You Guess the Average Grade for the U.S. on Our Oceans?
Last week the Joint Ocean Commission Initiative (JOCI) released its 2012 U.S. Ocean Policy Report Card (PDF). JOCI is a bipartisan, collaborative group “to encourage…
View More Can You Guess the Average Grade for the U.S. on Our Oceans?Dramatic impacts on beach microbial communities following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Ironically enough, I was at a meeting about oil spills when the Macondo well blew. The “Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) in Arctic waters” workshop…
View More Dramatic impacts on beach microbial communities following the Deepwater Horizon oil spillFishy phone home
If you’re at all interested in charismatic megafauna (it’s OK, embrace the shame), then you’ve probably heard of satellite tagging before. This is the idea…
View More Fishy phone homeCoordinated Hunting in Red Devils
With just reason Humboldt or Jumbo Squid are called Diablo Rojo. The skin of Dosidicus gigas is blood red but can change to bone white.…
View More Coordinated Hunting in Red DevilsBP’s email subpoenas threaten to erode the scientific deliberative process
If you haven’t read the Boston Globe Op-Ed, you must. Chris Reddy and Richard Camilli (oil spill research rockstars at Wood’s Hole) yesterday revealed information that…
View More BP’s email subpoenas threaten to erode the scientific deliberative processSea Level Rise Is Tied to Prevalence of Homosexuality
Journal of the Global Draining Society Letters, B (2012) 2(1):12-15 doi:10340824.xadflk Sea Level Rise Is Tied to Prevalence of Homosexuality Dr. M* *National Institute of…
View More Sea Level Rise Is Tied to Prevalence of HomosexualityDetectable but not hazardous: radioactive marine life of Fukushima
There’s nothing like a terrifying headline to point out how differently scientists and the public see the world. On Monday, a new study in the…
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