How do you define class? How do you define luxury? How do you define an experience like no other at 30,000 feet in the sky?…
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How do bone-eating worms eat bones?
The deep-sea Osedax bone-devouring worms could easily have been the poster child for Deep-Sea News instead of the Giant Squid. I love them because Osedax are…
View More How do bone-eating worms eat bones?A research cruise as depicted by a high-seas adventure cartoonist? YAAASSSS
It has now come to our attention that EVERY cruise needs a high seas adventure cartoonist. Lucy Bellwood’s comic on her three weeks at sea with the…
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Am I a Robot or am I a Plankter?
I just learned that the ocean robots I work with are taller than me. Since being insecure about size seems to be a thing now, I…
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Fight against the #EPAfreeze – Because you don’t want sewage on your beaches, right?
Would you want your taxi driver using a paper road map from 1892? Or would you rather he plug in the route on his Google…
View More Fight against the #EPAfreeze – Because you don’t want sewage on your beaches, right?A New Year, A Look Back
January. A time for half-baked resolutions, fully-baked apple crisp, 2.5 weeks of dutifully honoring my pre-paid annual gym membership, and a buttload of retrospective, end-of-the-year…
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#SlugLyfe
For when it’s Thursday and everyone needs a little bit more cute, cuddly, and slightly slimey things in their life…Etsy never let’s us down. I have…
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Look at the Size of that Kelp
I think one reason DSN wanted to rope me in was that Alex wanted another algae nerd on staff. And I hope I make her…
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Can you hear me, Major Tom?
“Can you “Here am I floating ’round my tin can Far above the moon Planet Earth is blue And there’s nothing I can do” -Space…
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What did the Boyan Slat and the Ocean Cleanup do last summer?
Because I haven’t written an update on the Ocean Cleanup and Boyan Slat in a while… They deployed a 100-m long prototype that is really…
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