Travel Awards for ScienceOnline 2010
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I am very excited to announce that the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center will be offering two travel awards for ScienceOnline 2010.  These will be awarded for the best of evolutionary writing on the Web that features new and emerging evolutionary research in 2009.  See below for the full announcement. Are you a blogger who is interested in evolution? The National Evolutionary . . . → Read More: Travel Awards for ScienceOnline 2010

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Sea of Cortez
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You can clearly see that Mah is a lucky bastard You may remember me mentioning that Chris Mah scored an original original hard cover copy of the  Sea of Cortez detailing John Steinbeck’s and Ed Ricketts’ journeys on the Western Flyer. Since that day in Newport when Chris purchased the single copy and I of . . . → Read More: Sea of Cortez

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The Shark Song
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From National Geographic: Filmmaker, Songwriter & Shark Junky – Andy Brandy Casagrande IV (ABC4) says: “IF I WAS A GREAT WHITE SHARK…I WOULDN’T BITE YOU” From National Geographic: Filmmaker, Songwriter & Shark Junky – Andy Brandy Casagrande IV (ABC4) says: "IF I WAS A GREAT WHITE SHARK…I WOULDN’T BITE YOU"

Another Species With Forehead Sexual Organs
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The Eastern Pacific black ghostshark (Hydrolagus melanophasma), a new species from California and Baja California, not taunting other marine life with its retractable forehead genitalia. Credit: MBARI Chimaeras are sharks much cooler cousins.  They are not sharks, i.e. elasmobranchs, but rather a whole other subclass, Holocephali, that split from sharks nearly 400 mya.  They are . . . → Read More: Another Species With Forehead Sexual Organs

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19th Century Scuba
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…and I thought I was burdened with gear 837lb diving suite designed by the Carmagnolle brothers in 1882 The sole example of this steampunkesque diving suit appears Musée de la Marine in Paris. Built by Alphonse and Theodore Carmagnolle  with 20 portholes the entire suite weighs in at 837 pounds.  You can get a bit . . . → Read More: 19th Century Scuba

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Darwin and the Adventure Day 4
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Tocorime Tocorimé shipboard molecular lab. Sunday was a big day. We had our first sail, set up the molecular lab on board, did a practice plankton tow, and met the rest of the workshop participants (more on the workshop in the next post). We were picked up early in the morning and taken out to . . . → Read More: Darwin and the Adventure Day 4

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TGIF: Scuba Diving in Flooded Meadow
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Water Level 9,40m … from Alex.Be. on Vimeo. Water Level 9,40m … from Alex.Be. on Vimeo.

Bonus TGIF: Photographs From the Channel Islands
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A nice video featuring the photography of DSN favorite and close friend, Jason Bradley Channel Islands 09/09 from Bradley Photographic on Vimeo. A nice video featuring the photography of DSN favorite and close friend, Jason Bradley Channel Islands 09/09 from Bradley Photographic on Vimeo.

Darwin and the Adventure Day 3 (Pictures)
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As promised, here are some pictures from last Saturday. We are back in business now, held our last day of the event and will spend tomorrow collecting all of our thoughts. In my view it was a tremendous success. Our link up to the International Space Station worked and the children got to ask their . . . → Read More: Darwin and the Adventure Day 3 (Pictures)

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Nautical Phrase/Term Wednesday: Garbled
Nautical Phrase/Term Wednesday: Garbled avatar

From ye ol’ source… to be distorted or mixed up Garbling was the prohibited practice of mixing rubbish with the cargo. From ye ol’ source… to be distorted or mixed up Garbling was the prohibited practice of mixing rubbish with the cargo.