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By Kevin Zelnio, on  November 10th, 2011  One comment  Carnivals & Link Love  #SciFund, Circus of the Spineless Click to enter the Circus of the Spineless! Welcome the 67th edition of the Circus of the Spineless! It is my distinct honor and privilege to highlight the stars of this here traveling roadshow for the month of October in the year 2011. I hope you can all sit back and enjoy the amusement! Watch . . . → Read More: Circus of the Spineless #67
By Kevin Zelnio, on November 10th, 2011 2 comments Music, Social Sciences Edmund Fitzgerald, Gordon Lightfoot, Great Lakes, shipwreck I am reminded today on gCaptain that today is the anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The above excellent song is a story about the event by folk legend Gordon Lightfoot, who recollected that he felt this was his greatest contribution to music. Indeed, the public agreed with him and, despite the . . . → Read More: “The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead”: RIP Edmund Fitzgerald
By Kevin Zelnio, on November 9th, 2011 Leave a comment Opinion & Editorial Garrett McNamara, Surfing, wave, world record Sure, it was a tow-in… but DAMN! LIKE.A.BOSS! By Kevin Zelnio, on November 9th, 2011 Leave a comment Adaptations Flocking, islands, Murmuration, Starlings Brandon Keim has the science behind this awesome video is over at Wired Science. Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo. Found out about this interesting new project from a reader (thanks Mark!) who left the link at our Facebook page. The Underwater Realm appears to be a set of 5 movies, each highlighting a specific point in history where humans made contact with an underwater civilization. This seems really interesting cause they beyond the OMG . . . → Read More: The Underwater Realm
By Kevin Zelnio, on November 6th, 2011 7 comments Adaptations, Plankton bioluminescence, National Geographic Despite the “hunting the giant squid” theme, there is some really cool footage here. some of it I haven’t seen before. By Kevin Zelnio, on November 6th, 2011 10 comments Climate Change Antarctica, climate change, Climate Contrarianism, glacier, global warming, graphs, ice sheet, IceBridge, Independent Media Centre Australia, NASA, Pine Island Glacier A new addition to my Confronting Climate Contrarianism series, much too long in waiting. Found this interesting animated gif on Andre Nantel’s G+ stream. He found it with no attribution on Reddit (UPDATE: graph from an excellent post on Skeptical Science). Gernot commented on that stream with a link to a Sydney Morning Herald piece . . . → Read More: Confronting Climate Contrarianism III: Data Realism and the Rabbit Hole
By Kevin Zelnio, on November 3rd, 2011 Leave a comment Industry & Government, Oil Spills BP, Deepwater Horizon, dolphins, Drilling, Macondo, Oil Spill Dear British Petroleum, WTF I hear you wanna be called Beyond Petroleum, now? Do you think you’re some kind of rap star or something?? Haha! Whatevs, let’s just go by our ole grade school nickname for you, BP. I know its been a while since I last wrote. It’s not like I was neglecting you . . . → Read More: Open Letter to My Bros at British Petroleum
From our good friends at Southern Fried Science: The Historical Origins of ‘Whales as People’. An important, and overlooked, point that shared traditions and cultural references are not universal. The 41st edition of the Carnival of Evolution is up at Mermaid’s Tale (an excellent evolution blog in and of itself you should explore)! From @DrChrisKellogg . . . → Read More: Dredged from the Depths…
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