The real Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Photo by Miriam Goldstein, 2010 EX1006 cruise. O thin men of Haddam, Why do you imagine golden birds? Do you not see how the blackbird Walks around the feet Of the women about you? – “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”, Wallace Stevens ————- I would like to . . . → Read More: Three Ways of Looking at the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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By Miriam Goldstein, on  August 20th, 2012  27 comments  Plastic, Reviews, The Basics  marine debris, Pacific Garbage Patch, plastic pollution By Dr Bik, on July 13th, 2012 2 comments Pictures and Movies, Reviews climate change, Dalai Lama, global warming, tgif, UCSD, video Did you know that the Dalai Lama works closely with scientists, and calls for the withdrawal of any Buddhist beliefs that contradict scientific evidence? Neither did I! For your Friday viewing pleasure, a great video of the Dalai Lama’s recent lecture at UC San Diego, where he discusses the need for humanitarian values and universal . . . → Read More: TGIF: The Dalai Lama on Climate Change
By Miriam Goldstein, on June 28th, 2012 42 comments Life At Sea, Reviews firefly, Joss Whedon, life at sea, science fiction, Serenity, TV It’s no secret that we here at Deep Sea News are huge nerds. I can hear the outraged cries through my computer screen – “No, not the Deeplings!” – but guys, IT’S TRUE. What you probably don’t know is that Dr. M and I are HUGE Firefly fans. (For those of you who don’t know, . . . → Read More: Shiny! Top 10 reasons why seafarers love Joss Whedon’s Firefly
By RickMac, on June 20th, 2012 3 comments Fish, Reviews, The Basics careers, childhood obsessions, Jaws, memory lane, sharks Not exactly “mint” condition, but treasure nonetheless. Picture this: Cape Cod, June 20, 1975. Gerald Ford is President, gas is .53 cents a gallon, and a carefree, 11 year-old–yet already ocean-nerd, future coral conservationist/blogger–is spending the summer with family in the vacation town of Orleans, Massachusetts, right on Nauset Beach. This is the summer he’s . . . → Read More: Hooper Drives The Boat, Chief
By Dr Bik, on June 15th, 2012 2 comments Pictures and Movies, Reviews Overfishing, Sushi, sustainable fishery, tgif, video For your Friday viewing pleasure, I bring you the “Story of Sushi” – this video is kind of like Thomas the Tank Engine (the PBS show with the miniature people) meets the ASPCA commercial with the Sarah McLaughlin song. Must watch – the set design is incredible! The Story of Sushi from Bamboo Sushi on . . . → Read More: TGIF: The Story of Sushi
By Dr Bik, on February 10th, 2012 4 comments Pictures and Movies, Reviews clothes, Coral, fashion, marine, ocean, tgif, vogue …BECAUSE I AM!!! Yes, I am yelling this from the mountaintops: I cannot wait to shed my drab winter wardrobe and move on to Spring/Summer 2012 collections. Finally, my fashion obsession is perfectly appropriate for a blog post at #DeepSN. This season the runways were flooded (ha!) with ocean-themed prints and marine-inspired design: Coral Reef . . . → Read More: ARE YOU EXCITED ABOUT YOUR SPRING WARDROBE YET??
By Miriam Goldstein, on February 2nd, 2012 4 comments Cephalopods, Reviews Books, Cephalopod, Human-Nature Interaction, Porn, Reproduction, sex, Tentacle By Eric Schwaner via DeviantArt Warning: This post is rated PG-13 and is safe for work, but contains links to NSFW adult-only content. Click at your own risk. Most marine scientists remain blissfully unaware of the existence of tentacle-themed pornography, which originated from Japan. The paths of people who work with real life tentacle-creatures and . . . → Read More: Interview: New anthology of tentacle porn reaches for marine conservation
By Miriam Goldstein, on December 21st, 2011 6 comments Art, Reviews Carl Zimmer, science gifts, Science Ink, Tattoo Dave Wolfenden's jellyfish tattoo I’ve had a copy of Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed, written by Carl Zimmer, sitting on my desk for a few months now. Once people see it, they can’t stop flipping through the pages and pages of science-themed tattoos, gasping and chuckling and sighing happily. It is scientist crack. . . . → Read More: Last minute holiday presents: Science Ink
By para_sight, on November 25th, 2011 One comment Pictures and Movies, Reviews heavy metal, iron maiden, poetry Right, enough of the folksy stuff, time to get metal. Or at least, what used to be metal, back when metal was, well, metal. To that end, I give you Iron Maiden: “Old English Geezers interpreting even older English geezer’s epic poetry about spooky maritime stuff”. Given the length of said poem/track, I’ve skipped to . . . → Read More: TGIF – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
By para_sight, on November 10th, 2011 16 comments Education, Reviews social media, software, video game Try to imagine a virtual ocean, an online watery world divided into discrete ecosystems, each populated with semi-autonomous avatars of every marine species that lives there. Each mammal, fish, shark, sponge and coral, created by a digital artist, set loose with a set of naturalistic behaviours programmed in. That is the audacious goal of a . . . → Read More: Into TheBlu, virtually
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