The present dialogue on marine conservation is failing our oceans. It isn’t just a science/public communication fail – missteps are happening in a variety of ways. But right now I’m particularly talking about you, The Economist, and your imminent World Oceans Summit, attended by the glitterati of industry and the global economy. Timing is Everything . . . → Read More: Hot air and #epicFAILs for Ocean Conservation
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By Dr Bik, on  February 20th, 2012  6 comments  Conservation & Environment, Opinion, Ramblings  conservation, economics, fishing, Government, industry, Ocean Sciences Meeting, science meetings, sustainability, The Economist, World Ocean Summit By RickMac, on February 1st, 2012 8 comments Bringin' It, Editor's Desk, Opinion, Ramblings, Scientist! Climate Contrarianism, core values, Deeplings, Gulf Oil Spill, iron fertilization, Planktos, Scientist/Journalist, Scrutiny, tainted seafood Fiat lux Being a total dick on the web is easy. From the safe (and relatively anonymous) confines of your bedroom, place of work, mother’s basement, or Starbucks, and armed only with Internet access and the 1st Amendment, everyone can be a critic. Our brave new online world has given anyone with a keyboard a . . . → Read More: Awareness Through Scrutiny, Not Negativity: A DSN Core Value
By para_sight, on January 31st, 2012 5 comments Biodiversity, Critters, Paleobiology, Ramblings ammonite, brachiopod, eocrinoid, fossil, Trilobite I celebrated another lap around the sun this weekend, and in honour of that my friend Betty, who lives in Arizona, sent me a rather awesome gift. It wasn’t elegantly wrapped; in fact, its contents were variously contained in a decidedly pedestrian mix of old bubble wrap, styrofoam noodles and plastic bags from Target AND . . . → Read More: Extinct life is like a box of chocolates
By RickMac, on January 23rd, 2012 6 comments Bringin' It, Conservation & Environment, Environmental Sciences, Fishing, Opinion, Ramblings causality, conservation strategy, Finning, sharks White-tip reef shark, Fiji © 2011 Angelo Villagomez Causal relationships can be fiendishly tricky. Spend an hour watching any of Star Trek Voyager’s time travel episodes and you begin to understand why the show’s writers often resort to lines such as, “It’s better if we don’t talk about this too much.” Consider another example of . . . → Read More: For Want Of A Shark…
By Dr. M, on January 22nd, 2012 Leave a comment Life At Sea, Ramblings, Scientist!, Uncategorized badges, merit badges, scouts I had forgotten about the Order of the Science Scouts of the Exemplary Repute and Above Average Physique. Stickers in our swag bags at Science Online quickly brought this back to my attention. Below is a list of my current badges and the activities I have participated in to achieve them. Members are: not opposed to . . . → Read More: Dr. M’s Merit Badges for the Order Of The Science Scouts
By para_sight, on January 9th, 2012 10 comments Archaeology, History, and Art, Megavertebrate, Ramblings history, Mexico, sharks, Yucatan This article is reposted from my old blog Deep Type Flow and was originally published 7/12/2010 To a recent roundup of whale shark news, I appended a sort of human interest one-liner about how “shark” is the only word in the English language that derives from a Yucatec (Mayan) Indian word – “Xoc” (pronounced like “shock”). . . . → Read More: What’s in a name? Origins of the word “shark”
By para_sight, on January 5th, 2012 5 comments Dumping, Oil Spills, Plastic, Ramblings Brooklyn, EPA, Gowanus, New York, NYC, pollution The view from my DUMBO loft Dec 2000 There’s nothing quite like the excitement of moving to a new city and getting your first apartment, and for me as for so many others, that feeling is amplified when the city in question is New York. So it was when I moved from Brisbane to Brooklyn . . . → Read More: FEATURED POST: A (fetid) river runs through it, the Brooklyn edition
Hehe. From Autocowrecks – EPIC FAIL Funny Videos and Epic Fail Funny Pictures. Hehe. From Autocowrecks – EPIC FAIL Funny Videos and Epic Fail Funny Pictures. By RickMac, on December 1st, 2011 6 comments Bringin' It, Climate Change, Conservation & Environment, Environmental Sciences, Natural Disaster, Ramblings, Uncategorized, Weather National Climate Service, NOAA Some of these things are not like the other. Can you spot the Zombie worms? What’s the difference between a collection of Osedax “Zombie worms” and the 112th United States Congress? One is a population of spineless, sedentary, opportunistic life forms that thrive in darkness while devouring the bones of the dead. The other are . . . → Read More: When Far-Sighted Vision Meets Near-Sighted Politics or Zombie Worms For Congress!
By Dr. M, on November 10th, 2011 3 comments Ramblings, Weird bootlegging, business card, civil war, grenadier, gunrunning, mariner, orgies, privateer, raconteur, revolutions, smuggling Redditor burt_flaxton writes: “Friend’s Father Died – They found these after. He must have handed them out to the women at bars.” In related news, the Most Interesting Man In The World is dead. From the Daily What Redditor burt_flaxton writes: “Friend’s Father Died – They found these after. He must have handed them out to the women at bars.” In related news, the Most Interesting Man In The World is dead. |
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