see more There I Fixed It Hat tip to @vonOberst. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}see more There I Fixed It Hat tip to @vonOberst. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet
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The Snickers and PETA billboard folks could learn a thing or two from this ad: Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}The Snickers and PETA billboard folks could learn a thing or two from this ad: Broadcast Spawn!Tweet By para_sight, on  October 10th, 2011  One comment  Archaeology, History, and Art, Megavertebrate, Vessels and Equipment, Weird  great white sharks, Mir, salvage, sharks, submarine, submersible, treasure On Friday I had cause to meet with a gent called Marco Flagg and it turned into one of the more interesting chats I’ve had in a long time. Marco is the chief engineer of a company called Desert Star that makes a range of navigation and tracking products, one of which we’ve been using . . . → Read More: Of great whites and great depths
If, like me, you live in perpetual fear of being mowed down by the world’s slowest reptiles, write this number on the back your insurance card: W5922XA. That’s the code for being “struck by a turtle, initial” in a recent expansion of the medical insurance coding database, to which they’ve just added almost 120,000 new . . . → Read More: Not sure your HMO will cover that…
By para_sight, on September 13th, 2011 4 comments Biodiversity, Megavertebrate, Weird China, whale sharks Check out this 2 ton plastinated partial whale shark dissection on display in a pedestrian shopping mall in Dalian, China: I can’t decide whether this is really cool or just flat-out bizarre. I guess it depends where the specimen came from. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Check out this 2 ton plastinated partial whale shark dissection on . . . → Read More: One for the bizarre-o files
By Dr Bik, on August 12th, 2011 2 comments Biodiversity, Ecology, Invertebrate Wars, Mating & Reproduction, Weird disturbing, nematodes, Reproduction, traumatic insemination Sometimes I think that those of us studying ‘minor phyla’ do so in order to prevent from developing some secret (potentially peverse) obsessions. Example: I recently attended the Society of Nematology’s 50th Anniversary meeting, where the plenary topic was….traumatic insemination. This was the subsequent topic of conversation for the next four days. “Write a blog . . . → Read More: A great day for a little Traumatic Insemination
By Kevin Zelnio, on August 8th, 2011 5 comments Nautical Terms and Phrases, New Research, Ramblings, Scientist!, Weird cussing, linguistics, Swearing like a Sailor We would be remiss at DSN if we didn’t blog about a paper that was brought to our recent attention. Warning the following material uses profanity with high frequency. Click the more button on your own risk. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}We would be remiss at DSN if we didn’t blog about a paper that was . . . → Read More: Expletive Infixation and Marine Scien-****in-tists
By Dr. M, on July 10th, 2011 Leave a comment Adaptations, Biodiversity, Ecology, Fish, Weird fish, reef, tool use Photo credit: Scott Gardner When I was in college, I had fish in aquarium. I repeatedly tried to train them to retrieve a beer from my dorm fridge, open the bottle with an opener, and hand fin it to me. Sadly after several hours of me miming instructions and elaborate PVC piping spanning between the aquarium, . . . → Read More: Tool Use In Fish
By para_sight, on May 9th, 2011 11 comments Adaptations, Critters, Mating & Reproduction, Ramblings, Uncategorized, Weird alien, Asexual, life cycle, movies, Parasite, parasitoid, pop culture, sci fi 
James Cameron’s Aliens (1986) is the greatest movie ever made. There, I said it. For sheer script quotability, only Pulp Fiction comes close. For dark and gritty, anti-glossy-Star-Wars sci fi realism, only Blade Runner is its equal. And no critter has ever been more terrifying than the H.R. Giger creation that debuted as a solitary . . . → Read More: This is clearly an important species we’re dealing with
By para_sight, on April 7th, 2011 One comment Nautical Terms and Phrases, Vessels and Equipment, Weird boat, I'm On A Boat, yacht I want one of these for Christmas or sooner. If some of you all could make that happen for me, that would be super. Just park it next to my dinghy. Thanks. WANT! Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}I want one of these for Christmas or sooner. If some of you all could make that happen for me, that would be super. Just park it next to my… |
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