Maine Diver Fends Off Shark With Camera
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By , on October 28th, 2010 Leave a comment   Fish, Weird   , , , ,  

Image © Bangor Daily News, courtesy of MER Assessment Corp. What’s up with cartilagenous fish and cameras? First a manta ray absconds with a $5000 dive camera. Now a Porbeagle shark bares his pearly-whites on film off the cold, murky waters off Eastport, Maine. Watch the video over on The Bangor Daily News to get . . . → Read More: Maine Diver Fends Off Shark With Camera

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Why Glycolysis Sucks! Formate 4-Evah!
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By , on September 16th, 2010 Leave a comment   Adaptations, Microbes, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls   , , , , , ,  

The basic energy molecule for life is ATP, adenosine triphosphate. It fuels all those cellular reactions that life needs. To produce one mol of ATP requires 70 kilojoules. That’s about 16 calories for reference. One kilojoule is near the maximum amount of solar radiation received by a square meter on Earth every second. When animals . . . → Read More: Why Glycolysis Sucks! Formate 4-Evah!

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