SeaOrbiter: amazing breakthrough or cool-looking boondoggle?
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I swear, I don’t want to be a nay-saying science crankypants. I want to dream big and have my own submarine and frolic on the Deep Sea News private island hideout. I don’t want to be the lab-coated finger-shaking wench that crushes new ideas before they are even born. But sometimes a girl just . . . → Read More: SeaOrbiter: amazing breakthrough or cool-looking boondoggle?

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From the Editor’s Desk: The Future of Deep-Sea News
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If they know it, they will love it. If they love it, they will protect it. My wife, with over a decade of nonprofit experience, spoke those words to me six years ago . She was describing how she viewed what I was striving for with Deep-Sea News. Those words still ring true to me. . . . → Read More: From the Editor’s Desk: The Future of Deep-Sea News

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One step closer to stimulus
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Sheril Kirshenbaum of the new Intersection blog at Discover alerts us that the House passed HR 146 yesterday, so the big ocean bill is one step closer to becoming law. Congrats to Sheril and Chris Mooney for their promotion from Scienceblogs. Here’s the details on the oceanic stimulus package. “Ocean and Coastal Exploration and NOAA . . . → Read More: One step closer to stimulus

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