So if I can manage to save my next three years of salary, and not spend any money on Guinness rent, I will be really…
View More On Giving Up Guinness To Afford My Own SubmarineMonth: February 2007
There Is Plenty Oil!
Szabo is right, oil will sustains us for years to come, almost 20 or even 30. That means I can drive my Hummer around until I well into my 50’s. Those are going to be some very sweet times indeed. I can take my three-armed children down to the beach, its surely going to be a warm day, and play in the acidic ocean. And as I am driving home in my wonderfully large SUV, we can enjoy the beautiful sunset because of increased particulates in the air. What a glorious time!
View More There Is Plenty Oil!What A Mess!
What part of no more fish equals no more jobs is difficult to grasp?
View More What A Mess!New Boat Smell
What does 78.1 million U.S. dollars buy you? Presidential election? A month’s supply of prescription medication? Health care? A house in California? Definitely not enough…
View More New Boat SmellJust Science Weekend: They Eat Their Young
When you see frozen fish sticks, think cod; when you eyeball the seafood salad at Subway, think pollock. Deep-sea fishes are all around us, but we know very little about them. For example, did you know cod have a bioluminescent anus? And they cannibalize their young? If not, please, read on.
View More Just Science Weekend: They Eat Their YoungJust Science Weekend: Gadid Fish
Deep-sea cod (family Gadidae) are “one of the most important families of fishes in the deep-sea”. Their deep siblings include pollock and hake. Pollock is what they use to make fake crab legs in the Subway seafood salad. It’s packaged as sarimi, a strange white Asian boloney. Sarimi fishermen catch pollock with bottom trawls off Alaska, and press the meat into a white pressed sausage stained with bright colors in the sliced meat section at the Vietnamese grocery. Check it out sometime.
View More Just Science Weekend: Gadid FishFriday Deep-Sea Picture (2/9/07)
Just Science #5: Sediment Transfer To The Deep
A grain of sand lodged from a decomposing rock in the mountains may spend a long time making its way down a river system, or being swashed around at the coast, but ultimately the deep sea is the final resting place.
View More Just Science #5: Sediment Transfer To The DeepJust Science #4: The Impacts of Big Animals
Are large deep-sea organisms stingy eaters, voracious predators, home wreckers, or construction workers? It might be a bad day to be a small deep-sea animal.
View More Just Science #4: The Impacts of Big AnimalsJust Science #3: Blue Smokers
Researchers at JAMSTEC have recently added another hydrothermal vent type, the blue smoker!
View More Just Science #3: Blue Smokers