In my inbox today was this video of a remarkable bit of animal behaviour captured on video. It shows the famous manta night dive in…
View More Extraordinary dolphin footageMonth: April 2013
We found love in a hopeless place.
I guess it has just been an Anglerfish kind of week. Found this little ditty at work today and it made me giggle. May it…
View More We found love in a hopeless place.Quick! Someone call the Fashion Police.
We have a fashion emergency. White after labor day? No. Horizontal stripes? Not exactly. Wardrobe malfunction? Definitely No. Too much skin showing at the Grammys…
View More Quick! Someone call the Fashion Police.Big ugly fish eats cute little seabird.
When I was about 15 or 16, I went fishing with my step-brother. We weren’t really catching anything so we decided to drop a hook…
View More Big ugly fish eats cute little seabird.Narwhals Gone Wild.
Have you ever laid in your bed at night, dreaming what your favorite entertainment personalities would look like re-imagined as narwhals? Well wonder no more my…
View More Narwhals Gone Wild.Underfunded academic, seeking tenure, attempts to steal research ship
David Aldridge is a phytoplankton-loving marine biology PhD student at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, UK. Also the founder and editor of Words in mOcean, a…
View More Underfunded academic, seeking tenure, attempts to steal research shipDisposable Penises in Ten Hundred Most Used Words
There is not much to add to the whole story on disposable penises after Ed Yong wrote about it. So being a big fan of…
View More Disposable Penises in Ten Hundred Most Used WordsFlip Ship Photoshop Battle
FLIP, the Floating Instrument Platform, is towed to an area in a horizontal position and through changing the ballast flipped into a vertical position. In…
View More Flip Ship Photoshop BattleA murder of crows and a stipple of whale sharks?
(A Crow Left of the Murder is a particularly excellent Incubus album, btw) One of the recent papers out of my group describes an unprecedented…
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Observing the Cryosphere from the Troposphere: NASA’s P-3B Airborne Laboratory
Some people might think I am crazy for waking up at 4:45 AM on a Sunday morning to tour a plane, but you would too…
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