In September, I sighted His Noodly Appendage in Baltimore. Now he has given us a sign in the zooplankton! Below is a photo taken by…
View More Spawn of the Flying Spaghetti MonsterAuthor: Miriam Goldstein
How To Cuddle Your Lady Right, by Smoove A
You are probably aware that Smoove A* is an authority on crustaceous love. Some have gone so far as to describe Smoove A as the…
View More How To Cuddle Your Lady Right, by Smoove ATGIF: Fear the Dolphins (also Darwin)
A couple of webcomics for your Friday. The dolphins may have fooled Jason Goldman, but they don’t fool us. And was young Darwin a tool???…
View More TGIF: Fear the Dolphins (also Darwin)Student-run sailing vessel rescues disabled sailboat
The Coast Guard reports that “the Coast Guard and the crew of a good Samaritan vessel assisted the crew of a sailboat 900 miles southeast…
View More Student-run sailing vessel rescues disabled sailboatMake ocean scientists rock stars
Chris Mooney dropped me a line about the Rock Stars of Science campaign. He says: Rock Stars of Science™ is another Geoffrey Beene initiative, designed to…
View More Make ocean scientists rock starsAcross the Pacific
I just got back from sampling the North Pacific Gyre with NOAA. We found visible plastic every day in the manta tows once we had…
View More Across the PacificMea culpa: No Pacific trash as Donors Choose prizes
Dear DSN readers, Sometimes it’s easy to let one’s enthusiasm for science and blogging get the better of one’s common sense. Exhibit A: Myself. A…
View More Mea culpa: No Pacific trash as Donors Choose prizesThe silent destroyer, the floaty assassin
This gem courtesy of Herr Doktor Byrnes. Too bad they didn’t mention the barnacle’s other famous attribute.
View More The silent destroyer, the floaty assassinThe Slug Song, and more from Dr. Krug the slug drug lug
I first discovered Dr. Pat Krug when he gave a talk at Scripps and revealed that he had named a new species of sea slug…
View More The Slug Song, and more from Dr. Krug the slug drug lugAdorable ocean outreach and more from CalEchoes
A student-led cruise is off central California right now, seeking records of the ancient California Current in the Santa Barbara basin’s famously layered mud. The…
View More Adorable ocean outreach and more from CalEchoes