About six months ago, University of Hawaii scientists Nikolai Maximenko and Jan Hafner mapped the likely route of debris dumped into the ocean by the…
View More How scientists found debris from the Japanese tsunami 700 miles off MidwayAuthor: Miriam Goldstein
Scientists vs. Journalists: A Field Guide
The journalist and the scientist are two species that inhabit the same ecosystem, but have very different behaviors. I have spent many years carefully observing…
View More Scientists vs. Journalists: A Field GuideBlue whales in a red tide
Check out these gorgeous photos of blue whales going through the red tide! Eddie Kisfaludy took them with his iPhone from a small plane off…
View More Blue whales in a red tideThe San Diego red tide: FAQ from Scripps professor Dr. Peter Franks
This is a guest post modified from two emails by professor of biological oceanography Peter Franks, reprinted here with his permission. Peter is a phytoplankton…
View More The San Diego red tide: FAQ from Scripps professor Dr. Peter Franks9/11: Largest ever evacuation by boat in history
Eric Wolff alerted me to this moving documentary on the 500,000 people evacuated by boat from Manhattan on 9/11. From Christopher Mims: In nine hours,…
View More 9/11: Largest ever evacuation by boat in historyA scientist and a humanist walk into a bar; or On Myers-Briggs, Climate Science, and Knowledge
This is a guest post that originally appeared as a Facebook conversation between the illustrious Drs. Jarrett Byrnes and Scott Richmond. Scott, Jarrett and I…
View More A scientist and a humanist walk into a bar; or On Myers-Briggs, Climate Science, and KnowledgeSilence in the Sierras
Last week I got back from a 97-mile backpacking trip through the southern Sierra Nevada mountains in California. We started at Bishop Pass and hike…
View More Silence in the SierrasTGIF: Do you want this octopus to have fewer legs?
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View More TGIF: Do you want this octopus to have fewer legs?Logistical challenges of floating libertarian paradises
Libertarians always seem to want to run away to sea. Most recently, Paypal founder Peter Thiel made news by promoting and financially backing the Seasteading…
View More Logistical challenges of floating libertarian paradisesSalty sci-fi stories for summer
It’s the end of summer, when many folks are either going on vacation or cranking hard in the lab before the school year starts again.…
View More Salty sci-fi stories for summer