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Where The Wild Things Are

RickMac December 11, 2013 Culling policy shark attacks Western Australia

“I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.” That’s my honest reaction after reading news of Western Australia’s plan to reduce fatal shark attacks through the…

Fish Organisms The Basics

This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

RickMac February 22, 2013 Seriously?!What the Fuck!

Why is it that we seem to have moved away from celebrating images like the one above left (a big game hunter posing over a…

Opinion & Editorial Scientist! The Basics

Loomings

RickMac February 8, 2013 beer Kevin new beginnings transitions

It’s raining tonight in my heart as I dwell on the thought that Kevin is cleaning-out his desk here at Deep Sea News. My colleague,…

Scientist!

She Makes Me Want To Be A Better Writer

RickMac January 28, 2013 Deeplings Equity Feministe LGBT Miriam Science Online Up Up and Away!

Once upon a time, let’s call it 2006, I launched my very first ocean science blog post over at Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea Lice, and Sunsets. …

Conservation & Environment Ecology Evolution Mating & Reproduction Opinion & Editorial Organisms The Basics

Encomium: Lonesome George

RickMac June 24, 2012 Galapagos Lonesome George

I just read that Lonesome George, the presumed sole-remaining member of the Pinta Island giant tortoise species of the Galápagos, has died. Lonesome George was…

Fish Reviews The Basics

Hooper Drives The Boat, Chief

RickMac June 20, 2012 careers childhood obsessions Jaws memory lane sharks

Picture this: Cape Cod, June 20, 1975. Gerald Ford is President, gas is .53 cents a gallon, and a carefree, 11 year-old–yet already ocean-nerd, future…