So, the flower hat jellyfish pretty much looks like someone painted it while tripping on acid. It doesn’t just have tentacles on the edges, no…
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Category: Scientist!
Inked.
From ancient polynesians to seafaring sailors, tattoos in their various fashions have adorned the derma canvas for centuries. Used to represent tribal ranks, voyages to distant lands and conquests,…
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Jellyfish Journalism Fail
On May 9th of 2012, I wrote about a video going viral of an odd creature in the deep sea. The running hypothesis among online communities…
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A (Not So Serious) Scientific Treatment of Mermaids
It is hard to know where to start in describing Karl Banse, professor emeritus at the University of Washington. He is one of the world’s…
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The Playful World of the Scientific Acknowledgement
The post on carnivorous sponges, specifically the lead author naming a species after his wife, Named in honor of Eve Lundsten, beautiful wife of the…
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Velcro, romance, and consuming the flesh of crustaceans
When I describe my favorite sponge to others, yes I have a favorite sponge, I describe it like this: Imagine a mosquito lands on your…
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Beyond the Plunder: The Misunderstood Life of Pirates
Buccaneers, Charlatans, Marauders, and Swashbucklers. Throughout the centuries, our booty-hoarding friends have been branded by many rather dubious labels. Yet seldom does the average gangplank…
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Here at DSN we strive to inspire the next generation of mini-deeplings. Ultimately, we want you to want you to be like us. Perhaps not…
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Guest post: Playing Detective in the Great Blue Sea
You may have heard me say it once, and I’ll say it again: the oceans are a toilet bowl for our waste. Throughout history, our solution to pollution has oftentimes been “dilution”. As a consequence, chemical pollution is now ubiquitous in our oceans as a result of industrialization, waste-management strategies (and/or lack thereof), natural disasters, etc….
As such, it becomes my job to try and solve this mystery and basically play detective on the open sea. What puzzle am I trying to unravel? Well, I’ll warn you, it’s a trashy one…
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How we wrecked the ocean
“…in the final analysis, the thing we really need to fix is ourselves. It’s not about the fish; it’s not about the pollution; it’s not about the climate…
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