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MH370 and the proverbial haystack.

When does an analogy become useless? How about when it’s less exaggerated than the actual facts being analogized? Take the oft-used “needle in a haystack”…

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TGIF: Seaweed Shop

Alex Warneke February 28, 2014 Bio Logik contaminants music videos seaweed snails Thrift Shop

A couple months back, I introduced the beginnings of an epic collaboration known as Bio Logik. Bio Logik is the deeper understanding of Biology and…

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How we wrecked the ocean

Alex Warneke February 22, 2014 climate change contamination jeremy jackson Overfishing pollution TED talk

“…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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The Plight of the Irrawaddy

Alex Warneke February 8, 2014 Bycatch dolphins Irrawaddy SAFRN sio Small-scale fisheries

“I think it’s important to establish, first of all, that Irrawaddy dolphins are jerks to study.” Not exactly the preface I was expecting. “One of…

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Whale shark slaughterhouse exposed in China

Alistair Dove January 28, 2014 China CITES conservation Finning Overfishing shark finning whale sharks

Conservation NGO WildLifeRisk has put out a press release describing a slaughterhouse for sharks in China’s Zhejiang province. Shark processing is nothing new, and can…