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Category: Weird

Opinion & Editorial Weird

A whale joke for hump-day

Alistair Dove February 29, 2012

Via Reddit:

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Weird

Random stuff seen on Reddit

Alistair Dove January 8, 2012 sharks
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Cephalopods Fish Mining Vessels and Equipment Weird

Animals Vs. Equipment

Alistair Dove December 5, 2011 oil rigsROVsharkswhales

The following images came across my desk last week humorously labeled “There’s something wrong with the ROV”.  The startling shots show what appears to be…

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Fish New Research Organisms Weird

The real cookie monster

Alistair Dove November 17, 2011 hawaiisharkShark Attackswimming

Field Museum scientist Josh Drew recently brought to my attention a new and unusual paper describing a world first.  The manuscript by Randy Honebrink and…

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Weird

Clearly I Need to Rethink My Business Cards

Dr. M November 10, 2011 bootleggingbusiness cardcivil wargrenadiergunrunningmarinerorgiesprivateerraconteurrevolutionssmuggling

Redditor burt_flaxton writes: “Friend’s Father Died – They found these after. He must have handed them out to the women at bars.” In related news, the Most Interesting Man In The World…

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Fishing Mating & Reproduction Weird

Why cyclops shark grabs at our imagination

Alistair Dove November 7, 2011 albinocyclops sharkGulf of CalifornaMexicomutationsshark

If you’ve been out of touch for a while lately and haven’t immediately grokked what this post is about from the title, it concerns a…

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Jelly Fish
Education Weird

On common names

Alistair Dove October 19, 2011 jellyfishsea jelliesSea Starsstarfishthe pointlessness of trying to mandate common names

Staring into one of the aquarium’s exhibits “I like these new Mastigias jellyfish”, I said, absently. “Sea jelly”, my colleague corrected (with a certain smugness,…

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Fishing Vessels and Equipment Weird

New fishing method significant improvement over trawling

Kevin Zelnio October 14, 2011

see more There I Fixed It Hat tip to @vonOberst.

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Weird

The friendly shark

Alistair Dove October 12, 2011 Great Whiteshark

The Snickers and PETA billboard folks could learn a thing or two from this ad:

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Social Sciences Vessels and Equipment Weird

Of great whites and great depths

Alistair Dove October 10, 2011 great white sharksMirsalvagesharkssubmarinesubmersibletreasure

On Friday I had cause to meet with a gent called Marco Flagg and it turned into one of the more interesting chats I’ve had…

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