How Life Thrives Under the Ocean’s Crushing Pressure
Like most deep-sea biologists, I have a large collection of decorated Styrofoam cups. A couple dozen line the bookshelf of my office, each displaying a…
Are crawfish really lobster?
The New York media is all aflame over a shocking discovery at local institution Zabar’s. Zabar’s, an Upper West Side gourmet grocery store is justly…
View More Are crawfish really lobster?A great day for a little Traumatic Insemination
Sometimes I think that those of us studying ‘minor phyla’ do so in order to prevent from developing some secret (potentially peverse) obsessions. Example: I…
View More A great day for a little Traumatic InseminationFlight of the Argonauts
In my last post about my voyage on from Hawaii to California this summer, Wil asked what it was like to be at sea for…
View More Flight of the ArgonautsNever seen a sailor we couldn’t lick
Most of the DSN team has also never seen a sailor that we couldn’t lick. Salty! Via GRP & Comically Vintage.
View More Never seen a sailor we couldn’t lickWhy you should wash your damn spoon
Poster by Max Temkin, via Grist.
View More Why you should wash your damn spoonExpletive Infixation and Marine Scien-****in-tists
We would be remiss at DSN if we didn’t blog about a paper that was brought to our recent attention. Warning the following material uses…
View More Expletive Infixation and Marine Scien-****in-tistsCan science be crowdfunded?
Science costs money. No matter how clever we are – and trust me, as a graduate student, I have made scientific equipment by combining salvaged…
View More Can science be crowdfunded?Gulp: the World’s Largest Stop Animation Film
I love this. Hat tip to @aquaken on twitter! See “the making of” here at Nokia.
View More Gulp: the World’s Largest Stop Animation FilmWere The Pixies the First Band to Write a Song About El Nino?
Of course, it may be debatable how this song is all about El Nino, but there is NO DEBATE on whether The Pixies were one…
View More Were The Pixies the First Band to Write a Song About El Nino?End of the weekend miscellany
In honor of Shark Week, a helpful illustrated list of Things That Kill More People Than Sharks. Number four is HIPPOS. I would totally watch…
View More End of the weekend miscellany