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…
“Gooey” New Mud Volcano Erupts From Arabian Sea
via “Gooey” New Mud Volcano Erupts From Arabian Sea There’s a new island in the azure waters off Pakistan, but you might want to hold off…
View More “Gooey” New Mud Volcano Erupts From Arabian SeaBP Joins Gulf of Mexico Marine Well Containment Company
BP announced today that it has joined Chevron, ConocoPhillips ExxonMobil and Shell as a member of the Marine Well Containment Company LLC (MWCC), a non-profit…
View More BP Joins Gulf of Mexico Marine Well Containment CompanySeaCaptainDate.com
Sea Captain Date is the only place for Sea Captains to connect with men and women who share a love of the ocean.With thousands of…
View More SeaCaptainDate.comRed Means Go: Coral, Color, and Climate Change
One of the defining decision points of life: Settle-down and make a living close to the familiar particulars of your birthplace or venture out to…
View More Red Means Go: Coral, Color, and Climate ChangeThe oil industry’s ‘Culture of Complacency’
Last week, Dr. M and I attended a captivating lecture at Duke university, delivered by none other than the honorable William K. Reilly (co-chair of…
View More The oil industry’s ‘Culture of Complacency’From The Editor’s Desk: Giant Squid=Awesomesauce
In the following post I will enumerate the many ways in which current science repeatedly demonstrates that giant squids are awesomesauce. Awesome: (adj) amazing, awe-inspiring, awful, awing (inspiring awe…
View More From The Editor’s Desk: Giant Squid=AwesomesauceClimate Ninjas Wanted
During the Science Online conference, Chris Mooney said that the response to Climategate should be to train and pay “deadly ninjas of science communication.” If…
View More Climate Ninjas WantedSleeping with the fishes
If you’ve got $250 to blow, blow it on this. The ChumBuddy sleeping bag will snuggle you so sweetly as it gnaws upon your innards.…
View More Sleeping with the fishesEverybody Loves Cephalopods
And Boing Boing’s science editor Maggie Koerth-Baker tells us why in a videocast!
View More Everybody Loves CephalopodsNo S*&%t Sherlock, dispersants DON’T degrade quickly
Another disturbing paper about the BP oil spill was published this week. The new study from Wood’s Hole researchers shows lingering traces of dispersant in…
View More No S*&%t Sherlock, dispersants DON’T degrade quickly