The Carpet Dragon Takes Flight
Guest post by Dr. Melissa Betters “They got it!” echoed shouts down the hallways of the Research Vessel Atlantis in Fall 2018. The whole science…
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Karen James (@kejames on Twitter) is an independent researcher in Bar Harbor, Maine. Her work is at the…
View More An Alarming Tweet From the House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and TechnologyOn the first day of Christmas NASA Earth Science gave to me: advance warning of Hurricane Activity. On the second day of Christmas NASA…
View More The Twelve Days of Christmas – NASA Earth Science EditionThe internet is abuzz today at the sight of these fleshy-colored grape-sized sea blobs found on Huntington Beach, CA. As something of sea-blob fancier myself, my…
View More What are these strange round blobs on a Southern California beach?Much has changed in the last weeks. Indeed, things have been changing for the last year. No matter which way your sentiments fall, we can…
View More Words fail me for this titleI am annoyingly the first one to return to the surface after any scuba dive. My bottom time exploring the wonders of the aquatic realm…
View More I’m the modern day equivalent of a massive Carboniferous dragonflyFriends, Americans, country people, lend me your ears. You need to get your respective s#%@ together. Both my right and left leaning friends have bombarded my…
View More Calibrating Your Internet BS Sensors in 9 Easy StepsJust wanted to take a moment of gratitude today to thank all the people who have followed us and made DSN what it is over the…
View More From Our Family of Turkeys to YoursWe at DSN are not typically fans of the dolphins but we’re no monsters. I love cranberry sauce out of the can but I do want…
View More This Thanksgiving Remember the Cranberry Bog DolphinWhat did you do this weekend? Well if you were NASA, you successfully launched NOAA’s brand-spanking new weather satellite GOES-R. Packed with six instruments, this geostationary…
View More Wherever it GOES, I GOES, we GOES. NOAA and NASA launch another satellite acronym into space.“As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.” -John James Audubon There are few books I have seen as spellbinding…
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