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…
Naming a new species is tricky business
The bamboo coral Isidella tentaculum finally rolled of the presses over the holidays. I can finally speak the name aloud. DSN debuted the video of…
View More Naming a new species is tricky businessExtreme Underwater Ironing
A brave clan of 86 British scuba divers have reclaimed the coveted world title for underwater ironing, defeating Australia’s previous record of 72 scuba divers…
View More Extreme Underwater IroningScience Online ’09: Blogging Adventure
After a most wonderful lunch (thanks Science Online sponsors!), it was time for the first of two sessions I was co-moderating. This session was a…
View More Science Online ’09: Blogging AdventureScience Online ’09: Blogs in College Teaching
The third session I participated in was Teaching College Science: Blogs and Beyond moderated by Brian Switek, of Laelaps and Dinosaur Tracking, and Andrea Novicki,…
View More Science Online ’09: Blogs in College TeachingScience Online ’09: Miss Baker and Her Students
The second session i attended at Science Online ’09 was a fantastic discussion of how social networking sites, blogs and other online tools and media…
View More Science Online ’09: Miss Baker and Her StudentsInauguration Day Aerial Photo
Up at Popular Science’s website. Why are there these “ant hill”-like communities? I guess I sort of imagined it to be packed down the mall…
View More Inauguration Day Aerial PhotoThe Cult of Dolphin Worship
Southern Fried Scientist tells it like it is. He just posted a very well-written article on “the cult of dolphin worship“. “… the cult of…
View More The Cult of Dolphin WorshipOcean Tattoos
You are all probably familiar with my and KZ’s fascination with tattooing arts. By now most of you should be aware of Carl Zimmer’s science…
View More Ocean TattoosLiveBlogging Science Online ’09: Open Access
Note: This was liveblogged at the time, but the wifi crashed under the weight of 200 simultaneous livebloggers. ——————————————————————————————————— As many readers know, we are…
View More LiveBlogging Science Online ’09: Open AccessKick off ’09 with a Marine Invert Calendar and Clock
SCAMIT (Southern California of Marine Invertebrate Taxonomists) has released the best calender of the year – a marine invertebrate calendar! Long time DSN reader Leslie…
View More Kick off ’09 with a Marine Invert Calendar and Clock