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Author: Andrew Thaler

Marine science and conservation. Deep-sea ecology. Population genetics. Underwater robots. Open-source instrumentation. The deep sea is Earth's last great wilderness.

The Ship that Flips

Posted on October 12, 2010 By Andrew Thaler 1 Comment on The Ship that Flips
Science

How to brew beer in a coffee maker, using only materials commonly found on a modestly sized oceanographic research vessel has picked up a second wind today thanks to Boing Boing. Several new readers have asked about that puzzling picture in the post, featuring a research vessel apparently sinking with its bow pointing straight out … Read More “The Ship that Flips” »

Finding Melville’s Whale: Chapter 20 – All Astir

Posted on October 12, 2010August 27, 2010 By Andrew Thaler
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Chapter 20 of Herman Melville’s classic – Moby Dick. Read along with us and discuss this chapter or the book as a whole in the comments. Visit this page for the complete collection to date: Finding Melville’s Whale. All Astir The day after the prophet’s pronouncement the Pequod’s crew were made to load their chests … Read More “Finding Melville’s Whale: Chapter 20 – All Astir” »

365 days of Darwin: October 12, 2010

Posted on October 12, 2010October 11, 2010 By Andrew Thaler
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Charlie checks out a bizarre curiosity – somehow the Southern Fried Scientist is a sergeant in the Baltimore police dept. – a Pipe Sergeant

Bed Bugs: better bitten than smitten

Posted on October 11, 2010October 14, 2010 By Andrew Thaler 7 Comments on Bed Bugs: better bitten than smitten
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Common bed bug Cimex lectularius

Bed bugs, the nasty nocturnal nursery rhyme nightmares than are making a comeback throughout the northeastern United States. Infestations, previously relegated to the status of urban legend in much of the developed world, are on the rise due to a combination of more frequent travel, pesticide resistance, and the end of the ‘better living through chemistry” era when DDT was a perfectly acceptable thing to spray into your baby’s crib. They’re mean, nasty blood suckers that have risen over the summer to become the scourge of hotel managers everywhere. Except, they’re really pretty harmless. Most people don’t even have a reaction to the bite, they are shockingly poor vectors for disease, and, when you get past the blood sucking, they’re rather cute as far as bugs go. There is one rather disagreeable feature about these critters, and it’s the reason we should all be thankful that we’re only bitten by them.

Traumatic Insemination.

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Support Science in the Classroom and send students to the field

Posted on October 11, 2010October 25, 2010 By Andrew Thaler 3 Comments on Support Science in the Classroom and send students to the field
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Today marks the official beginning of the Donor’s Choose Science Blogger Challenge! This year the Ocean and Geo Bloggers have united to compete against other science blogging networks, so let’s show the landlubbers that we take out science education seriously! On top of that, we’re also having a little friendly competition among ocean and geo bloggers, and right now the Gam is proudly in the lead.

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365 days of Darwin: October 11, 2010

Posted on October 11, 2010October 10, 2010 By Andrew Thaler
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Charlie clings to the highland battle targe, for FREEDOM!

Finding Melville’s Whale: Chapter 19 – The Prophet

Posted on October 10, 2010August 26, 2010 By Andrew Thaler
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Chapter 19 of Herman Melville’s classic – Moby Dick. Read along with us and discuss this chapter or the book as a whole in the comments. Visit this page for the complete collection to date: Finding Melville’s Whale. The Prophet “Shipmates have yea shipped?” the poxed old man asked Ishmael and Queequeg as they disembarked … Read More “Finding Melville’s Whale: Chapter 19 – The Prophet” »

365 days of Darwin: October 10, 2010

Posted on October 10, 2010September 27, 2010 By Andrew Thaler
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Charlie chills on the top shelf.

365 days of Darwin: October 9, 2010

Posted on October 9, 2010September 27, 2010 By Andrew Thaler
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Charlie ponders a trip to Fiji.

A short note on the “turtle harvest” e-mail

Posted on October 8, 2010 By Andrew Thaler
Conservation, Science

An e-mail has been making the rounds over the last few weeks purports to show evidence of an illegal turtle egg harvest in Costa Rica. It contains several pictures like this: While the pictures are real, the e-mail is misleading. They show a sustainable, legal turtle harvest that actually helps the Olive Ridley turtle population. … Read More “A short note on the “turtle harvest” e-mail” »

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