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In honor of Bluegrass Blue Crab’s birthday, take a read through some of of her epic posts from this year! Maximum (un)Sustainable Yield Ecosystem Based management – managing for everything or noting at all Public engagement with science: across the disciplinary divide The Cove, Dolphins, and Mercury Roundup and Parasites HeLa book review Twilight, Forks, … Read More “Happy Birthday Bluegrass Blue Crab!” »
Payback.
The Southern Fried Scientist is matched in a battle of wits with a doll.
Tip o’ the Hat to @kzelnio
While a large percentage of the world’s shark fins pass through Hong Kong fish markets, most come from far-away countries and little attention has been paid to shark populations in adjacent waters. An important new paper, appropriately titled “The sharks of South East Asia – unknown, unmonitored and unmanaged” provides new insight into this problem.
The fantastic ocean-acidification documentary “A Sea Change” needs your help! They have just become a “saved film” on Netflix, which means that the DVD-rental website is waiting to see how many people add the movie to their queue before deciding whether or not to buy copies of it. If you or anyone you know has … Read More “Help “A Sea Change” get on Netflix!” »
Chapter 16 of Herman Melville’s classic – Moby Dick. Read along with us and discuss this chapter or the book as a whole in the comments. The Ship Pequod, the ship Ishmael has selected garnished in the bones of the whales she’s killed. A skeletal tent rises from her deck. And within, one third the … Read More “Finding Melville’s Whale: Chapter 16 – The Ship” »
Top posts (by page views) for the previous month: How to build a canoe from scratch on a graduate student stipend Anti-shark stereotypes in “River Monsters” Shark Science Monday: Aleks Maljkovic discusses whether shark feeding dives harm sharks Greenwashing – Is there really a sustainable Orange Roughy fishery? It’s an Ocean of Pseudoscience Week! The … Read More “Top Posts for September, 2010” »
The banjo is much, much worse.
