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Sailor saves a bumblebee
When a sailor misses a chance to go to sea, he tends to wander around his garden, paying special attention to the clouds and the weather, as if he were walking on the ship’s deck in fresh sea air. He...
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Friday Deep-sea Picture: Iridogorgia (09/04/08)
Image courtesy Dr. Erik Cordes, Expedition to the Deep Slope, NOAA/MMS The deep-sea gorgonian genus Iridogorgia sp. is characterized by a partially calcareous axis with an open, upright spiral or...
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You can’t say farewell to Summer 2008 without a loving look back at… the Italian Spiderman. This viral video came on the scene like a Jersey girl on the boardwalk, sweeping Philly boys off their feet....
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Mercury rising
Shrimp fisherman and environmental activist Diane Wilson gave a talk today at the Harte Research Institute. She speaks without script or slides. That’s probably what makes her such a great speaker....
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The glacial pace of sea-level rise
“Flow velocities of ocean-ending outlet glaciers would have to be about 49 km/yr, 70 times faster than those glaciers move today” for Greenland to raise sea level 2 m, says Tad Pfeffer about his new...
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Yikes. I’m in the Cone again!
Corpus Christi is in the center of Hurricane Ike’s projected trajectory. He’s coming at us like a fastball over home plate. This is a bit scarier than being on the periphery of the strike zone....
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Tricked out hurricane websites
Naturally, one of the favorite pastimes here in the Cone of Probability is to monitor as many websites as possible for different forecasts and projections of Hurricane Ike. The more the models stray...
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Sailfish Appreciation Day
GrrlScientist is having a sailfish appreciation day over at Living the Scientific Life. She’s posting hot links to the online story at National Geographic about their cooperative fish herding...
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TGIF: Friday Deep-sea Picture (09/12/08)
If art is the universal language, how do you say “don’t eat orange roughy”? We’ll have to ask electronic artist Don Relyea, who generated the image above. “Orange Roughy” was inspired by his wife’s...
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Farewell, Sciborg
Farewell, Scienceblogs. This will be my last post at SB’s DSN. It’s a little sad for me, because I kinda feel like I grew up here. Since I started blogging, I had two little girls, moved from Los...
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