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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Oceanographer’s Choice on Twitter
In the interest of sparing my three-odd blog-related twitter followers updates on my friends’ dumbass iPhone apps and the like, I am inaugurating an official Oceanographer’s Choice twitter account. Check it out @ElOceanografo.
The Physics of Mega Shark
Remember Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus? A designer named Stephen Taubman (website) has made a wonderful infographic explaining just how Mega Shark was able to take out that airliner. Click on the image below for a larger version. An even … Continue reading
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Tagged biomechanics, E. O. Wilson, J.B.S. Haldane, Mega Shark, physics
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Vigilante Fisheries Management?
Very interesting article in the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday (thanks, SFriedScientist). Fishermen in Kenya and Somalia are seeing increasing catches of fish near shore, which may be related to the epidemic of piracy off the Somalian coast. When the government … Continue reading
How to Write About Science
This afternoon, I saw several things which inspired me to write this. The first was this helpful guide on how to write about poor people. Thanks, alybatt. The second is this news story from FOX (where else?), which explains how … Continue reading
How to Kill a Young Albatross
Chris Jordan is at it again…last summer, I linked to his series of photomosaics “Running the Numbers II,” depicting in unique and numerically staggering fashion some of the wounds we inflict on the ocean. His current work, “Midway,” is a … Continue reading
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Tagged albatross, Chris Jordan, Kingman Reef, Midway Island, Pacific Garbage Patch, Pollution
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