Science, folks, it's pretty great. I like it a lot, like, more than as a friend. So do the good people at the American Association for the Advancement of Science who publish the academic journal Science (also called Science Magazine). You know that if you call your scientific journal just 'Science' that you're pretty confident... Continue Reading →
Human beings love to assign our own traits and emotions to animals. That dog is happy, look, it’s smiling! That bird is being brave attacking the snake! Etc. It’s called anthropomorphizing, and if you possess some of the worst human traits yourself, you may have tried using this word to impress strangers (but, in reality,... Continue Reading →
Featured image: staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis) in a Mote Marine Lab nursery. Photo by Conor Goulding/Mote Marine Laboratory Reefs are in a spot, guys, a bad, bad, not good spot. If you aren't aware of all the coral die-offs and craziness like 30% of the Great Barrier Reef bleaching in just one year, well… you are... Continue Reading →
ALERT: Don’t read this if you’re offended by sex, bad jokes, or specifically bad sex jokes. We all like sex, right? (To my younger readers, you’ll get there. To my asexual readers, that is the majority experience and I apologize if you feel marginalized. Irrespective of the necessity of sex for the propagation of the... Continue Reading →
Doesn’t it feel like there are only ever terrible things reported in the news media? Let me rephrase that: When is the world ever presented as NOT a dumpster fire – except this fire can’t even keep us warm so we’ll all die freezing cold when the White Walkers come? Escalating tensions with North Korea... Continue Reading →
So, I’ve recently started following the publications of a few scientific journals in my field. It’s impossible to stay informed of everything, but I’m trying to at least keep abreast of Coral Reefs, Marine Ecology Progress Series, and, of course, Science. I’ll be honest with you, I’m not really reading many of the papers these... Continue Reading →
$3.29. That’s the amount that I paid for a gallon of gas the other day. Of course, I didn't buy just one gallon, I got close to twelve – and it doesn't take long for $3.29 to add up. Hopefully by the time this is posted the price of gas won’t have gone up by... Continue Reading →
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