Dead Whales…The People Who Study Them and The Worms That Eat Them
A nice write up this month in the Audobon Magazine by Amanda Mascarelli discussing whale-falls and Osedax worms. You can read it for free online.

Treking Poles, Sledges, 1600lbs of Pork, and 12 Cases of Whiskey
In January 1908, Shackleton and his team built a hut on the Antarctic continent to serve as a base for an attempt on the South Pole.  They spent 9 months in that hut with temperatures reaching -58F.  Luckily, 1600lbs of pork, 100lbs of mustard for that pork, >100 packs of crackers, and plenty of golden [...]

Same Girl
Yo Ush, What up Kels Wanna introduce you to this girl, think I really love this girl, Yeah? Man she so fine, Straight up dawg? She stand about 5’4” coke cola red bone, Damn She drives a black Durango license plate say “Angel” tattoo on her ankle, Plus she’s making pay so she got a crib [...]

Halloween 2009

New Species Friday 10/30/09 – Ophryotrocha fabriae
Say hello to my little fried… In fact, this guy is so small you might have missed if you didn’t use the right sieve mesh size! So small, that they are best viewed as a scanning electron micrograph (SEM) image like the one on the right. Ophryotrocha fabriae is a new polychaete annelid in the [...]