Evolution’s Greatest Hits
Two songs are mainly responsible for my getting a PhD in Evolutionary Biology and Wildlife Ecology, The Police’s Walking in Your Footsteps and The Kink’s Apeman. I listened to both over and over and over...Evolution’s Greatest Hits: POLICE: Walking in Your FootstepsKINKS: ApemanPAT BENATAR: My Clone Sleeps AloneCHRIS SM

The (Not So) Great Pacific Plastiscape
We’ve been having this ranging e-conversation about the language used to describe the growing mess/mass of plastic swirling and accumulating in our ocean (and inside of us).Provoked by Lindsey’s New York Times/Spot.us

Oceanophilia: The Neuroscience of Emotion and the Ocean
Oceanophilia: The Neuroscience of Emotion and the Ocean“We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea—whether it is to sail or to watch it—we are going back from whence we came.”  - President John F. Kennedy

Cleaning up the language around ocean pollution
Cleaning up the language around ocean pollutioneu·phe·mism \ˈyü-fə-ˌmi-zəm\ noun: the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant.Language matters. In fact, it’s a matter of life and death sometimes. Captain Charlie Moore of the Algalita Ma

PlasticPollutionCoalition.org LAUNCH
The Plastic Pollution Coalition officially launched in Malibu, to additional cohesion and effort to the global cause of remediating plastic pollution in the ocean.Artists, kids, scientists, activists, designers, engineers, business leaders, musicians and parents gathered to kick off the PPC at the home of Irmelin DiCaprio.Since its launch the coali