Alana Blanchard. Bangarang
as it turns out some good ironic captions.
who knew?
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Learning On The Shoulders Of Giants
A fantastic talk about bioluminescence (glow in the dark animals)
By Dr. Edith Widder, senior scientist for NOAA.
Recorded at the 2011 Technology Entertainment and Design Conference in Long Beach, CA
Sunday, June 5, 2011
John Steinbeck Writes Better Than I Do
Excerpts from "Cannery Row"
By John Steinbeck
"Western Biological deals in strange and beautiful wares. It sells the lovely animals of the sea, the sponges, tunicates, anemones, the stars and buttlestars, and sun stars, the bivalves, barnacles, the worms and shells, the fabulous and multiform little brothers, the living moving flowers of the sea, nudibranchs and tectibranchs, the spiked and nobbed and needly urchins, the crabs and demi-crabs, the little dragons, the snapping shrimps, and ghost shrimps so transparent that they hardly throw a shadow. And Western Biological sells bugs and snails and spiders, and rattlesnakes, and rats, and honey bees and gila monsters. These are all for sale. Then there are little unborn humans, some mounted whole and others sliced thin and mounted on slides. And for students there are sharks with the blood drained out and yellow and blue color substituted in veins and arteries, so that you may follow the systems with a scalpel. And there are cats with colored veins and arteries, and frogs the same. You can order anything from Western Biological and sooner or later you will get it."
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Monday, May 30, 2011
Title IX
I fully support women's athletics, particularly when the women in question are as lovely as these ones. Plus they skate pretty good.
Friday, May 27, 2011
Underwater Photos by Ms. Jessica Rogers aka Michelle Rodriguez
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| Sea Lemon Nudibranch |
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| White Dendronotus |
Monday, May 23, 2011
Sunday, May 22, 2011
The Octopus
La Mer.
She calls to us.
Her waves crashing down on shore,
Rushing back to sea.
Steady and calming,
Powerful and ruthless.
Beneath the ebb and flow of the tides hide creatures greater than those of our imagination,
Equaled in splendor only by their brethren,
Those dwarfed by the droplets of water lifted off a cresting wave.
Humanity trumpets the intelligence of the Cetaceans,
We venerate the violent behavior of the Chondricthyans,
Our vertebrae have left us with no backbone.
No confidence in those creatures that we cannot fathom.
The true master of his domain, the prince of the sea,
The crafty octopus.
He understands his medium, and flows within it's boundaries.
His palette is unparalelled,
Shifting Reds, Greens, Blues, and Yellows color his personality,
Ever the social butterfly, His magnificent displays find him at home in any environment,
Vibrant as coral, Cool as kelp.
Hidden in his rocky nook, he scans with his raptorial eye,
Seizing meals of fresh sashimi, scallops, and cracked crab.
The eight armed chef carefully prepares his every bite.
Even predators must be wary of his venomous embrace,
A careless shark begets a full larder for the magnificent mollusk.
Alas, romance is his undoing,
An ocean of star cross'd lovers,
Each giving it's life to consummate the only love of a lifetime.
"For never was a story of more woe,
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
She calls to us.
Her waves crashing down on shore,
Rushing back to sea.
Steady and calming,
Powerful and ruthless.
Beneath the ebb and flow of the tides hide creatures greater than those of our imagination,
Equaled in splendor only by their brethren,
Those dwarfed by the droplets of water lifted off a cresting wave.
Humanity trumpets the intelligence of the Cetaceans,
We venerate the violent behavior of the Chondricthyans,
Our vertebrae have left us with no backbone.
No confidence in those creatures that we cannot fathom.
The true master of his domain, the prince of the sea,
The crafty octopus.
He understands his medium, and flows within it's boundaries.
His palette is unparalelled,
Shifting Reds, Greens, Blues, and Yellows color his personality,
Ever the social butterfly, His magnificent displays find him at home in any environment,
Vibrant as coral, Cool as kelp.
Hidden in his rocky nook, he scans with his raptorial eye,
Seizing meals of fresh sashimi, scallops, and cracked crab.
The eight armed chef carefully prepares his every bite.
Even predators must be wary of his venomous embrace,
A careless shark begets a full larder for the magnificent mollusk.
Alas, romance is his undoing,
An ocean of star cross'd lovers,
Each giving it's life to consummate the only love of a lifetime.
"For never was a story of more woe,
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
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