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the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...' Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)

...once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)

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Have you wanted to meet me in person? Probably not! I really can't blame you. What about the doofuses who run Zooillogix? Yeah, neither do I. Ahh, but do you want to drink Manhatten's, G&T's, and Martini's at trendy bar in San Francisco with like-minded scientific groupies. Well then...…

Something brilliant... Even better if it had been an octopus.

Instead of charging extra for pillows why don't they offer this as a service?

"Not Having the Faintest Idea of What They Are Doing Award" Goes To... GreenPeace! I really I have no idea what they are thinking by placing 150 2-3 ton granite blocks on the seafloor. Mark at blogfish and Miriam at Oyster's Garter spell it all out so I don't have to. I guess I'm back to not…

I'm sorry but I am going to ruin the rest of your day, week, month, and year. I don't like packaging conservation messages in the negative but I fail to see any good spin for this. I was going to do a large write up about shifting baselines and Jeremy Jackson's wonderfully written (as always)…

At the request of some of the readers...

The Blue Economy has started a list of hybrid sea going vessels. With with research institutes and industry starting to feel the crunch there seems to at least something other than apathy for the issue. The list is below the fold. The African Cats hybrid Fast Cat 435 Vector K: The vessel combines…

Well not everything technically but copepods do. You may see poop but I see the beginning of a long happy process that ends on the deep-sea floor with an animal and a full tummy. Hat tip to Scribal Terror for bringing this to my attention.

The National Oceanography Centre in Southampton is leading an expedition to the Cayman Trough to explore the world's deepest volcanic ridge. The will be using their new autonomous vehicle, Autosub6000, the ISIS.

It may have not smelled like a new car but it definitely smelled new. Yes we did get a new ROV here at MBARI! The new ROV will replace the beloved Tiburon that has been here since 1997 exploring every nook and cranny of the Northeast Pacific. Why the new ROV? Because we can! Serious though…

Home decorations to make you feel guilty. No if they only would make these in the form of floor mats for SUV's. Link via Neatorama via Like Cool

When I do deep-sea research, I want to do it in style. It may be salty, dirty, rough work with long hours but there is no excuse for not being civilized. That is why I always wear a three button suit and ascot. I require regular breaks with dainty cookies and espresso. We celebrate the end of…

The Te Papa Squid webcast of the colossal squid dissection is now up for your long term viewing pleasure. To bad smell-o-vision still isn't a reality or you could really "live" the entire experience.

Listen. I know hot water, mainly because I am always in it. A new study reports the hottest water ever recorded 464 degrees C (867.2 F). That so hot the water is in the vapor-phase supercritical region (say three time out loud), basically somewhere between gas and liquid. But doesn't water boil…

Sometimes pictures are too cool to wait for Friday. My friend Tom K. sent these along for my enjoyment and now yours. The first is a close up of the bay scallop, Argopecten irradians, where you can clearly the ring of blue eyes that around the mantle. They are weak but sufficient to detect…

I like things in the deep! I think about them when I sleep. It does not matter if they're red or blue, swim or crawl. Because I am banking my career or whether they're big or small! Seriously though if you ever read just week's worth of DSN, you will know my serious affinity to body size extremes…

...and where it goes...how it got there..its trials and tribulations. This week in carbon sequestration theater we explore Little Petey Carbon and (sing out loud) Ollll' Mannnn Rrrriverrrr. Rivers are major transporters of material to the oceans and on into the deep. Below are estimates from…

...is now up at Sea Notes, the wonderful little blog of the mighty Monterey Bay Aquarium

Peter Ward is the man. I became acquainted with his work through reading is papers on the rise (and fall) of mollusks through time. His research on mass extinctions is seminal. You also got to love his inordinate fondness of Nautilus!

...it's a sea demon! Actually its a pteropod, a shell-less gastropod, and even crazier it is a simultaneous hermaphrodite.

...the ocean is our final frontier. Besides if we need to explore it before it is overfished, mined, covered in trash, or a sink for all our excess carbon. Mars can wait. Of course I say this in partly in jest. I mean I don't want to start another Volcano War. A country like the United States…