Results for yesterday's oystering trip to the Mosquito Lagoon ( Read more... )

Because one person asked to see it:

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I first saw glassblowers in Venice ( Read more... )

As girlie_jones notes, this is depressing news for science fiction writers:

Dolphin starts to use Apple iPad.

I only wish I could have made this up.

So, as I mentioned, yesterday my parents and I headed off to see Oceans, a French film brought to the U.S. by Disney with revised narration by Pierce Brosnan. I have no idea if the English narration is the same as the French ( Read more... )

Much thanks for all of the birthday wishes and holiday greetings over the last few days :) And now, for some meandering catchup:

1. Notable gifts:

A. gargoylerose enduring lectures on dolphin rape (I can't help it, people. It just kinda rambles out of me.

B. coldecho not enduring lectures on dolphin rape ( Read more... )

Whatever you want to call the country, it's in bad shape right at the moment. Because this is Myanmar, getting relief there is proving difficult. Here's some organizations attempting to help:

American Red Cross

Directrelief.org.

The American Burmese Buddhist Association.

Unicef.Press reports are saying that the World Food Programme is also ( Read more... )

Excitement over making significant progress on research project significantly reduced upon realizing that I have typed "Damn" for almost every single reference to "Dam."  General feeling that project may have become slightly damned, or mentally dammed up, as a result.  Realization that I should perhaps focus more on research, and less on puns, and ( Read more... )

Because I have just spent the last two hours chatting with a marine biologist and government official in Myanmar about cooperative fishing efforts and river conservation issues on the Ayeyawaddy River. Not all that long ago, Myanmar's repressive government kept the country incredibly isolated from the rest of the world. Much of it still is, but I ( Read more... )

Ok, this annoys me.

About a week ago I was chatting with phoenix_alpha about various things when the subject of dolphins came up for one reason or another. He asked if scientists could explain why dolphins and whales strand themselves on beaches, and I told him, truthfully, that scientific consensus remains divided on the subject. In fact, one of my LJ less ( Read more... )