- Beyond Apu — Why are there suddenly so many Indians on television?
- Want to save the Gulf of Mexico? Learn how to boom properly.
- The leading web property for yuletide holiday determination is now on your mobile phone. Never be at a loss again. Get the Is It Christmas? iPhone app!
- I got 99 problems but breathing ain’t one.
- It is a little-known fact that you can perform (almost) every pop song ever recorded using just four chords.
- A real-life Batman: This blind man “sees” using echolocation.
- It would be pretty rad to ride an elephant to work where your pet orangutan plays with his dog.
- New Scientist details the eight most amazing commutes in the animal kingdom. (Did you know that the Pacific leatherback turtle swims from Indonesia to Oregon and back every year?)
Posts tagged “oceans”
What could possibly go wrong?
“They that go down to the Sea in Ships, that do business in great waters, these see the works of the Lord, and His wonders in the deep.”
Psalm 107
“When I’m playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales.”
Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
Longitude
I finished reading Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel this afternoon. It is a wonderful book.
Titanic
Did you know that if you have an extra $35,000 in your pocket you can visit the Titanic with National Geographic? How cool would that be? “By 1,000 feet, all traces of sunlight will be gone and you will be immersed in total darkness. To conserve power, the MIR submersibles run without external lights, however,