Concern about Big Blue: Many news stories circulated this past year detailing massive quantities of ocean plastics. Perhaps the most iconic marine plastics story was that of a video taken by Texas A & M Marine Biology graduate student Christine Figgener three years ago off the coast of Costa Rica. The video is of an […]
The Intel on Influenza
I have this running experiment, where I am the population being studied. The design is pretty simple. Some years I take the flu shot, some years I don’t. So, the independent variable (the variable that I change) is getting the flu shot or not and the dependent variable is whether or not I get the […]
Epic drama: Enter the Protists
These guys are absolutely no joke. Check them out here. They are complex-celled (eukaryotic). They have armor, they are mobile, some can make their own food like plants, some live in massive colonies (kelp forests, algae mats). Taxonomists hate them because they defy the categories we have come up with so far and they don’t […]
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