Mermaids (and, more recently merfolk) have been the subject of examination in a number of scholarly studies. Here are a few examples from the last 5 years (or so). ● ARE MERMAIDS REAL? Rhetorical Discourses and the Science of Merfolk.in Shima, Volume 12 Number 2 2018 ● Swimming with mermaids: Communication and social density in […]
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An academic squint at mermaids
Choosing to step in roundabout fashion into the question of the mermaid, Deep Sea News begins its mermaid essay by saying: “It is hard to know where to start in describing Karl Banse, professor emeritus at the University of Washington. He is one of the world’s leading biological oceanography…. In 1998, the American Society for Limnology and Oceanography awarded […]
They tracketh the Starbucks mermaid
The Got Medieval blog attempted, in piecemeal fashion, to track the origin on the Starbucks coffee company’s mermaid-ish logo: Here is the official history of the Starbucks logo, as found on Starbucks.com’s FAQ page.*** […] We pored over old marine books until we came up with a logo based on an old sixteenth-century Norse woodcut: […]