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Tag: ocean

Charismatic Krill?

May 24, 2014 Marc Abrahams

Are krill charismatic, in human eyes? Should they be? What bodes this? Those questions are addressed in the study: “Charismatic Krill? Size and Conservation in the Ocean,” Elizabeth Leane and Steve Nicol, Anthrozoos: A Multidisciplinary Journal of The Interactions of People & Animals, Volume 24, Number 2, June 2011 , pp. 135-146(12). The authors explain: […]

Arts and Science, Research Newsanimals, charisma, krill, marine, ocean, Size

The universality of “Boys Will Be Boys”

August 15, 2013 Marc Abrahams

We have a column called “Boys Will Be Boys — Research by and for adolescent males of all ages and sexes“, that runs in every issue of our magazine, the Annals of Improbable Research. Occasionally, someone complains that the column appeals only to males, males who are especially juvenile. But our experience with readers says […]

Arts and Science, Boys Will Be Boysboys, ocean, pee, Urine

Rubber ducks in oceanography and finance

February 11, 2012 Marc Abrahams

A song about the Ebbesmeyer analysis of rubber ducks and ocean currents: A demonstration in which a Salmon (Felix Salmon) uses rubber ducks in water to explain the Greek financial crisis:

Arts and Science, Research Newseconomics, financial crisis, Greece, ocean, oceanography, rubber ducks
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