Surface Currents

Je Suis Arrive

Here I am again, back in the Triangle. It’s hot and pretty and just like I remembered… terrible water pressure, loud-ass frogs, and super delicious ginger beer. I started straight back in on work and am SO ready to plow through two field days this week. (It’s been a little over six months since my last dive and I cannot wait to get a fix.) I also just started the background training for TA-ing our Coral Reef Ecology class, so check back soon for some crash course posts on cool underwater communities!

Sidenote: I found this maddeningly adorable hippo at the Boston Int’l Airport and I can’t stop kissing him. He’s kinda sorta the perfect travel companion.

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COOK STRAIT GIANT WETA (Deinacrida rugosa) The giant weta is a killer example of island gigantism. All Deinacrida species have been living exclusively in New Zealand for the past 190 million years (that’s longer than dinosaurs!) with almost no genetic change. Even though their name is Maori for “God of the Ugly Things,” they’re actually quite docile, vegetarian, and often kept as suburban garden pets. They don’t kick, bite, or fly, and their bodies are so heavy that they can’t even jump. I WANT. Photo by Sid Mosdell, 2011

COOK STRAIT GIANT WETA (Deinacrida rugosa)

The giant weta is a killer example of island gigantism. All Deinacrida species have been living exclusively in New Zealand for the past 190 million years (that’s longer than dinosaurs!) with almost no genetic change. Even though their name is Maori for “God of the Ugly Things,” they’re actually quite docile, vegetarian, and often kept as suburban garden pets. They don’t kick, bite, or fly, and their bodies are so heavy that they can’t even jump. I WANT.

Photo by Sid Mosdell, 2011

Susan Hiller, Night Waves Nine archival digital prints 2009

Susan Hiller, Night Waves
Nine archival digital prints
2009

Alas! Victor, when falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?

—Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Tuna sammies! Inspired by my recent hive viewing.

Tuna sammies! Inspired by my recent hive viewing.

Bee Craze

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Have you ever heard of bees before!? They are INSANE. One of my friends let me attend a hive-checking session this weekend and I learned just how little I knew about them. Bugs are so cool.

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