Entries for date "November 2011"

Neoconsumerism: Blue Is the New Black

A couple of days ago my daughter asked her grandmother, "What's Black Friday?" When her grandmother told her, my daughter followed with: "Have you ever done it?" When I pulled on that thread it led to a conversation that is still unraveling. At the same time, news of camp-outs, body…

PLOS ONE: Oceanic hot spots.

Wingfield DK, Peckham SH, Foley DG, Palacios DM, Lavaniegos BE, R Durazo, WJ Nichols, DA Croll, SJ Bograd. (2011) The Making of a Productivity Hotspot in the Coastal Ocean. PLoS ONE 6(11): e27874. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0027874 Abstract BackgroundHighly productive hotspots in the ocean often occur where complex physical forcing mechanisms lead to…

Get Your Blue Mind On

Co-authored by Sarah Kornfeld Our brains have an amazing ability to do something: hide a world of truth from us. We're able to tune out the blinking lights and honking horns, the stress of work, the underwater mortgage, and those inappropriate clothes and music our kids prefer. Meanwhile, people around…