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…
Wallace J. Nichols writes of Izilwane, "Izilwane means animals in Zulu. Over the years I've seen first-hand how personal experiences with animals have transformed people and deepened their connection to the natural world and each other. Izilwane is also a multimedia platform conceived from an anthropologist's perspective that educates and…
Scientist. Academic. Watchman. Wallace “J.” Nichols has made a career of protecting the oceans’ interests. Here, Nautica turns a spotlight on Nichols, and his superhero efforts, in order to make a splash for ocean conservation. From one million miles away, our planet looks exactly like a small blue marble. And…
by Anna Fahey, This post is part of the research project: Word on the Street If the ocean has a direct, neurological impact on our brains, an awareness of this connection will change the way we treat it—and the policy implications could be profound. That’s the hope, at least, that…
This will sound like a stretch, but sea turtles owe much to the genius of Steve Jobs. As a young student of conservation genetics, my first computer was an Apple. At that time, geneticists went with Apple mostly by default as the graphics-rich software for sequencing DNA ran best, if…
