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…
Conservationist Wallace "J." Nichols on the Human-Ocean Connection Oceanophilia: The Neuroscience of Emotion and the Ocean "We can use science to explore and understand the profound and ancient emotional connections that lead to deeper relationships with the ocean. I believe that if we do, we have an opportunity for real…
The ocean is the single biggest feature of our planet. From one million miles away we resemble a small blue marble, from one billion miles a pale blue dot. The ocean covers more than 70% of the Earth's surface, holds more than 80% of its biodiversity and 90% of its…
By JEFF GREENWALD About two-thirds of the body is made of what is essentially seawater. But our relationship to the deep, believes biologist Wallace J. Nichols, may be more than chemical: Our minds are also linked to the ocean, he says, in some surprising -- even game-changing -- ways. Nichols’…
