Courtesy of Chris Mah at the Echinoblog, piping hot, fresh video (just weeks old) of a new rift community discovered in the Galapagos by NOAA’s Okeanos Explorer (your tax dollars, should you ch...
http://theartfulamoeba.com/2011/08/18/video-of-new-hydrothermal-rift-discovered-in-galapagos/
Hey kiddos, I’ve been busy over at Sci Am and have two new posts up there, in case you missed them: The Jellyfish that Conquered Land — and Australia and Circus of the Spineless #63.5 I have ...
http://theartfulamoeba.com/2011/07/18/latest-posts-and-feedburner-vote/
UPDATE: Feed link was previously incorrect. This has been fixed. Dear Readers, It has been a joy blogging with you here over the last two and a quarter years. But someone made me an offer I cou...
http://theartfulamoeba.com/2011/07/05/a-new-amoeba-era-moving-to-scientific-american/
This weekend I went hiking in the mountains west of South Park, Colorado. In real life, South Park is a giant, high-elevation plain full of cattle surrounded by legions of snow-capped mountains �...
http://theartfulamoeba.com/2011/06/30/the-incredible-inedible-pine-cone/
Here’s your Tuesday moment of zen, courtesy of César Sánchez’s Twisted Bacteria blog: Captured in this time-lapse video taken by one Nick Lariontsev (see here for pictures of the camera set...
I have a new guest post up today over at the Scientific American Guest Blog on a newly discovered cache of the earliest known big multicellular life — and how some of it (but definitely not all...
http://theartfulamoeba.com/2011/06/13/when-cells-discovered-architecture/
A few weeks ago I was graciously allowed to accompany local lichen expert Ann Henson on one of her field trips. It was a cold, cloudy, and rainy day at about 8000 feet in Colorado’s Front Range...
UPDATE2: That’s Friday at midnight! Please go have a look and vote ’em if ya got ’em! If you’d like to vote in the 3 Quarks Daily Science Blogging Contest, go here. I have two posts in th...
http://theartfulamoeba.com/2011/06/04/3qd-nominations-are-up/
Last week the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University released their list of the top 10 new species of 2010, which Nat Geo covered admirably here and is well w...
http://theartfulamoeba.com/2011/05/30/all-mushrooms-bright-and-submersible/
UPDATE: Voting is open now here. Please consider voting for my bombardier beetles post! As usual, Three Quarks Daily is having their annual science blogging contest, judged this year by physics b...