The Book of Barely Imagined Beings

[With the claim that the self is like a waterfall , Julian] Baggini is trying to save the self from neuroscience, which is admirable consid...

...this magnificent animal, probably the first in the line of apex predators of these shallow seas, had a compound eye that, in many ways...

...Studying patients has taught us where memories might be stored, but not what physically constitutes a memory. The answer lies in the m...

The text of my book went to the copy editors a little while ago so it is basically done and dusted (bibliography, permissions for quotation ...

In bottoms, in trees, in hot water, inside females, in Hadal depths, in mouths, in deep sea vents, in shells, in the dark, in anemones, unde...

A. Remington Kellogg...was among the first to commission “vivisections” on porpoises even though, in his own words, “a live porpoise can ...

A series of two minute films in high def. Good images and commentary.

Each species is like a book, the product of literally billions of years of editing and re-editing through the process of evolution, and eac...

The consumption of animals such as whales, dolphins and manatees is on the rise in poor nations. Declines in coastal fish catches have l...

2012 is the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing, the second world war code-breaker who dreamed up the test in 1950 while pondering the n...

If anyone goes down to those shores now, if man or boy seeks to follow in our traces, let him realize at once, before he takes the troubl...

A scaly foot sea snail from the Dragon Vent . The scales are covered with layers of pure pyrite and iron sulphide.

Nearly all the women were wearing head scarves, even burkas. I saw one woman so pious that her burka didn't even have an opening for h...

We don’t have to understand animals in order to care about them or in order to feel obliged to treat them in a certain fashion. -- from a ...

Am also late off the block on this from Alva Noë: Plants are living beings, even the simplest ones, even the cell, are already engaged in...

I missed this a few weeks ago. If you did too I recommend a look. Hat tip Ephemeral curios

Then might those genera of animals return, of which the memorials are preserved in the ancient rocks of our continents. The huge iguanodon ...

The [method] that is now mostly used is a technique in the Antarctic that uses sonar. Not, however, to look at the whale underneath the wate...

"Linguistic disobedience" might be achieved in many ways: by speaking out of turn, by disrupting syntax and "meaning"...

via Deep Sea News A better soundtrack, in my view, would have been Chopin's Etude op 10 no 1 in C Major