Enric Sala: Glimpses of a pristine ocean | Video on TED.com
Friday, May 14th, 2010 Ecology, Marine biology conservation, Enric Sala, TED None
I’ve been posting quite a few TED talks lately… I will try to spread it out more evenly in the future. This time though, I just HAD to post two in a row. The reason is that this brilliant talk by Enric Sala follows up on Jeremy Jacksons kind of pessimistic attitude with a more hopeful approach. He shares quite new insight, which I am sure applies to our northern systems as well. This is a path and a way of thinking we really need to explore more extensively in the future.
If you are interested in the research, I suggest you read this: Baselines and Degradation of Coral Reefs in the Northern Line Islands.
Jeremy Jackson: How we wrecked the ocean | Video on TED.com
Sunday, May 9th, 2010 Ecology, Marine biology, Uncategorized None
I’ve heard this talk before. What came across as the most important message to me is how we need to realise the synergistic effects created by our fuckups and that we have to face these issues right now!
Ubuntu Upgrade Trauma
Saturday, May 1st, 2010 Ubuntu firefox, java, open office, zotero None
This past week has been slow and easy. I suppose I should be more stressed out by the fact that I’m at the end of my fellowship. But there is no help in worrying, -certainly not at this point. I’m going at it at a steady pace and plan to put in some extra effort when I return to RUC. These past days I’ve been doing the things that I missed the most. Hugging Lars, walking Birk and fucking up my computers. I’ve been through a traumatic upgrading of Ubuntu both at work and at home. At work it led to difficulties connecting to internet. At home I managed to fuck up GRUB, but got rescued by the Ubuntu Live CD. NOTE TO SELF: I should NOT mess around with computer stuff I know absolutely nothing about…
My netbook works great though :) – upgraded without any hickups! Ubuntu 10.4 seems great!
By the way… I use Zotero reference manager and Open Office. With the new Firefox 3.6 I banged my head against the screen for a couple of hours (-especially since I’ve been confident [stupid] enough to install 64-bits system) before I found THIS and got the sun java plugin to work again. This is a life saver.
Best HOWTO ever!!
Want to know more about Ubuntu? Visit Ubuntu Homepage
Notes from the lab at #RUC
These are the two chambers we use. The oxygen electrodes are the rods you see coming out on the right side of the chambers… The temperature in the surrounding water is kept stable by a heater with a thermostat (the grey box), and a cooler (not visible). We regulate light intensities by shadowing with decreasing layers of black nets (above the chambers) until full light.
These past days have been really hectic. We’ve had our share of problems. Yesterday, one of the thermostats supposed to govern one of the 10 C batches started whining – really high pitched tone. I turned both the cooler and the thermostat off and went home, being as the culture room itself holds about 10 C. I spent the night in agony, really wondering why the fuck I bother doing this. On top of that frustration the lighting in the culture room was off today, and we discovered even more problems…
Read more HERE
Michael Specter: The danger of science denial | Video on TED.com
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 Uncategorized None
The grain of salt rule applies here as well… You can tell he’s not a scientist, but… scientists should learn from him and his high pitched voice. This is a journalist that knows how to get the message through. I LIKE him!
Read more HERE
Edith Widder: Glowing life in an underwater world | Video on TED.com
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 Marine biology, Science None
Edith Widder: Glowing life in an underwater world | Video on TED.com
This is kind of slow at first, but really picks up… Watch it! You will not regret it. Sit back and enjoy the wonderful pictures, the excitement and one hell of an explorer :) Kudos, Edith Widder!
Read more HERE
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