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The Sarcastic Fringehead is a small, extremely territorial fish found along the Pacific Coast from San Francisco to Baja California, and Mexico. They usually make their homes in cracks, small caves, shells, and even cans and bottles, and they defend their territory fearlessly, attacking anything from larger fish to even divers. 

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namaste, mothafuckaz! also there is nothing funnier than gangsta indianz. Zoom

namaste, mothafuckaz!

also there is nothing funnier than gangsta indianz.

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All we need is…penguins.

Funny story, I still remember some of the feeding times from when I used to go there.

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the-star-stuff: How Much Water is On Earth? In this illustration, the blue ball represents the volume of all the water on earth, relative to the size of the earth. The tiny speck to the right of the blue ball represents Earth’s fresh water. CREDIT: David Gallo/WHOI  If Earth was the size of a basketball, all of its water would fit into a ping pong ball. How much water is that? It’s roughly 326 million cubic miles (1.332 billion cubic kilometers), according to a recent study from the U.S. Geological Survey. Some 72 percent of Earth is covered in water, but 97 percent of that is salty ocean water and not suitable for drinking. “There’s not a lot of water on Earth at all,” said David Gallo, an oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts. Zoom

the-star-stuff:

How Much Water is On Earth?

In this illustration, the blue ball represents the volume of all the water on earth, relative to the size of the earth. The tiny speck to the right of the blue ball represents Earth’s fresh water. CREDIT: David Gallo/WHOI 

If Earth was the size of a basketball, all of its water would fit into a ping pong ball.

How much water is that? It’s roughly 326 million cubic miles (1.332 billion cubic kilometers), according to a recent study from the U.S. Geological Survey. Some 72 percent of Earth is covered in water, but 97 percent of that is salty ocean water and not suitable for drinking.

“There’s not a lot of water on Earth at all,” said David Gallo, an oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts.

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rhamphotheca:

California’s New State Parks Will Get You All Wet 

A new series of marine parks creates an almost unbroken chain of protected ocean from Mexico to Oregon.

by Andrew Price

California just opened several new state parks, but you may need scuba gear to visit them. They’re underwater.

The new parks include a massive kelp forest off the coast of La Jolla, coral reefs around Catalina Island, and an underwater canyon near Malibu. In total, there are about three dozen new protected marine areas in Southern California where scuba diving, kayaking, and surfing are encouraged but fishing is either tightly restricted or prohibited altogether.

The boundaries of the parks were decided with input from thousands of stakeholders, including scientists, environmentalists, fishermen, and residents. The protected areas cover more than 350 square miles of the state’s most productive and diverse marine habitats.

These new parks, which became official on January 1st, are part of a vast network of ocean parks that was called for by the state’s 1999 Marine Life Protection Act. The first were established along California’s central coast in 2007 and 2010. The third and final section, in northern California, will be added in a year or so, completing a series of protected ocean areas that stretches from Oregon to Mexico…

(read more: Co.Exist)     (top image: Andray Armyagov)

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Science Publishing is Broken

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from @NatureNews - sickle cell mystery solved? :O

from @NatureNews - sickle cell mystery solved? :O

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I don’t know about you but this would really revitalize the comics industry. coelasquid: Dreamsofawesome WONDER WOMAN’S NEW COSTUME LOOKS DUMB! Ugh, now she doesn’t have pants like how it used to be? What is wrong with you, DC? WE WANT DC TO LISTEN TO US! Ugh, they acknowledged but they’re not doing it right WE WANT WOMEN FRONT AND CENTER ON COMICS! Ugh you’re not drawing them right I don’t think anything DC does at this point will satisfy anyone. I agree DC has mishandled some things but I also think that we’re reaching a point of just complaining about any and every little thing. The point of contention still is, as it always was, that people are getting tired of seeing all of the female leads drawn with body language and uniforms that make them appear less heroic, powerful, legitimate, and all-around able to be taken seriously than their male counterparts. Zoom
I don’t know about you but this would really revitalize the comics industry.

coelasquid:

Dreamsofawesome

WONDER WOMAN’S NEW COSTUME LOOKS DUMB!

Ugh, now she doesn’t have pants like how it used to be? What is wrong with you, DC?

WE WANT DC TO LISTEN TO US!

Ugh, they acknowledged but they’re not doing it right

WE WANT WOMEN FRONT AND CENTER ON COMICS!

Ugh you’re not drawing them right

I don’t think anything DC does at this point will satisfy anyone. I agree DC has mishandled some things but I also think that we’re reaching a point of just complaining about any and every little thing.

The point of contention still is, as it always was, that people are getting tired of seeing all of the female leads drawn with body language and uniforms that make them appear less heroic, powerful, legitimate, and all-around able to be taken seriously than their male counterparts.

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blackandwtf: Date unknown A portrait of a woman from around the turn of the century. This photo may have been taken mid-sneeze. (via unexpectedtales)

blackandwtf:

Date unknown

A portrait of a woman from around the turn of the century. This photo may have been taken mid-sneeze.

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Climate Adaptation: Jellyfishapocalypse closes second power plant

climateadaptation:

Workers at Israel Electric Corporation’s Hadera plant have removed some 100 tons of jellyfish from the plant’s filters in the past three days. The power plant sucks in seawater to cool its turbines, and in summer the jellyfish – considered an invasive species - are drawn in with the…

(Source: thinkprogress.org)

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