There is an assumption embedded in how nervous systems are usually described, and it comes from studying animals built like us.
The assumption is that a nervous system has a…
Most descriptions of the ocean concern its surface, which is understandable, since that is the part anybody sees.
The surface is a thin film on top of something much larger.…
The abyssal plain is frequently described as a desert, and the comparison is a good one for a specific reason.
Deserts are not lifeless. They are places where the limiting…
There is a category error built into the way most people look at a shallow sea.
Everything green underwater gets filed as seaweed, and seaweed is algae — a fundamentally…
Tides are usually explained by the moon, and that explanation is correct and incomplete.
The moon's pull produces a tidal range in the open ocean of roughly a metre. That…
Sound behaves very differently in water than in air, and most of the differences are counterintuitive.
It travels roughly four to five times faster. It carries very much further. And,…