Comments on: The scientific field with the best obituaries http://boingboing.net/2013/03/15/the-scientific-field-with-the.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sat, 25 May 2013 01:25:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Luther Blissett http://boingboing.net/2013/03/15/the-scientific-field-with-the.html#comment-1681425 Luther Blissett Sun, 17 Mar 2013 12:12:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=219047#comment-1681425 Maggie, thanks for bringing this to my attention. I'm going to try to add some people I knew to that list. Maggie, thanks for bringing this to my attention. I’m going to try to add some people I knew to that list.

]]> By: pjcamp http://boingboing.net/2013/03/15/the-scientific-field-with-the.html#comment-1680992 pjcamp Sat, 16 Mar 2013 05:08:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=219047#comment-1680992 One reason I'm a physicist is my subjects neither bleed on me, throw up on me nor eat me. Radiation is comparatively easy to deal with. One reason I’m a physicist is my subjects neither bleed on me, throw up on me nor eat me. Radiation is comparatively easy to deal with.

]]> By: pridkett http://boingboing.net/2013/03/15/the-scientific-field-with-the.html#comment-1680183 pridkett Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:13:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=219047#comment-1680183 For a different take on leopard seals you should take a look at this video featuring National Geographic photograph Paul Nicklen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxa6P73Awcg I've been lucky enough to see him give this talk live, and what he doesn't capture in the short video that he discusses in longer talks is the sheer terror of diving with an enormous leopard seal. The strength of their jaws, their speed, and their stealth make them a ferocious apex predator. For a different take on leopard seals you should take a look at this video featuring National Geographic photograph Paul Nicklen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxa6P73Awcg

I’ve been lucky enough to see him give this talk live, and what he doesn’t capture in the short video that he discusses in longer talks is the sheer terror of diving with an enormous leopard seal. The strength of their jaws, their speed, and their stealth make them a ferocious apex predator.

]]> By: GawainLavers http://boingboing.net/2013/03/15/the-scientific-field-with-the.html#comment-1680033 GawainLavers Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:02:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=219047#comment-1680033 <blockquote>Brown, Kirsty M. (1974-2003), marine biologist with the British Antarctic Survey, drowned, age 29, when attacked while snorkeling and dragged 200 feet underwater by a leopard seal.</blockquote>When the divers with the Planet Earth (or was it Blue Planet?) team talked about how nervous they felt around the leopard seals, they made it sound like it just had to do with the seal's size and the fact that they were the apex predator of their area.  I had no idea they had actually killed people. [Edit: Blue Planet was released two years before her death.]

Brown, Kirsty M. (1974-2003), marine biologist with the British Antarctic Survey, drowned, age 29, when attacked while snorkeling and dragged 200 feet underwater by a leopard seal.

When the divers with the Planet Earth (or was it Blue Planet?) team talked about how nervous they felt around the leopard seals, they made it sound like it just had to do with the seal’s size and the fact that they were the apex predator of their area.  I had no idea they had actually killed people.

[Edit: Blue Planet was released two years before her death.]

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