I’ve taken a lot of photos of lion fish over the years, but none this good.  This was taken by Troy, the Aggressor’s pro photographer, who had the advantage of a camera that probably cost about $10,000 more than mine, which is the underwater equivalent of a Kodak Brownie. That said, this is an invasive species […]

WTF? Qu’est-ce que c’est? Scattered about the ocean floor off the Northwest Point of Providenciales are found a number of these curious objects.  Once upon a time, they formed an actual iron underwater dome used during the filming of a pilot episode for a French reality show, a sort of Francophone version of “Survivor.” On […]

I’m off to an Undisclosed Location in the Caribbean at 0800 tomorrow morning, for seven days on a boat with (I’m hoping) NO INTERNET CONNECTION!  Nothing to do but hang out with some interesting people, say hi to the fishies, and grok the natural world. I thought I’d leave you with something in the festive […]

So over on io9, Charlie Jane Anders refers to me as “messed up in the best possible way.” If only she knew, right?     [You know what else is messed up?  Autocorrect, which insists with amazing persistence that io9 is actually “ion.”]