Comments on: Reef Madness https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/13/reef-madness/ Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:04:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Monado, FCD https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/13/reef-madness/#comment-514787 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:04:02 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/02/13/reef-madness/#comment-514787 I’m throwing this in here for your Darwin theme. I haven’t seen the coral book, although Coral: A Pessimist in Paradise is about halfway down Mount To-Be-Read.

Monday is a public holiday in Ontario. The conservatives gave it some wimpy name like “Family Day” but I know it as Darwin’s Birthday (observed), the closest Monday to the real date.

]]> By: DDeden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/13/reef-madness/#comment-514786 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 01:36:16 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/02/13/reef-madness/#comment-514786 Yes, excellent book, absurd title. Did you know that the pH of seawater is much affected by calcium carbonate excretions of bony fish (not sharks), and not so much by plankton? And that some human freedivers (in order to avoid repeated gas equalization at depths) allow this perfectly pH balanced sea water into their naso-sinus and middle ear cavities, and that this induces a stronger mammalian divers reflex enabling a longer and deeper dive? Cyclical seafood forage-diving at tropical coral reefs 1,000,000 years ago, and still today among a few peoples. Now we’re looking at whether fermented fish preceded cooking, allowing more food value from bone salts (see links at http://the-arc-ddeden.blogspot.com/2010/02/interim.html which would explain why fish bones archaeologically are less common than large animal bones, they were softened and eaten along with the meat.

]]> By: AnneT https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/13/reef-madness/#comment-514785 Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:45:31 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/02/13/reef-madness/#comment-514785 I think old ones go away, but I am not sure.

]]> By: Toshi https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/13/reef-madness/#comment-514784 Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:32:22 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/02/13/reef-madness/#comment-514784 I went to look for the bloggingheads interview you did (to show it to someone) and it is not there. Are older bloggingheads archived somewhere?

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