Paul Currie

Glad you haven't joined the Choir Invisible

M. Bison blocking a hadoken from Ryu

Light Painting Cosplay - The hadoken is an in-frame effect #dragoncon2025

Panelists: Tina Hesman Saey, Dr. April Armes, Paul B Currie, Jason Wallace(M)
Time: Fri 11:30 am
Location: Crystal Ballroom Hilton (Length: 1 Hour)

Panelists: Emily A Finke, Will Harris, Arras Marie Wiedorn, David Moscato(M), Paul B Currie
Time: Fri 07:00 pm
Location: 209-211 Hilton (Length: 1 Hour)

Panelists: Emily A Finke, Charlie Kaufman, Arras Marie Wiedorn, Paul B Currie(M)
Time: Sun 05:30 pm
Location: Grand West Hilton (Length: 1 Hour)

Panelists: Charlie Kaufman, Adam Friedman, Jamie Bernstein, Paul B Currie, Theda Daniels-Race(M)
Time: Sun 08:30 pm
Location: 209-211 Hilton (Length: 1 Hour)

Kaiju Mapping: Gojira Disaster Response: A Mock Thesis Defense
Description: A disaster response expert, a thesis defense committee, and Godzilla walk into the Science Track room... Come see if this research project can pass muster!

Would it Zoo?
Description: Let's build a monster zoo! But first we need to figure out what to feed the xenomorphs, how to clean Jaws' tank, and figure out how to stop our attractions from eating the tourists.

Are You Really Gonna Eat That?
Description: Crocodiles picking fruit? Tortoises hunting birds? Sharks eating grass? That's not what those animals are supposed to eat or is it?

Microbes at Work
Description: Many microbes are out here clocking in nine to five doing hard jobs like breaking down plastic, gobbling up radioactive waste, and even keep us healthy. How do they do it?? And how can we make the most out of them?

Tentative Dragoncon Panel Schedule thread

YouTube video by Farm Aid Lou Reed - Last Great American Whale (Live at Farm Aid 1990)

youtu.be/PbBB8QEbUtg?...

Tell your pets I said, "Hi"

Are you sure you didn’t see Sinners by mistake?

YouTube video by Olympics Charlotte Dujardin & Valegro in the "Land of Hope & Glory" at London 2012 | Music Mondays

Saw an interview with @wendellpierce.bsky.social by @nerdist.bsky.social where he mentioned this performance. After watching it, I thought I'd share: youtu.be/3uXXW8_NMOs?...

YouTube video by tainlor The Wave -- Afterschool Speical -- 1981

For some strange reason this Afterschool Special popped into my head: youtu.be/4qlBC45jk3I?...

How to make a cephalopod. (With cartoony drawings) 1. Remove limbs. (Smiling human with dotted lines at shoulders and hips) 2. Attach to lips. (Human with flat mouth expression, just head and torso. Arms and legs are floating above with arrows pointing from them to lips) 3. See? It works. (Smiling human cephalopod with arms and legs around mouth. Drawing of an octopus shows anatomical similarity.)

this may be the pinnacle of my science communication career

Never Ending Story (Limahl) and One More Time (James Ingram)

A stuffed white bear on a whale bone

Antarctic Pigmy Polar Bear with remains of a recent meal

A penguin with patch feathering

A gentoo penguin going through a catastrophic molt. Gentoos molt all their feathers at once, requiring them to build up calories before the molt, then stay as still as possible so as not to burn too many calories.

A leopard seal moving swiftly through the water

A Leopard Seal about to catch a Penguin

A ocean Sunset

Sunset over Antarctica

A gaggle of photographers taking photos

Wildlife photographers in their natural habitat...

Blood being drawn from a shark

Venipuncture in a Shark

Ronald Reagan's Star Wars
#MoviesMadeInAmerica

golf ball-like growths on a tree branch

Cyttaria darwinii, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Historically eaten by the Yámana people of the region, now considered a delicacy.

A light circle

More Light Painting Test Trails

Multicolored light sphere

Playing with Light Painting

Fluoride and IQ A newly released report from the National Institutes of Health says fluoride in drinking water at twice the recommended limit is associated with lower IQ in children.

Here's NPR's discussion on the study. Spoiler The study didn't conclude anything: www.npr.org/2024/08/23/n...

Humpback whales clearing their blowholes

Humpback Whales in the Drake Passage