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Rosa Alcalá is a poet and translator whose work has received support from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room, and the NEA. Her book Spit Temple: The Selected Performances of Cecilia Vicuña was runner-up for the PEN Translation Award. Her fourth poetry collection, YOU, is forthcoming from Coffee House Press. ....
Study shows that corals in dark zones of sea that must supplement food obtained by photosynthesis use fluorescence to lure small creatures such as plankton into their mouths ....
With its mouth agape – revealing a set of pointy black teeth – and a large protruding appendage surrounded by a series of tentacles, the sea creature resembled something out of a horror film. But, the 18in-wide fish, which somehow found its way from the depths of the Pacific to the shores of Newport Beach last Friday, is very real. It’s just a rare find. One of the roughly 300 species of anglerfish found around the world (perhaps best known as. ....
On a nighttime dive on a spectacular shallow reef in Cozumel, Mexico, underwater photographer Robert Stansfield spied something in the inky darkness he had never seen before: a tiny, transparent fish with bright markings, devilish eyes, and a gaping mouth full of needle-sharp teeth. Blown away, Stansfield quickly snapped a photo and began a mission to figure out exactly what he had seen. Stansfield reached out to OGL collaborator Simone Rossini, professional research diver and Divemaster at Careyitos Advanced Divers, to see if he knew anything about the fish. Like Stansfield, Rossini was baffled by the bizarre creature. So, he did what researchers often do: he searched for experts. Rossini sent the photo to OGL’s director Dan Distel, who passed it along to a chain of experts that eventually stretched from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego to the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. All weighed in to try to solve the mystery. ....
AAP PROSE Awards: The 2021 Category Winners From biological science and ‘The Ethical Algorithm’ to legal studies and ‘Demagogue for President,’ the AAP PROSE category winners embrace 45 fields of study. The apse mosaic of Sant’ Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna’s patron saint. Judith Herrin’s ‘Ravenna: Capital of Empire Crucible of Europe’ from Princeton University Press has won the 2021 European History category PROSE Award. Image – iStockphoto: Sergio Delle Vedove Swann: ‘Exceptional Scholarship’ You’ll remember Today (January 28), we have the winners in those 45 subject categories in this, the 45th year of the PROSE Awards’ operation. And that puts us halfway through the selection-announcement cycle of this long-running award program. ....