by Ronald L. Shimek, PhD | Apr 19, 2013 | CORAL - Ronald L. Shimek, PhD, Marine
The First Of A Series Of Related Blogs – This One Sets The Stage. A New World I was doomed from the get-go. My really formative years were during the post-Sputnik era, when I discovered speculative or science-fiction literature. As a result, I would have given...
by Ronald L. Shimek, PhD | Apr 19, 2013 | CORAL - Ronald L. Shimek, PhD, Marine
While doing some mindless work the other day, and wanting to escape the drudgery, I put my mind in some other place and started to wonder for the umpteenth time about some of the things I didn’t learn in grad school. These were some of the important things “the...
by Ronald L. Shimek, PhD | Mar 23, 2013 | CORAL - Ronald L. Shimek, PhD, Marine
Now, that’s all well and good, but I was wondering, while I looked at various of the animals illustrating some of these critters, about the base appearance of some of these critters and their names, both scientific and common. The enteropneusts or acorn worms are so...
by Ronald L. Shimek, PhD | Mar 9, 2013 | CORAL - Ronald L. Shimek, PhD, Marine
One of the more unlikely places to find a nice image of one of my favorite types of invertebrates is the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD). Normally, these images are of beautiful or interesting astronomical objects or spacecraft or terrestrial images somehow...
by Ronald L. Shimek, PhD | Feb 27, 2013 | CORAL - Ronald L. Shimek, PhD, Marine
This is my introduction to the readers of the Reef2Rainforest site, where I will, in a manner reminiscent of an old and ancient city, be babbling on about a non-existent group of animals. Just as one can’t prove a negative proposition, such as “There are...
