Phenomenal Ocean


OCEAN WANTS: 06 Conservation Libido feat. Eva Hayward

The ocean refuses empathetic ethics based on sameness with us humans. What does the urge to save nature—in certain ways—reveal about us and our...

OCEAN WANTS: 05 Translating Whales feat. David Gruber

To know what other humans want, we can ask them. But pets aside, modern societies lost the confidence and interest in communicating with nonhumans....

OCEAN WANTS: 04 Cephalopods on Land feat. Danna Staaf

Before fish and other vertebrates proliferated, it was the heyday of the cephalopods. Their descendants — squid, cuttlefish, octopus, and nautilus—are...

OCEAN WANTS: 02 Self-Conscious Fish feat. Alex Jordan

Fish are compassionate, recognize themselves in the mirror, and fancy designed shelters over natural ones. Recent experiments contest common ideas of...

OCEAN WANTS: 01 Coral Renaissance feat. Marah J. Hardt

We celebrate coral reefs as the colorful rain forests of the ocean. How could we not just save and restore existing coral reefs but allow them to spread?

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