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It wasn't my first time at sea. It was my first time in waves that big.
Blue Machine (2023)
They are reducing... drag, which is one of the most complicated problems in fluid dynamics, and the penguins just... do it.
Penguins and fluid dynamics (2013)
As far as we know, the physical laws we observe... on Earth apply everywhere... You can test them for yourself.
Storm in a Teacup (2016)
Critical thinking is essential... especially with advertisers and politicians all telling us... they know best.
Storm in a Teacup (2016)
[M]ost of the south coast of England is underlain by a great layer of this calcium carbonate, mostly made of this one amazing organism.
Helen Czerski—Coccolithophores and Calcium (2012)
In the past, information was treasured... These days we live on the shore of an ocean of knowledge... with regular tsunamis that threaten out sanity.
Storm in a Teacup (2016)
I think it's not an approach that many people have taken. I think oceanographers take those stories for granted. ...[W]e don't tell our own history...
Blue Machine (2023)
So after the calcium has been part of the cliffs it can crumble down... It goes back into the ocean and this cycle starts all over again.
Helen Czerski—Coccolithophores and Calcium (2012)
Alongside being a researcher for the past 10 or 12 years, I've also had the opportunity to make a lot of documentaries for the BBC. ...This is not my first book. I've written science columns for years, for Focus magazine and The Wall Street Journal...
Blue Machine (2023)
So... The Blue Machine is the story of the ocean told through its messengers, passengers and voyages... [I]t's a mixture of natural history... human culture and human history... It's... a physical oceanography textbook dressed up as a bunch of stories.
Blue Machine (2023)
My favorite element is calcium. That's mainly because of this organism... a Coccolithophore... a tiny... organism that lives in the surface of the ocean...
Helen Czerski—Coccolithophores and Calcium (2012)
This is what separates science from other disciplines—a scientific hypothesis must make specific testable predictions. ...[Y]ou have to look hard for consequences that you can check for, and especially... that you can prove wrong.
Storm in a Teacup (2016)
The huge benefit... of being at NOC is that you've got all these people, it's such an interdisciplinary place. You've got all these people right next to each other that can learn from each other... I definitely miss that, not being in Southampton any more.
Blue Machine (2023)