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Coastal Notes
The full journal, one shoreline at a time
Seventeen entries and counting: science, history, and the occasional bit of philosophy, all tied back to real coastlines. Filter by the kind of story you're in the mood for, or just scroll.
Beach Beats: Fall on the Midcoast
Shell middens, folded rock, a Rachel Carson tide pool, and a thermos of hot cider on Maine's Damariscotta River.
The White Sharks of the Gulf of Maine
Maine researchers tagged their first juvenile white shark, an eight-foot female named Bug.
The Haunting Whistle of the Sea | Ama Divers
Japan's free-diving sea women and the whistle that still echoes over the water.
Silver Harvesters
Cornish pilchard fishermen and the vanished economy that once shimmered in silver.
The Butterfly Ocean
What chaos theory and a single wave have in common.
Quantum Possibilities in the Ocean Deep
Could whales and fish be coordinating through something stranger than sound?
Quantum Jumps
The instantaneous leaps inside every atom, and their echoes in the sea.
The Architecture of Coral Reefs
How billions of pinhead-sized builders raise cities visible from space.
The Lift of Water (Buoyancy)
The invisible force that lets a jellyfish float and a whale surface.
The Pull of the Tides
Gravity made visible, twice a day, on every shore on Earth.
The History of Messages in Bottles
A tradition of trust, cast into the waves and answered decades later.
Morning Mist
The quiet physics behind the fog that rolls in at dawn.
The Ocean's Relation to Pi
How a single constant threads through waves, tides, and navigation.
Thich Nhat Hanh on Impermanence
What a sandcastle can teach about holding on loosely.
Phytoplankton
The invisible painters that make half our planet's oxygen.
Why Seashells Sing of the Sea
The real reason a shell sounds like the ocean when you hold it to your ear.
The Science of Sand
Every coastline in America is written in a different kind of grain.
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