MIT's Stefan Helmreich on his book "Alien Ocean"

4,104 views · Published 10 February 2009 · 1:04 · Indexed 29 September 2026

Channel: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) · 2009 · Education

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When anthropologist Stefan Helmreich decided to study scientists who chase some of the world's smallest creatures in some of the world's most forbidding places, his research took an unexpected twist. An interview with Helmreich on why the ocean can be so "alien."

View the full story at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/alien-ocean-0205.html

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