We had an interesting discussion on Tuesday about the Sargasso Sea, and it caused me to do a little digging of my own. I found a great picture online that shows the extent of the sea and the currents that border it. However, this picture makes it look like there it nothing but weeds filling this entire area. Here is a link that shows some of the sea life that is found in this area. There is a picture that shows the extent of the weeds found in the sea (notice while the patch is dense it doesn't extend for miles). Although that would be pretty cool. http://www.bigelow.org/bacteria/teach/data_orgs3.html

I was really interested in the article by Rachel L. Carson found in the back of our reader. I thought for sure the article was written with the novel in mind, but as we discovered in class Carson's article was published many years before the novel. I love it when ideas cross time and space. It seems to give them more validity than any research or modern explanation can offer to a subject. I remember learning about the philosophy of Confucius in another class and I was amazed at the similarities his philosophies shared with Plato/Socrates who were thousands of miles away at approximately the same time. Many chalk these coincidences up a the natural order of civilization, but there seems to be something more sublime in it than the idea that civilizations will come up with similar ideas at similar stages of there evolution. I am much more romantic and tend to take a more hermetic approach to such connections.