This is a great question! I need to ask the donors (one of which is Bruce himself) to see if they would prefer public domain or CC BY or what. I'll be sure to let you know.

Careful asking a librarian for a reference, you'll get more than you asked for! ☺️ This paper looks to be the first: doi.org/10.1016/0198.... As per usual, the @wikipedia.org page has a nice summary w/ references. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice_(...

Apparently coined by Walter Munk in 1981 - I should have known! Absolute legend.

How thoughtless of me! 😂 This is so neat. It has to do with seawater density and how water of the same density can be warm+saltier (spicy) or cold+fresher (minty). Thought I had a pretty good understanding of the physical nature of seawater but I never realized it could be spicy! 🌶️

The best! I’ll never write a pattern with such perfect instructions. 😂

"How do you start a frog hat? Rib it! Rib it!" 🐸

Absolute legend!

Yesssss. This is the way. 🧣

That was my first immediate thought, too! Will be following along with great interest ... 😍

Overhead projectors? Oh sure! You don't see them much, but we have one somewhere at the marine station.

Came here for the comments and have not been disappointed.

I'm really proud that as I mentally ran through candidates of things to take home, most of what came to mind are things we've already scanned & uploaded to Stanford Digital Repository - no action needed. Humbled that I didn't have a grab-list already composed, so I'm working on that now. 🤔 /end