The Blob
Greg PucilloA newsletter about algae, the three billion-year-old disruptor that's still making waves.
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| Issues | 17 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 2 months ago |
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Greenlight: Seafoam Materials
Welcome to The Blob’s Greenlight series!
This is something a bit different for The Blob, and hopefully a fun departure. If the typical Blob post is a “macro blob” of the deep-dive variety, I like to think of this series as the “micro blobs...
The Electric Slime
We have an exciting year for The Blob ahead.
A few things I’m cultivating/involved with, which I hope to share more about and incorporate into some posts in the months ahead:
- Harvesting sugar kelp on Long Island’s south coast (weathe...
The Blob 100
The Blob has been around for almost exactly a year now (first “Hello World” post was 01/10/25), averaging about one deep-dive post a month since January 2025.
For the end of the year, I’m going to do something a little different, somewhat...
Crude Intentions
After floating to the bottom of lakes and oceans over millions of years, and with some added heat and pressure, ancient algae and zooplankton broke down and transformed into the goopy black substance we rely on today for fuel and raw materi...
Alg-chemy: The Quest for Green Gold
At The Blob, we like to focus on the dazzling promise of industrial algae. Given what’s been proven possible in the lab, we point to a world where algal feedstock is ubiquitous and the material fabric of society is biocompatible, marine bio...
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