So if you read boingboing, this week you saw the special feature on Everybody Loves Cephalopods, which includes a great video on cephalopod neurobiology and behavior. If you didn’t catch it, you can enjoy it now! What follows: 1. Cephalopods are awesome. 2. My last post was on mollusks inspiring art. 3. This week I [...]
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Some more molluscan art…
Posted in art, cephalopod overlords, octopus on January 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Friday linkage
Posted in cephalopod overlords, interspecies snorgling, lollusk, snail, squid on December 18, 2010 | 3 Comments »
1. My husband, a mollusk enthusiast himself, sent me an email the other day with the title “our cephalopod overlords” and this link to the Daily Mail article about flying squid. Check out these photos. My first reaction? Should I be concerned that my husband is reading tabloid garbage like the Daily Mail? 2. Anyway, [...]
I, for one, welcome our cephalopod overlords: airborne attack edition
Posted in cephalopod overlords, squid on August 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Flying squids: It’s not a metaphor or literary device of any sort. Well, maybe a slight misnomer. The story itself isn’t new, there was a 2004 study about squid that take to the air. It came up on Scientific American recently because of the new photographic evidence, seen above, taken by amateur photographer Bob Hulse [...]
I, for one, welcome our new cephalopod overlords: ice poison edition
Posted in cephalopod overlords, octopus on August 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A cool story recently surfaced about octopuses that have venom that works at 0°C, far too cold for typical venoms. The results of the study about these octopodes were published in a journal called Toxicon, which is a pretty awesome journal name if I do say so myself. Another fun thing about this research is [...]
I, for one, welcome our new cephalopod overlords: hibernation edition
Posted in cephalopod overlords, squid on July 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The BBC sure loves cephalopod stories! This week we’ve got one about Humboldt Squid. The authors of the paper in Progress in Oceanography managed to capture 71 squids and subject them to different levels of oxygen to see how they do. Turns out they can slow down their metabolism in a low oxygen environment, stay [...]
Taking his ball and going home
Posted in cephalopod overlords, mollusk mathematics on July 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Paul the octopus is retiring after his last correct prediction, that Spain would win the world cup. It’s exceeding unlikely he’ll be alive at the next World Cup anyway, so it’s probably a wise decision on Paul’s part. The odds of him correctly picking the outcomes of 8 world cup matches are obviously quite low [...]
I, for one, welcome our new cephalopod overlords: prognostication edition
Posted in cephalopod overlords on July 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On The Shell and Mantle, I’m hoping to feature stories in the news about weird stuff octopuses do in captivity. I don’t actually think octopuses will take over the world–those pesky endocrine secretions that kill them after mating, and all– but I find it darling how they try. I’ll certainly feature some throwbacks to my [...]
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