Friday Cephalopod: It’s giant squid weekend

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   René

   25 January 2013 at 12:30 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Will somebody be holding up a matchbox next to its face for viewing its scale?

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   Cuttlefish

   25 January 2013 at 12:43 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   But PZ, that’s when EWTN (the Catholic network) is airing their “EWTN Bookmarks” show on the new atheism–an interview with Archbishop Rino Fisichella! After all, who knows more about atheists than a Roman Archbishop!

   http://www.monstersandcritics.com/smallscreen/news/article_1710287.php/EWTN-Rome-Bookmark-On-the-New-Atheism-airs-Jan-27

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   cyberax

   25 January 2013 at 1:26 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   We’ve just started a project for the Giant Squid full-genome de-novo sequencing. Somebody in the team remarked that “it’s good we didn’t have to go and get the DNA sample personally”.

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   rthur2013

   25 January 2013 at 1:34 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I want one for my fishtank. A large fishtank, needless to say.

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   gussnarp

   25 January 2013 at 2:03 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I will watch it when it’s free.

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   shoeguy

   25 January 2013 at 8:41 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   You just know it will be fifty eight minutes of ads, breathless fun squid facts and warnings of the danger of squid attack interspersed with thirty seconds of shaky camera footage of what could be tentacles. That’s what the last “giant squid” show I saw was like.

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   Trebuchet

   25 January 2013 at 9:43 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I can’t help remembering this is the same company (Discovery Communications) that gave us that wonderful mermaid show last year. I predict about 30 seconds of shaky video shown over and over in the last five minutes of the show.

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   David Marjanović

   26 January 2013 at 3:02 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   We’ve just started a project for the Giant Squid full-genome de-novo sequencing.

   Impressive. But why – I mean, why is anyone funding that?

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   ChasCPeterson

   26 January 2013 at 3:19 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   why is anyone funding that?

   good question. There ought to be at least a few lophotrochozoans with higher priority. It’s not even a candidate for Model Cephalopod.

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    Markita Lynda—threadrupt

    26 January 2013 at 7:52 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Even their promo had more than just a flash of tentacles. The whole thing was visible for at least a moment and they promise more.

    Thanks for the reminder! I knew something was coming up on TV on the 27th but couldn’t remember what.