May 24 2013
Molluscs have amazing super-powers. (via It’s Okay to be Smart) But you know what? So do humans. We air-breathing terrestrial bipeds are able to enter strange alien worlds and return with a digital record of the events that even the lubbers among us can appreciate.
May 17 2013
(From TONMO, on a page about raising captive cuttlefish)
May 12 2013
At first glance, I thought it was an epiploon or omentum, but no, it’s a lovely octopus mother tending her brood. Go hug your mom right now, or if she’s not nearby, hug a mollusc instead.
May 10 2013
My version of science is puttering around quietly in an air-conditioned lab. Peter Ward’s version involves travel to exotic oceans, pirates, death, and crippling risks to life and limbs. And cephalopods. Excuse me, I have to go curl up quietly in a dark corner and feel inadequate for a while.
May 10 2013
How else is Google Maps going to get coverage of the 70% of the planet underwater? (via Cephalove)
May 03 2013
From a lovely article in the New York Review of Books about octopods:
Apr 24 2013
It’s a simple text-based game in which you play a cuttlefish. If you’re anything like me, it’ll take you 30 seconds to win. Knowing male cuttlefish mating strategies is a major advantage. Unfortunately, you only get to play as a male, and females only have the property of being ever-receptive…which doesn’t sound very realistic to …
Apr 19 2013
It’s a big image, so it’s going below the fold.
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