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Permalink Reply by T A A on April 10, 2012 at 3:23pm

wow, thanks!

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on May 17, 2012 at 12:44am

Thanks for watching. Seems like you're the only one who does.

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on April 11, 2012 at 4:44pm

Must see video.

 

 

Everybody loves cephalopods—that class of animals containing octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish. But why? What makes these non-fluffy, non-mammals so appealing?

Last August, I attempted to answer that question in a presentation for a University of New Mexico IGERT symposium (http://www.chtm.unm.edu/incbnigert/2010Symposium.html). "Those Fabulous Octopus Brains" is a speech linking cephalopod neurobiology to cephalopod behavior, and asking what it really means to call a species "intelligent". It'll get you caught up on what we do, and don't, know about cephalopod smarts—and what studying these amazing creatures means for the future of human technology, and our understanding of the human brain.

Permalink Reply by Morgan Matthew on May 17, 2012 at 1:01am

This is a serious must see vid indeed!

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on May 9, 2012 at 1:06pm

Amazing! You gotta watch this. This is a kind of jellyfish, the Deepstaria sp. Looks so incredibly alien. Life on earth never ceases to amaze me.

Permalink Reply by T A A on May 16, 2012 at 11:21pm

Do you know if this is from James Cameron sea-bottom exploration?
Looks like sheets of silk swaying, amazing.

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on May 17, 2012 at 12:43am

I don't know.

Permalink Reply by T A A on May 17, 2012 at 3:25am

I spent only two weeks of my life underwater, in the Aguilhas Current, off the coast of South Africa, diving. Were two of the most beautiful weeks of my life, notwithstanding the ear pain :)

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on May 10, 2012 at 8:37pm

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Permalink Reply by T A A on May 15, 2012 at 2:03pm

Fantastic! :)

I was getting a sense of sitting in a dentist's seat with a dental dam in front of my face! Hard for them to see what they're doing!

Permalink Reply by Morgan Matthew on May 17, 2012 at 1:00am

+1

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