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Led by 100-meter world record holder Usain Bolt, Jamaican men swept the sprinting events at the London Olympics. It was a stunning feat for the small Caribbean nation. But as part of a broader trend, it’s hardly surprising. Runners of West African desce ...

Article - Jon Entine - Aug 13 2012 - 5:33pm - 0 attachments

... pal Squidward . Today, I sigh over Nemo's little octopus friend Pearl. I was profoundly impressed with the combination of ... pal Squidward . Today, I sigh over Nemo's little octopus friend Pearl. I was profoundly impressed with the combination of ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Jul 21 2012 - 10:48am - 0 attachments

I'm here today to talk about a very strange paper:  Penetration of the oral mucosa by parasite-like sperm bags of squid: a case report in a Korean woman. This study, published in February in the Journal of Parasitology (?!), presents the tale o ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Jun 14 2012 - 11:56am - 0 attachments

... images showing a leaping bottlenose dolphin with a large octopus clinging to its belly. Well, more specifically  the ... the dolphin might have attacked - tried to prey on the octopus - and somehow to avoid it the octopus just attached to the dolphin's ...

Cool Link - Hank Campbell - Jun 18 2012 - 7:02pm - 0 attachments

I would like you to consider carefully the following comments made by Gerhard Adam in the discussion that followed a recent article on artificial intelligence. Gerhard’s contribution is a lesson in the benefits of disciplined logical thought. Please re ...

Article - Steve Davis - Mar 4 2012 - 9:25am - 0 attachments

Usually "No Change in X" doesn't make a very splashy headline, but when the lack of change occurs over 160,000,000 years and X is squid ink, people get excited. And with good cause. This is the first time that ink from a fossil cephalopod has been ...

Article - Danna Staaf - May 24 2012 - 1:14am - 0 attachments

... octopuses. Eric introduced me to the California pygmy octopus,  Octopus micropyrsus , which would proceed to fascinate me for the rest of my ...

Article - Danna Staaf - May 15 2012 - 11:22pm - 0 attachments

It's called Knowledge and it's a short story by John Frizell in Nature . Did you know that Nature publishes short stories, one at the back of every issue? They do! No human could have grasped the squid's name. Human eyes could not distinguish ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Apr 18 2012 - 12:02pm - 0 attachments

... Then someone lifted a big slab and gasped: there was a red octopus, chowing down on a shore crab. I remember this scene so vividly in ... speeds and/or hide while they're eating--like the octopus. I was reminded of this story because of a fantastic photo in the ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Apr 5 2012 - 10:35pm - 0 attachments

One of the more whimsical squid news stories I've seen in a while: A squid, a dog, and a mini-mystery solved at a Minnesota lake . "Of course, squid are not found in Minnesota lakes," reports journalist Al Edenloff. So true, and so charmingly ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Mar 28 2012 - 9:51pm - 0 attachments