Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Chromolithographs
news.movim.eu / Schneier · Sunday, 4 June, 2023 - 19:51
Beautiful illustrations .
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EDITED TO ADD (6/4): Slashdot thread .
Friday Squid Blogging: Creating Batteries Out of Squid Cells
news.movim.eu / Schneier · Friday, 24 March, 2023 - 16:38
This is fascinating :
“When a squid ends up chipping what’s called its ring tooth, which is the nail underneath its tentacle, it needs to regrow that tooth very rapidly, otherwise it can’t claw its prey,” he explains.
This was intriguing news and it sparked an idea in Hopkins lab where he’d been trying to figure out how to store and transmit heat.
“It diffuses in all directions. There’s no way to capture the heat and move it the way that you would electricity. It’s just not a fundamental law of physics.”
[…]
The tiny brown batteries he mentions are about the size of a chiclet, and Hopkins says it will take a decade or more to create larger batteries that could have commercial value.
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Friday Squid Blogging: New Species of Vampire Squid Lives 3,000 Feet below Sea Level
news.movim.eu / Schneier · Wednesday, 15 March, 2023 - 17:21
At least, it seems to be a new species.
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Friday Squid Blogging: How to Buy Fresh or Frozen Squid
news.movim.eu / Schneier · Thursday, 12 January, 2023 - 21:41
Friday Squid Blogging: Injured Giant Squid and Paddleboarder
news.movim.eu / Schneier · Thursday, 22 December, 2022 - 19:52
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid in Concert
news.movim.eu / Schneier · Friday, 16 December, 2022 - 22:13
Squid is performing a concert in London in February.
If you don’t know what their music is like, try this or this or this .
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Friday Squid Blogging: The Reproductive Habits of Giant Squid
news.movim.eu / Schneier · Friday, 14 October, 2022 - 14:30 · 1 minute
A recent study on giant squid that have washed ashore along the Sea of Japan coast has raised the possibility that the animal has a different reproductive method than many other types of squid.
Almost all squid and octopus species are polygamous, with multiple males passing sperm to a single female. Giant squids were thought to have a similar form reproduction.
However, a group led by Professor Noritaka Hirohashi, 57, a professor of reproductive biology in the Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences at Shimane University suspects differently.
They examined 66 sperm “bags” attached to five different locations on the body of a female that washed ashore in Ine Town of Kyoto Prefecture in 2020, and found that all of them were from the same male.
It is rare for a female with sperm attached to be found, and further verification is needed, but the study’s results indicate that giant squid, unlike other squids, may be “monogamous.” That is, females may receive sperm from only one certain male. Hirohashi and his colleagues published their findings in an international scientific journal in July of 2021.
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Friday Squid Blogging: On Squid Ink
news.movim.eu / Schneier · Friday, 14 October, 2022 - 14:21
It’s aimed at children, but it’s a good primer .
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Friday Squid Blogging: Ten-Foot Long Squid Washed onto Japanese Shore — ALIVE
news.movim.eu / Schneier · Wednesday, 27 April, 2022 - 17:26
This is rare :
An about 3-meter-long giant squid was found stranded on a beach here on April 20, in what local authorities said was a rare occurrence.
At around 10 a.m., a nearby resident spotted the squid at Ugu beach in Obama, Fukui Prefecture, on the Sea of Japan coast. According to the Obama Municipal Government, the squid was still alive when it was found. It is unusual for a giant squid to be washed ashore alive, officials said.
The deep-sea creature will be transported to Echizen Matsushima Aquarium in the prefectural city of Sakai.
Sadly, I do not expect the giant squid to survive, certainly not long enough for me to fly there and see it. But if any Japanese readers can supply more information, I would very much appreciate it.
BoingBoing <a href=”https://boingboing.net/2022/04/26/giant-squid-rescued-from-obama-in-japan.html>post. Video .
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