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Category: Culture
Posted on: March 20, 2008 10:08 AM, by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum
Last week, Inoculated Mind's Karl J. Mogel interviewed me about ScienceDebate2008, science blogging, sea cucumbers, the intersection of science and policy, and the truth about PZ Myers fear to debate me over the best marine invertebrate.
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No contest! Cukes would eat squid for breakfast...
I'm thrilled Karl chose the Firefly theme song and you can find me about 30 minutes in...
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No contest. Sorry PZ, cukes have all the sex appeal. They win hands (or tubefeet?) down!
Posted by: D | March 20, 2008 10:42 AM
That's some interview kid! You're articulate and spoke with confidence.
I expect great things from you to come and will follow your career with interest and vast expectations.
Posted by: Doc | March 20, 2008 1:21 PM
Enjoyed listening to the interview with Karl Mogel. Keep up the good work...
Posted by: Linda | March 20, 2008 2:27 PM
What? No link to sea cucumber recipes?
Posted by: jon | March 20, 2008 6:20 PM
Ball is in your court now
http://scienceblogs.com/deepseanews/2008/03/on_clearing_up_the_matter_that.php
Posted by: CR McClain | March 20, 2008 6:36 PM
There are some cool looking cukes out there, but the neatest thing about them is that whole mutable collagin tissue: stess them or slap them and they get stiff as a brick,let them relax and they can melt through your fingers. Wierd and cool. But even with that (and the cuvierian tubules, the breathe through their anus trick, and even the whole symbiotic fish relationship) they have nothing on cephalopods. They don't even taste as good.
Posted by: Eric | March 21, 2008 1:48 AM
http://scienceblogs.com/deepseanews/2008/03/on_how_molluscs_are_cooler_tha.php
Posted by: CR McClain | March 21, 2008 2:13 PM
http://scienceblogs.com/deepseanews/2008/03/on_how_mollusks_are_cooler_tha_1.php
Posted by: CR McClain | March 21, 2008 2:32 PM
And sea cucumbers are so diverse! Consider the very vertebrate-like appearance of sea pigs (scotoplanes), or the tiny and cute medusa worms (apodida).
I am fascinated as much by what holothurians lack (in terms of sense organs) as much as I am by what they possess in other unique features.
Posted by: Xeip | March 26, 2008 5:41 PM