Say it isn't so — Ouroboros has an article on cephalopod senescence.
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I just read a paper that features fellow science blogger Chris Patil as an author (although he would be the first to state that he was second on the author's list). The manuscript, which appeared in yesterday's edition of PLoS Biology, describes senescence-associated secretory phenotype (aka SASP…
Maybe with a little butter and garlic.
This article makes a troubling point: if cephalopods are so smart, shouldn't we feel some guilt about eating them?
I think I actually agree with some of the ethical issues raised, and probably should hesitate to kill and eat something like the octopus. However…
Brothers Bora and Drug reminded me that it is time for the early December traditional meme of recording one's first sentence of each month's first post.
Just as an aside, on my visit with this week with Anton and Bora to Ernie Hood's Radio In Vivo show to promote ScienceOnline'09, Ernie asked, "how…
The latest edition of the Tangled Bank is at Ouroboros. And if that isn't enough science blogging for you, this has also been a good week for these other excellent carnivals:
Oekologie #12
Encephalon #38
Gene Genie #22
Maybe this is a sign you should switch from octopi to nautili?
They don't call Cthulhu a Great Old One for nothing!
It would appear that you, Pharyngula, are the source of all the squid blogging mayhem going on in my blog sources. I have noticed with alarm that sources widely spaced in my blogosphere (namely, you and Bruce Schneier, a security expert) blog regularly about squids and octopi. Then there is cephalopodmas, an insidious meme that you apparently designed to spread your cephalomania more widely.
How did this nightmare begin? Is it really a disease of the mind or a harmless obsession with a cuddly creature worthy of regular attention? Google seems to point all things cephalopodly back toward you. That and your recently engineered web award all seem part of a scheme to spread cephalomania throughout the world-that-matters (the blogosphere). Is this true? Oh, woe, say it isn't so!!
DO NOT QUESTION CEPHALOPODOPHILIA!!!
My minions are tracing your IP as we speak. If damp, dark, hooded figures reeking of kelp appear at your house tonight, go with peacefully and obey their orders. You will be returned unharmed after the larvae have been implanted.
"cuddly"?
Yep. Cuddly.
The marine-bio educators have started pushing people to call starfish "sea stars," and jellyfish "sea jellies," because -- news flash -- they're not fish.
Well, cephalopods of the genus Sepia and their ilk are not fish either. Logically, I've started calling them "sea cuddles." Out loud. During my weekly volunteer shifts at our fine local public aquarium. To the vistors.
(If I called them "sea cuttles," more properly, it would sound exactly the same, and make less sense.)
The remaining two (ancient) cuddly ones at the aquarium have laid a few viable eggs, and a very few have hatched.
Hatched!
Hatched. into 4-mm cuttlefish.
Teh cute! Cuddly.
I don't know about old or cuddly, but apparently squid and hot tubs don't mix. ;)
(Saw this story, thought of Pharyngula. Take that as you will.)