Everyone knows you're supposed to be reading Deep Sea News today for all things cephalopodial, right?
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CK tells me that The Scientist magazine is taking an online poll about your favorite life science blogs. The link to place your vote is here.
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You're reading this over breakfast, right? Just want to be sure I've caught you at an appropriate moment.
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A wonderful musician, Andrew Bird, has a song called "Opposite Day" on his album "And the mysterious production of eggs" which opens with the lyrics:
"I got home this morning with the sun right in my eyes
And there was no warning as it took me by surprise as it
Hit me like an Act of God, causing my alarm
That I had not become a cephalopod
I still had legs and arms"
Actually my favourite deep sea animal is Physeter macrocephalus. *evil grin*
That goes well with this desktop my husband made for me some time ago:
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