Why do I have this urge to send this to Stuart Pivar?
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Peter Irons wrote a letter to Murray Gell-Mann.
Dear Dr. Gell-Mann,
Stuart Pivar is on a rampage again — he has rallied his lawyers and is on the attack.
The Pivar story isn't quite dead yet —
In August, Stuart Pivar once again threatened to resolve a scientific dispute by waving a team of lawyers at it, when he tried to sue a scientist, Robert Hazen, for daring to insist that Pivar
Because he has a great sense of humor?
Oh, wait.....never mind.
Intelligent design!
I really enjoy all the balloon lingo in this. I'm going to get a bunch of nine inch rounds for my next party.
Because you're a big meanie?
Add another head and it would look a lot like the flying spaghetti monster!
I've just watched the new TED talk on youtube, by Robert Full (it is probably from a year or two ago). I won't patronize PZ by asking if he has seen the bipedal octopus disguised as a rolling coconut while 'running' along the sea floor, and another as floating algae, but I recommend that others check it out. It is actually a talk called, "Robert Full: Secrets of movement, from geckos and roaches".
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ascql_RoeBU
Send it!
Damian, thanks for the link. Very interesting talk by Full.
The cephalopods referenced show up at about 5:30 and are definitely worth the price of admission!
Awesome! Now I want to try to make an octopus.
It brought back memories. I remember taking my kids to a family restaurant when they were little that had a clown who made balloon animals. The kids loved it. The clown made a variety of balloon animals but never octopi though.
Does it have ten tentacles?
I only ask because of that diagram explaining how spiders developed with ten legs.
That'd be easy enough. Just add another 260.
There must be a video suite earlier in this series in which he spends at least 5 hours walking you through how to tie balloons around each other at near relativistic effect speeds. If not, this man is the worst teacher who has ever lived.