This is a long streaming video, so you might want to save it for something to watch over lunch. Mark Norman takes a giant squid apart at the Melbourne Museum.
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Every triangle has three sides,
No more, no less.
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Tagged for when I get back from class. :-)
Ooooo the suspense! Will it be filled with an explosion of candy pieces or a creamy nougat center??
Can't wait until lunch. I'm eating a "raw calamari omelet" (whatever that is), so I'll watch it now. thankx.
Haha. I had just run out of lunchtime dissection videos -- thanks PZ!
Hah, maybe chili dogs were not the best things for me to have for lunch today.
See, this is where you go to get noticed. A squid dissection post with few comments.
Squid dissection? Over lunch? Interesting concept though I usually listen to MPR and sometimes even that makes me queasy. :\
Currently downloading for later viewing... it's taking even longer than the "Starcraft 2" preview. I hope I can finish the download before I zip down to work. I'll watch it while eating some ceviche.
I am still amazed that the guy who wrote those "Gor" books is a marine biologist...
This here bureaucrat does NOT watch dissection videos during lunch (90s era Eddie Vedder videos, yes).
They showed a small segment of it on TV. I was really surprised but then I realised it was SBS.