Divers discovered this gigantic transparent blob floating in the sea off the Turkish coast. What could it be?
It looks like that's a squid egg mass, containing millions of eggs and embryos, drifting deep in the ocean until it hatches out, releasing a vast swarm of tiny predators in one overwhelming cloud. If you're not going to tend to your babies, that's a smart strategy for giving a percentage of your relatively helpless young a chance to live.
Oh, ignore the music in the video. It's insufficiently doom-laden and lacking in minor keys.
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Ah, I'm back home again, and just in time…the snow started falling just as I crossed the Morris city limits.
Here's an interesting article in BBC which suggests that more hysterical messages on climate change might fall on deaf ears.
I'm sure my headline is over-optimistic.
Dear Reader Tom Stinnett alerted me to a really doom-laden article about Sweden in yesterday's Guardian. Says Ruben Andersson (apparently a Swedish expat and anthropologist),
Beware the invisible Kraken that played that egg.