Category: Making Waves
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The Magical Biology of Cuttles and Bobtails
Sea cuttles, also wrongly named cuttlefish, are masters of disguise. Chameleons don’t even compete. But that’s not the only cool thing about these cute blobs of awesome. So, let’s talk about cuttles!
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The Squishy Biology of Squids
Between bobtail squids that are so cute that I just can’t, colossal squid that are, well, colossal, and squid that aren’t even squid, there’s a lot of excitingly cool stuff in this group.
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Why Does Fisheries Management Not Work?
Managing the ocean isn’t easy. How do we decide who can fish where, with what methods, and how much? Let’s talk fisheries management.
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The Freaky Biology of Nautiluses and Allonautiluses
Nautiluses are often considered living fossils. Today we talk about these shelled cephalopods and their more recent cousins, the allonautiluses.
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Is it ethical to eat fish?
Today, we are answering a very important question: Can it be ethical to eat fish? The answer is not as clear-cut as I’d like it to be, so let’s get into this mess.
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Mollusks: Mussels, Snails, Clams, and Co
Today, we talk mollusks. From clams and oysters to snails and underwater slugs in all colors of the rainbow.
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Bilateria: When Mouths become Other Things
Today, we are continuing our precarious climb along the ever-changing tree of life. Once I survive the three weeks of full-time lectures, we’ll make things a little more diverse on here again. There are quite a few exciting things I want to talk about, but my brain is refusing to do more than chew up…
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The Unbelievable Biology of CORALS and Anemones
Today, we are going to talk about one of my favorite animals: corals. Yep, I said animal. Those plant-looking things are definitely animals. It’s even weirder than that, though. Let’s dive in. Let’s quickly orient ourselves where we are on the tree of life. In the kingdom of the animals, the so-called Animalia, the Ctenophora…
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On Picking and Choosing Facts: Shady Statistics and Propaganda
I hadn’t planned another detour from our biodiversity series this week, but after spending a day watching propaganda from both sides on the state of fish populations and fisheries, I couldn’t help but talk about sustainable fisheries. On the one side, there was a speech by this dude called Ray Hilborn, author of the book…