Nice footage, not too crazy about the music.
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From NPR’s Bryant Park Project
WARNING: A gross video primer on the humane way to cook a lobster. Hint: Kill it first.
Scientists have gone back and forth over whether crustaceans feel pain — and what it really boils down to (sorry) is whether your conscience should pang you when you throw a live lobster into a pot for dinner.
The latest scientific study says that yes, it likely does hurt when a lobster hits that boiling water. They’re not just scrabbling around under the lid because it’s dark in there.
Surprised?
Bonus: A gadget that kills the lobster for you, our segment on lobsters’ feelings, and a piece on the long and happy lives of lobsters.
Mermaid/uke #3. Too cool. Link.
From a FARK photoshop contest.
Surfer Todd Endris needed a miracle. The shark — a monster great white that came out of nowhere — had hit him three times, peeling the skin off his back and mauling his right leg to the bone.
That’s when a pod of bottlenose dolphins intervened, forming a protective ring around Endris, allowing him to get to shore, where quick first aid provided by a friend saved his life.
“Truly a miracle,” Endris said.
via Spluch
Sharkwater [77% rating on Rotten Tomatoes] is a 2007 Canadian documentary film directed, written, and starring Rob Stewart. The film itself is a documentary on sharks; how they live, how they are portrayed by the media, and how they are treated today. The film focuses on debunking stereotypes associated with sharks, and alerting the public on the decline of the shark population due to the increased popularity of shark fin soup.
Now playing in the US.
Bonus link: 24 minute “Making of Sharkwater” behind the scenes video.
A two-meter shark has been caught in a river in southern Iraq more than 200 km (160 miles) from the sea.
Karim Hasan Thamir said he was fishing with his sons last week when they spotted a large fish thrashing about in his net. “I recognized the fish as a shark because I have seen one on a television program,” he told Reuters.
The shark was pulled from the mouth of an irrigation canal that joins the Euphrates River. The Euphrates joins the Tigris River further east to form the Shatt al-Arab waterway which flows south past Basra into the Gulf.
Dr. Mohamed Ajah, assistant dean of the college of science at Thi Qar University in Nassiriya, said barriers in river estuaries usually prevented sharks swimming upstream.
“In this case, I think this animal was there for a long time but no one had managed to see it,” he said.
Locals blamed the U.S. military for the shark’s presence.
Tahseen Ali, a teacher, said there was a “75 percent chance” Americans had put the shark in the water.
I have a friend who spoke Japanese and travelled there frequently on business in the ’90s. He told me that a fun thing for the Japanese to do was to try and ‘freak out the gaijin‘ by taking them to a special sushi restaurant where the specialty was ikezukuri, or sashimi served so fresh it was still quivering. He smiled and downed the dish with as much cool as he could muster.
I also understand that when the Japanese were first introduced to cheese (just rotted milk, really) they were revolted. No word on prairie oysters.
UPDATE: Bilgemunky sent us a link that is even more over-the-top: eating live octopus.
‘shoal‘ by dominic bromley is a cylindrical shoal of 1,500 fine bone china fish
encircling six central fluorescent lights.
via Dark Roasted Blend
While fishing in about 1,400 feet of water off the South Coast of Grand Cayman, Mr. Wright’s attention was drawn to an object that was floating on the surface nearby. He motored over to investigate and picked up a dead fish that simply amazed him. It is now also astonishing scientists both here and in the United States.
In the belly of the fish was another fish, and this one was clearly much, much bigger. In fact when it was measured it was determined that the fish he picked up had eaten a ‘snake mackerel’ that was more than four times its own length.
“When I first saw it I really couldn’t believe my eyes,” said Wright. “It had obviously just died, so I decided I had to put it in the boat and take it down to the Department of the Environment to investigate it further.”
Marine Scientist Phillippe Bush snapped some photographs and sent them up to the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute in the United States. A short time later, Tracey Sutton wrote back saying the fish “was appropriately called a ‘Great Swallower’ and it normally lives in deep water.”
Funky design for t-shirts, hats, etc., from Fishbones.
Cold and flu season is coming. Be ready.
Eating some bad fish might not seem like the most spectacular way to ruin a tropical vacation, but for a 45-year-old man from England, a bit of tainted seafood was the beginning of a wild ride.
Cold water felt burning hot. Hot things felt icy cold. His tongue felt strange. Drinking alcohol or coffee only increased his suffering.
The patient had ciguatera poisoning — an ailment caused by ciguatoxin, a neurotoxin that is produced by microorganisms and found in a wide variety of tropical fish.
To raise awareness of the bizarre condition, Peter Bain, a researcher at Imperial College in London, described the amusing case in the October issue of Practical Neurology.
He was not the first doctor to witness the strange illness.
In 1774, Captain James Cook, famed explorer of the South Pacific, watched as some of his men experienced the unusual affliction. His surgeon recorded the diverse symptoms, including: a burning sensation in the face, pain in the limbs, and an imaginary feeling of loose teeth.
full story at Wired Science
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