Secret Home Lab on Adam Savage’s Tested

The Tested Crew came over to the SHL as part 3 in a 4 part series about building an octopus puzzle. (Note: This is a video series we filmed in 2018, before the current pandemic lockdown.) While we wait for the California Academy of Science’s Giant Pacific Octopus to learn Adam’s puzzle, Kishore and Indre […]

Adam Savage says nice things about Rich

Local copy here I’m mentioned a few times, but the good chunk is at about 29:40, which is where the youtube video below should start. There is a bunch of ceph stuff earlier.

Coral are in serious trouble. This lab could help save them

From Wired by Matt Simon CORALS ARE IN SERIOUS TROUBLE. THIS LAB COULD HELP SAVE THEM (Local copy of the video available here) Nestled among giant fish tanks at the California Academy of Sciences, there’s a black box—just big enough to hold six aquariums and maybe five humans. What it lacks in size, though, it makes up for […]

Love, Octopus-ly – Science Friday covers the Secret Home Lab

From Science Friday Full-time biologist—part-time cephalopod matchmaker, Richard Ross invites us into his secret home lab where he studies the mating rituals of the lesser Pacific striped Octopus. Local copy: https://vimeo.com/222450496 I’m a .gif! https://vimeo.com/222453063