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 […]
Science Friday: This Tiny Seahorse Has Mastered Its Domain
To hide in the knobby sea fans they call home, Bargibantās pygmy seahorses have evolved exquisite camouflage by Julie Leibach, on January 18, 2017 The Rich Ross centric part: “When it comes time to mate, seahorses that engage in daily greetings generally extend that ritual into a more elaborate display that ultimately says, āIām ready!ā […]
You May Not Understand This, But We’re Right (& Parts for A Third)
Episode 228 – You May Not Understand This, But We’re Right (& Parts for A Third) Original Air Date – July 10, 2016 The NRO gives NASA new giant telescopes, a discussion of the benefits of base 12, & David Copperfield gets a new house. No aquarium discussion at all! Episodes For a local version […]
Reef Threads 280 – Twilight Zone and the Big Tank
Weāre back for the 280th time. Our guests this week are Matt Wandell, Richard Ross and, for the first time, Nick Yim, from the Steinhart Aquarium at the California Academy of Sciences. Lots of subjects this week, but the big one is the new twilight-zone display at the aquarium and what itās like to dive […]
What Would Inky Think: Is It OK to Cage an Octopus?
From Wired Magazine, Rich interviewed AUTHOR: NICK STOCKTON.NICK STOCKTON SCIENCE DATE OF PUBLICATION: 04.14.16.04.14.16 TIME OF PUBLICATION: 7:50 PM.7:50 PM A common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) at the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco.ALAMY SO, YOUāVE GOT this pet octopus. Let me guess, she keeps trying to escape. Opening the lid to her tank, pushing the lid, creeping […]