Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/05/friday-squid-blogging-online-cephalopod-course.html
Atlas Obscura has a five-part online course on cephalopods, taught by squid biologist Dr. Sarah McAnulty.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/05/friday-squid-blogging-peruvian-squid-fishing-regulation-drives-chinese-fleets-away.html
A Peruvian oversight law has the opposite effect:
Peru in 2020 began requiring any foreign fishing boat entering its ports to use a vessel monitoring system allowing its activities to be tracked in real time 24 hours a day. The equipment, which tracks a vessel’s geographic position and fishing activity through a proprietary satellite communication system, sought to provide authorities with visibility into several hundred Chinese squid vessels that every year amass off the west coast of South America.
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Instead of increasing oversight, the new Peruvian regulations appear to have driven Chinese ships away from the country’s ports—and kept crews made up of impoverished Filipinos and Indonesians at sea for longer periods, exposing them to abuse, according to new research published by Peruvian fishing consultancy Artisonal.
Two things to note here. One is that the Peruvian law was easy to hack, which China promptly did. The second is that no nation-state has the proper regulatory footprint to manage the world’s oceans. These are global issues, and need global solutions. Of course, our current society is terrible at global solutions—to anything.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/05/friday-squid-blogging-giant-squid-video.html
A video—authentic, not a deep fake—of a giant squid close to the surface.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/05/friday-squid-blogging-mediterranean-beef-squid-hoax.html
The viral video of the “Mediterranean beef squid”is a hoax.
It’s not even a deep fake; it’s a plastic toy.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/04/friday-squid-blogging-more-squid-camouflage-research.html
Here’s a research group trying to replicate squid cell transparency in mammalian cells.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/04/friday-squid-blogging-more-on-squid-fishing.html
The squid you eat most likely comes from unregulated waters.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/04/friday-squid-blogging-colossal-squid.html
Interesting article on the colossal squid, which is larger than the giant squid.
The article answers a vexing question:
So why do we always hear about the giant squid and not the colossal squid?
Well, part of it has to do with the fact that the giant squid was discovered and studied long before the colossal squid.
Scientists have been studying giant squid since the 1800s, while the colossal squid wasn’t even discovered until 1925.
And its first discovery was just the head and arms found in a sperm whale’s stomach.
It wasn’t until 1981 that the first whole animal was found by a trawler near the coast of Antarctica.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/04/friday-squid-blogging-squid-food-poisoning.html
University of Connecticut basketball player Jordan Hawkins claims to have suffered food poisoning from calamari the night before his NCAA finals game. The restaurant disagrees:
On Sunday, a Mastro’s employee politely cast doubt on the idea that the restaurant might have caused the illness, citing its intense safety protocols. The staffer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to officially speak for Mastro’s, said restaurants in general were more likely to arouse suspicion when they had some rooting interest against the customer-athletes.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/03/friday-squid-blogging-giant-squid-vs-blue-marlin.html
Epic matchup.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/03/friday-squid-blogging-creating-batteries-out-of-squid-cells.html
This is fascinating:
“When a squid ends up chipping what’s called its ring tooth, which is the nail underneath its tentacle, it needs to regrow that tooth very rapidly, otherwise it can’t claw its prey,” he explains.
This was intriguing news and it sparked an idea in Hopkins lab where he’d been trying to figure out how to store and transmit heat.
“It diffuses in all directions. There’s no way to capture the heat and move it the way that you would electricity. It’s just not a fundamental law of physics.”
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The tiny brown batteries he mentions are about the size of a chiclet, and Hopkins says it will take a decade or more to create larger batteries that could have commercial value.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/03/friday-squid-blogging-new-species-of-vampire-squid-lives-3000-feet-below-sea-level.html
At least, it seems to be a new species.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/03/friday-squid-blogging-chinese-squid-fishing-in-the-southeast-pacific.html
Chinese squid fishing boats are overwhelming Ecuador and Peru.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/03/friday-squid-blogging-were-almost-at-flying-squid-drones.html
Researchers are prototyping multi-segment shapeshifter drones, which are “the precursors to flying squid-bots.”
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/02/friday-squid-blogging-squid-processing-facility.html
This video of a modern large squid processing ship is a bit gory, but also interesting.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/02/friday-squid-blogging-thermal-batteries-from-squid-proteins.html
Researchers are making thermal batteries from “a synthetic material that’s derived from squid ring teeth protein.”
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/02/friday-squid-blogging-squid-is-a-blockchain-thingy.html
I had no idea—until I read this incredibly jargon-filled article:
Squid is a cross-chain liquidity and messaging router that swaps across multiple chains and their native DEXs via axlUSDC.
So there.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/02/friday-squid-blogging-studying-the-colossal-squid.html
A survey of giant squid science.
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/01/friday-squid-blogging-squid-inspired-hydrogel.html
Scientists have created a hydrogel “using squid mantle and creative chemistry.”
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/01/friday-squid-blogging-another-giant-squid-captured-on-video.html
Here’s a new video of a giant squid, filmed in the Sea of Japan.
I believe it’s injured. It’s so close to the surface, and not really moving very much.
“We didn’t see the kinds of agile movements that many fish and marine creatures normally show,” he said. “Its tentacles and fins were moving very slowly.”
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Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/01/friday-squid-blogging-how-to-buy-fresh-or-frozen-squid.html
Good advice on buying squid. I like to buy whole fresh squid and clean it myself.
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