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Saturday

The Blenny Hunters

Today we bring you a string of videos from YouTube...
Concerning the BlennyWatchers.

Via YouTube: After years of looking for the big stuff we were getting a little bored. Then we discovered blennies. Blennies are everywhere and we travel the globe to find them. No seas are too rough, no dive site too remote and no blen too fearsome. Features short clips of blennies from Bonaire, Florida, Baja California, the Philippines and Indonesia.For more information:http://BlennyWatcher.com
Narration: Claire Davies
Photo of Blenny Hunters: Kathleen Kingston
Music: The Circus, Composer and Publisher: Bjorn Lynne; courtesy of www.Shockwave-Sound.com and Royalty Free Music by Music2Hues

Via YouTube: Meet the Blennies pays homage to the stars of Blenny Week:
~Bay Blenny Hypsoblennius gentilis - Baja California
~Unidentified Salarias from Papua New Guinea (this blenny looks a lot like another identified species, but based on features that are apparent in detailed photographs, experts feel this blenny is a different species).
~Sailfin Blenny Emblemaria pandionis - Bonaire
~Gulf Signal Blennies Emblemaria hypacanthus - Baja California
~Orangethroat Pikeblenny Chaenopsis alepidota - Baja California
~Spinyhead Blenny Acanthemblemaria spinosa - Bonaire
~Seaweed Blenny Parablennius marmoreus -- Blue Heron Bridge, FL
~Sabretooth Blennies Petroscirtes mitratus -- Lembeh, Indonesia
~Yellowtail Blenny Ecsenius namiyei -- Lembeh, Indonesia
~Obscure Blenny Salarias obscurus -- Lembeh, Indonesia
~Redlip Blenny Ophioblennius macclurei -- Key Largo, Florida
~Bluestriped Fangblenny Plagiotremus rhinorhynchos -- Ambon, Indonesia
~Bluethroat Pikeblenny Chaenopsis ocellata -- Bimini, Bahamas
For more information: http://BlennyWatcher.com
Music: The Circus, Composer and Publisher: Bjorn Lynne,
Royalty free music courtesy of www.Shockwave-Sound.com
Additional royalty free music by Music2Hues

Blennies are popular with divers and fishwatchers. Some, like the fangblenny, are well studied because they mimic the do-gooder cleaner wrasse. But little is know about others, like the beautiful but mysterious Obscure Blenny (Salarias obscurus.) Unlike other reef fish, we rarely observe them doing anything more than just sitting. Are divers affecting their behavior? What does this blenny do when we're not around? In this episode, Dr. Wendy and her blenny wranglers, Shirley and Cary, are joined by one of the Blenny Hunters, Claire. With Claire's skill at finding blennies, they capture the elusive Obscure Blenny. Using the latest in miniature technology, the Blennycam, they hope to unlock the Secrets of the Blenny.
For more information: http://BlennyWatcher.com
Music: The Circus, Composer and Publisher: Bjorn Lynne; I Spy
Composer: Gavin Courtie & Liz Radford, Publisher: Notepad Music Ltd;
Comedy Cues, Composer and Publisher: Dominik Hauser
Royalty free music courtesy of www.Shockwave-Sound.com

The scientists, writers and photographers from ReefNet and New World Publications have joined forces once again. The elite team studies all fish but specializes in blennies. Deep reefs, sheer walls, shallow rocks -- blennies are everywhere and nothing is too challenging for this group. If you have mystery blenny, and no one else can help, maybe you can call the B-Team.
This week's episode: Invasion of the Blenny Snatcher.
Reports are filtering out of the Caribbean about an unidentified blenny. But the images are blurry, making identification difficult. Although none of the group has ever met him, Dr. Ben, a renowned blenny expert, is invited to join the B-Team on this special mission to locate and photograph what could be a new species.
Narration: Kris Wilk
Additional Voiceover: Dougie-K
Royalty Free Music: The Circus, Composer and Publisher: Bjorn Lynne, Hold Fast, Composer: Jon Adamich Royalty free music courtesy of www.Shockwave-Sound.com. Additional royalty free music by www.Music2Hues.com

[Via: http://BlennyWatcher.com]

Sunday

The Walrus:

It's like a vampire, but awesome.

Amplify’d from vi.sualize.us

See more at vi.sualize.us

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Tuesday

Brain Fart

Amplify’d from srslycute.com

See more at srslycute.com

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Petite Lap Giraffe

I love it!

Amplify’d from www.petitelapgiraffe.com

Petite Lap Giraffes are very funny animal that require special care. They need lots of love. Hugs and kisses every day. Otherwise they make tears.

If you have children, petite lap giraffes no problem. If child is loud, the giraffe will be shy, but does not bite. PLG’s are very clean. With training they will go in box like cats. Allergies never a problem.

Size: adult is 76 centimeters, baby is 15 centimeters tall. Weight is 4.5kg unless the giraffe is fat cow then 5.44kg

Diet: distilled water and bonsai tree leaves

Health problems: none. They are the best.

Gestation: 420 days

Living conditions: PLG’s love being indoors in filtered air conditioning. If they can listen to music of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov it is dream.

Grooming: a bubble bath once a week with purified water is all they need.

Petite Lap Giraffe at two weeks
Read more at www.petitelapgiraffe.com

See this Amp at http://bit.ly/igv9rn

Thursday

What Would Happen If Every Element On The Periodic Table Came Into Contact Simultaneously?

Amplify’d from www.popsci.com

There are two ways to go about testing this, neither of which are practical. One requires the energy of dozens of Large Hadron Colliders. The other could yield a cauldron-full of flaming plutonium. Both, however, would probably create carbon monoxide and a pile of rust and salts rather than a cool Frankenstein element.

If you toss single atoms of each element into a box, they won’t form a super-molecule containing one of everything, explains Mark Tuckerman, a theoretical chemist at New York University. Atoms consist of a nucleus of neutrons and protons with a set number of electrons zooming around them. Molecules form when atoms’ electron orbitals overlap and effectively hold the atoms together. What you get when you mix all your atoms, Tuckerman says, will be influenced by what’s close to what.

Oxygen, for example, is very reactive, and if it is closest to hydrogen, it will make hydroxide. If it is nearest to carbon, it will make carbon monoxide. “That random reactive nature applies to pretty much all elements,” Tuckerman says. “You could run this experiment 100 times and get 100 different combinations.” Certain elements, such as the noble gases, wouldn’t react with anything, so you’d be left with those and a few commonly found two- and three-atom molecules.

Ramming the atoms together at 99.999 percent the speed of light—the top speed of particles in the Large Hadron Collider, at the CERN particlephysics lab near Geneva—might fuse a few nuclei, but it won’t make that cool Frankenstein element. More likely, they would meld into a quark-gluon plasma, the theoretical matter that existed right after the universe formed. “But they would last for a fraction of a second before degrading,” Tuckerman says. “Plus, you’d need 118 LHCs—one to accelerate each element—to get it done.”

The other approach, as explained by John Stanton, the director of the Institute for Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Texas, would be to toss a pulverized chunk of each element or a puff of each gas into a sealed container and see what happens. No one has ever tried this experiment either, but here’s how Stanton thinks things would play out: “The oxygen gas would react with lithium or sodium and ignite, raising the temperature in the container to the point that all hell would break loose. Powdered graphite carbon would ignite, too. There are roughly 25 radioactive elements, and they would make your flaming stew a little dangerous. Flaming plutonium is a very bad thing. Inhaling airborne radioactive material can cause rapid death.”

Once things calmed down, Stanton says, the result would be as boring as the atoms-only scenario. Carbon and oxygen would yield carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. Nitrogen gas is very stable, and would remain as is. The noble gases wouldn’t react, nor would a few of the metals, like gold and platinum, which are mostly found in their pure forms. The things that do react will form rust and salts. “Thermodynamics wins again,” he says. “Things will always achieve equilibrium, and in this case that’s a mix of common, stable compounds.”
Read more at www.popsci.com

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Octolope

Amplify’d from octophant.us

Since the beginnings of serious deep sea exploration following World War II, explorers and scientists have been consistently baffled by the discovery of what appear to be deer antlers found on the ocean floor at the greatest depths they could reach. At first these discoveries were discounted as some fluke of freshwater currents running through some hypothesized deer graveyard leading to the sea and being washed to deep water by ocean currents.

But when, in late 2008, a Japanese exploration team's robotic submersible caught fleeting video of an antler-bearing cephalopod an unexpected and previously quite unimaginable answer to the mystery was found. The "Octolope", as it is now being referred to, is otherwise unknown to biology. How or why a creature appearing so like a common octopus would be in possession of such a terrestrial feature is a question sure to be subject of intense inquiry for the forseeable future.
Read more at octophant.us

See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/ezsb

Monday

Today I found out

That Lobsters Don't Mate For Life...

[Source: Today I Found Out]

*Thanks TrentNotTracy!

Friday

Remember These?

Artemia Salina
For those not in the know....
Fondly known as Sea-Monkeys

Image by: Hans Hillewaert

Some Fun Facts:
1. Artemia Salina is a species of Brine Shrimp related to the Triops & Cladocera (sand flea)
2. It is a very old species that has been around for around 100 million years
3. Adults have 3 eyes and 11 pairs of legs
4. Grows to about 15 millimeters
5. Males have a large antennae on the head females don't
6. Males have two reproductive organs (2 penis)
7. Females produce 2 type of eggs. Thin–shelled eggs that hatch immediately and thick–shelled eggs, which can remain in a dormant state (?up to 50 yrs?)
8. Eggs that hatch are called nauplii which have one eye
9. Nauplii swim towards light, adults swim away from light
10. In the wild they live in salt lakes
11. They can live in very salty water where the salt content is much higher or lesser than saltwater
12. They can tolerate saturation's of 50% salt water
13. Table salt with iodine will kill them
14. The higher the salt concentration in the water the more reddish they get
15. They will die in about an hour in fresh water
16. They eat mostly green algae
17. They are often used for testing the toxicity of chemicals

Sea-Monkey Fun Facts:
1. Sea Monkeys were marketed in 1957 by Harold von Braunhut
2. They were fist known as "Instant Life"
3. The name was changed "Sea-Monkeys" on May 10, 1962
4. Their name was chosen because of their playful behavior
5. They were bred for their larger size and longer life span than regular brine shrimp
6. Other similar products were Wham-O, The Swarm, The Sea Monsters, Itsy Bitsy Sea Dragons, Sponge Bob Plenty O Plankton Tank
7. There was a TV series in 1972 called The amazing live sea monkeys show (see video below)
8. The caricatures in the advertisements were originally drawn by Joe Orlando

Sea-Monkey Documentary

Official: How to Create, The Amazing Live Sea-Monkeys

The Amazing Sea Monkeys Show

Some other videos:
Legend Of The Sea Monkey
Sea Monkey's Escape To The Ocean
Sea Monkeys!

Wednesday

4 Part Dog Fish Dissection and Then Some

On a Totally unrelated tangent...

Spelled backwards GOD=DOG

[image via: http://i.imgur.com/ooUYd.jpg]

I wonder if there is any correlation to this picture that someone sent me by email....

Oh and we mustn't forget...
That Volkwagen commercial from long time ago....

So there.....

SeaHorse

[Image via: http://www.baconbabble.com]
Mehhhhhhh.......
I take it you were expecting something different?

Thursday

I Disagree...

This Is Why An Octopus Is More Awesome Than Your Mom
From Site:

"I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you think your mother, or perhaps mothers in general, are pretty goddamn awesome. They scrub things, cook pot roast, and produce shrieking little babies which grow up to be astronauts and prime ministers. When you got sucker-punched at recess, she was there for you. When you accidentally peed your pants on the first day of school, she wiped away the tears. When the cat ate your favorite hamster and then barfed it onto your favorite pair of pajamas, she was your shoulder to cry on. Mothers sacrifice their own happiness for the betterment of their offspring.

Like most universally liked things, however, there's always a better underdog."

Enter the octopus.....(cont.)

[via:http://theoatmeal.com]

*I've Yet to come across an octopus that can cook better than my mom!*