Edie Widder, “Ocean Enlightenment” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in World Affairs
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Is This a Beautiful Jellyfish?
The jellyfish produces this magnificent pinwheel burgler alarm display. We created a imitation of that, which is just ten blue lights that can be programmed to imitate exactly that. The first time we got to test this was on a noah funded expedition to the gulf of mexico. And 86 seconds after we turned it on for the first time, we recorded a squid over six feet long that so new to science it couldn't even be placed in any known scientific familyw has 86, 86 seconds.
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