Edie Widder, “Ocean Enlightenment” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in World Affairs
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I've Always Wondered About Bialluminescence
There's so much left to be discovered in the ocean that we've just barely begun to scratch beneath the surface. We'd have to be looking at new and innovative ways to explore if we're really going to find out what's out there. There are little mysteries along the way, like a fish called a shining tube shoulder that squirts out light - but for some reason, this fish doesn't just squirt out luminescent chemicals; it squirts out whole cells itself. I mean, that's energetically insane. It total insanity. How many people are actually working on them? The those endless questions like that, how many people areactually working on them?"
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