Edie Widder, “Ocean Enlightenment” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Ideas Roadshow Podcast
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How to Create a Pinwheel Burglar Alarm Detector
The jellyfish produces this magnificent pinwheel burglar alarm display. We created a imitation of that, which is just 16 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's so new to science at couldn't even be placed in any known scientific family.
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