Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Of Humans and Squids, with Martin Wallen

Jun 21, 2022

01:17:41

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The Head of Feet in Relation to Ourself

02:34

What Are the Arguments for Eating Squids?

03:38

The Sea Reek of Ammonia in the Giant Squid Body

02:39

Introduction

4min

What Did Aristotle Get Right?

5min

What Was the Culinary View of of Squids and Their Relatives?

3min

What Is the Terminological Confusion Between Squids, Octopuses and Cottlefishes?

4min

Siba, I Love the Illustrations of the Vampire Squid

2min

The Relationship Between Liquid and Large Marine Animal Sizes

4min

The Head of Feet in Relation to Ourself

3min

What Role Did Japatis Steinstrop Play in Bridging Squid Myth and Sufflapod Science of the Nineteenth Century?

2min

A Squid's Beak

4min

10.

The Science of Squids

5min

11.

Squids Eyes - Color Changes in the Skin

2min

12.

O on Vo Stage, a Honink.

5min

13.

What Are the Arguments for Eating Squids?

4min

14.

Is There Such a Thing as Humour?

3min

15.

The Evolution of Orsquids

2min

16.

Is There a Cephlopod Explosion?

4min

17.

The Sea Reek of Ammonia in the Giant Squid Body

3min

18.

The Squid Deity in Polynesian Traditions

5min

19.

The Giant Squid in 20 Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

3min

20.

The Boats of Glencarig

1min

21.

A Novel About Squid Monsters

6min

22.

Humbolt Squids - The Red Devil

3min

23.

Stuff to Blow Your Mind Podcast

3min

In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert chats with Martin Wallen about his 2021 book “Squid,” which covers the history of humanity’s scientific, folkloric and literary interest in cephalopods – from Aristotle’s understanding of the creatures to their treatment in weird fiction of the 20th and 21st centuries.

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