A new era dawns, perhaps, in how humans try and perhaps succeed in gently handling squishy marine animals. A new study gives details. “Ultra-gentle soft robotic fingers induce minimal transcriptomic response in a fragile marine animal,” Michael Tessler, Mercer R. Brugler, John A. Burns, Nina R. Sinatra, Daniel M. Vogt, Anand Varma, Madelyne Xiao, Robert […]
Tag: jellyfish
The Creation of the World’s First Peanut Butter and Jellyfish
An experiment done partly in jest produces intriguing data: “The Creation of the World’s First Peanut Butter and Jellyfish,” P. Zelda Montoya and Barrett L. Christie, Drum and Croaker, vol. 45, January 2014, pp. 14-18. The authors, at the The Dallas Zoo and Children’s Aquarium at Fair Park, report: “The use of novel feed items […]
“First we get proof of heaven; now the secret of immortality”
A celebrated “immortal” jellyfish dies a thousand deaths, so to speak, when Paul Raeburn gives it a good look in the Knight Science Journalism tracker. Raeburn writes: Only a few weeks after Newsweek and Simon & Schuster gave us proof of heaven, The New York Times now offers us immortality in the form of an article entitled “Can a Jellyfish Unlock […]
Heart-shaped jellyfish-induced lesion (in Brazil)
“The heart is a muscular organ that pumps the blood and makes it circulates in the body. Figuratively it refers to sensibility, affection and love.” – explain Maria do Carmo Araujo Palmeira Queiroz and Juliana Nascimento de Andrade Rabelo Caldas, the Brazilian authors of a recent paper in the journal Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia. Nonetheless, […]
A.F.: Mysteries of the Jellyfish
Those who have never seen photographic images of Orgone Energy Functions may be interested to see a set which are currently provided online by psychiatrist Alberto Foglia M.D. of Lugano-Paradiso, Switzerland. Take, for example Photographic Images of Orgone Energy Functions III: The Jellyfish (The Journal of Orgonomy,Vol. 43 No. 1). The orgastic potential of the […]