TED talk (CC) from Dr Edith Widder.
Be sure to also check out last year’s discovery of a new species of deep-sea worm dropping glowing ‘bombs’ to evade predators! [Original paper here.]
Edith Widder on bioluminescence
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Category Archives: TED
Leopards in the Antarctic
Remember Paul Nicklen, the photographer who captured amazing photos of leopard seals in Antarctic waters for National Geographic? He recently did a fantastic TED talk discussing his polar predilections and his experience of having a leopard seal try to feed him penguins.
Soundtrack of the universe
David Gallo and undersea curiosities
David McCandless and Data Visualization
The tragedy of the commons for the open ocean
Kristina Gjerde, the high-seas policy advisor to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, speaks about the laws governing areas outside the realm of national juridiction—which is most of the ocean. This is a TED talk.
Ignored no longer: behold the plants!
Rob Dunbar on climate
Realism is nice.
This is a TED talk from Dr. Rob Dunbar. License terms are here.
Dr Jeremy Jackson on the modern ocean
This is a sobering TED talk from Dr Jeremy Jackson, a well-known marine ecologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, on what’s going on today in the global ocean. You might need a drink afterwards.
(TED licenses their talks with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported license.)
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