Well, ONE type of garden not affected by the outrageous heat and drought! I can only imagine what it must’ve been like, to see the pearly reflections in the submarine lights…
Just off California, octopuses are converging by the thousands.
But then, just as Hercules crossed over a ridge, a curious sight floated across the screen: small, almost iridescent bulbs clinging to the seamount wall. The scientists directed Hercules down, farther into the depths.
“And sure enough, that’s where we ran into thousands and thousands of these octopus,” King said. “And we were just absolutely floored. We were just giddy.”
The scientists, led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, had alighted upon what they called an “octopus garden.” The images they captured revealed nearly 6,000 octopuses—leading scientists to estimate the total population of the area could exceed 20,000.
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…The pearl octopus came to the Davidson Seamount, they discovered, to nestle into the warm crooks of its wall and brood baby octopuses.
The ambient temperature of water around the seamount is about 35 degrees Fahrenheit, according to Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute scientists. But by using sophisticated marine thermometers, the researchers found that the octopuses were settling into crevices warmed by spring water, where the temperature reached nearly 51 degrees.
The relatively warm spring water raises the mother octopus’ metabolism, speeding up the egg development process. Researchers found that octopus eggs in the area hatch in less than two years —far less than the estimated five to eight years it takes in colder temperatures.
“They’re in warm water, the metabolism is much faster,” King said, “so their life history has been very compressed relative to most deep-sea animals.”
Solving one mystery only ignited a burst of other questions for the scientists: Where did the octopus come from? Do they instinctively know that the warm waters will speed up the brooding process? How many other octopus nurseries exist on the seafloor around the world?
“We know so little about the deep ocean,” Litvin said. “The discovery of the garden and all these thousands of octopus … just highlights that this is the biggest ecosystem on our planet, and we know less about it than we know about the surface of the moon.”
I just had a sneezing fit that I wasn’t sure if I was going to come out of the other side.
the rich men north of Richmond.
I couldn’t afford the other stuff either and it wasn’t covered. But there was a program I got in that covered it. Who can pay for $800 shots every 2 weeks?
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A great AI-generated parody.
GJT
Fay took the methotrexate for many, many years. Less than convinced that it was still helping, she continued to take it because it was what we could afford.
Texpat, before when I was taking Humira and then Enbrel injections I had to take it once a week with methotrexate, that stuff would knock my in the dirt a couple days, I hated it.
This is crude, yet true. The death of Disney narrated by David Attenbourough.
WARNING: LANGUAGE
Years ago, I remember seeing this huge, obese Mexican dude wearing a shirt. It was like a walking billboard and said “They can’t deport us all! he was just trying to politely let everyone know who the conqueror is and who the conquered are. and you can thank the cAn’t party of the last four decades for it. WEF toadie abbott is still stacking water balloons in the Rio Grande and matchbox cars along the land border while at least 7 to 10000 a day waltz right in. But in the meantime conserve energy at your home and raise your… Read more »
Last year, my rheumatologist tried two different drugs on me for psoriatic arthritis. One was a once a month infusion via IV that took about an hour. The second drug was twice a month and took about 40 minutes via IV.
Neither one worked and I am now on a 12 week cycle injection program. I received an injection today and it really kicks my a$$. I feel weak enough you could knock me over with a feather. It will be gone by morning.
Dang. Rocket man gets all the babes.
Got another friend request, this time from Maria, what y’all think? 😀
Interesting Bio though;
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LOL
The federal government for the first time on Tuesday opened two areas in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas coast to build wind farms.
But not a single firm bid on the leases.
I just called Green Cousin. She’s already had her second round of dialysis. Since she’s complaining about the port in her neck, I can tell she’s perking up.
Still not a good situation, but it sounds like she’s getting her sass back. She’ll need it – docs are wanting to keep her in the hospital for another week.
Black dude speaks the truth.
BEWARE: a ton of f-bombs and other adult language
Imagine whipping up a $15,000 bag of chemo and the clock is ticking, and nobody has showed up to take it upstairs to administer it. All day long.
Mom worked at the MD Anderson pharmacy for a short period.
Highest stress job she ever had. Creating these chemo cocktails that had expiration times measured in minutes or hours, not days. With very specific dosing rates through IVs Only.
Yeah I think the infusion takes 30 minutes, not sure if that includes prep.
Some drugs and their dosages simply can’t be administered with a syringe.
Drugs and dosing can be accurately metered over a specific time period with an IV.
With some drugs they also want to make darn sure that you are fully hydrated.
Why an “infusion” and not a “shot”?
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You just reminded me that libraries that get flooded send their books out to get freeze dried to preserve them.
Morning, gang! The cats let me stay in bed after I turned the alarm off, but eventually they insisted I get up and feed them. After they eat, half of them jump up on the table in the breakfast room, where I have my own breakfast with the morning email followed by the Hambone Open Comments. I love how the 3 older cats adore the much-younger 2 boys from Project Gypsy. Then there is my little orange JoJo, who rarely cuddles with any of the other cats.
Here is a real handy reference for when you just can’t find the right word:
List of ethnic slurs and epithets by ethnicity
Not that anyone here would ever need such a thing. I found it to be amusing in its absurdity and offensiveness.
WE print all the “news” our paymasters want us to print, just the way they like it. Journalistic integrity dontchaknow.
James O’Keefe freaks out school board by just showing up at their public meeting.
BREAKING: Police bodycam footage shows NJ School Board officials calling police on citizens they don’t recognize who look “TRUMPISH!” Police colluded with school officials to scan license plates of all attendees who looked ‘different’.
Sure didn’t intend on putting my Medicare decisions to the test first month I’m on it lol.
#6 Texpat,
I believe that is a title given him by French royalty, probably by the king.
I have been on biologic meds for years for my RA and occasional Ulcerative Colitis flares including Humira, Enbrel and most recently, Cimzia. Now my RA and GI docs have huddled up and decided my joint pains come from my bowels getting attacked and not RA at all. They’ve decided to put me on Entyvio, a biologic infusion done at the doc’s office in steps, ultimately every 8 wks. We’ll see, good for them to team up and come up with a plan.
Panama considers closing its southern border. A lot of our immigration crisis comes through there. More than 320,000 people have crossed their borders in 2023 alone, mostly Venezuelan citizens, followed by Ecuadorians and Haitians, according to Panamanian authorities. Panamanian immigration services also warn of an increase in Chinese and Indian migrants, as well as the fact that 21% of those crossing the border are minors, and of these, half are under five years old. /snip Panama, the gateway to Central America from the south, receives around 3,000 migrants per day, to whom, at certain stations, biometric data is collected and… Read more »
Human scum reports:
Store clerk trying to stop a robber is killed by baseball bat hit to the head
In San Francisco, natch. Robbers are totally entitled there.
Muslim woman convert gets only 10 years for killing her 5 year old slave, then holding gun to the girl’s mother’s head to stop her from crying
The girl was tied up in the hot sun and allowed to die of thirst.
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I just don’t get some
peoplehumansbipeds.Tedtam 8:15, Me too thinking it is Friday upon awakening. My in-hospital, then home for a day and a half, then back to the hospital again, now home for a second day situation could be even more mixed up if we hadn’t marked the calendar with that info. Tomorrow I have an appointment with an associate of our cardiologist to arrange cardiac ablation that is said to be 80% effective in stopping the galloping horses in the heart. Much better than taking a fist-full of pills morning and night and never knowing when that will fail again and the horses… Read more »
Ditto that! 😉
This naval disaster cost almost 2,000 sailors their lives and prompted Parliament to commission a reward for determining longitude more accurately. Which brings up one of my heros; John Harrison, English carpenter and clockmaker who invented the marine chronometer. FWIW; He won the Longitude prize but wasn’t given credit until late in life. BTW; On a Grandfather clock, those numerous rods that connect the pendulum to the clock mechanism were made out of different materials that expanded and contracted at different rates counteracting each other so the pendulum stayed the same distance from the clock when the temperature fluctuated. Early… Read more »
I get to go to our mechanic to have him run a diagnostic on my car. Again. My check engine light is on. Again. We thought we’d resolved the issue when Hubby replaced my catalytic converter…/sigh Handyman is here, laying flooring upstairs. It’s the last of the flooring to be laid, and then I can start organizing all of my crap. They are going to build a ramp between the office/storage area and the adjoining room. Since we’re not laying radiant tubing in that space, it will be a lower floor. A ramp will allow me to use a cart… Read more »
Ukraine, Russia, propganda, politics…y’all can go look for yourselves. Finally, good news from Texas: Finally, in terrific news, especially for people concerned about the threat of new covid mandates, local Texas CBS affiliate KENS-5 ran a story Tuesday headlined, “Texas law banning COVID-related mandates by local governments takes effect this week.” Starting tomorrow, September 1st, local governments in the Lone Star State — including schools — will be prohibited from requiring covid-related masks, requiring proof of vaccination, or shutting down any businesses. (Private businesses can still make their own rules.) After whining about “rising covid rates” in Bexar County, Texas, the last… Read more »
From the Suddenly & Unexpectedly Department, sadly: 34 year old Stephanie van Tatum, died S&U at home. She was a theater director and actress. As usual, no information on what caused her last curtain call. Republican Majority Leader Representative Steve Scalise (R-La.), announced Tuesday he’s been diagnosed with a very rare type of blood cancer. He had promoted the vaccines, so I’m pretty sure he was fully jabbed. He survived a crazy’s bullet only to get hit by…multiple myeloma. “The cause of multiple myeloma isn’t fully understood. It’s baffling.” MM is part of the whole complex of immune/blood diseases. But… Read more »
Topic: the continuing weirdness over the mysterious drowning of Obama’s chef He was naked. They found his clothes before they found his body. And Secret Service rescue swimmers failed to find the body down in the water. (Freshly drowned humans sink, not float.) From the beginning, we were told police had been notified by an anonymous informant…who said they saw Campbell “briefly” struggling in the water next to his board — with another paddelboarder. Why wouldn’t the anonymous informant have mentioned Campbell was naked? Who was the other paddleboarder? Were they naked? We’re talking about snooty Martha’s Vineyard. I refuse to believe that naked… Read more »
If you were unaware, Texas A&M was responsible for saving the remnants of La Belle.
Seventeen years of freeze drying, ladies.
Topic: Ethical Skeptic’s crunching of CDC numbers. Childers has used Skeptic’s data analysis before. He’s been thorough and non-debunkable in the past. This time, it’s about infections. On Monday, Ethical added a new chart of great interest to C&C readers. He crunched CDC’s reported deaths from infections. In other words, he looked for evidence of population-level autoimmune problems. And guess what? You know the answer. Here’s one of his new charts, of “Zoonotic and Bacterial Infections (all ages).” (Zoonotic means acquired by animal contact.) [insert chart – see original column to view] There was a sharp increase in infections when the… Read more »
10 Shannon
I wanna go ! I wanna go !
Since we are on the subject of navigation, this fascinating article at The Federalist is right on point. It was only 50 years ago this coming weekend. With the letters GPS, we instantly recognize an innovation that has revolutionized our lives. The concept was born half a century ago in a sweltering room at the Pentagon over Labor Day weekend in 1973. That’s the genesis of the concept for a constellation of platforms orbiting the Earth, transmitting radio signals to determine location. Many years of calculation, experiment, and miniaturization led to the Navigation Signal Timing and Ranging (NAVSTAR) satellites that… Read more »
First topic: McConnell’s really bad brain freeze yesterday: Before I show you the video, which is bad enough, what was even worse was how Establishment Media broadcast the story on all channels within minutes of McConnell’s mini-stroke, or whatever it was. Compare this coverage to all the coverage of, say, Fetterman struggling to speak, or Biden wandering aimlessly off stages, enthusiastically shaking hands with invisible friends, or suddenly tumbling off stationary bicycles onto prepubescent girls. Sorry. I mean, compare it to the non-coverage of Fetterman, Biden, or even Diane Feinstein, for that matter. /snip It’s de rigueur to roundly criticize McConnell these… Read more »
I guess y’all know that today is the last day of August? Hard to believe.
I really should go back to the Bullock Museum.
Last time I was there they only had a few pieces of La Belle on display.
I had followed closely the stories of the La Belle recovery.
That Matagorda mud preserved her well.
INEVITABILITY ☙ Thursday, August 31, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS Childers starts out with his humorous description of their hurricane experience (turns out his family was 50 miles away). His good news includes: First, she was a speed train, moving up to 20 miles per hour across land, like a woman sprinting for the Black Friday clearance sale in the purses department right after Macy’s doors opened. Second, there were no flying sharks of any kind, not Makos, Tigers, or even Nurses, and only a few airborne alligators (watch out below!). And even better, the human sharks from FEMA were far,… Read more »
Hang in there GJT, a broth and jello diet sounds perfectly ghastly but if it’ll get you fixed up it’ll be worth it. 😉
I woke up thinking it was Friday. I have to keep reminding myself that it’s Thursday, and last night I looked over my Latin lesson for tonight. There’s a lot in this one. I’ve allowed myself to be sidetracked all week, despite my best intentions.
It ain’t looking good for class tonight. /sigh
Good news, GJT, and hoping for much better in the days to come.
The “neighbors” next door have dropped off more trash to go with that inoperable vehicle that was towed in recently. Oh, and they’re also dropping off cats and leaving them there all alone.
Those people are truly despicable.
I’m waiting for the dogs and the 6′ leashes, being tied up outside w/o shade.
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Hang in there, man. It could be worse…you could be trapped in a food desert like Ohio or Michigan. At least you’re going to be paroled soon.
#5 GJT: Great news on the improvement! Now get much better still and get the hell out of the hospital.
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That is a stunning story.
I think it is kind of funny this explorer has been known as La Salle. His actual name is Rene-Robert Cavelier. The second half of his appellation is “Sieur de La Salle” meaning “Man (Sir) of La Salle, but he went down in history, not as Cavelier, but as La Salle.