From Boing Boing:

This lovely orange Cirrate octopus appears to be the long-lost love child of a sock puppet and a dance recital costume. Filmed in the Taney Seamounts, west of San Francisco, it’s part of a branch of the octopus family that is very elusive—preferring deep, dark waters far from the coastline—very rare—they only make up about 15% of all octopus species—and very, very old. In fact, what is thought to be the oldest octopus fossil yet found is a cirrate, dating around 296 million years old.

Check out the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute on youtube for more videos. From the youtube page:

These finned octopuses belong to an order of animals called Cirrata named for the presence of hair-like structures called ‘cirri’ on their arms which may aid these animals in the capture of food.

This is insane. Insanely awesome.

This might not sound like much, but you need to watch this video of the 1997 Royal Navy Field Gun Competition. In it, two teams compete to navigate themselves and a cannon through an obstacle course: over walls, across chasms, and through small gaps in walls.

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The ‘tiny house’ movement | Need To Know | PBS Video

Living in a tiny house in Portland sounds kind of appealing, actually. I like tiny things and I don’t like having lots of stuff. I do like indoor plumbing, though.

PENGUINS CHASING A BUTTERFLY I CAN’T HANDLE THIS

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BBC Life episode 4: Fish. Highlights: flying fish, the sarcastic fringehead, mudskippers, rock climbing gobies in Hawaii, and pretty much everything in this episode. Next up, episode 8: Creatures of the Deep.

UPDATE on episode 8: With a title like “Creatures of the Deep,” I thought it was going to focus on anglerfish and all the weird things that live in perpetual darkness. This episode is actual about marine invertebrates. Highlights: the fried egg jellyfish, Humboldt squid, cuttlefish (one of my faves), coral battles, etc.

Here’s the first part of the first episode of Chinese School, a five-episode BBC series that follows the lives of students in Xiuning, a town in Anhui Province. This is even more interesting than the aforementioned Supersizers. Today’s theme is BBC series.

Just discovered The Supersizers Go/Eat, a BBC series in which these two people spend a week eating food from a certain time period. This is the first part of the episode on the Regency period. Some of the humor is not funny and thus rather distracting. The food is interesting though. (via justhungry)

EDIT: This episode redeemed itself a bit with this gem: wow-wow sauce.

EDIT: The Victorian episode is better, I think.

Dramatic.

fuckyeahclassical:

thedailywhat:

Classical Cover of the Day: Aston, a group of musicians from Sydney best known for their classical renditions of chart-topping pop songs, perform a highbrow arrangement of Lady Gaga’s “Telephone.”

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Heimo’s Arctic Refuge: Heimo Korth and his wife Edna live year-round in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This is a five-part documentary-type thing about their lives and it is interesting. (via boingboing)