Octomom
May 18, 2020 12:55 PM   Subscribe

No, that that Octomom. This is a Radiolab episode that runs about 35 minutes about exactly what a deep sea octopus mother does to brood her eggs. It's an astonishing story that is moving and surprising. There's also a transcript.
posted by hippybear (7 comments total)

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This was just amazing!!
posted by pearlybob at 12:56 PM on May 18, 2020


4 1/2 years is what they saw but they don’t know how long she had already been there!
posted by waving at 3:52 PM on May 18, 2020


As an aside: my ex-wife lives down the road from that Octomom, and my daughter goes to elementary school with the kids. They are finishing up 5th grade in a couple weeks.
posted by sideshow at 4:29 PM on May 18, 2020 [1 favorite]


It's an astonishing story that is moving and surprising.

But really, there's not much moving involved. It's a surprisingly stationary story.
posted by kaibutsu at 4:30 PM on May 18, 2020 [1 favorite]


Well, their home planet probably measures time differently than we do.
posted by halfbuckaroo at 6:03 PM on May 18, 2020 [4 favorites]


Haha and we complain about having to stay home with the kids these days amirite, at least we get to eat
posted by The otter lady at 8:57 PM on May 18, 2020 [1 favorite]


orchestra is a beautiful metaphor for somatic brain region activity or whatever.
radiolab did a nice job here, production-wise, aurilization-wise, not too peter-and-the-wolfishly.
wouldn't mind seeing the metaphor explored more.
posted by 20 year lurk at 10:11 AM on May 19, 2020


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