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      Friday Squid Blogging: New Extinct Species of Vampire Squid Discovered

      news.movim.eu / Schneier · Friday, 1 March - 16:51

    Paleontologists have discovered a 183-million-year-old species of vampire squid.

    Prior research suggests that the vampyromorph lived in the shallows off an island that once existed in what is now the heart of the European mainland. The research team believes that the remarkable degree of preservation of this squid is due to unique conditions at the moment of the creature’s death. Water at the bottom of the sea where it ventured would have been poorly oxygenated, causing the creature to suffocate. In addition to killing the squid, it would have prevented other creatures from feeding on its remains, allowing it to become buried in the seafloor, wholly intact.

    Research paper .

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      Friday Squid Blogging: Footage of Black-Eyed Squid Brooding Her Eggs

      news.movim.eu / Schneier · Friday, 26 January - 19:13

    Amazing footage of a black-eyed squid ( Gonatus onyx ) carrying thousands of eggs. They tend to hang out about 6,200 feet below sea level.

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      Friday Squid Blogging: New Foods from Squid Fins

      news.movim.eu / Schneier · Friday, 19 January - 16:58

    We only eat about half of a squid, ignoring the fins. A group of researchers is working to change that .

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      Friday Squid Blogging: Influencer Accidentally Posts Restaurant Table QR Ordering Code

      news.movim.eu / Schneier · Friday, 8 December - 17:06

    Another rare security + squid story :

    The woman—who has only been identified by her surname, Wang—was having a meal with friends at a hotpot restaurant in Kunming, a city in southwest China. When everyone’s selections arrived at the table, she posted a photo of the spread on the Chinese social media platform WeChat. What she didn’t notice was that she’d included the QR code on her table, which the restaurant’s customers use to place their orders.

    Even though the photo was only shared with her WeChat friends list and not the entire social network, someone—or a lot of someones—used that QR code to add a ridiculous amount of food to her order. Wang was absolutely shocked to learn that “her” meal soon included 1,850 orders of duck blood, 2,580 orders of squid, and an absolutely bonkers 9,990 orders of shrimp paste.

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      Friday Squid Blogging: Zaqistan Flag

      news.movim.eu / Schneier · Thursday, 27 July, 2023 - 17:04

    The fictional nation of Zaqistan (in Utah) has a squid on its flag.

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      Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Chromolithographs

      news.movim.eu / Schneier · Sunday, 4 June, 2023 - 19:51

    Beautiful illustrations .

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    EDITED TO ADD (6/4): Slashdot thread .

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      Squid skin inspires novel “liquid windows” for greater energy savings

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 2 February, 2023 - 21:01 · 1 minute

    Artist’s impression of prototype

    Enlarge / Artist's impression of a "liquid window' prototype inspired by the structure of squid skin. (credit: Raphael Kay, Adrian So)

    Squid and several other cephalopods can rapidly shift the colors in their skin, thanks to that skin's unique structure. Engineers at the University of Toronto have drawn inspiration from the squid to create a prototype for "liquid windows" that can shift the wavelength, intensity, and distribution of light transmitted through those windows, thereby saving substantially on energy costs. They described their work in a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

    “Buildings use a ton of energy to heat, cool, and illuminate the spaces inside them,” said co-author Raphael Kay . “If we can strategically control the amount, type, and direction of solar energy that enters our buildings, we can massively reduce the amount of work that we ask heaters, coolers, and lights to do.” Kay likes to think of buildings as living organisms that also have "skin," i.e., an outer layer of exterior facades and windows. But these features are largely static, limiting how much the building "system" can be optimized in changing ambient conditions.

    Installing blinds that can open and close is a crude means of easing the load on lighting and heating/cooling systems. Electrochromatic windows that change their opacity when a voltage is applied are a more sophisticated option. But, per Kay, these systems are pricey and have complicated manufacturing processes and a limited range of opacities. Nor is it possible to shade one part of a windowpane but not another.

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      Friday Squid Blogging: How to Buy Fresh or Frozen Squid

      news.movim.eu / Schneier · Thursday, 12 January, 2023 - 21:41

    Good advice on buying squid. I like to buy whole fresh squid and clean it myself.

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      Friday Squid Blogging: Squid in Concert

      news.movim.eu / Schneier · Friday, 16 December, 2022 - 22:13

    Squid is performing a concert in London in February.

    If you don’t know what their music is like, try this or this or this .

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