Octomom

May 18, 2020 12:55 PM

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 (9 comments total)

This was just amazing!!
posted by pearlybob at 12:56 PM on May 18, 2020 [1 favorite]

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

I think they say at the beginning they saw the octopus moving toward the rock where she ends up brooding her eggs, so their time table is pretty good really.
posted by hippybear at 4:02 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 [2 favorites]

It's an astonishing story that is stationary and surprising!

Oh so stationary.
posted by hippybear at 4:46 PM on May 18, 2020

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