The octopus really all he said was wi‚wi and kiss a fish but never did he ever say forever !!!From the point of a frustrated and confused member of the social order‚ it appears to me that we are living in a society where stupidity easily fits into a simple‚ three tier‚ hierarchical model. Where Darwin argued that species adapt‚ I would argue that--at least where "civilized" culture is concerned--humanity’s intellectual evolution is rapidly decreasing‚ therefore allowing us as a whole to adapt to
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Recently‚ researchers have discovered the existence of an extremely unique type of octopus. The species‚ known as the Indo-Malayan octopus‚ has the ability to alter its shape‚ form‚ and color pattern to mimic or imitate other sea creatures in order to avoid predation (2). The discovery of the mimic octopus is noteworthy because no other type of cephalopod is known to have impersonation abilities. The octopus is also not limited to one imitation. Researchers have observed up to eight different formations
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“Hunger‚ love‚ pain‚ fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individuals instinct for self-preservation” – Albert Einstein My bare feet pounded on the frozen ground as I ran‚ my mouse in one hand and the other on my itchy grey beret. We had to keep running‚ Paltel and I. We had to cover ground before they realised we were gone. The woods were getting closer‚ closer‚ the trees extending their waiting arms to our fleeing figures‚ with their dead and leafless branches covered in thick
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The Octopus Flask is noted as one of the most popular recorded painting that dates back to 1500-1450 BCE. The art piece is a painting on a ceramic vessel‚ what people referred to as “bottle”‚ it came from the east Cretan site of Palaikastro and is now displayed at the Archeological Museum at Iraklion‚ Crete. The Octopus Flask‚ or the “bottle”‚ is decorated with paintings of marine life in celebration of the Cretan Maritime Power. It consists of an octopus and other marine life “floating” in its
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Justin Vickers Octopus- Saltwater On the floor of any ocean in the world‚ in the cracks and crevices of ocean rock is the common octopus habitat. The common octopus lives in temperate ocean waters. A key part of their lives are spent at the surface layer of the ocean. Areas of the ocean with the largest amount of octopuses are coastal areas‚ reef areas and ocean bottom areas. Octopuses have a totally boneless structure. They are terrifically flexible; able to squeeze themselves into the pristine
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The Giant Pacific Octopus This paper is about octopus dofleni‚ which is a bottom-dwelling octopus that lives on coasts of the pacific ocean‚ from Northern Japan to California. This essay will provide a brief overview of its life‚ habits and other characteristics of this‚ intelligent and creative invertebrate and member of the Octopodidae family. The life of the pacific giant may begin at any time of the year. The mating season however tends to peak in the month of December‚ with most of their
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Flying Robots Learn Mind-Boggling Tricks (CNN) -- Professor Raffaello D’Andrea isn’t short of admirers for his autonomous flying robots and the amazing tricks they perform. Every week he receives a flood of emails from exciting people telling him how to use them‚ he says "Folks have contacted me about using them to deliver burritos and pizzas‚ paint walls‚ do search and rescue‚ monitor the environment‚ flying cameras for movies ... It’s just endless‚" D’Andrea says. "I’m
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In Hong Kong‚ the Octopus Card is not only treated as a means of electric payment. The Octopus Card interacts a lot with our daily life‚ like entering our apartments‚ registering students’ attendance in schools‚ recognizing our membership of certain organizations‚ etc. Hong Kong people trust Octopus deeply from our heart. The MTR Corporation together with the KCRC Managing Board owned about 80% of the share of the Octopus‚ while the HKSAR government is the largest shareholder of the MTR Corporation
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At the turn of the century‚ American readers were interested only in stories with happy endings‚ where goodness was praised and evil was punished. They did not particularly care if that was a false interpretation of the way life really was. When men such as Frank Norris‚ the author of The Octopus‚ wrote angrily of the injustices and poverty to be found in America‚ readers turned away. The Octopus made them change their minds. The course of the novel and the reality of its characters held the readers’
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an epic of harrowing proportions‚ clashing under the backdrop of the law of supply and demand. There are those that are bent on progressive ideologies and reshaping the world in their own view‚ such as the railroad oligarchy in Frank Norris’s‚ The Octopus. Shelgrim is misled in believing he has no control over the expansion of the railroad that is outstretching and engulfing the land of the people‚ all under the guise that it is an inevitable outcome of “progress”. Due to insistence on finding new
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