TGIF: Edith Widder’s TED talks on Bioluminescence

By Dr Bik, on March 16th, 2012 One comment   Pictures and Movies   bioluminescence, TED, tgif  

Since its so gray and dreary in California today, we were discussing brighter topics over lunch – naturally, ogling over some bioluminescence.  If you haven’t seen Edith Widder’s TED talks about her work on glowing sea creatures, sit back with a cuppa and sip it up:

1 comment to TGIF: Edith Widder’s TED talks on Bioluminescence

• Keir

  March 18, 2012 at 21:25 · Reply

  So much about the behavior of deep sea creatures remains undiscovered. Bioluminescence is relatively easily observed by people. I wonder how many deep sea animals may be electrogenic, not just capable of detecting electric fields but also generating them and using this for communication. It would be useful in the dark. But the useful range of electric signals relative to bioluminescence may be the deciding factor considering the environment of the deep sea.