tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31385473.post6828442010927360431..comments2024-03-15T20:59:48.143+09:00Comments on Lee's Korea Blog: From The ReadersLee Farrandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06405103217824096934noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31385473.post-27135754776151032882010-11-21T09:11:25.368+09:002010-11-21T09:11:25.368+09:00Yes Jo, there's a bit of nonsense out there. B...Yes Jo, there's a bit of nonsense out there. Best to use one's own discretion. <br /><br />And that's a very interesting comment Grace. You're right about octopuses imitating flounder, they also imitate dangerous creatures like sea snakes and zebra fish. Each octopuses' arm has a miniature brain of its own, which is linked to the central one - kind of like a hub. There's an Italian team who have shown octopuses watching and learning techniques for opening bottles from each other. Because they don't have stereo vision, to gather information about an object in 3D, they move their heads up and down, or from side to side, to get two different viewpoints. I could go on and on about octopuses all day... I find it fascinating that they probably evolved from bivalve molluscs. <br />As for cuttlefish, they are also inquisitive creatures. It seems that complex camouflage requires a large amount of computational power, the bi-product of which is intelligence. One theory of human intelligence is that it's all an evolutionary bi-product of being able to throw stones ie. to throw something accurately requires a lot of estimation, and our intelligence arose from this ability. <br />Cuttlefish retained their ability to make calcium deposits, from their shellfish days, and internalized it for buoyancy. They do have a different name in Korean, it's 갑오징어, but not used often.Lee Farrandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06405103217824096934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31385473.post-53252935109772256012010-11-20T21:05:08.216+09:002010-11-20T21:05:08.216+09:00I just read your blog post on octopuses, and I gue...I just read your blog post on octopuses, and I guess I should respond over there, but I figure you'll probably read this one sooner. Anyway, thank you for the explanation of the pluralization! Also, I wanted to mention two things. In addition to coconuts, octopuses have been known to imitate flounder as well(http://www.mbl.edu/news/press_releases/2010_pr_03_03.html) <br />and that another cephalopod, the cuttlefish, is also very fascinating for its ability to camouflage and change its skin texture. It's frustrating to me that Koreans use the same word for both squid and cuttlefish (오징어) because they are two completely different organisms.Gracehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16578646384480273901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31385473.post-53904875439525337632010-11-20T13:50:20.763+09:002010-11-20T13:50:20.763+09:00I realized I kind of skipped over the middle of yo...I realized I kind of skipped over the middle of your blog post. Maybe that US online colleges one was something similar. Anyway, they didn't offer me any specific articles, and even if they had something relevant to Korea (Which wouldn't have happened) I still wouldn't have accepted it.조안나https://www.blogger.com/profile/18436544214416169575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31385473.post-61402746137485446792010-11-20T13:45:56.245+09:002010-11-20T13:45:56.245+09:00At least you're getting offers from people who...At least you're getting offers from people who have somewhat interesting/relevant content. In the past month or so I've gotten two offers for people to write "guest posts" on my blog. It sounded interesting so I looked at some of their past works. The first was all about laser eye surgery and the second was for accredited online colleges. Seriously, are there people out there so desperate for a link from some crap, irrelevant website that they would let someone write an advertisement disguised as a blog post on their personal blog? I don't get it. And it's not like it was just some spam, computer generated message, either. They had clearly looked at my blog enough to make mention of some content to make them sound legit.조안나https://www.blogger.com/profile/18436544214416169575noreply@blogger.com