Brain Box presents:
This is a rebroadcast of our interview with Timshel Purdum on cephalopods that originally aired on January 1, 2024.
Is it octopuses or octopi? (Hint: it’s not octopods). Timshel Purdum, the Science Museum of Virginia’s Virginia C. Ellet Deputy Director of Education, is back at WRIR studios to tell us about one of her favorite creatures – the octopus (and the class to which it belongs, the cephalopods). Tune in to learn some mind-blowing facts about these fascinating and intelligent beings under the sea.
Further reading/watching:
Many Things Under a Rock by David Scheel
Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Is it octopuses or octopi? (Hint: it’s not octopods). Timshel Purdum, the Science Museum of Virginia’s Virginia C. Ellet Deputy Director of Education, is back at WRIR studios to tell us about one of her favorite creatures – the octopus (and the class to which it belongs, the cephalopods). Tune in to learn some mind-blowing facts about these fascinating and intelligent beings under the sea.
Further reading/watching:
Many Things Under a Rock by David Scheel
Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith
amiller January 1st, 2024