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An anthology of tuna tales and a smattering of science.
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Episode 6 - Of Man and Fish
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Supplementary Material
Picture 1 – Albert P. Halfhill, the “Father of Canned Tuna” - https://bit.ly/3pIk5eb
Image is Public Domain.
Picture 2 – W. Eugene Smith, American Photojournalist - https://bit.ly/3aDZmUj
Image is Public Domain.
Link 1 – The Commision for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna - https://www.ccsbt.org/
Link 1 – FDA Guidance on Eating Fish for Pregnant Women and Growing Children - https://bit.ly/3q2iocg
Link 2 – Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch Program for Sustainable Eating - https://bit.ly/36QtVnr
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Music And Sound Attributions
Laugh Tracks. Sound effects are available under a Creative Commons Attribution License from Freesound user lonemonk.
Direct Links: https://freesound.org/people/lonemonk/sounds/72842/ and
https://freesound.org/people/lonemonk/sounds/72844/
Waves. Sound effect is available under a Creative Commons Attribution License from Freesound user Suburbanwizard.
Direct Link: https://freesound.org/people/Suburbanwizard/sounds/463250/
Music: Shizima3 by PeriTune. Music Promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International.
Direct Link: https://www.free-stock-music.com/peritune-shizima3-piano-version.html
All other sound effects and music tracks are under the YouTube Audio license and free to use without attribution.
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Full Show Notes, Including all Video, Picture, Music, and Sound Attributions, as well as all informational citations: https://1drv.ms/w/s!Amk89GkQH8YSgohjia-UB7C6JjgkGA?e=9W22hm
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This episode of the Bio-DIVE-rsity podcast was written and performed by Dane Whicker.
The Bio-DIVE-rsity Logo was created by Dane Whicker, using art by Ernst Haeckel. The art utilized is public domain.
Official Bio-Dive-rsity Website: https://flippinfunfishfacts.buzzsprout.com
Question, Comments, or Feedback? I'd love to hear from you! Email me at: [email protected]
Join my Patreon by clicking HERE!
Questions, Comments, or Feedback? I'd love to hear from you! Find me on social media or email me directly at [email protected]
Official Statement on AI: Bio-DIVE-rsity does not use generative AI for the generation of any of its productions. While I acknowledge that some music and artwork was used in some promotional content when generative AI was new to the market, I believe strongly in the importance of artistic integrity and credit to human artists who make our experiences on this blue planet so much richer.
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#LoveAllTunas
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Episode 5 - Tune in for the Tuna
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Supplementary Visual Material
Picture 1 – Yellowfin Tuna, Thunnus albacares - https://bit.ly/2Z0e4hL
Image is Public Domain.
Picture 2 – Skipjack Tuna in a Shoal - https://bit.ly/2YTENN8
Image is Public Domain.
Link 1 – FDA Guidance on Eating Fish for Pregnant Women and Growing Children - https://bit.ly/3q2iocg
Link 2 – Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch Program for Sustainable Eating - https://bit.ly/36QtVnr
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Bio-DIVE-rsity is on social media! Whaaaat? Check it Out!
Instagram: https://bit.ly/3eYvfHU
Twitter: https://twitter.com/flippinfunfish
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/flippinfunfishfacts
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Music And Sound Attributions
Gunshot. Sound effect is free to use from with attribution from Fesliyan Studios.
Direct Link: https://www.FesliyanStudios.com
Badum-Tss Sound by Orange Free Sounds. Published and utilized under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International.
Direct Link: http://www.orangefreesounds.com/
All other sound effects and music tracks are under the YouTube Audio license and free to use without attribution.
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Full Show Notes, Including all Video, Picture, Music, and Sound Attributions, as well as all informational citations: https://1drv.ms/w/s!Amk89GkQH8YSgohFrRWsObcmGAnOvA?e=cIgLAR
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This episode of the Bio-DIVE-rsity podcast was written and performed by Dane Whicker.
The Bio-DIVE-rsity Logo was created by Dane Whicker, using art by Ernst Haeckel. The art utilized is public domain.
Official Bio-Dive-rsity Website: https://flippinfunfishfacts.buzzsprout.com
Question, Comments, or Feedback? I'd love to hear from you! Email me at: [email protected]
Join my Patreon by clicking HERE!
Questions, Comments, or Feedback? I'd love to hear from you! Find me on social media or email me directly at [email protected]
Official Statement on AI: Bio-DIVE-rsity does not use generative AI for the generation of any of its productions. While I acknowledge that some music and artwork was used in some promotional content when generative AI was new to the market, I believe strongly in the importance of artistic integrity and credit to human artists who make our experiences on this blue planet so much richer.
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Rock ON wit' cha Badassfish self.
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Bonus Episode - BadAssfish
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Supplementary Visual Material:
Picture 1 – Profile Drawing of the Bony-eared Assfish - https://bit.ly/3pIBfZt
Picture 2 – Top-down and Bottom-up drawing of the head of the Bony-eared Assfish - https://bit.ly/38bSL2t
Pictures 1 and 2 are from the Report on the deep-sea fishes collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876 Günther, Albert C. L. G. (Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf), 1830-1914, and are public domain.
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Music And Sound Attributions
All music tracks are under the YouTube Audio license and free to use without attribution.
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Bio-DIVE-rsity has an instagram account now! Check it Out! https://bit.ly/3eYvfHU
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Full Show Notes, Including all Video, Picture, Music, and Sound Attributions, as well as all informational citations: https://1drv.ms/w/s!Amk89GkQH8YSgodj7cES_ljl14_RuQ?e=gqCzvs
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This episode of the Bio-DIVE-rsity podcast was written and performed by Dane Whicker.
The Bio-DIVE-rsity Logo was created by Dane Whicker, using art by Ernst Haeckel. The art utilized is public domain.
Official Bio-Dive-rsity Website: https://flippinfunfishfacts.buzzsprout.com
Question, Comments, or Feedback? I'd love to hear from you! Email me at: [email protected]
Join my Patreon by clicking HERE!
Questions, Comments, or Feedback? I'd love to hear from you! Find me on social media or email me directly at [email protected]
Official Statement on AI: Bio-DIVE-rsity does not use generative AI for the generation of any of its productions. While I acknowledge that some music and artwork was used in some promotional content when generative AI was new to the market, I believe strongly in the importance of artistic integrity and credit to human artists who make our experiences on this blue planet so much richer.
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Kick some grass.
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Episode 4 - Honey, I Shrunk the Rainforest
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Supplementary Visual Material
Picture 1 – Anatomy of Seagrass - https://bit.ly/3hgmUjL
Album 1 – Videos and Pictures of Discoveries in or near a seagrass bed - https://flic.kr/s/aHsmT6SUd5
Picture 1 is courtesy of the Texas Statewide Seagrass Monitoring Program, found at texasseagrass.org. It is used under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Album 1 is composed of pictures taken by me, Dane Whicker. All photos were taken in or immediately adjacent to a seagrass bed between the years of 2016 and 2020.
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Music And Sound Attributions
Oh Yeah. Sound effect is free to use from the Free Sounds Collection Channel.
Direct Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Dlx3z7FWs
All music tracks are under the YouTube Audio license and free to use without attribution.
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Bio-DIVE-rsity has an instagram account now! Check it Out! https://bit.ly/3eYvfHU
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Full Show Notes, Including all Video, Picture, Music, and Sound Attributions, as well as all informational citations: https://1drv.ms/w/s!Amk89GkQH8YSgocZ1VEgSNV0FdmUiw?e=G3QCAs
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This episode of the Bio-DIVE-rsity podcast was written and performed by Dane Whicker.
The Bio-DIVE-rsity Logo was created by Dane Whicker, using art by Ernst Haeckel. The art utilized is public domain.
Official Bio-Dive-rsity Website: https://flippinfunfishfacts.buzzsprout.com
Question, Comments, or Feedback? I'd love to hear from you! Email me at: [email protected]
Join my Patreon by clicking HERE!
Questions, Comments, or Feedback? I'd love to hear from you! Find me on social media or email me directly at [email protected]
Official Statement on AI: Bio-DIVE-rsity does not use generative AI for the generation of any of its productions. While I acknowledge that some music and artwork was used in some promotional content when generative AI was new to the market, I believe strongly in the importance of artistic integrity and credit to human artists who make our experiences on this blue planet so much richer.
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Pandemics don't just affect humans. We're just the only species who can do anything about them.
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Episode 3 - The Mystery of Stolen Stars
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Supplementary Visual Material
Picture 1 – Starfish Water Vascular Diagram - https://bit.ly/37qkMSf
Picture 2 – Visual Diagram of how microbes “choke” stars by Boundary Layer Oxygen Diffusion Limitation - https://bit.ly/33tPR6e
Picture 1 is from the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank, and is Public Domain.
Picture 2 is directly from:
Aquino, Citlalli A., et al. Evidence That Non-Pathogenic Microorganisms Drive Sea Star Wasting Disease through Boundary Layer Oxygen Diffusion Limitation. 4 Aug. 2020, 10.1101/2020.07.31.231365.
And is used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
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Music And Sound Attributions
Ocean Waves Crashing Sound. Sound effect published and utilized under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0
Direct Link: https://www.freesoundslibrary.com/ocean-waves-crashing-sound/
Godzilla Roar. Sound effect retrieved from soundbible.com and is public domain.
Direct Link: http://soundbible.com/1720-Godzilla-Roar.html
All other music tracks are under the YouTube Audio license and free to use without attribution.
News Clip is from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov4HsSggiqU, and used with permission from Hakai Magazine.
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Bio-DIVE-rsity has an instagram account now! Check it Out! https://bit.ly/3eYvfHU
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Full Show Notes, Including all Video, Picture, Music, and Sound Attributions, as well as all informational citations: https://1drv.ms/w/s!Amk89GkQH8YSgocGphincICM9bHe4Q?e=GGX3C8
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This episode of the Bio-DIVE-rsity podcast was written and performed by Dane Whicker.
The Bio-DIVE-rsity Logo was created by Dane Whicker, using art by Ernst Haeckel. The art utilized is public domain.
Official Bio-Dive-rsity Website: https://flippinfunfishfacts.buzzsprout.com
Question, Comments, or Feedback? I'd love to hear from you! Email me at: [email protected]
Join my Patreon by clicking HERE!
Questions, Comments, or Feedback? I'd love to hear from you! Find me on social media or email me directly at [email protected]
Official Statement on AI: Bio-DIVE-rsity does not use generative AI for the generation of any of its productions. While I acknowledge that some music and artwork was used in some promotional content when generative AI was new to the market, I believe strongly in the importance of artistic integrity and credit to human artists who make our experiences on this blue planet so much richer.
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You’re walking in the Himalayas, there’s no one around and your phone is dead. Out of the corner of your eye you spot him: and it’s not Shia LaBeouf.
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Episode 2 - The Yeti Is Real, We're Just Looking in the Wrong Mountains
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Supplementary Visual Material
Videos 1 and 2, as well as ALL pictures are directly from:
Thurber AR, Jones WJ, Schnabel K. Dancing for Food in the Deep Sea: Bacterial Farming by a New Species of Yeti Crab. Steinke D, editor. PLoS ONE. 2011 Nov 30;6(11):e26243.
These Videos and Photos are used under the Creative Contributions Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/licenses-and-copyright
Video 3 was shot by me, Dane Whicker.
Video 1 – Cheliped Rhythmic Waving - https://bit.ly/2G1cG8S
Video 2 – Yeti Third Maxilliped Action! - https://bit.ly/3owBTJS
Video 3 – Maxilliped Coordination - https://flic.kr/p/2jZDjpU
Picture 1 – Kiwa puravida Overview and Holotype Pictures and SEM #1 - https://bit.ly/2Htw0fW
Show Note: Figure D is the Third Maxilliped, Figure H is the Comb-Row Setae
Picture 2 – Kiwa puravida Overview and Holotype Pictures and SEM #2 - https://bit.ly/3dZWst5
Show Note: Figure E demonstrates all three types of setae, from left to right, the whip-like barbed setae, the comb-row setae, and the stout barbed setae.
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Full Show Notes, Including all Video, Picture, Music, and Sound Attributions, as well as all informational citations: https://1drv.ms/w/s!Amk89GkQH8YSgoVXhJsdbSxPCl4k-w?e=GGKIh7
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Bio-DIVE-rsity has an instagram account now! Check it Out! https://bit.ly/3eYvfHU
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This episode of the Bio-DIVE-rsity podcast was written and performed by Dane Whicker.
The Bio-DIVE-rsity Logo was created by Dane Whicker, using art by Ernst Haeckel. The art utilized is public domain.
Official Bio-Dive-rsity Website: https://flippinfunfishfacts.buzzsprout.com
Question, Comments, or Feedback? I'd love to hear from you! Email me at: [email protected]
Join my Patreon by clicking HERE!
Questions, Comments, or Feedback? I'd love to hear from you! Find me on social media or email me directly at [email protected]
Official Statement on AI: Bio-DIVE-rsity does not use generative AI for the generation of any of its productions. While I acknowledge that some music and artwork was used in some promotional content when generative AI was new to the market, I believe strongly in the importance of artistic integrity and credit to human artists who make our experiences on this blue planet so much richer.
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What if I told you that there exists a world beyond ordinary sight? Surely... you must already have felt it.
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Episode 1 – Ancient Worlds, Just Beyond Sight
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Supplementary Visual Material
Picture 1 – Images of Select Foraminifera Species (1) - https://bit.ly/2HPoLz6
Picture 2 – Images of Select Foraminifera Species (2) - https://bit.ly/34RdruL
Picture 3 – Photomicrographs of Foraminifera species - https://bit.ly/34Srtw4
Picture 4 - Pink Sands Beach, Bahamas - https://bit.ly/3mEgE78
Pictures 1 and 2 are directly from:
El Kateb A, Beccari V, Stainbank S, Spezzaferri S, Coletti G. 2020. Living (stained) foraminifera in the Lesser Syrtis (Tunisia): influence of pollution and substratum. PeerJ 8:e8839 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8839
And is used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Picture 3 is directly from:
Takagi, H., Kimoto, K., Fujiki, T., Saito, H., Schmidt, C., Kucera, M., and Moriya, K.: Characterizing photosymbiosis in modern planktonic foraminifera, Biogeosciences, 16, 3377–3396, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-3377-2019, 2019.
And is used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Picture 4 was retrieved from https://bit.ly/2I1Zl0W and was taken by Mike’s Birds. It is used under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License.
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Full Show Notes, Including all Video, Picture, Music, and Sound Attributions, as well as all informational citations: https://1drv.ms/w/s!Amk89GkQH8YSgoYXmMviyLtK-qLt2g?e=MQ708N
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This episode of the Bio-DIVE-rsity podcast was written and performed by Dane Whicker.
The Bio-DIVE-rsity Logo was created by Dane Whicker, using art by Ernst Haeckel. The art utilized is public domain.
Official Bio-Dive-rsity Website: https://flippinfunfishfacts.buzzsprout.com
Questions, Comments, or Feedback? I'd love to hear from you! Email me at: [email protected]
Join my Patreon by clicking HERE!
Questions, Comments, or Feedback? I'd love to hear from you! Find me on social media or email me directly at [email protected]
Official Statement on AI: Bio-DIVE-rsity does not use generative AI for the generation of any of its productions. While I acknowledge that some music and artwork was used in some promotional content when generative AI was new to the market, I believe strongly in the importance of artistic integrity and credit to human artists who make our experiences on this blue planet so much richer.
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NEW PODCAST, WHO DIS?
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Hi there! I'm Dane Whicker, creator and voice performer of the new show, Bio-DIVE-rsity.
Listen in for an introduction on me, your resident fish nerd and sturgeon general, and a explanation of what I hope to do with the show! Let's descend.
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The Bio-DIVE-rsity Logo was created by Dane Whicker, using art by Ernst Haeckel. The art utilized is public domain.
Theme music: Apolllo by Patrick Patrikios. Used under the YouTube Audio Library License.
Official Bio-Dive-rsity Website: https://flippinfunfishfacts.buzzsprout.com
Questions, Comments, or Feedback? I'd love to hear from you! Email me at: [email protected]
Join my Patreon by clicking HERE!
Questions, Comments, or Feedback? I'd love to hear from you! Find me on social media or email me directly at [email protected]
Official Statement on AI: Bio-DIVE-rsity does not use generative AI for the generation of any of its productions. While I acknowledge that some music and artwork was used in some promotional content when generative AI was new to the market, I believe strongly in the importance of artistic integrity and credit to human artists who make our experiences on this blue planet so much richer.
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