Ologies: Hagfishology (HAGFISH) with Tim Winegard

Hagfish: these floppy hot dogs of the deep sea deserve our undying respect.

Tim Winegard is a professional hagfishologist (YES IT’S A WORD) at Chapman University, and he dishes on the world’s slimiest treasures. Prepare to hear about swift escapes, spellbinding clots of slime, patchy backstories, aphrodisiacs, outlasting extinction events, why you don’t always need a spine, eating your way out of a dead whale, and — like a slippery messiah — turning water to slime. Also Alie confronts her fear of m*cus.

 

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Ologies

Volcanoes. Trees. Drunk butterflies. Mars missions. Slug sex. Death. Beauty standards. Anxiety busters. Beer science. Bee drama.

Take away a pocket full of science knowledge and charming, bizarre stories about what fuels these professional -ologists’ obsessions. Humorist and science correspondent Alie Ward asks smart people stupid questions and the answers might change your life.


Science Topics
Biology, Zoology
Animals
Fish
Zoologist
High School
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade, Adults

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