90: Octopuses & The Paralympics

How strange are octopuses really? We're going to be debunking some claims, then rebunking them with some real, amazing facts about our fellow earthlings. And what the history of the paralympics? What can we learn from its attempts and its failures and its importance in sports? See Tom's Science Game Show in NYC! Things we Talk About: Octopus Virus Diagram Snail Nervous System Diagram Octopus Maze Image Video of Octopus Opening a Jar Video of Octopus Camouflage Paralympics Ad Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:02:56) Octopuses (00:55:08) The Paralympics (01:41:44) Outro Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! We also learn about: Censoring octopussy, 3 science communicators get rabid over a dubious study, octopi are so smart they could only have come about from fertilized eggs aboard an asteroid, cephalopods evolved a central nervous system independently with ganglia, the “head” of an octopus is where there other organs are, octopi don't have 5 brains but they do have a lot of distributed neurons, each sucker is a finger-nose-tongue that can make decisions on its own, octopi have terrible hand eye coordination but can learn to be better at it, Ella thinks “man this wou…