Ms. Katarina Fried (Sweden)

And that was a Humboldt squid, a juvenile Humboldt squid, about three feet long.

Starving the Squid

Jason Fried Why work doesn't happen at work

Hi, I'd like a deep fried pizza roll.

I ate fried rice and drank some beer.

How many arms does a squid have?

I want to eat squid this evening.

At the end of that you're completely fried, your brain.

Edith Widder How we found the giant squid

It was Mike that got me invited to the squid summit, a gathering of squid experts at the Discovery Channel that summer during Shark Week.

Now, we know about smoking, deep fried Mars bars, chips the Glasgow diet.

In the next bit, we're going to see a couple squid.

What was not mentioned in the Discovery documentary was that the bait squid that Dr. Kubodera used, a one meter long diamondback squid had a light attached to it, a squid jig of the type that longline fishermen use, and I think it was this light that brought the giant in.

Someone's like, oh, God it's sweet, it's fried, it's chicken Americans will love this.

The varieties landed are tuna, bonito, mackerel, squid, shark, lobster and shrimp.

Javanese warung canteens sell fried chicken and gado gado mixed vegetables served with peanut sauce.

Suffice it to say for now that I prefer my Wikipedia stir fried with pimentos.

There is Italian Chinese food, where they don't have fortune cookies, so they serve fried gelato.

They did chicken pot pie, they did fried chicken, and then they finally introduced Chicken McNuggets.

So, imagine a great white shark and a giant squid in the same bathroom.

My downstairs neighbor, Alessandra, was completely shocked when I told her, Dude, fried gelato is not Chinese.

These are squid. Now males, when they fight, if they're really aggressive, they turn white.

This little squid is called the fire shooter because of its ability to do this.

Again, another plug for the animals in the ocean, Vibrio fischeri lives in this squid.

Bingo! Now I'm told that's not just a squid phenomenon with males, but I don't know.

There are more Chinese restaurants in this country than McDonald's, Burger King, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Wendy's, combined 40,000, actually.

This is something that my people at SQUID Labs are working on at the moment, called electronic rope.

The reason the squid is willing to put up with these shenanigans is because it wants that light.

Lauren Hodge If you were going to a restaurant and wanted a healthier option, which would you choose, grilled or fried chicken?

Humankind has been looking for the giant squid since we first started taking pictures underwater. But the elusive deep sea predator could never be caught on film. Oceanographer and inventor Edith Widder shares the key insight and the teamwork that helped to capture the squid on film for the first time.

What the squid has developed is a shutter that can open and close over this specialized light organ housing the bacteria.

You hear about giant squid and things like that, but some of these animals get up to be approximately 140, 160 feet long.

For example, this shrimp releases its bioluminescent chemicals into the water just the way a squid or an octopus would release an ink cloud.

And the only places to get WiFi are in the school buildings, or at the Bojangles Fried Chicken joint, which I find myself squatting outside of a lot.

Acaraje, a Brazilian food from Africa, is a ball of caupi bean dough, onions, and salt, fried in palm oil and served with shrimp and a spicy sauce.

A lot of them can release their luciferin or luferase in the water just the way a squid or an octopus will release an ink cloud.

The way that this symbiosis works is that this little squid lives just off the coast of Hawaii, just in sort of shallow knee deep water.

And as the day goes by the bacteria double, they release the molecule, and then light comes on at night, exactly when the squid wants it.

The chicken is fed corn, and then its meat is ground up, and mixed with more corn products to add bulk and binder, and then it's fried in corn oil.

I gave a talk on unobtrusive viewing and optical luring of deep sea squid in which I emphasized the importance of using quiet, unobtrusive platforms for exploration.

The squid is nocturnal, so during the day it buries itself in the sand and sleeps, but then at night it has to come out to hunt.

But then if you think about it, the squid has this terrible problem because it's got this dying, thick culture of bacteria and it can't sustain that.

Now the bacteria are dilute, that little hormone molecule is gone, so they're not making light but of course the squid doesn't care. It's asleep in the sand.

And there are a lot of different animals that can do this There's jellyfish, there's squid, there's a whole lot of different crustaceans, there's even fish that can do this.