Ramblings

Open Sea 

O.161  OS.31  Mar2016 

Piano tuner  - and - Tune my engine

O.163  OS.32  Mar2016

Fish Sticks were created in the 1920s in the USA. Fish Fingers were first launched in Britain in 1955 and have been a successful product ever since. Fish Finger are created using whitefish such as cod. 

For more information see link-1, link-2, link-3.

O.170  OS.33  Apr2016 

Japan is still hunting Minke Whales in 2016.

Mar2016-1, Mar2016-2, Mar2016-3 (info-1, info-2)

O.174  OS.34  May2016 

There's always a bigger fish - Qui-Gon Jinn (1999: Star Wars Ep1 - The Phantom Menace)

O.176  OS.35  Jun2016  

Climate change impacts on the world's oceans extends to changes (ocean acidification) that dissolve the shells of marine creatures.

DomPost (NZ) - Nov4-2015 (Climate change's 'evil twin' threat to ocean food chain)

News article - Nov3-2015

Stephan Pastis on the impacts of climate change.

O.178  OS.36 a-b  Jun2016  

Information on Right Whales

O.179  OS.37  Jun2016  

Newspaper article - 2017: How Blue Whales became giants of the sea.

O.180  OS.38  Jun2016  

Apparently, a Blue Whale's daily intake of krill weighs the equivalent of 40,000 cheese burgers.

Adam Spencer's World of Numbers - Adam Spencer

1,339 QI Facts to Make Your Jaw Drop - John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, James Harkin

O.181  OS.39  Jun2016  

The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) is the sequel to Frankenstein (1931).

O.183  OS.40  Jun2016  

Sea World is to stop its Orca breeding programme and to phase out the shows featuring Orcas.

News May2016 - article-1, article-2.  

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