For a moment recently, I wished I were a jellyfish. Now, a jellyfish that has washed up on a beach looks disgusting…like a discarded Ziploc bag. But the Jellies at the Outer Bay exhibit at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California have reason to be envied.

Imagine spending your life tumbling languidly in liquid suspension while thousands of admirers ooh and awwh. Not bad for a gelatinous blob without heart or brain.

A Jellyfish Minute
Monterey Bay Aquarium

VIDEO (WINDOWS MEDIA): HDTV (50 MB)

The Monterey Bay Aquarium has a fish restaurant, of sorts, actually an educational project in restaurant motif designed to educate visitors on which fish are healthy to eat and raised in a manner so as not to damage the environment, not to mention taste good. The program is called Seafood Watch and you can download a good fish/bad fish guide from the Seafood Watch section of their web web site (www.montereybayaquarium.org).

Dr. Steve Webster, one of the founders of the Aquarium, gave me a quick lesson on how to shop for fish
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