The self-healing superpower of sharks
The bold conjecture made here is that everything that has life in it is to some extent antifragile (but not the reverse). It looks like the secret of life is antifragility.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle
This is a Greenland shark – a species that can live to be at least 250 years old. That means around the time the oldest confirmed shark was born, the world was a very different place to what it is now.
Amie Pearce • The longevity of the Greenland shark
It’s the most remarkable and unremarkable thing in the world: a body plus its many things, plus any number of augmentations, from the most elemental to the most mechanically complex.
Sara Hendren • What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
Yes, Shrimp Matter
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He gained a reputation as one of the best shipwreck divers on the East Coast; some said he might be among the best in the world. One day Nagle paid him the highest compliment by saying, “When you die no one will ever find your body.”
Robert Kurson • Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
a kind of water jiu-jitsu needed to wrestle with sharks.