Sentences with phrase «from blubber»

trying to distinguish skin from blubber and alluding to the impossibility of fully comprehending a thing so big that you are always either on top of it, or enveloped by it.

They scanned seven minke whale heads in CT and MRI machines, created computer models of the ears and surrounding soft tissue, and dissected the whale noggins to reveal ear fat running from blubber just under the skin to the ear bones.

Not exact matches

People can live off everything from whale blubber to seeds and grasses.

In the opening pages Luther set the pace, speaking of the Duke rubbing «his scabby and scurvy head» against the Elector, saying that the Duke «curses, blasphemes, shrieks, struggles, bellows, and spits», and says that such books as the Duke's «make me tingle with pleasure from head to toe when I see that through me, poor wretched man that I am, God the Lord maddens and exasperates the hellish and worldly princes... while I sit under the shade of faith and the Lord's Prayer, laughing at the devils and their crew as they blubber and struggle in their great fury».

Our breast milk could not have evolved to be the perfect complement to all traditional diets around the world — these could range from plants, insects, game meat, grain crops, seal blubber, fish — you get the picture.

«In my entire life I've never taken anything from anyone,» he blubbered.

So heavy are they that strips of blubber are cut by them from the back of the hapless whale.»

They drove up Highway 1 from Santa Cruz, 30 miles to the south, cut through several feet of blubber, muscle, and bone, and scooped up the head with a front - end loader borrowed from a nearby lumber company.

Its thick blubber and fur insulate it against the cold, and its translucent fur, which appears white or cream - colored, camouflages it from its prey.

He tried to cut through the head, but the blubber and fat never froze completely, and the diamonds were repeatedly stripped from the expensive wires.

Kelp Gull harassment — they feed on skin and blubber pecked from the backs of living whales — has also increased in recent years, implicating the wounding as a potential contributing cause of the increased mortality.

Blubber helps these marine mammals from getting too cold.

More to explore Sink or Swim: Muscle versus Fat from Scientific American Blubber from National Geographic Education Is Muscle a Better Insulator than Fat in Cold and Heat?

from MadSci What Are You Blubbering About?

A crowd gathered, the charges were blown, and then everyone ran as giant chunks of blubber rained from the sky and crushed the Oldsmobile 88 of Walter Umenhoefer, who became known as «the blubber victim» forevermore, to his annoyance.

This morning's video - of - the - day Chicken's Fate is Sealed documents the meat industry's attempts to lower the arachidonic acid level in chicken muscles through genetic manipulation and the egg industry's attempts to lower arachidonic acid levels in hens by feeding hens blubber from baby harp seal pups clubbed to death in the Canadian seal hunt.

In some instances, fish oil is extracted from seal or whale blubber.5

While Dr. Eades is correct that glycogen tends to degrade rather quickly from muscle meat, here we have a study where the average post-mortem time for flensing was 28.4 hrs and the researchers still found that Sperm Whale blubber contained «significant» carbohydrate reserves.

Also, why did traditional Eskimo populations, consuming up to 75 % of their total caloric intake from fat (mostly from whale blubber, seal fat, organ meats, and cold water fish), display superior health and longevity without heart disease or obesity?

Now that I am done blubbering, I wanted to round up some of my fav Instagram looks from the past few weeks, complete with details and links!

But The Space Between Us, which somehow isn't based on a hit YA novel, reserves plenty of scenes for an Elon Musk type played by Oldman, and you could fit a red planet in the void separating the actor's blubbering commitment to the role from what it deserved.

Kate Winslet kept it together for her first gong, but when she picked her Best Actress (Drama) award, even some sage words from Thompson on her way to the stage couldn't help her blubbering love fest speech («And to the make - up and hair department...» seriously, the amount of people she gave props to, I felt kind of left out).

We first meet Goodman's Frank in a Grecian bathhouse, blubber spilling out from beneath his robes as he barks a cruel economic philosophy that, when you set aside all the profanity, actually makes a great deal of sense.

Russian fur traders arrived in the early 1800s and exploited resources such as blubber from fur seals and pelts from sea lions.

She had some blubber, so she'd had some attention from her mother before they were separated.

Organochlorine pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls, and butyltin compounds in blubber and livers of stranded California sea lions, elephant seals, and harbor seals from coastal California, USA.

No matter who I played it with everyone had fun, from young children to grown adults clutching a beer and blubbering about the horrors of life.

Level one climaxes with a bald fire - breather, whose ample rolls of blubber absorb a good deal of punishment from fists and feet.

If US corporate boardrooms are still buying advice from market consultants who blubber about a global economy, they are wandering in a very bleak wilderness.

A thick layer of fat called blubber insulates them from cold ocean waters.

I can if I want, make diesel from vege oil (or whale blubber — ok, ok, we'll farm the whales so we do nt send them extinct).

Iceland imported eight tonnes of minke whale meat and blubber from Norway in two shipments in 2002, under their respective CITES reservations; Icland illegally exported 2.7 tons of whale oil to Belarus in 2006 and 2010 and 259 kg of whale meat to Latvia in 2010; Iceland exported 846,046 kg of «frozen whale meat and other products to Japan since 2008 (more than 90 percent in 2010) under their respective CITES reservations; Iceland has exported eight separate shipments of whale oil to Norway since 2008, totaling 708 kilograms, under their respective CITES reservations; Iceland has exported 1309 kilograms of whale meat to the Faroe Islands, a non-party to CITES.

Gulls flocked to find remnants of whale blubber, called maktak, and 50 yards away, the ocean gently rocked against the course black sandy shoreline, which is not much of a beach anymore with the rising waters from warming oceans and melting ice.

Aside from turning grown - ups into cooing blubbering mushes, what purpose do those cartoon - animal black and white patches serve?

After a whale gives birth, it must spend the next several weeks continually swimming in order to «tow» its calf along in its slipstream since the baby doesn't have enough blubber built up yet to maintain buoyancy in the water and would otherwise sink without help from its mother.