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A former ocean scientist goes in quest for the slippery story of jellyfish, rediscovering her passion for marine science and the sea's imperiled ecosystems. Jellyfish are an enigma. They haven't any centralized brain, nonetheless they see and feel and react to their environment in intricate ways. They look simple, yet their propulsion systems are so advanced that technical engineers are just learning how to mimic them. They produce a few of the deadliest waste on earth and still stay undeniably alluring. Long ignored by science, they might be an integral to ecosystem steadiness. Juli Berwald's journey into the world of jellyfish is a personal one. Greater than a decade ago, she left the sea and her methodical career behind to raise a family group in landlocked Austin, Texas. More and more dire headlines drew her back again to jellies, as unprecedented jellyfish blooms toppled ecosystems and collapsed the world's most effective fisheries. That which was unclear was whether these situations were symptoms of a changing planet or part of a natural cycle. Berwald's desire to understand jellyfish will take her on the methodical odyssey. She journeys the world to meet up with the scientists who spend their careers to jellies; hitches trips on Japanese fishing boats for sale to see massive jellyfish in the open; increases jellyfish in her dining room; and throughout it all marvels at the complexity of these attractive and ominous natural wonders. Gracefully blending personal memoir with crystal-clear distillations of science, Spineless unveils that jellyfish are a bellwether for the damage we're inflicting on the environment and the oceans and a call to understand our collective responsibility for the planet we share.
