Hi friends, it's me Mark. I'm just dropping in to tell you about a virtual party brains on is having Saturday, July 29th

It's free and you're invited

Not only are we celebrating our 10th birthday, we're also super excited to share our newest book with you

It's called meet my micro pets. The book is a fact-filled

hilarious journey through the weird and wonderful world of microbes. I know I know you're thinking

But Mark, will there be cool games at this virtual party on July 29th?

I mean, yeah, only the coolest and before you ask

There will absolutely be epic stories and yes

Molly Sandin and I will be there answering as many questions as we can during the whole event

This is a one-time only live virtual party. You do not want to miss again. It's on Saturday, July 29th

11 a.m. Pacific one p.m. Central and two p.m. Eastern had to brains on dot org slash events for a link to sign up

That's brains on dot org slash events. See you on July 29th

You're listening to brains on where we're serious about being curious

I'm your host Molly Bloom and today we're here to answer our questions sent to us all the way from Losan, Switzerland

My name is Anak and I am seven years old and my question is how do cuttlefish change color?

Cuttlefish are cephalopods. That's the same family of animals that includes octopuses the eight arms of the cuttlefish are part of its head

Over its beak its body is shaped like a long oval and has an

Ungelating fin around the edge that helps it swim and just like an octopus cuttlefish have three hearts

There's a lot of cool things about cuttlefish, but it's their color changing skin. That's probably the coolest here to explain how they're able to change color is producer

Sandin Totten. Hi, Sandin. Hey Molly. Can you find me? Are you under the table?

Yeah

Yeah, yeah, I was under the table. It turns out I'm not that great at hiding. No, you are no cuttlefish

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