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Jellyfish as food

Jellyfish as food: traditional East and Southeast Asian seafood (海蜇) made mainly from Rhizostomae species like Rhopilema esculentum, cured by alum-salt dehydration; high collagen, low fat, with aluminum residue as the main safety concern.

Jellyfish bloom

Jellyfish bloom: sudden, large population surges of jellyfish (medusae and ctenophores), also called swarms. Driven by temperature, salinity, and food; global data show ~20-year oscillations, not a confirmed worldwide increase.

Jellyfish Entertainment

Jellyfish Entertainment (젤리피쉬엔터테인먼트) is the Seoul K-pop agency founded August 17, 2007 by Hwang Se-jun; home of VIXX, VERIVERY, and EVNNE, with ten straight years of Mnet survival-show debuts.

Jellyfish galaxy

A jellyfish galaxy is a satellite galaxy, usually a spiral falling into a cluster, whose gas is stripped by ram pressure into a one-sided tail that resembles jellyfish tentacles.

Jellyfish Lake

Jellyfish Lake (Ongeim'l Tketau, OTM) is a 30 m deep stratified marine lake in Palau's Rock Islands, home to ~7 million golden jellyfish Mastigias papua etpisoni that migrate 1 km daily; the only Palau marine lake open to tourists, hit by 1998 and 2016 population crashes.

Jellyfish search optimizer

The jellyfish search optimizer, also written JSO, is a swarm-based metaheuristic mimicking jellyfish ocean-current and swarm motion, introduced by Chou and Truong in 2020 and needing almost no parameter tuning.

Jellystone!

Jellystone! is a 2021 HBO Max animated comedy by C.H. Greenblatt reimagining Hanna-Barbera characters (Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Jabberjaw) as townsfolk; 3 seasons, 77 episodes, ended March 2025.

Jelme

Jelme (Mongolian: Зэлмэ) was a general and early companion of Genghis Khan, one of the "Four Hounds" vanguard commanders, known for saving the khan's life after a battle wound.

Jeltoqsan

Jeltoqsan (Желтоқсан, Kazakh for "December"), also spelled Zheltoksan, was a series of mass youth protests that began in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on December 17, 1986, and were violently suppressed by Soviet forces.

Jem (singer)

Jem (Jemma Gwynne Griffiths, born 1975) is a Welsh singer-songwriter whose debut Finally Woken (2004) sold over a million copies; known for "They" and TV placements. Not the Jem and the Holograms character or singer Jem Cooke.

Jem (TV series)

Jem, also known as Jem and the Holograms, is a 1985-1988 American animated musical series in first-run syndication, created by Christy Marx for Hasbro, Sunbow, and Marvel Productions, about Jerrica Benton's holographic alter ego Jem and her band's rivalry with the Misfits.

Jem and the Holograms (film)

Jem and the Holograms is a 2015 live-action musical drama directed by Jon M. Chu, adapting the 1985-1988 Hasbro cartoon. Starring Aubrey Peeples, it earned $2.3 million on a $5 million budget and was pulled from theaters after two weeks.

Jem Finer

Jem Finer (Jeremy Max Finer), born 1955 in Stoke-on-Trent, is a UK artist, composer, and founding banjo player of The Pogues. He co-wrote "Fairytale of New York" and created Longplayer, a 1,000-year non-repeating composition, and Score for a Hole in the Ground.

JEM-EUSO

JEM-EUSO, the Extreme Universe Space Observatory on the Japanese Experiment Module, was a proposed space telescope to observe ultra-high-energy cosmic rays from the ISS; JAXA withdrew in 2013.

Jemaah Islamiyah

Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), also spelled Jamaah Islamiyyah, is an al-Qaeda-linked Southeast Asian militant Islamist group founded by Abdullah Sungkar and Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, seeking a pan-Islamic regional state; it carried out the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people.

Jemaine Clement

Jemaine Atea Mahana Clement, born 1974 in Masterton, New Zealand, is an actor, comedian, musician, and filmmaker: half of Flight of the Conchords with Bret McKenzie, co-creator of What We Do in the Shadows, voice of Moana's Tamatoa, and Dr. Ian Garvin in the Avatar sequels.

Jemangmaega

Jemangmaega (제망매가, "Song for the Dead Younger Sister") is a 10-line hyangga composed by the Silla monk Wolmyeong in the 8th century, mourning his dead younger sister.

Jemdet Nasr

Jemdet Nasr, also spelled Jamdat Nasr, is an archaeological site in central Iraq, northeast of Kish, known for its polychrome pottery and proto-cuneiform tablets found in 1925.

Jemdet Nasr period

The Jemdet Nasr period, also spelled Jamdat Nasr, is an archaeological period of southern Mesopotamia, c. 3100–2900 BC, named after its type site near Kish.

Jemdet Nasr tablets

The Jemdet Nasr tablets are proto-cuneiform administrative records, chiefly grain accounts, found at Jemdet Nasr in central Iraq and dating to the late fourth millennium BC.

Jemele Hill

Jemele Hill is an American journalist and author known for connecting sports with politics and culture. She served as an ESPN host for 12 years before leaving in 2018.

Jemelle villa rustica

Jemelle villa rustica (villa of Malagne): large Gallo-Roman farm estate at Neufchâteau between Jemelle and Rochefort, Belgium, built mid-1st century CE, active four centuries, excavated 1890 and 1992–1997, now an experimental archaeology park.

Jemima Goldsmith

Jemima Goldsmith (Jemima Khan), born 1974, is a British screenwriter and producer, founder of Instinct Productions, ex-wife of Imran Khan, writer of What's Love Got to Do With It? and creator of the podcast A Muslim & A Jew Go There.

Jemima Kirke

Jemima Kirke, born 1985 in London, is a British-American actress and painter. Known for Jessa Johansson on HBO's Girls, RISD painting degree, and later roles in Sex Education, Conversations with Friends, and City on Fire, plus solo portrait exhibitions.

Jemima Rooper

Jemima Rooper, British actress born in Hammersmith, London, child star as George in The Famous Five, known for As If, Lost in Austen, Atlantis, Flowers in the Attic: The Origin, Geek Girl, and West End theatre work.

Jemima Sumgong

Jemima Jelagat Sumgong, Kenyan marathon runner born 1984, won Rio 2016 Olympic marathon gold in 2:24:04, the first Kenyan woman to do so; later banned eight years for EPO until 2027.

Jemimah Rodrigues

Jemimah Rodrigues, Indian women's cricketer, right-handed batter and off-break bowler for India since 2018; 2025 ODI World Cup winner with a 127 semi-final century; Delhi Capitals WPL 2026 captain.

Jemma Lowe

Jemma Lowe (born 1990, Hartlepool), British butterfly swimmer; Olympian 2008 and 2012, 2010 Commonwealth bronze for Wales, 2014 mixed medley relay world record holder, retired 2017.

Jemma Moore

Jemma Moore (born 1992) is a Hong Kong-born British actor of mixed Chinese and English heritage, known for Jess Li in ITV's Red Eye, Host (2020), Lockwood & Co, and neurodiversity advocacy.

Jemma Redgrave

Jemma Redgrave (Jemima Rebecca Redgrave, born 1965) is a British actress of the Redgrave acting family, known for Bramwell's Dr Eleanor Bramwell, Kate Stewart in Doctor Who, Howards End, and Silent Witness.