Posts Tagged ‘video’

The Seed

Posted by: Avi in Videos on March 23rd, 2009

A two-minute animated voyage through nature’s life cycle, following the trials and tribulations of a humble apple seed.


The Seed from Johnny Kelly on Vimeo.

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Giant Stingrays Found Near Thai City

Posted by: Avi in New Discoveries, Videos on March 12th, 2009

Zeb Hogan, of the University of Nevada in Reno, is documenting the rays as part of the Megafishes Project, an effort to document Earth’s 20 or so freshwater giants.  watch as he searches for a Giant Stingray in Thailand and gets more than he could even imagine.

Go to the full National Geographic story…

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Crazy Transforming Owl

Posted by: Avi in New Discoveries on March 1st, 2009

Although this video is in Japanese, it is pretty easy to tell what is going on.  Watch and be amazed & amused as this owl reacts when it is confronted by two different competing species of predatory bird.

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The Science of Cute

Posted by: Avi in Videos on March 1st, 2009

Popular Science has a channel on YouTube where they do a series on “The Science of YouTube”.  This video explains the evolutionary basis for our love of cute animals like the ones that seem to be in popular videos online.

Click here to see what else the Popular Science YouTube channel has to offer.

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    Microbe Finds Arsenic Tasty; Redefines Life


    New Microbe Samples

    NASA scientists have discovered an amazing new life-form that redefines what we consider to be the basic building blocks of life.

    A microbe found at the bottom of Mono Lake in California seems able to live in a solution of arsenic which is poisonous to most other life.  Phosphorus, which used to be considered one of the essential building blocks of life, is replaced by arsenic in this organism.

    Dr. Sasselov, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and director of an institute on the origins of life there said, “I would like to know, when designing experiments and instruments to look for life [on other planets], whether I should be looking for same stuff as here on Earth, or whether there are other options.  Are we going to look for same molecules we love and know here, or broaden our search?”

    Seems like we have aliens right here on earth!!!

    Original NYTimes article…
    Dec 10