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June 30, 2010
Category: Journal Club
Common Ravens have been shown to express empathy towards a "friend" or relative that is distressed after an aggressive conflict -- just like humans and chimpanzees do. But birds are very distant evolutionary relatives of Great Apes, so what does this similarity imply about the evolution of behavior?
Posted by "GrrlScientist" at 10:15 AM • 11 Comments •
Category: Mystery Birds
This mystery bird species is extremely local and seasonal in the southernmost portion of the USA, nesting in very limited numbers only in southern Texas and New Mexico.
Posted by "GrrlScientist" at 9:59 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: Streaming videos
This video is a time-lapse rendering of an Apple ipad fingerpainting demo that was streamed live from artist David Kassan's Brooklyn studio on Monday, 21 June 2010. The model sat for 3 hours as Mr Kassan painted and answered questions on how he uses the iPad and the Brushes applications
Posted by "GrrlScientist" at 6:59 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Streaming videos
If the Argentinian fútbol team plays as well and as gracefully as this couple dance the Tango (and the implication is that they will), I think it's no contest; the Germans will lose on Saturday ... just sayin'.
Posted by "GrrlScientist" at 5:59 AM • 1 Comments •
June 29, 2010
Category: Mystery Birds
Newly-hatched baby birds of this mystery bird species have a remarkable ability, can you tell me what that is?
Posted by "GrrlScientist" at 9:59 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Streaming videos
Spider biologist Norman Platnick, from the American Museum of Natural History, has traveled the world cataloguing some of these creatures, many for the first time ever. World renowned for his work, he hopes to find as many as species as possible before some disappear.
Posted by "GrrlScientist" at 6:59 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Streaming videos
Those of you who think Germans can't laugh have not lived in Germany. Die Zeit has recorded this charming video where three brass players from the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra, led by Helge von Niswandt, give a mock-solemn demonstration of the musical properties of the vuvuzela. They do their level best with the chorale theme from Brahms's First Symphony -- "the famed vuvuzela chorale" -- and a bit of Ravel's Boléro
Posted by "GrrlScientist" at 5:59 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: Harry Potter
Those of you who are Harry Potter fans will LOVE this! This is the first trailer from the penultimate installment of the Harry Potter films; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I, which will hit theaters on November 19th, 2010. And it looks like the entire film will be offered in IMAX 3D and in 3D, too! Yeow!! I am exciiited and I'll bet you are too! And here's the first trailer, hot off the presses, with only a few hundred views so far!
Posted by "GrrlScientist" at 2:04 AM • 5 Comments •
June 28, 2010
Category: Mystery Birds
Today's Mystery Bird seems a bit confused about its own identity, maybe you can help by identifying its species? (and maybe you know what I am referring to when I write this? If so, please do share!)
Posted by "GrrlScientist" at 9:59 AM • 13 Comments •
Category: Streaming videos
This video tells the story of speciation in Central Africa's roiling, rapid Lower Congo River. This river is home to an extraordinary assortment of fish -- many truly bizarre. This new video by Science Bulletins, the American Museum of Natural History's current-science video program, features Museum scientists on a quest to understand why so many species have evolved here. Follow Curator of Ichthyology Melanie Stiassny and her team as they search the Lower Congo Rivers mysterious depths for an evolutionary driver.
Posted by "GrrlScientist" at 6:59 AM • •
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