In front of Stanford University's Main Quad, biologist Tom McFadden raps for a video camera. The flat bill of his Toronto Blue Jays baseball cap sits on the white rims of his sunglasses as he bounces his head to the beat. The video then cuts to him gesticulating in front of a projection screen that shows the cells of an embryo dividing. ...
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Hi, Greg! Your link doesn't work unless I delete the "?nclick_check=1" on the end.
I liked the video.
Here's the link:
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_12108869
The versiion with the check-1 crap works for me. This is probably a fault of cookies and bad link design on the part of the Silicon Vally Mercury News. Ironic.