Futurama's take on the Red Queen hypothesis

If I ever have the chance to deliver a lecture on evolution again I may just have to use this clip (from Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder);



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Tonight, at 10pm ET/9pm CT, Futurama features Evolution Under Attack. It looks promising…
The lesson is that you should never, ever give a network executive control of your fate.
So I was watching Adult Swim last night (Futurama x2 followed by The Family Guy) and they were running a cool visualization by Aaron Koblin of the air traffic over the US.
Excitement in Morris—big thunderstorm just blew through, taking out trees up & down the street, including one that came within inches of annihilating my car. The power is out, & it may be a while before it comes back.

WOW. That is going into every class I teach.

Brilliant.

By jurassiraptor (not verified) on 09 Mar 2009 #permalink