Hey, it's on youtube already. There may be a few moments where I look a bit strained — that's because the video projector wasn't working well, and we actually had it sitting on the floor kind of crookedly aimed at the screen, and a helpful fellow was maneuvering it to make sure the part I was referring to was on the screen rather than the wall or the ceiling. But fortunately for you, those clever folks who produced the video spliced my slides directly into the video.
It's all about the real history of Haeckelian recapitulation and why evolution doesn't predict the crazy stupid things creationists say it does and why Jonathan Wells is a perfidious dorkwad.
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