streaming videos
grrlscientist | March 10, 2009tags: hamster popcorn piano, cute overload, funny, dwarf hamster, streaming video
This streaming video is a recreation of the original dwarf-hamster-on-a-piano-eating-popcorn video, which I embedded into my blog waaaay back in the day, but which the filmographer inexplicably removed from YouTube. This video remake is indicative of what pain and pain medications can do to a person -- I've spent something close to an hour watching hamster videos on YouTube .. hamsters riding private elevators, hamster derbies, hamsters driving cars, dancing hamsters, hamsters opening doors to lego houses,…
grrlscientist | March 9, 2009tags: hammy the hamster, cute overload, funny, golden hamster, streaming video
This streaming video shows Hammy the Golden Hamster choosing organic food more often than regular non-organic food -- of course, "Hammy" isn't paying the bills for his expensive food choices, a point that is conveniently left out of this video .. ho-hum! [1:30]
grrlscientist | March 8, 2009tags: atheism, godlessness, religion, Religion in America, streaming video
This streaming video highlights what would happen if all atheists were to leave America. It tells you who would leave, what would change, and gives a look at other countries that have virtually no Atheists. [2:18]
grrlscientist | March 7, 2009tags: The Science Behind the Movie, Watchmen, physics, superheroes' superpowers, education, streaming video
In this streaming video, University of Minnesota physics professor James Kakalios discusses how he consulted with Warner Bothers to add a physics perspective to their upcoming movie, Watchmen. Kakalios discusses how quantum mechanics can explain Dr. Manhattan's super human powers in the film, and how he, the good professor, came to become an expert on the topic of the physics of superheroes [6:49]
grrlscientist | March 6, 2009tags: The Science of Cuteness, cute overload, baby animals, behavior, streaming video
The "science of YouTube" guys are back, with a look at the true meaning of cute web videos [2:33]
grrlscientist | March 5, 2009tags: coal mining, mountaintop removal, clean coal, electricity, streaming video
This video shows us the dirty lie behind so-called "clean coal" -- which is one of the main sources of power on the East Coast of the United States [1:55]
grrlscientist | March 4, 2009tags: falconry, raptors, airport bird strikes, Birdman of JFK, streaming video
A single bird can take out a jet engine, with potentially catastrophic results. There is, however, an ingenious and natural way way of keeping the birds out of the path of airplanes as they take off and land -- falconry. This 2001 video does an excellent job detailing the lives of the falcons and the man who works with them at JFK airport [8:37]
grrlscientist | March 3, 2009tags: human-chimp hybrid, humanzee, chuman, science, streaming video
Humans and chimps have DNA that is something close to 99% identical, so could there ever be a human-chimpanzee hybrid -- a Humanzee? Watch this video to learn the answer to this question [2:28]
grrlscientist | March 2, 2009tags: pinky, pink bottlenose dolphin, albino bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, Lake Calcasieu, Eric Rue
Image: Eric Rue, Calcasieu Charter Service.
A rare pink Bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, has resurfaced two years after it had first been seen in Lake Calcasieu, an inland saltwater estuary, north of the Gulf of Mexico in southwestern Louisiana.
The young dolphin, which was first sighted as a calf in June 2007 and photographed a few weeks later, gets its brilliant pink color and bright red eyes from blood vessels that lie just below its layer of blubber. This pink color is…
grrlscientist | March 2, 2009tags: neurobiology, arts, dance, science, streaming video
There's been a movement recently to "dance your PhD" and this is the first video I've seen where someone has actually done this -- what do you think? [2:55]
Dissertation Title: Cerebral activation patterns induced by inflection of regular and irregular verbs with positron emission tomography.
The findings of this thesis demonstrate that regular and irregular verbs are processed in the same neural network as opposed to separate cortical areas for regular and irregular verb inflection.
This piece is subdivided into 3 sections: 1.)…
grrlscientist | March 1, 2009tags: budgerigars, talking birds, pets, cute, streaming video
This video documents a budgerigar who is astonishingly chatty -- and he makes more sense than a lot of people I know, too [6:04]
Part 1-The Spiritual Evolution of Budgies -
grrlscientist | February 28, 2009
You've watched the video, so let's do our best to help Joe Biden, and to do this, I suggest that we start at the beginning. I have two questions for you: Do you consider yourself to be "Middle Class"? If so, what is "Middle Class" in America?
Unlike most Americans, I do not, and never have, considered myself to be "middle class", although I don't know where I fit in precisely, since I have a PhD (an upper middle class achievement), but I don't have a job, and I've been without health insurance for most of my life (both, ugly features of poverty). As a result, I am not precisely sure what is…
grrlscientist | February 28, 2009tags: budgerigars, talking birds, pets, cute, streaming video
This budgerigar has the cutest little speaking voice and .. hang on, what's he saying? [0:45]
Parakeet Says "Barack Obama" -
grrlscientist | February 27, 2009tags: vervet monkeys, animal behavior, alcohol, streaming video
This streaming video explores alcohol use (and abuse) among a group of feral vervet monkeys on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts. Interestingly, the patterns of alcohol use and abuse closely mirror those found in humans. The sound on this video is very quiet, so you will have to turn up the volume to hear the narrator [3:13]
grrlscientist | February 26, 2009tags: budgerigars, animal training, cute, streaming video
I've seen a lot of examples of animal training in my lifetime, but this certainly is one of the best because it involves not one or two animals, but a small flock .. and each bird is doing just what he or she should be doing .. amazing! [5:31]
Fun with Budgies - For more amazing video clips, click here
grrlscientist | February 25, 2009tags: breakdancing fingers, humor, silliness, streaming video
There are lots of breakdancers in NYC. Recently, one group, who breakdances on subway trains while they are running, were documented on the news. But this amusing video documents another unusual technique: breakdancing fingers [1:02]
grrlscientist | February 24, 2009tags: her morning elegance, photographic stop-motion movie, streaming video
This video is an absolutely fascinating photographic stop-motion movie featuring photography by Eyal Landesman and music by Oren Lavie -- who says you must have a video camera to make a movie? [3:36]
H/T: Travelgirl.
grrlscientist | February 23, 2009
Are you an amateur filmmaker? Are you a scientist, or do you enjoy filming scientists? If so, then the Imagine Science Film Festival 2009 is looking for you! ISFF 2009 seeks narrative films with a scientific or technological theme and story line, or films that have a scientist, engineeer or mathematician as a leading character. All submitted films are competing for the right to be publicly screened between in NYC between August 1st and November 30th, 2009. All screened films will also be competing for a $2,500 Scientific Merit Award and a $2,500 People's Choice Award.
I am so excited…
grrlscientist | February 23, 2009tags: Snow Geese, Chen caerulescens, Skagit Flats, Fir Island, Seattle, streaming video
This streaming video, by Seattle birder, Doug Plummer, documents the hundreds of thousands of migratory Snow Geese, Chen caerulescens, who winter on the Skagit Flats, a floodplain that is located north of my home, Seattle [1:39]
Skagit Snow Geese from Doug Plummer.
grrlscientist | February 22, 2009tags: frog jesus, religion, animal behavior, streaming video
Just in time for Sunday! This streaming video documents a nostalgic voyage that takes a darker turn, exploring the naiveté of mankind through the eyes of a young boy. [1:17]