Category Archives: Videos
WHY EVOLUTION IS RIGHT AND CREATIONISM IS WRONG
November 2007 Watch Professor Steve Jones giving his lecture on this subject at the Royal Society. Required viewing. Search for “Steve Jones” in the panel on the right. You can see the slides in the big panel on the left. The video … Continue reading
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DYNAMITE FOR DINOSAURS
November 2007 Nature magazine article about a palaeontology project in Alaska, where they are blasting out hadrosaur bones from underneath the permafrost – a bit different from the normal image of people using paintbrushes under a baking desert sun… Mind you, they do … Continue reading
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ON iTUNES
November 2007 Cass Frey-Mills (Final Year) points out that you can download free National Geographic videos from iTunes. The “Wild Chronicles” series includes Tiger Sharks, Japanese Giant Hornets and Sptting Camels of the Andes. I sometimes find the commentary and the music a … Continue reading
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DAWKINS ON TED
October 2007 This from Rebecca Cadorette (First Year): TED.com is a website that has videoed talks “by the world’s greatest thinkers and doers”. There’s a cracking set of talks on all things related to evolution and animals here (including Jane Goodall, E. … Continue reading
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EVERY BIRD ON EARTH – ON VIDEO!
October 2007 After last week’s success with the video of the nutty Manakin bird, Per Smiseth sent in this link, which is to the Internet Bird Colection – a site that aims to assemble videos of every bird alive… Some very cool … Continue reading
Filed under Audio files, Birds, Images, Videos
THIS IS NOT A JOKE!
October 2007 But it is very funny! Creationist clip explaining how peanut butter disproves evolution. Honest!
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WHIP SCORPIONS ON THE WILDCLASSROOM.COM FOR ECO-GEEKS
October 2007 Well, that’s how the intro song goes on this video. Probably aimed at my kids rather than you lot, but then, so’s Spongebob Squarepants, which doesn’t stop you watching it. Those of you who’ve done the Evolution of Animals course … Continue reading
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WEIRD MOONWALKING MANAKIN
October 2007 Definitely a video that will make you laugh! The male red-capped Manakin (Pipra mentalis), a bird found in Costa Rica and Belize (watch out for it if you go there on the Field Course), does a rather cool moonwalk as … Continue reading
WALKING WITH DINOSAURS – ON STAGE
October 2007 YouTube video of the stage show. A bit disappointing, I felt, like watching a bad episode of Dr Who – the monsters are just people in suits. I was particularly disappointed by the stegosaur (about 1 minute in).
