Sam Harris speaks with Matt Ridley and Alina Chan about the origins of the COVID pandemic. They discuss the evidence of a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, media and academic censorship of... continue reading
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The insane biology of bioluminescence
posted by eric3579 1 year 5 months 3 weeks ago • 143 views • 15:28Fascinating stuff about how and why a plant becomes a meat eater
posted by eric3579 2 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 56 views • 16:11Axolotls are one of science’s most studied animals. Why, you ask? These extraordinary salamanders are masters of regeneration: they can flawlessly regenerate body parts ranging from amputated limbs and... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 7 months 1 week ago • 225 views • 5:22The human immune system is the most complex biological system we know, after the human brain, and yet, most of us never learn how it works. Or what it is. Your immune System consists of hundreds of tiny... continue reading
posted by eric3579 2 years 9 months 1 week ago • 724 views • 10:48After women complain about a biological man walking around naked in the women's locker room, the employees say the person is transgender and there's nothing they can do about it.
posted by bobknight33 2 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 941 views • 3:45Here I describe direct biological connections between our breathing, our brain and our heart rate. This can be used to quickly de-stress or to increase energy and alertness. -yt
posted by eric3579 3 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 566 views • 2:13Thanks eric3579!
posted by ant 3 years 3 months 1 week ago • 104 views • 18:03The Insane Biology of: The Octopus
posted by BSR 3 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 921 views • 21:27YouTube description: There’s something you probably heard a lot in biology class. And no, it's not “mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell”...
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 11 months ago • 56 viewsScientists from UVM and Tufts repurposed living cells scraped from frog embryos and assembled them into entirely new life-forms. More: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1zVG8wptOOI https://youtu.be/XLI7VtjgOyk ... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 4 months ago • 171 views • 57 secs"Ant venom delivery captured, for the first time, in slow-motion (1,000fps) & up-close video. The ants (and stingers) featured in this video are the Florida harvester ant Pogonomyrmex badius and the trap-jaw... continue reading
posted by ant 4 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 700 views • 3:31YouTube description: Who would have thought baby electric eels would be so cute? I record their electric pulses and think about future research. Catania, K.C., 2015. Electric eels concentrate their... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 665 views • 3:27YouTube description: Duh, except for the sky… and the ocean… Among living things, the color blue is oddly rare. Blue rocks, blue sky, blue water, sure. But blue animals? They are few and far... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 4 months 1 week ago • 606 views • 8:27YouTube description: This is how we go from single cells to people. EVO-DEVO Huxley B. Mac. Oh Carroll, Carroll Gould, Stephen Jay yeah D-D-D-D-Davidson and Peter See One cell divide and... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 923 views • 4:46youtube- TEDx Talks Published on Sep 7, 2017 Imagine a global "Hive Mind" that can tap the knowledge, wisdom, insights, and intuitions of millions of people, and produce a super-intelligence that is... continue reading
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