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grrlscientist | August 27, 2009tags: South Pacific Islands, Solomon Islands, subsistence fishing, spider web fishing, documentary, BBC Two, streaming video
This fascinating video shows how South Pacific islanders from the Solomon Islands archipelago use webs spun by a particular species of spider to catch a particular species of fish. If you have adequate wifi support, you should watch this full-screen in high definition.
grrlscientist | August 26, 2009tags: Helen Keller, Anne Sullivan, newsreel footage, human behavior, learning, streaming video
Helen Keller, the American author, political activist and lecturer, and her instructor and lifelong companion, Anne Sullivan, appear in this Vitaphone newsreel from 1930. In this rare footage, Sullivan demonstrates how Helen Keller learned to talk. The final line of this footage, "I Am Not DUMB now!" is touching.
grrlscientist | August 26, 2009tags: Barack Obama Town Meeting, Jon Stewart, health care reform, comedy, humor, funny, streaming video
In this video, The Daily Show host, Jon Stewart muses "Mr. President, I can't tell if you're a Jedi -- 10 steps ahead of everything or if this whole health care thing is kickin' your ass just a little bit. Why is this so hard?" He rants. "Why can't you guys just stay on message? Remember the Bush team? Little bit of discipline, little bit of repetition. They sold us a war nobody wanted and nobody needed."
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grrlscientist | August 25, 2009tags: iPhone, technology, Apple, comedy, humor, funny, streaming video
Apple's iPhone ads tell you that whatever you want to do, "there's an app for that." But what if you're trying to solve problems with the iPhone itself? Here's a ad spoof that addresses this, too.
grrlscientist | August 25, 2009tags: cultural observations, Sam Harris, atheism, human behavior, humor, funny, streaming video
This video is an interesting interview with Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason and Letter to a Christian Nation.
grrlscientist | August 24, 2009tags: cultural observations, Bill Maher, atheism, human behavior, humor, funny, streaming video
Yet another brilliant series of cultural observations from Bill Maher. Why doesn't this guy run for president?
grrlscientist | August 24, 2009tags: cultural observations, Lewis Black, travel, health insurance, humor, funny, fucking hilarious, streaming video
Lewis Black has a bunch of colorful opinions on a bunch of topics, from world travel to health insurance and the different sorts of milk in the average supermarket. May not be safe for work (language).
grrlscientist | August 24, 2009tags: cultural observations, email, pets, humor, funny, fucking hilarious, streaming video
This short video gives you a fly-on-the-wall view of why email was invented: pets!
grrlscientist | August 23, 2009tags: Why Do People Laugh at Creationists? , atheism, religion, water, streaming video
The only people who are so stupid as to not understand the answer to that question are the creationists themselves.
grrlscientist | August 23, 2009tags: cultural observations, Lewis Black, travel, health insurance, humor, funny, fucking hilarious, streaming video
Bill Maher talks about the relationship between religion and political office, noting that most Americans would not vote for a political candidate who does not believe in a god of some sort.
grrlscientist | August 22, 2009tags: The Evolution of God, atheism, religion, DNA, streaming video
This video below the jump is an interview with Robert Wright, the author of the book, The Evolution of God. Amazingly, the author is NOT an atheist!
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grrlscientist | August 22, 2009I've struggled with being introverted all of my life. I am not exactly shy (although I tend to be in many circumstances), but I am reserved. Many people find this intimidating, and I have been told many many times that I need to change my personality so other people will like me. Of course, this advice made me feel more uncomfortable rather than less, since I was constantly trying to ascertain what other people's expectations were and then attempting to fit in while simultaneously feeling like a complete fraud. So I avoided social situations whenever possible, spending most of my life by…
grrlscientist | August 22, 2009tags: animal behavior, hamster on a leash, Syrian golden hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, humor, funny, streaming video
When I was a kid, I had hamsters, too, and I walked them on leashes. But I didn't have a video camera.
grrlscientist | August 22, 2009tags: animal behavior, hamster on a piano eating popcorn, siberian dwarf hamster, Phodopus sungorus, humor, funny, streaming video
It is Saturday morning afterall, so I am just going to have fun sharing silly videos of the cutest little mammal known to humanity; Siberian dwarf hamsters. This video features a couple Siberian dwarf hamsters, one of which is a speed demon, revealed by the speedometer attached to its wheel. As an added bonus, this hamster teaches us a little math;
To get the hamster's speed, divide the speed written by ten, then you will have it in km/h.
grrlscientist | August 22, 2009tags: animal behavior, hamster on a piano eating popcorn, siberian dwarf hamster, Phodopus sungorus, humor, funny, streaming video
I've linked to this video before, but I love dwarf hamsters (kept them as pets most of my life, in fact, but don't tell this to the guy I just married), so I had to share this with you again;
grrlscientist | August 21, 2009tags: animal behavior, hamster wheel, siberian dwarf hamster, Phodopus sungorus, humor, funny, streaming video
I dunno about you, but sometimes, I feel like I am running my life away on a hamster wheel -- getting nowhere fast. Except for those days when the hamster wheel of life stops working properly, that is! Below the jump, a sweet little Siberian dwarf hamster, Phodopus sungorus, demonstrates what I mean;
grrlscientist | August 21, 2009tags: health care crisis, American Health Care, Jonathan Cohn, social commentary, streaming video
In this video, Jonathan Cohn, Senior Editor of The New Republic and author of Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis -- and the People Who Pay the Price, discusses the history of America's health care crisis.
In his book, the author convincingly argues that Medicare and universal health care in such countries as France, though not perfect, are far superior to the system most Americans face. And, as you are well aware, Americans are provided health care by for-profit insurance…
grrlscientist | August 21, 2009tags: socialized health care, Bill Maher, humor, funny, satire, fucking hilarious, social commentary, streaming video
I am one of more than 40 million Americans who cannot afford health care -- and I think America SHOULD have government-funded health care, as Bill Maher points out so eloquently in less than two minutes.
When I had surgery (to place a titanium plate into my badly fractured wrist) in Finland, my hospital gown covered everything, and it was made from real fabric, not that see-through tissue paper that is used in American hospitals. So Maher's observation has more merit than…
grrlscientist | August 21, 2009tags: New Rules, Bill Maher, humor, funny, satire, fucking hilarious, social commentary, streaming video
This video below the jump features Bill Maher's social observations, including his comments about the relationship between raising animals for food and global warming.
grrlscientist | August 20, 2009tags: How Proteins Are Made From DNA in a Living Cell, biology, molecular biology, DNA, streaming video
This video uses the latest research to create an animation of how DNA gives rise to proteins in a living cell. But do you think the word "machine" is correct? I have difficulty with the use of that word .. [4:27]