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Clocking the Fastest Animals
Sheila Patek
In this talk, Biologist Sheila Patek tells us about the feeding strike of the Mantis shrimp. She describes the smashing type of strike the mantis shrimp makes and how it is able to achieve such a fast and powerful movement.
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Sheila Patek: Clocking the Fastest Animals
February 1, 2004 (about 20 years ago)In this talk, Biologist Sheila Patek tells us about the feeding strike of the Mantis shrimp. She describes the smashing type of strike the mantis shrimp makes and how it is able to achieve such a fast and powerful movement.
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Nathan Wolfe: Nathan Wolfe's Jungle Search for Viruses
February 1, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Biologist Nathan Wolfe and his team of scientists in Central Africa try to "catch" viruses as they move from animals to humans. Here, he tells the audience all about the chase.
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Craig Venter: DNA and the Sea
February 1, 2005 (about 19 years ago)Craig Venter talks about the correlation between microorganisms and the oceans in increasing the DNA information we already have.
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Craig Venter: On the Verge of Creating Synthetic Life
February 1, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Craig Venter shows new techology and techniques to make an entirely different single-celled organism into a new species by replacing the genome.
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James Watson: James Watson on How He Discovered DNA
February 1, 2005 (about 19 years ago)Nobel Peace Prize laureate James Watson narrates the long and winding road that led him to one of the greatest scientific achievements of all time - the discovery of the structure of DNA.
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Craig Venter: Craig Venter Unveils "Synthetic Life"
May 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Craig Venter talks about the first synthetic cell ever made using a computer.
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Dennis vanEngelsdorp: A Plea For Bees
July 1, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Dennis vanEngelsdorp shows the importance of bees in our economy and to our health and wholistic well-being.
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Gregory Stock: To Upgrade is Human
February 1, 2003 (about 21 years ago)Gregory Stock talks about how humans should continue moving forward and use technology to modify themselves to fit into the future.
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Nalini Nadkarni: Life Science in Prison
February 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)In this talk, Ecologist Nalini Nadkarni provides a comparison between trees and prisons. She argues that both these entities are not entirely static. She shows us her project that helps our prisons become more dynamic, like the painting of trees.
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Rachel Sussman: The World's Oldest Living Things
July 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Rachel Sussman shows photographs of some of the oldest living things in the planet from gigantic baobabs to permafrost actinobacteria.
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