- -: Forget Snakes, Beware of the Tropical Bullet Ant - Darin Penneys
February 25, 2010 (about 3 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/19/Darin_Penneys_Tropical_Plant_Collecting_Expeditions An ant whose sting feels like a bullet wound? How about a tarantula with a leg span the size of a dinner plate? Botanist Darin Penneys flips through a slideshow of all the creepy and crawly creatures...
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- -: Discovery: First Scientifically Confirmed Poisonous Bird
March 24, 2010 (about 3 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/17/Expedition_Papua_New_Guinea_with_Jack_Dumbacher Jack Dumbacher, researcher at the California Academy of Sciences, discusses his 1980s discovery of New Guinea's Hooded Pitohui, the first poisonous bird to be documented by science. ----- Dr. Jack Dumb...
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- -: Wildlife Photography: To Catch a Predator (On Film)
March 31, 2010 (about 3 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/23/Michael_Forsberg_Americas_Great_Plains Wildlife photographer Michael Forsberg has long had an interest in photographing predators, such as wolves, grizzly bears, and mountain lions. In this highlight, Forsberg describes his mission to catch a bobcat w...
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- -: How Global Warming Is Killing California's Wine Buzz
April 28, 2010 (about 3 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/04/17/Climate_Change_in_California_Impact_on_the_Wine_Industry Viticulturist Kimberley Cahill introduces the negative correlation between two factors vital to those in the California wine business: maximum daytime temperatures in August, and the price of Pi...
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- -: What if San Francisco Bay Rose by One Meter? Sayonara SFO
April 30, 2010 (about 3 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/04/17/Climate_Change_in_California_Impact_on_Marine_Ecosystems Dr. Frank Schwing, Director of Environmental Research for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, presents a "reasonable projection" of climate change-induced sea level rise in the San...
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- -: What's In a Name? The World's Second-Smallest Phallus
May 4, 2010 (about 3 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/04/21/Expedition_Spotlight_Sao_Tome Of the 200-plus species herpetologist Dr. Robert Drewes and his team discovered on their expedition to Sao Tome and Principe, a stinkhorn mushroom called Phallus drewesii stands out from the crowd. The mushroom, named aft...
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- -: Elysia Chlorotica: A Sap-Sucking, Solar-Powered Sea Slug
May 25, 2010 (about 3 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/05/05/Sneaky_Sea_Slugs_Three_Tales_of_Tidepool_Thievery Dr. Rebecca Johnson, invertebrate zoologist at the California Academy of Sciences, introduces Elysia chlorotica, a sea slug with interesting eating habits. The sap-sucking sea slug has evolved to under...
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- -: Megafauna Extinction: Did Humans or Climate Kill Off the Mammoths?
May 27, 2010 (almost 3 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/05/18/Dr_Elizabeth_Hadly_Mammals_and_Climate_Change Stanford biologist Elizabeth Hadly recaps a debate among biologists over whether prehistoric megafauna like mammoths, giant sloths and saber-toothed cats became extinct due to overhunting by humans, or by ...
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- -: Why Are US Poisoning Deaths on the Rise? - Patil Armenian
August 4, 2010 (almost 3 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/07/01/Poisons_Venoms_and_Pills_Toxicology_101 Dr. Patil Armenian of the California Poison Control System notes a doubling of poison related deaths since 1999. Armenian speculates that the deaths may be related to an increase in prescriptions for dangerous o...
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- -: Quark Soup: How Brookhaven Lab Makes Quark-Gluon Plasma
October 6, 2010 (over 2 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/09/07/Steven_Gubser_The_Little_Book_of_String_Theory Steven Gubser, Princeton physicist and author of The Little Book of String Theory, recaps recent experiments performed with the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Gubser de...
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