At the Kolmården Wild Animal Park, dolphins like young Luna can now aim their echolocation beam at shapes on an underwater screen to indicate their choices and answer questions. The project is called ELVIS (The Echo Location Visualization and Interface System) and it’s currently being used to help the dolphins choose the types of fish they want to eat. Research Director…… Continue reading Dolphins Communicated with Ecolocation
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Celebrating Crystallography – The Royal Institution
One of the great innovations of the twentieth century is likely not well-known, but this video from the Ri Channel is looking to change that:This is X-ray crystallography. Discovered in 1913 by William and Lawrence Bragg, x-ray crystallography is a technique that reveals the atomic and molecular structure of a crystal. When a narrow beam of x-rays is shown through the crystal, it…… Continue reading Celebrating Crystallography – The Royal Institution
Russian Winnie the Pooh – Fyodor Khitruk (1969)
Comparing different versions of familiar stories can be a great example of how many ways there are to see the world. The video above is a fascinating example: Winnie-the-Pooh or Vinni-Pukh (1969) by Russian animator Fyodor Khitruk.
An Anglerfish’s Last Meal – Natural History Museum
In 1999, near the Cape Verde Islands, “an unusually large Caulophryne pelagica, a fanfin or hairy anglerfish, was captured in perfect condition, due perhaps to a lethargy induced by a prodigious meal which had expanded the stomach in excess of the standard length.” Not long after, the rare, deep-sea specimen was a part of the Natural History Museum‘s collection…… Continue reading An Anglerfish’s Last Meal – Natural History Museum
Celestial Music – Louise Glück
I have a friend who still believes in heaven. Not a stupid person, yet with all she knows, she literally talks to God. She thinks someone listens in heaven. On earth she’s unusually competent. Brave too, able to face unpleasantness. We found a caterpillar dying in the dirt, greedy ants crawling over it. I’m always…… Continue reading Celestial Music – Louise Glück
Hummingbird Frenzy
Turn up the volume and listen to this Hummingbird Frenzy around a cluster of eight hummingbird feeders on a back patio. The happy swarm was filmed by YouTuber Duane Reid in Valley Center, California in August. How many hummingbirds can you count? Reid writes of his wife’s hobby:Lunchtime for Cheryl’s Hummers! Enjoy the frenzy. Over 150 hummingbirds feeding at…… Continue reading Hummingbird Frenzy
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Colosse – A Wood Tale
Collosse – A Wood Tale, directed by Yves Geleyn: a short film about the meeting of a robot marionette and a little bird.
Le Merle (1958) – Norman McLaren
Le Merle (the Blackbird) is a cutout animation directed in 1958 by cinematic innovator Norman McLaren. Based on a French-Canadian folksong, the story tells of a bird who loses a beak, a neck, eyes, wings, legs, etc, and then finds them in duplicate and triplicate.
The Chandelier Tree
Over the course of six years, Adam Tenenbaum turned his Silver Lake, California front yard tree into one that was filled with the warm light of 30 vintage chandeliers. In this short, filmmaker Colin Kennedy (who lives down the street) talks with Adam about how this public art project began.
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