I was delighted to come across Microbial Art today, via Easternblot. It’s exactly what it sounds like–a group of biologists who enjoy experimenting with the aesthetic opportunities of cultured microbes. As, in my experience, these opportunities are fairly few in the course of their normal use–mostly they just smell funny and look like yellowish fuzz–I think it’s a worthy effort. (more…)
After seeing this video of a slingjaw wrasse getting a meal, I felt inspired to pick out a few of my other Favorite Interesting Critter Videos. Because sometimes natural selection produces some funny results:
(drumroll…)
number 3: The invisible octopus
number 2: Dolphin Bubbles: An Amazing Behavior
number 1: Manatee Squash
Okay, that last one wasn’t so much cool-animal-tricks as silly and immature, but hopefully the others made up for it.
The trailer for Adam, a ‘New York love story’ between a chipper, attractive lady and a chipper, attractive gent with Asperger’s syndrome, looks interesting (and also chipper, and attractive). It’s hard to find even-handed presentations of people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the media; I lived with a friend with autism, Jessica Park, for two summers in college, and I think the trailer for this movie actually puts forth some effort to capture both the easy and more difficult aspects of living with someone with ASD. (more…)
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