Entries Tagged as ‘Video’
November 12, 2008
A Quick Review Of NOVA’s “Alien From Earth”
I watched that NOVA special on Homo floresiensis last night. It was extremely well done. The producers covered a lot of angles, interviewed many key players, presented the information in a clear manner and kept it entertaining. I wish more anthropology related documentaries would use this show as a template.
In lieu of resonating more noise [...]
July 30, 2008
Paleoanthropologist Louise Leakey’s TEDtalk
Every year TED invites esteemed academics, thinkers, doers, entrepreneurs, etc. to give an exclusive 15-18 minute long talk about what they do and why it is important for the rest of the world. I’ve shared one of these talks with you before, Zeresenay Alemseged’s. In this year’s conference, Louise Leakey, of the Leakey family lineage [...]
July 13, 2008
Episode 1: A ScreenCast Tutorial On How-To Do A Multiple Sequence Alignment & Draw A Phylogenetic Tree Using Swami
The last time I did a little tutorial on how to use bioinformatic tools in anthropological research was last October. I’ve had some ideas since then and have decided to restart this project. The biggest change is the screencast format, rather than a set of static instructions.
Today, I’d like to introduce you to the first [...]
July 3, 2008
A ‘Re-Review’ of Journey to 10,000 B.C.
Several weeks ago, a public relations company contacted me to let me know about the release of the History Channel’s Journey 10,000 B.C. and if I’d like a review copy. I said sure, despite the fact that I viewed the original airing of the show in March and wrote up an unfavorable review of it. [...]
June 28, 2008
Paul Ehrlich and Carl Zimmer discuss Cultural Evolution on Bloggingheads.tv
I have brought up Paul Ehrlich a lot lately. And this morning Razib emailed me a link to an interview of Ehrlich by Carl Zimmer on Bloggingheads.tv, so I felt compelled to share the interview with you.
In the discussion, Zimmer and Ehrlich discuss Ehrlich’s new book, “The Dominant Animal, the ‘overrated idea of a [...]
May 26, 2008
David Harrison speaks about “When Languages Die”
About 9 months ago, I shared some news of language extinction and the conservation efforts of K. David Harrison and David Anderson. My coverage was far from a thorough treatment of the subject, partially because I know little about the problem and the ways to remedy it. Fast forward to today, where I come across [...]
February 10, 2008
10,000 B.C., the movie
Have you heard about the upcoming movie based upon prehistoric life?
I didn’t, until today.
It is called 10,000 B.C. and I had no idea about it until I caught news of it this morning off of Paleoblog. I guess I’m completely out of the loop. I’ve watched the trailers and understand the movie will be highly [...]
January 25, 2008
A video documenting 527 million years of evolution
Seems like to today is turning into the film Fridays that I always looked forward to early on in my education. You probably deserve a break from this week’s blogging. This video that I’ll be sharing with you has many flaws, but it is a creative way to visualize the evolutionary processes. I don’t particularly [...]
January 25, 2008
Zimmer & Shubin on Limb Evolution
If you read the overview on limb evolution that I wrote yesterday, I think you maybe interested in watching this 51 minute conversation between Carl Zimmer and Neil Shubin that the Panda’s Thumb pointed too.
