I have stumbled across Inside Insides, a blog of fruit and vegetables as seen through an MRI machine. Each fruit or vege has an animation, so you can see inside it from one end to another. Pictured is a screen shot of the latest entry – celery.
Me favourites be the broccoli which looks like fireworks and the artichoke which looks like a kaleidoscope.
Is this another example of art and science? The line is so blurry now we pirates get confused.
I started this video back in January and 95% finished it before I moved to Canberra and bought a laptop. I haven’t had a chance to complete it and upload it… until now.
Oceans aren’t the only thing that respond to the moon. The land has tides as well.
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It’s unbelievable that the ground beneath you actually moves up twice a day, just like the tides. Imagine what that must mean for the tectonic plates. Seismic activity is involved to make it happen. The vibrations are very slow, but Earth Sound have recordings of it sped up so we can hear it.
Back in the days before antibiotics, syphilis was a dreadful problem encountered on occasion by hapless sailors on shore leave bewitched by young maidens.
Fortunately they could use their super-secret special handshake to detect syphilis. A demonstration is below, feel free to use it when dating.
Amazing! And you can sneak it in when dancing if you miss your opportunity for the greeting handshake. Thanks to Mr. Science Show, the man in the video for the hat tip.
The video was sparked by a recent letter published in Analytical Chemistry which you can read here (at least, see the abstract. You have to pay for the rest).
Did the Ancient Egyptians know about this property? The researchers seem to think so, some of the lead compounds found in kohl do not occur naturally, and must have been man made by early chemists. The Ancient Egyptians believed that kohl around the eyes would give people protection from the gods, and it was prescribed by physicians to prevent eye infections.
Still, nowadays you should check that any Kohl you’re going to use is lead free, because you could be at risk of lead poisoning. Besides, with hygiene and antibacterials, eye infections aren’t such a big problem.
Not for the first time I am posting a rap video. Rap is apparently the best genre of musical art for scientific communication, perhaps because it can handle an excess of long words.
This one is about the Large Hadron Collider, and it is catchy-as! Sadly I am not physics-minded, so I’m still a bit befuzzled about the whole thing.
Nothing like a good rap to wake you up in the morning. It’s definitely better than a kick in the head.
I’ve been sitting on this story for a while, and then I forgot about it. Oops!
This movie is very VERY sexy! It won the Scientific Merit Award at the Imagine Science Film Festival for 2009, and the visuals are just stunning! Behold the awesome power of MAGNET!
Work just bought three lovely new bottles of antibacterial soap. Bummer. One of my very first posts was about how much antibacterial EVERYTHING there is nowadays, and how it will unleash a race of superbugs onto us all, causing the apocalypse.
I’ve settled down a little now, because I went to a talk with a microbiologist (at the RiAus – see my previous post) and asked him what he thought about antibacterials, and he said they were unlikely to cause multiresistant bacteria because it mostly happens in hospitals, where a lot of sick people on a lot of different drugs are crammed together and cross-infect each other (yummy). I still think antibacterials are only helping select the most resilient bacteria out there by giving them an advantage over the weaker bacteria, but he’s probably right about the multiresistant thing.
Anyway, antibacterials are bad for reasons other than creating resistant bacteria. Which I talk about in this video I made to raise awareness, and for funzies
There were a couple of other things he said which I thought were fantastic. Like that biology is not an exact science. Physics can calculate how to get to the moon, and it will work everytime (excluding Apollo 11 of course) because the moon doesn’t dodge. Bacteria do. With antibacterials we’ve created an environment where evolution steps in and resistance can develop. It’s particularly bad because drug discovery takes about 10 years to take a drug from conception to sale, and bacteria evolve a lot faster than that.
Also, you know how you have e-coli naturally in your gut which help you digest food (I distinctly remember my microbiology teacher telling us that poop was just e-coli with a little bit of colour.) Did you ever wonder where they came from? When you’re born you are e-coli free, the womb is a very sterile environment, but somewhere along the line in the first few weeks you get a whole colony of e-coli. You don’t usually hear people discussing babies, mothers and feces, but that’s the gist of it…
Viagra, that little blue pill. How does it work? How was it discovered? What are the side effects? This video answers all your questions about the first ever oral treatment for erectile dysfunction, written, edited and starring yours truly.
Erectile dysfunction can be embarrassing for pirates, but don’t let your confidence sink to Davy Jones. Pop a few Big Blue and you’ll soon be saying things like…
Got wood?
The mainsail is ALREADY raised. IN MY PANTS!
This dinghy is four sheets to the wind.
Walk the plank? Walk THIS plank! If you think Big Blue is for you, please see the ship’s physician
This be me first step into vlog territory, hit me with ANY feedback you have so I can make the next one better. PLEASE COMMENT!
Science and animation belong together (wink). Animation is awesome sauce on science noms – “it makes science fun!” And how good is claymation? LOVE IT! It takes so long though, I don’t know how people have the patience.
Check out this video by Creature Cast, a clay-tastic introduction on what germ cells are and where they come from. Germ cells are the ones that become eggs and sperm, by the way.
The video raises interesting questions on developmental biology, and how cells which have the same genetic code end up being very different in function. It’s because of the way the genes are READ, because in your heart the cells turn off all the brain genes and the blood genes, while switching on all the heart genes. But how do your heart cells know they are going to be heart cells?
The video puts forward a possible explanation for how germ cells know they are going to become germ cells, I haven’t heard this explanation before, but it’s a good one. There are a few other ways cells are told what they are going to be when they grow up, but that is a topic for another day (and probably another video!)
I have stumbled across Inside Insides, a blog of fruit and vegetables as seen through an MRI machine. Each fruit or vege has an animation, so you can see inside it from one end to another. Pictured is a screen shot of the latest entry – celery.
