My abstract video for the Madeline Brand Show on KPCC. This interview with Maja the White Witch of LA was fascinating to work with! Plus it was great collaborating on this video with radio producer, Jennifer Sharpe.
Good news: Darwin’s Tortoise maybe not extinct!
“Scientists think a species of giant tortoise that influenced Charles Darwin’s ideas about evolution and has been feared extinct since the middle of the 1800s may still be alive in the Galapagos Islands. Researchers did DNA testing of 1,600 tortoises and found that at least 84 were the direct offspring of the species thought to be extinct.” – Elizabeth Weise in SciTech Today.
Click here for the full article.
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Tagged Charles Darwin, Chelonoidis elephantopus, extinct, Galapagos Tortoise
Blue-footed booby gets comfortable
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Tagged Blue-footed boobies, Blue-footed booby, Galapagos, santa cruz, Sula nebouxii, Sulidae, tortoise bay beach
Blue-footed boobies: FISHING
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Tagged Blue-footed boobies, Blue-footed booby, fishing, flock, Galapagos, group, group hunting, hunting
Galapagos Dragon
Technically it’s a Marine Iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus)
Maja the Oracle
This video is the result of a collaboration between myself and Jennifer Sharpe, to accompany her radio story ,”The Witches of LA County,” on the Madeleine Brand Show, KPCC 89.3.
Click here to listen to the full story.
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Tagged alchemy, Besant Lodge, Maja, Maja the Oracle, Maja the White Witch, rainbow, spontaneous combustion
The Solar System REMIX
I re-recorded the first six minutes of narration to the 1970s educational classic, “The Solar System.”
Slate V – “Can Ants Solve Traffic Jams?”
more about “Slate V – Can Ants Solve Traffic Jams?“, posted with vodpod
Posted in science videos, profiles in science, ants, invertebrates, complexity, interdisciplinary, engineering, distributed intelligence
Tagged ants, distributed intelligence, Danielle Parsons, SlateV, ant optimization algorithms, inter-vehicle communication, Audrey Dussutour, complexity, traffic design, Dirk Helbing, Marco Dorigo, Ant Colony Optimization, Martin Treiber, systems theory, traffic jam
