silly science clip

Google TechTalks
August 8, 2006

B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D. has been a scholar and practitioner of Buddhism since 1970. He is currently seeking ways to integrate Buddhist contemplative practices and Western science to advance the study of the mind. He is the founder and president of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies ( http://sbinstitute.com ).

ABSTRACT
Galileo took a seminal role in launching the first revolution in the physical sciences, and a key element in this revolution was the rigorou

Craig Venter explains that he can do a better job with genetics than God because he uses a computer.

Evolution Lecture by: Charles R. Marshall

Professor of Geology and Biology
Curator, Invertebrate Paleontology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University

The world is full of misinformation.

Interesting how most of the Young Earth Creationists and people pushing Intelligent Design, clearly don't have an education in the biological sciences. Evolution is the product of Natural Selection AND Mutation. Either alone does nothing.

Evolution is the logical outcome of the world around us. Organisms that store their genetic information in DNA are guaranteed to have mutations. Mutation produce NEW variation. Reproducing organisms are guaranteed to compete fo

Google Tech Talks
October 23, 2006

Gill Bejerano holds a BSc, summa cum laude, in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science, and a PhD in Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Twice recipient of the RECOMB best paper by a young scientist award, and a former Eshkol pre-doctoral Scholar and HHMI postdoc. As co-discoverer of ultraconserved elements, his research focuses on deciphering the function and evolution of the non-coding regions of the Human Genome. Gill is currently a pos

http://www.myspace.com/acorvettes
The private biotech firm Celera changed the rules of gene sequencing. The company's so-called "shotgun" technique allowed Celera to sequence the entire genome in eight months -- a feat that took the HGP several years to achieve. As its name suggests, however, the shotgun technique is less than meticulous. While the HGP's traditional method kept track of where each decoded segment came from, Celera's method required that all of the randomly separated pieces of the genome b

The Watson Genomejrothberg4545 min 17 sec - Jun 18, 2007The first sequence of an individual human genome (James D. Watson)

Presented to Dr. Watson at Baylor College of Medicine by Dr. Jonathan M. Rothberg
June 2007

SNPs - Single Nucleotide Polymorphismsblaineb520 sec - Apr 21, 2007Visualization of SNPs in the genome.

A crash course in the human genomefamelab1 min 2 sec - May 24, 2007FameLab Vodcast - Nick Dickens

Genomics pioneer Craig Venter takes a break from his epic round-the-world expedition to talk about the millions of genes his team has discovered so far, in their quest to map the ocean's hidden biodiversity. (Quite a task, when you consider that there are tens of millions of microbes in a single drop of sea water.) He updates the TED audience on his discoveries, from the 2,000 photoreceptor genes found in the Sargasso Sea to the thrill of being under house arrest in French waters. After touching on the pote

DNA chips and microarraysProneural1 min 50 sec - Mar 25, 2007Description of DNA chips and microarrays and how they are produced and used. One of the many videos available for free from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Reading Genes and GenomesCopyright 2002 Howard Hughes Medical Institute58 min 38 sec - Aug 3, 2005In the 20th century, scientists deciphered the rules of inheritance, learned to manipulate DNA and sequenced the entire human genome. Dr. Eric Lander takes us on a tour of these remarkable discoveries. Studying the human genome and comparing it with the genomes of other species, in particular the mouse, offer many clues to understanding human evolution and health.

Chris Stringer on early human evolution1LIGHTofEVOLUTION9 min 49 sec - May 21, 2007Chris Stringer is speaking about his own research on early human evolution in Ethiopia. His main area of study in the early human colonization in Europe.

dnabLaNGone2 min 36 sec - Jun 18, 2006This video is part of my film installation "hypermediaEVOLUTION". More info at http://www.openaki.org

DNA Wrappingrubined121 min 43 sec - Sep 2, 2006Molecular visualization of DNA

DNA Structureppornelubio1 min 19 sec - Sep 13, 2006DNA Structure

Whole Brain Tractographyshantanukulkarni40 sec - May 9, 2006Diffusion Tensor Imaging Tractography research that I was involved with in my Biomedical Engineering graduate studies at University of Southern California.

The video shows results of a tractography program that shows brain connectivity.

From axons to tracts: A journey through the brain's wiringenzymebme1 min 24 sec - Sep 17, 2006Created by Luis Concha and Daniel Torres
University of Alberta, Canada.

Please note: This work is licensed using Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

Please email me if you would like to use this video. Note: Send email to my gmail account (below).

lconcha __ at ___ gmail.com
http://lconcha.googlepages.com/

The complex circuitry interconnecting different areas in the br

Wiring of a human braineuplotes29 sec - Apr 20, 2007Using a dynamic ROI (region of interest) in brain tractography visualization. Here, only the neural fibers passing a selected region of interest (a white square) are displayed.

Brain dataset courtesy of Gordon Kindlmann at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah, and Andrew Alexander, W. M. Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin-Madison.