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Woman Finds A Baby House Finch Bird On Her Porch | The Dodo Little But Fierce
Woman finds a baby bird on her porch and raises him until he is old enough to be on his own. Special thanks to Susan for sharing this story with us! If you’d like to share your awesome animal videos … Continue reading
Foxes Caught in Dramatic Squabbles and Sleepy Coils by Photographer Konsta Punkka
Each spring, Helsinki-born photographer Konsta Punkka (previously) stakes out dens, showing he’s as clever in strategy as the foxes he’s hoping to encounter. This commitment to hours lying on cold, wet ground for hours on end has afforded a splendid … Continue reading
The Birds are LOUDER, like MUCH LOUDER! (A Bonus Excerpt: “Miracle on 34th Avenue”)
Hey folks who loved my 34th Ave Streetfilm…here is a short follow up from that from the cutting room floor. The topic: birds! You can hear birds all the time! Sometimes too loudly to talk on the phone! (Seriously.)
Gripping a Plastic Bag, A Massive Fox by Artist Florentijn Hofman Towers Over Rotterdam
Residents of Rotterdam’s Bospolder-Tussendijken frequently spot bushy-tailed foxes roaming their streets at night, but now, Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman has given the carnivorous animal a permanent home in the area. He recently installed a massive “Bospolder Fox” that peers over a … Continue reading
I Dipped my Hand into Boiling Hot Oil – Leidenfrost Effect?
Dipping hand in boiling hot oil to demonstrate physical properties! Check out Prideland on PBS Voices: https://youtu.be/ZETEru4Xepk Check out PBS Deep Look https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-3S… Check out PBS Above the Noise https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4K1… Water in Boiling Oil – Nick Moore Check Out Nick’s … Continue reading
Can Viruses Travel Between Planets?
With the global pandemic of Covid 19 still encompassing the word, we are generally not big fans of viruses right now. But we sure are thinking about them a lot. That’s right, even astrophysicists are pondering these bizarre little critters. … Continue reading
Incredible Underwater Photo of a Mother Whale & Child Wins $120,000
“Essence of Life” by Jasmine Carey (Australia). Grand Prize Winner. A mother humpback whale is seen resting with her newly born calf in the Kingdom of Tonga. The rain fell rhythmically in a soothing pitter-patter on the water’s surface, gently … Continue reading
Prof Alice Roberts: Why hasn’t evolution made the perfect body?
Alice Roberts, Professor of Public Engagement in Science here at the University, talks about how we are evolved beings, why natural selection doesn’t create perfection and our latest Birmingham Heroes campaign: 21st Century Bodies. You can find out more about … Continue reading
Seeing Things: Visual Disturbances We All Experience
There’s a variety of visual problems and disturbances we all experience on a daily basis. Floaters! Blue entoptic phenomenon! Visual snow! Phosphenes! With simulations, Inés will run through all of them. Inés is a PhD student researching insect flight at … Continue reading
From chaos to free will | Aeon
George Ellis is the Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Complex Systems in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He co-authored The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time (1973) with Stephen Hawking. 4,200 … Continue reading
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