Quoted: Amazon.com: Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition: Edward O. Wilson: Books

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Quoted: TED Talks <p>UC Berkeley biologist <a href="/speakers/view/id/174" target="_blank">Robert Full</a> shares his fascination with spiny cockroach legs that allow them to scuttle at full speed across loose mesh and gecko feet that have billions of nano-bristles to run straight up walls. His talk, complete with wonderful slow-mo video of cockroach, crab and gecko gaits, explains his goal of creating the perfect robotic &quot;distributed foot.&quot;</p>

Quoted: But a billion years of bacterial evolutionary progress was soon stunted by a catastrophic global event. Geologists find no signs of a great meteor impact nor a volcanic eruption, but they have uncovered the unmistakable geologic scars of rapid worldwide climate change. Average temperatures, which were previously comparable to our present climate, plummeted to minus 50 degrees Celsius and brought the planet into its first major ice age.

Quoted: In response to the cAMP distress call, up to one hundred thousand of the amoebas assemble. They first form a tower, which eventually topples over into an oblong blob about two millimeters long. The identical amoebas within this pseudoplasmodium– or slug– begin to differentiate and take on specialized roles.

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Quoted: “This is a mission to Planet Ocean,” said Mr. Delaney, a professor at the University of Washington. “This is a NASA-scale mission to basically enter the Inner Space, and to be there perpetually. What we’re doing is bringing the ocean to the world.”

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I love 3d visualizations of biological processes. This is for dna

Wow, this video is really amazing. CGI version of what happens inside cells. Very informative/cool.

quoted: BioVisions at Harvard Univesity produced a neat animation of the processes taking place inside living cells.

Making computers out of neurons. Pretty cool...

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Fascinating video