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Thinking Skinny Thoughts Won’t Help
Biology concepts – undulipodia, primary cilia, chemosensing, obesity, depression, hydrocephalus, lithiumWinston Churchill once said that men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most people pick...
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Space – It’ll Mess You Up
Biology concepts – undulipodia, primary cilia, motile cilia, ependyma, spaceflight, pathology, osteopenia, radiation damage, osteoblast/osteoclast, osteocytes, No one wanted the elation of the moon...
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Mirroring Evolution
Biology concepts – bilateral symmetry, radial symmetry, planulozoa hypothesis, cephalization, last animal common ancestor, porifera, platyhelminth, cnidarian, echinodermataHalloween was a classic...
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Looking Sideways In The Mirror
Biology Concepts – platyhelminthes, asymmetry, bilateral symmetry, evolution, cephalization, natural selection, fish, lepidophagyWhat is the largest living structure on Earth? No, it’s not the 2200...
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The Eyes Have It
Biology concepts – asymmetry, lateral polymorphism, flatfish, evolution, copepod, ecology, nicheRay Harryhausen was the most famous of the stop motion artists in the movies. This version of the Cyclops...
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The Search For The Unicorn - Slightly Off Center
Biology concepts – teeth, narwhals, unicorns, bilateral symmetry, evolution, mechanosensing, asymmetryThe movie Legend starred Tom Cruise and Mia Sara, as well as a bunch of little people – you know,...
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This Nose Knows
Biology concepts – evolution, asymmetry, bilateral symmetry, phonic lips, whales, echolocation, encephalization quotient, densityThis picture gives you a good idea of just how big a spermaceti whale...
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The Bird Jaws of Life
Biology concepts – ecology, radiative speciation, talpid, tomia, temperomandibular joint, cranial kinesis, bilateral symmetry, asymmetryYou’ve heard the phrase, “As scarce as hen’s teeth?” Well, you’ve...
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Why Do Males And Females Look Different?
Biology concepts – sexual dimorphism, phenotype, evolution, sexual selection, secondary sex characteristics, reproductive success, natural selectionElephants are an animal that we can picture easily in...
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Boy Plants Are From Mars …..
Biology concepts – sexual dimorphism, plants, monoecious, dioecious, pistil, stamen, floral scent, ecology, ecological selectionCharles Darwin missed the boat on linking his sexual and natural...
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Boys Will Be Boys… And Then Girls
Biology concepts – botany, monoecious, dichogamy, imperfect and perfect flowers, self-pollination, cross-pollination, self-incompatibility, heterostylyThis clip shows the mating of hermaphroditic...
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The Flower Child Must Be Confused
Biology concepts – dioecy, heterodichogamy, diphasy, plant breeding systems, evolution, botanyBananas grow from cuttings of the previous banana plant. Each plant produces just one bunch and is then cut...
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Plants Aren’t Just Male Or Female
Biology concepts – trioecy, sea anemone, sex determination systems, hermaphroditism, ecology, polyploidyWe think of animals has having two sexes, male and female. Of course there are a few...
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Half Male, Half Female, Completely Weird
Biology concepts – sex determination system, gynandromorphs, non-disjunction, mitosis, bilateral symmetry, chimera, mosaicismArdhanarishvara is just form of the god Shiva. As a male, he is considered...
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The Ugly Butterfly Gets The Girl
Biology concepts – fluctuating asymmetry, mate selection, honest signal, directional asymmetryFacial symmetry supposedly plays a role in physical beauty, but may represent developmental stability, an...
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Hermit Houses And Fiddler Claws
Biology concepts – bilateral asymmetry, directional asymmetry, antiasymmetry, crabs, evolution, mate choice, sexual selection, sexual dimorphismHermit crabs aren’t true crabs since they don’t have ten...
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Half Male, Half Female, Completely Weird
Biology concepts – sex determination system, gynandromorphs, non-disjunction, mitosis, bilateral symmetry, chimera, mosaicismArdhanarishvara is just form of the god Shiva. As a male, he is considered...
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Left-Handers Have Prettier Brains
Biology concepts – evolution, internal bilateral asymmetry, lateralization of function, brain, neural plasticityThis MRI start at one ear and shows slices through the head until it gets to the other...
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Everybody Is Just A Little Twisted
Biology concepts – bilateral asymmetry, brain, ventriculomegaly, brain torque, fluctuating asymmetry, sex hormones“Getting all your ducks in a row” actually comes from bowling. The pins used to be...
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Fibonacci Numbers And Odd Lungs
Biology concepts – respiratory system, bilateral asymmetry, evolution, estivation, Fibonacci scaling in natureWorf, although raised by humans,was mostly Klingon. He definitely adhered to their warlike...
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