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Voyage of Darwin’s Beagle – Episode 7: Adapt or Die! (2009)
In this leg of the journey in Australia the theme “On the Future of Species” dominates the episode. Darwin absolutely had no clue on how genetic information from parents were transmitted to the...
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Voyage of Darwin’s Beagle – Episode 6: Toolbox of Survival (2009)
In Australia the arrival of Europeans profoundly effected the biology of the continent through introduction of non-native species that are reproducing and invading at an unprecedented rate. Australian...
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Voyage of Darwin’s Beagle – Episode 4: The Final Countdown (2009)
“In the wake of Beagle” series brings back the adventure/science mix documentary programs reminiscent of those of Cousteau. Expeditions carried out on a ship and underwater filming was a signature in...
View ArticleVoyage of Darwin’s Beagle – Episode 3: The Last Frontier (2009)
Fish are cold blooded animals and this property make them very efficient in terms of biomass accumulation. For this reason ecological trophic levels in aquatic systems can be much higher than...
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Voyage of Darwin’s Beagle – Episode 2: Low Life on the Ladder of God (2009)
When Darwin set foot in Rio de Janerio he witnessed the brutality of slavery. Brazil is a melting pot of genetic diversity. All fossil and genetic evidence points that Africa is the home continent...
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Voyage of Darwin’s Beagle – Episode 1: One Small Step For Man (2009)
Beagle: In Darwin’s Wake is a commemoration of 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s book “On The Origin of Species”. Almost 180 years after Charles Darwin’s journey circumnavigating the...
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Popped Secret: The Mysterious Origin of Corn – Nathan Dappen & Neil Losin –...
Domestication of plants and animals is a key transformation in recent Human evolutionary history leading to sedentary farming societies. Domestication of Maize particularly followed a different...
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Virtual Reconstruction of the Antikythera Mechanism – Michael Wright & Mogi...
Trying to predict future is one of the characteristics of Human nature which ultimately gave us the scientific method. Antikythera Mechanism is one of the best demonstrations of human intellect...
View ArticleThe Antikythera Mechanism: The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Computer – Mike Beckham...
Antikythera Mechanism is one of the best demonstrations of human intellect attempting to understand nature systematically. The contraption is most certainly a very complex device. It is an impressively...
View ArticleWhat’s Really Warming Up Our Planet? NASA – SVS (2015)
NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS) produced yet another visual to show how industrial and natural factors have been contributing to the global warming. These factors are wobbling of Earth’s...
View ArticleSecrets of the Hive – Why Puerto Rico’s Killer Bees Stopped Killing –...
Secrets of the Hive is a Smithsonian Institution documentary directed by Dennis Wells. It focuses on the decline of the honeybees and reviews potential solutions to restore pollination service provided...
View ArticleLeonardo Da Vinci the Anatomist – Nature Video
Leonardo da Vinci transformed natural sciences by his careful observations, experiments and illustrations. He distinguished himself in the harsh world of the Medici ruled 16th Century Florence in the...
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A Tribute to Jacques-Yves Cousteau: Cries from the Deep (1981)
Ever since the publication of his first book titled “The Silent World” in 1953 Jacques Yves Cousteau has generated multiple waves of inspiration worldwide. A documentary produced under the same title...
View ArticleDomestication as a Signature of Human Nature / One Man and His Dog – BBC (1985)
Johnny Wilson and his dogs earned their fame when they won BBC2’s One Man and His Dog competition. Here in this short clip we see a remarkable section from the program that highlights a signature of...
View ArticleGrass: A Nation’s Battle for Life (1924)
Filmed on location between Turkey and Iran, Grass is an amazing first ethnographical account of nomadic Bakhtiyari people. The subjects of this film later also were revisited by landmark documentaries...
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Voyage of Darwin’s Beagle – Episode 1: One Small Step For Man (2009)
Beagle: In Darwin’s Wake is a commemoration of 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s book “On The Origin of Species”. Almost 180 years after Charles Darwin’s journey circumnavigating the...
View ArticleGrass: A Nation’s Battle for Life (1924)
Filmed on location between Turkey and Iran, Grass is an amazing first ethnographical account of nomadic Bakhtiyari people. The subjects of this film later also were revisited by landmark documentaries...
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Landscape Evolution Observatory (LEO) – Biosphere 2
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. -Samuel Beckett- Biosphere 2 started as quite an ambitious challenge. It crammed five biomes into 3 acres of sealed facility and...
View ArticleIf a Tree Falls: The Mozambican Forest at Risk – Mike & Sam Goldwater (2010)
“If a Tree Falls: The Mozambican forest at risk” is a documentary film produced and directed by Mike and Sam Goldwater. The project was commissioned by IIED – the International Institute for...
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48 Cantones: The Mayan Forest – Thomas & Julian Moll-Rocek (2014)
In their documentary, Thomas & Julian Moll-Rocek explore the Mayan Cosmovision. For Meso-Americans this is a worldview that integrates the structure of space and rhythms of time into a unified...
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