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Bill Nye the Science Guy on creationism: Not safe for kids!

SUBSCRIBE to Next Media Animation: www.youtube.com Bill Nye the Science Guy should not teach their children only creationism and should allow them to study evolution, as he explained in a video on YouTube channel “Big Think” that has now gone viral. Facebook: www.facebook.com Webpage: www.nma.tv Twitter @nmatv: twitter.com Tumblr: nmatv.tumblr.com In the video, Bill Nye [...]

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Mind Blowing Flight Through The Universe

Take a flight through a sliver of the known Universe in the most intricate 3D animation of space and time mankind has ever seen. Video credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory www.youtube.com Music by Kevin MacLeod, “Comfortable Mystery” incompetech.com Join the conversation on Facebook www.facebook.com Add TDC to your circles on Google+ plus.google.com Follow The Daily [...]

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An Intergalactic Collision

This simulation shows two galaxies in a billion year tango of epic proportions. From NASA: This simulation, which represents a few billion years of evolution, shows two disk galaxies interacting in a graceful gravitational dance. The color represents the temperature of the gas in the galaxies. The simulation shows how gravity can rearrange the gas [...]

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Flying Through Space

Take a flight through a sliver of the known Universe in the most intricate 3D animation of space and time mankind has ever seen. Video credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory www.youtube.com Music by Kevin MacLeod, “Comfortable Mystery” incompetech.com Join the conversation on Facebook www.facebook.com Add TDC to your circles on Google+ plus.google.com Follow The Daily [...]

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The Role of Play in Evolution and Survival

Megan Tulac, Director at the National Institute for Play, explains the important role of play in evolutionary history. Some species use play as “training for the unexpected,” says Tulac. Complete video available for free at fora.tv

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Dean Falk’s ‘Putting the Baby Down’ Hypothesis

Complete video available for purchase at fora.tv Evolutionary anthropologist Dean Falk posits her theory of the origin of baby talk, which she calls the “Putting the Baby Down” hypothesis.

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Being Human: What Does It Mean To You?

Complete video available for free at fora.tv At Being Human 2012, Tami Simon asks what “Being Human” means to Jon Kabat-Zinn, Gelek Rimpoche, and Richie Davidson. Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. is Professor of Medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Born in Lhasa, Tibet in 1939, Kyabje Gelek Rimpoche was recognized as an incarnate [...]

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The ‘Primitive’ Sense of Smell and the Brain

Complete video available for free at fora.tv American neuroscientist Richard Axel discusses the problem of interpreting the real world within the tangled web of neurons within the brain, focusing on one of the brain’s most “primitive” senses, the sense of smell. Axel’s work on the olfactory system won him and Linda B. Buck, a former [...]

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Species Extinction: A Global Amphibian Epidemic

Complete video available for free at fora.tv David C. Blackburn, Assistant Curator of Herpetology research at the California Academy of Sciences, discusses a global epidemic that is threatening thousands of species of amphibians. An explorer of biodiversity, Dr. Blackburn studies the evolution and diversity of amphibians, especially frogs on continental Africa. Nearly 90% of the [...]

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Thomas Metzinger: No Such Thing as a Self

Complete video available for free at fora.tv Thomas Metzinger proposes that the concept of the self “is not a thing, but a process,” an idea inspired by his philosophical experience with materialism and out of body experiences. —- As we use the tools of science to explore the nature of humanity, we are learning more [...]

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Aboriginal Women: Tradition Trumps Technology

Complete video available for purchase at fora.tv Dr. Rebecca Bliege Bird, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University, explains that use of rifles and cars by Aboriginal males has not increased their hunting output. According to Bird, women still account for 68 percent of production. —- A question and answer session of The Female in [...]

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Which Came First: Language or Music?

Complete video available for purchase at fora.tv Anthropologist Dean Falk responds to an audience question about whether language or music evolved first, with the surprising answer that they may have evolved together. —- A human female is born, lives her life, and dies within the span of a few decades, but the shape of her [...]

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