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Alex in
VideoSift on Apr 13, 2007 at 1:53 am
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Let’s take a look at VideoSift’s Science collective (excellent choices there, by the way, highly recommended).
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The trap-jaw ants can"jump" by snapping their jaw onto a hard surface. The energy of the impact is forceful enough to catapult the ant through the air!
Jump ahead to 2:00 for the good stuff! Link
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A Japanese submarine caught a deep sea feeding frenzy off the coast of Okinawa: watch how sea-floor scavengers fight over and polish off a piece of fish carcass that drifted down to the bottom. Link
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Daniel Tammet, a savant who has exceptional memory (he holds the European record for memorizing pi to 22,514 digits).
Here’s Daniel on David Letterman explaining what it means to be a savant: Link
Here’s a documentary on Tammet: The Boy with the Incredible Brain | Brain Man
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Here’s Yoram Bauman, a stand up comedian and economist, explains all about the 10 Principles of Economics (You’d be pleasantly entertained … er, edumacated!)
Link
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"Aristotle declared that humans are the only animal to laugh, but then, he never saw this video of Jaak Panksepp tickling rats."
And those rats … they looovee being tickled! Link
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For more the web’s most interesting videos, check out: VideoSift.
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