New Scientist video round-up - May 16, 2008



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Find out if climbing is as easy as walking for small primates: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13911
Watch some birds that can pump up water droplets with their beaks: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13906
And see what researchers are finding out about polar ice caps on Mars.


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Well, if they're ... ( 7 months ago by Flyborg)
Well, if they're specifically designed, they were designed badly. God apparently has a 0.01% success rate, with over 99% of everything which ever lived now extinct. If only it were evolution which was overwhelmingly accepted by the scientific community as the ONLY possible theory to explain the observations; then the world wouldn't be doomed. Oh wait, it IS the only theory. Silly me.
Also, every animal is adapted to it's environment. None is "better". If a mouse flies, it's no longer a mouse.
yea go duke ( 7 months ago by jhays2313)
yea go duke
micro-evolution. ... ( 7 months ago by newlywedsfirst)
micro-evolution. not macro evolution.
proadmin
with all due respect please send me one example of a creature who has had added information to the genome. I would love to hear it. (I'm no expert. i'm a mere 14 year old who tries to learn both sides of the story)
same stuff i ... ( 7 months ago by riteflite)
same stuff i absorbed in jr high yeah! no, really yeah!!!!!!!
Every species has ... ( 7 months ago by Noctokage)
Every species has their own genome, and every time speciation occurs a new genome is created. Gene or chromosomal duplication and subsequent mutations of the duplicated information are not deleterious to the genome of a species and instead add new information to be passed on.
There are no such ... ( 7 months ago by VampireSaviorX)
There are no such things as micro or macro evolution. The scientific theory of evolution is itself.
How come retards ... ( 7 months ago by VampireSaviorX)
How come retards still don't believe evolution when it has mountains of evidence? Why are scientific illiterates attacking scientific progress and science journals on a science vlog? What the fuck is wrong with people?
Yes, this is true. ... ( 7 months ago by Noctokage)
Yes, this is true. But it's the creationists way of trying to defend the bible. Just like how Noah's ark didn't need 2 of every species of animals, because they only took a coupled pair of each "KIND". It's pseudo-science, just like the theories we see from those like Kent Hovind, Ken Ham, and Michael Behe.
if you accept micro ... ( 7 months ago by ccaptorchen)
if you accept micro evo then macro is part of the same thing..
let me put it to you this way...
micro = small change. macro = big change. micro+micro+micro+micro+micro.... etc= macro.
unless you are saying there are some part of the DNA that are immune to mutation there for macro evo can't happen? if so? point out where.
PS. there is no "both side" of the theory. creation is NOT a theory(disbite what they call it). barely qualifies as a hypothesis
and Ben Stein is not a scientist.
these people call ... ( 7 months ago by ccaptorchen)
these people call themselves "scientist" because they understand physics.
when you run on any treadmill same movement is being made, you say its the same as ball sit in your hand. so running on treadmill is like standing still to you? (vertical or horizontal)
I hate to question your knowledge in physics, but your analogy is way off....
hard to do since ... ( 7 months ago by ccaptorchen)
hard to do since religious people are always in my face every other weekend at my door. not to mention trying to force their way into science education.
to say how much evo ... ( 7 months ago by ccaptorchen)
to say how much evo compliments thermodynamics is not needed. how about you tell me where you think evolution conflicted with thermodynamics.
1st and 2nd law requires close/isolated thermodynamic system for the law to apply, it said so IN the law.
where exactly did ... ( 7 months ago by ccaptorchen)
where exactly did he "make stuff up"
when "climbing" on ... ( 7 months ago by sandlixard)
when "climbing" on this apparatus, energy is only used to support the body and move body parts. when actually climbing up something, potential energy is increasing. in order for potential energy to increase, there must be energy input. so, with the same bodily movements and potential energy increase, there has to be more energy being used.
sorry for the bad analogy earlier.
Newlywed. Easy, ... ( 7 months ago by winterstellar)
Newlywed. Easy, actually. In humans you have people with Down's Syndrome or Klinenfelder's Syndrome, for instance. They get extra chromosomes due to faults/mutations that occur at fertilization.
the subject have ... ( 7 months ago by ccaptorchen)
the subject have been discuss quite throughly on the new scientist forum, you can check it out on the link provided in the info.
"hard to do since ... ( 7 months ago by HoS777)
"hard to do since religious people are always in my face every other weekend at my door. not to mention trying to force their way into science education."
I'm a religious person, and I never go door-to-door, and I don't think creationism or intelligent design belongs in science education (nor do I believe you should be allowed to fail a student for disagreeing, which happens at the local public school). Please don't make general statements like that. :/ Not all religious people are like that.
I am saying its ... ( 7 months ago by ccaptorchen)
I am saying its hard to respect it when religious people ( not all, you said evolutionist. do you mean all?) have no respect for education and willfully lie support "creation" no one said you can't disagree, so many aspects of evolution is still up for debate in the science community. disagreeing alone should not be reason to fail a student, but if the student can't understand creation does NOT meet the requirement (scientific method) to be scientific theory, then he should fail science class.
This is or I should ... ( 7 months ago by proadmin1)
This is or I should say WAS an important critcism of evolution prior to about 1960 or so, in that it was unclear exactly what caused information increase or decrease in a genome.
What was discovered, notably first in the salamander between other phylogenically similar organisms was large errors in replication which sometimes cause either the combination or separation of large segments of the genome of certain animals notably the Salamander and in fact humans.
This question in ... ( 7 months ago by proadmin1)
This question in fact specifically solved the question of the loss of 2 chromosomes in humans vs. other primates. Comparative genomics researchers conducting a high resolution genetic mapping discovered that two primate genes (2 and 13 - if I remember correctly) merged to create our chromosome 6.
With the identical error mechanism such errors in replication create "extra" information when segments of DNA are replicated and improperly added into a genome.
No human can ... ( 7 months ago by atozandbackagain)
No human can understand what it took for the big bang to occur. No human can understand what had occurred before the big bang happened.
Where are the naked ... ( 7 months ago by ChrisPCrunchy)
Where are the naked people!
OH I misread the title. I thought it said "NUDE SCIENTIST VIDEO ROUND UP" my mistake.
Who said it ... ( 7 months ago by M00nlord)
Who said it happened.
Array ( 7 months ago by imanapron)
lol
thats what i was thinking haha




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