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  Stalking Seal on the Spring Ice – Quentin Brown & Asen Balıkçı (1968)

  June 7, 2022 at 7:58 pm / Ecological Documentaries, Human Nature, Video

  Diverse ways of sustenance on the frontiers of the world fascinate us about Human adaptability and effective resource use. Stalking for seals on sea ice is one of the best documented hunting technique which employs quite exceptional behavioral deception tactics. The hunter uses a cognitive ability called “theory of mind” to overcome behavioral tripwires for prey to escape. The hunter projects the world from the view point of the prey and adjusts own behavior to a successful intercept. The hunter […]

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  Newtok | The Water is Rising / Patagonia Films (2022)

  June 7, 2022 at 11:27 am / Global Patterns, Human Nature, Video

  Human induced climate change is creating fast coastal landscape changes and during that process turn many indigenous communities into climate refugees. Co-directed by Michael Kirby Smith and Andrew Burton, Newtok | The Water is Rising highlights demise of a population. Rising sea levels threaten Newtok, Alaska. The Arctic permafrost is melting at an increasing rate. Due to Polar Amplification the speed of climatic change in the Arctic is rather fast. To keep their culture and community intact, the Yup’ik residents […]

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  Bacterial Type 4 Secretion System – Gabriel Waksman (2018)

  June 5, 2022 at 9:01 am / Featured, Molecular Nature, Video

  Gram negative bacteria Type 4 Secretion System (T4SS) by Dr. Gabriel Waksman of the Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London and Birkbeck. Animations by Cellscape. This playlist consists of three videos illustrating the type 4 secretion system (T4SS) assembly, pilus biosynthesis and transfer of DNA segment into a recipient cell. T4SS are bacterial macromolecule secreting structures. These macromolecules include proteins and DNA. Bacterial cell-to-cell exchange of genetic materials such as plasmids or mobile genetic elements is called […]

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