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Pug Fail

ant (http://nature.videosift.com/member/ant) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:03:33 -0700

(1 vote - 0 comments - 22 views)
From http://faildogs.com/2009/07/02/agilityfail/ ...

Michael Jackson - Will You Be There (Free Willy Song)

finch451 (http://nature.videosift.com/member/finch451) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:14:59 -0700

(3 votes - 0 comments - 58 views)
How are you guys going to flood the sift with Michael Jackson songs and not include anything about the ever-corny Free Willy?

Don't Swim With Hungry Whales

nomino (http://nature.videosift.com/member/nomino) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:35:30 -0700

(3 votes - 0 comments - 44 views)
You've finished your dive, you're in the boat and you come across a company of Pilot Whales. You

a)Watch the whales in their natural habitat swimming majestically?

b)Jump in for a laugh?

The Ice Mountain Box Kitteh/Kitten/Kitty/Cat

ant (http://nature.videosift.com/member/ant) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:18:58 -0700

(3 votes - 1 comment - 50 views)

Wasp at 2,000 FPS

thegrimsleeper (http://tgs.videosift.com) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:51:37 -0700

(6 votes - 0 comments - 117 views)

Snail Opera

Crake (http://nature.videosift.com/member/Crake) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:26:21 -0700

(4 votes - 0 comments - 28 views)
The Snail King's Lament

"Mystery Life Form in NC Sewer" is probably Tubifex Worms

BicycleRepairMan (http://nature.videosift.com/member/BicycleRepairMan) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:13:38 -0700

(6 votes - 2 comments - 188 views)
So, we've all seen the #1 video, "Mystery Life Form in NC Sewer", well these things are a possible explanation:
Found this on Pharyngula and PZ found it on Deep Sea News, who also mentions VideoSift!:
<i>The latest viral video is from the sewer under Cameron Village in Raleigh, NC. The mysterious creatures found are nothing short of disgusting and spectacular. This video has made its way to Video Sift and various cryptozoology sites. Speculations on the nature of this creature run from bryozoans, cnidarians, slime molds, and some mysterious alien creature here to suck out our brains. Well let me say first that it is none of the above. I can think of no freshwater Cnidarian that looks anything like this. It lacks the characteristic delineations that would indicate individual zooids in the colony and frankly the retracting of finger-like tentacles doesn’t seem like a bryozan characteristic (see the pictures at this site). In fact, I have poked a lot of invertebrates as lab instructor for invertebrate zoology and as a graduate student just for shits and giggles and none of the mentioned candidates would respond like this. So back to square one…

You shouldn’t trust me however…you should trust an expert in one of the aforementioned groups. Enter stage right Dr. Timothy S. Wood who is an expert on freshwater bryozoa and an officer with the International Bryozoology Association. I sent along the video and this was his reponse…

Thanks for the video – I had not see it before. No, these are not bryozoans! They are clumps of annelid worms, almost certainly tubificids (Naididae, probably genus Tubifex). Normally these occur in soil and sediment, especially at the bottom and edges of polluted streams. In the photo they have apparently entered a pipeline somehow, and in the absence of soil they are coiling around each other. The contractions you see are the result of a single worm contracting and then stimulating all the others to do the same almost simultaneously, so it looks like a single big muscle contracting. Interesting video.
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Tubifex are living food for the Pleurodeles waltl larvae and the fish.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubifex_tubifex
http://www.23hq.com/ranke/photo/3041387
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=xpf6mvaYWZU

RNA Lectures 2 - RNA as an Enzyme

mauz15 (http://nature.videosift.com/member/mauz15) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:41:06 -0700

(2 votes - 1 comment - 18 views)
Thomas Robert Cech is a Nobel Laureate in chemistry for his discoveries of the catalytic properties of RNA.

Part 1 - Catalysis: Chemical and Biochemical
http://www.videosift.com/video/RNA-Lectures-1-Catalysis-Chemical-and-Biochemical

Dinosaurs (TV Series)'s Changing Nature Ending

ant (http://nature.videosift.com/member/ant) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:16:57 -0700

(5 votes - 0 comments - 82 views)
"This is Earl Sinclair's speech at the end of Changing Nature. Owned by Disney. Subtitles provided."

From http://www.ordable.com/lists/view/most-bizarre-series-finales-of-all-time ...

Philips vs. The Sun -- Rooster vs. from a light source.

ant (http://nature.videosift.com/member/ant) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:15:42 -0700

(1 vote - 0 comments - 26 views)
"Philips launches it s new campaign, Philips Versus, on Twitter with a challenge to take on just about any competitor, including the sun."

From http://www.boardsmag.com/screeningroom/digital/7783 ...