by Heather Hastie | Jul 13, 2015 | Science & Nature
The MassComprehension channel on YouTube is gradually releasing Jerry Coyne’s Why Evolution is True Audio Book as a Video Book. The first two parts have just been released, and so far a great job has been done of visualizing the book, and the nine minute clips...
by Heather Hastie | Apr 13, 2015 | Science & Nature
Darwin Day, 12 February, is the anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin in 1809. On Darwin Day in 2015, Richard Dawkins via the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science started producing a series of short YouTube videos about various aspects of...
by Heather Hastie | Mar 28, 2015 | Science & Nature
One of the YouTube Channels I subscribe to is Earth Touch, which I discovered via Amy Carparelli regularly tweeting me their videos. Back in January they published this fascinating video about coral reef cleaning stations, entitled Spa Day for the Creatures of the Sea...
by Heather Hastie | Mar 27, 2015 | Atheism, Freedom of Speech, Religion, Science & Nature
Yesterday (26 March) was Richard Dawkins’s 74th birthday. I’m a big fan of Dawkins – it was while watching one of his documentaries a few years ago that I realized that I was an atheist, and had been at least agnostic since I was a child. The God...
by Heather Hastie | Mar 9, 2015 | Science & Nature
Amy Carparelli (Twitter: @AmyAmylou1993) has done it again – tweeted me a video that’s so special I just have to share it. This one was produced by the London Natural History Museum; it showcases some of the stunningly beautiful art that was produced to...
by Heather Hastie | Feb 20, 2015 | Science & Nature
I’ve retreated from writing about what’s going on around the world again into the stunning beauty that’s all around us. This time it’s a breathtaking video from NASA made up of pictures shot from its Solar Dynamics Observatory, released on 11...
