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

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

(8 votes - 2 comments - 245 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

Uncut interview with Craig Venter, by Richard Dawkins

BicycleRepairMan (http://www.videosift.com/member/BicycleRepairMan) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:49:35 -0700

(14 votes - 1 comment - 291 views)
Richard Dawkins interviews Craig Venter for "The Genius of Charles Darwin", the Channel 4 UK TV program which won British Broadcasting Awards' "Best Documentary Series" of 2008. Craig Venter founded The Institute for Genomic Research and has been credited with being instrumental in mapping the human genome. His team published the first complete genome of an individual human - Venter's own DNA sequence.

Buy the full 3-DVD set of uncut interviews, over 18 hours, in the RichardDawkins.net store: http://richarddawkins.net/store/index...

This footage was shot with the intention of editing for a television program. What you see here is the full extended interview, which includes a lot of rough camera transitions that were edited out of the final program (along with a lot of content).

Incredible Vanishing Head Illusion

BicycleRepairMan (http://www.videosift.com/member/BicycleRepairMan) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:40:38 -0700

(37 votes - 14 comments - 806 views)
IMPORTANT: Cover your RIGHT eye, and look with your left eye. The blind spot of your left eye is to the left, so this is really important, but is not emphasized in the video., distance from screen (in full screen) should be 50-60 cm (20-25 inches)
Created by Richard Wiseman
http://twitter.com/RichardWiseman
http://59seconds.biz/

The Discovery Institute Embarrasses Itself... again

BicycleRepairMan (http://www.videosift.com/member/BicycleRepairMan) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:46:01 -0700

(17 votes - 3 comments - 343 views)
The anti-science creationist propaganda machine has released a response to the challenge issued by Concordance to... discover... anything! Unfortunately, they show the same level of scientific knowledge, reason, and scruples that they show in everything else they post.

Paper they bastardized: http://www.genetics.org/cgi/reprint/167/4/2121

Richard Dawkins' awesome intro to Unweaving The Rainbow

BicycleRepairMan (http://www.videosift.com/member/BicycleRepairMan) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:01:52 -0700

(16 votes - 0 comments - 546 views)
Richard Dawkins reads the opening lines to his book 'Unweaving the Rainbow' at the conclusion of the Charles Simonyi lecture 2008.

Richard Dawkins - The Purpose of Purpose

BicycleRepairMan (http://www.videosift.com/member/BicycleRepairMan) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:41:21 -0700

(14 votes - 0 comments - 553 views)
During Richard Dawkins' American tour in March 2009, he gave a talk titled "The Purpose of Purpose". I travelled with Richard to these cities and filmed the talks, which I've edited together here. The content of the talk remains intact, while the editing moves between the different locations and Richard's Keynote presentation.

There were Q&A sessions after each talk, which I plan on uploading soon.

- Josh Timonen
RichardDawkins.net

See more about Richard Dawkins' upcoming book "The Greatest Show on Earth" here:
http://richarddawkins.net/thegreatest...

This talk was given in Michigan, Minneapolis, Oklahoma and Nebraska.

Filmed at:
University of Minnesota - Minneapolis, Minnesota
University of Oklahoma - Norman, Oklahoma
Holland Performing Arts Center - Omaha, Nebraska

Introductions by:
PZ Myers - Minneapolis, Minnesota
Barry Weaver - Norman, Oklahoma
Richard Holland - Omaha, Nebraska

The Pretender - MyGrammyMoment , Top 3 finalists

BicycleRepairMan (http://www.videosift.com/member/BicycleRepairMan) — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:51:46 -0700

(10 votes - 1 comment - 710 views)
The Top 3 are here! Now it is time for you to vote again and choose the one musician that will emerge to be the featured instrumentalist of the performance! You can vote once a day from now until 9 PM PST on February 10th for each video, and the winner will be announced at the show. Beginning at 12:00 AM EST on 2/10, the day of the telecast, users can also text their vote!

Baby Tiger Cub - Cuteness OVERLOAD!!

BicycleRepairMan (http://www.videosift.com/member/BicycleRepairMan) — Sun, 31 May 2009 15:14:50 -0700

(17 votes - 2 comments - 529 views)
Baby Sumatran Tiger Cub at Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. In the Nursery. Female, Born 12/12/2006
4 and 5 weeks old

Children of a stupid god

BicycleRepairMan (http://www.videosift.com/member/BicycleRepairMan) — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:13:54 -0700

(19 votes - 5 comments - 465 views)
This video contains a small inaccuracy that biblical scholars will doubtless pounce on. The phrase "lake of fire" actually comes from Revelation, not from Jesus, but he's still responsible for the Christian idea of eternal damnation, the bastard.

1991 World Pro gymnastics Andreas Aguilar rings

BicycleRepairMan (http://www.videosift.com/member/BicycleRepairMan) — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:31:05 -0700

(16 votes - 1 comment - 406 views)
Thanks to imstellar28 for the link, I hope you dont mind if I sift this.
West German gymnast Andreas Aguilar performs a choreographed-to-music rings routine at the 1991 World Professional Gymnastics Championships.