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DANCE OF THE MUSSELS
(Video courtesy of Johan van de Koppel.) It’s a lousy dancer who steps on his partner’s foot, but groups of mussels use a similar foot game to form intricate patterns in a newly discovered underwater dance that benefits all involved. Scientists in the Netherlands have for the first time shown how individual mussels, acting seemingly [...]
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Science, Video, Writing
NASW INTERVIEWS
NASW ADVICE from Main Sequence on Vimeo. Here are some writing tips from Emily Sohn, a freelance journalist who frequently writes for Science News for Kids, and Andy Fell of the egghead blog and UC Davis News Service. Emily and Andy were both speakers at the 2008 NASW Conference in Palo Alto and were gracious [...]
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Video, Writing
TOXOPLASMOSIS
A talk by Stanford primatologist Ropert Sapolsky from this year’s NASW conference. He talks about parasites that can hijack your mind, sort of like Money Mark. Well…technically they hijack rat brains, making them less afraid of cats. Apologies for the weird camera angle.
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Audio, Experiments, Portfolio, Video, Writing
WORK
WORK from Main Sequence on Vimeo. pause from the work and turn to the hill a stark silhouette against the burning sky the Master stands with two clenched fists in his left a bottle, to harvest the idle essence in his right a shotgun, to guarantee the next year’s crop his price is power mine [...]
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Ableton, Drafts, Music, Video, Writing
SNAKE FANG v2
Still working on this one, not sure if it’s going anywhere. I’m playing around with the TAL dub delay free plugin, video warp markers in live, and the camel audio camel space effect plugin. And these are some trees. Snake Fang v2 from Main Sequence on Vimeo. Here’s something I’m working on at school that’s [...]
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