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Upupa, Oprah. Oprah, Upupa.

February 8, 2010

Good news, everyone! No, really! The approximate U.S. release date for BBC’s new nature-glam documentary “Life” has been set. It will be sometime this March on the Discovery Channel, according to wikipedia, but sadly, BBC has willfully ignored my helpful suggestion *not* to replace David Attenborough’s narration with a pedestrian American track by Sigourney Weaver, [...]

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The Sublime Dance of the Weedy Sea Dragon

December 26, 2009

Snowed in and still wired  . . . so I’d like to close the year with something beautiful for you to contemplate. BBC keeps releasing short clips of “Life” on YouTube, and here is another (Dang you BBC! When will you release this in full in the states? When? When?!). Hit the resize button second-to-right [...]

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Excuse Me Sir . . . My Seal Seems to be Possessed by a Roland Synthesizer . . .

November 18, 2009

Taking a break from the heavy taxonomy for a moment, let’s have a quick bit of weird wonderfulness. I could not believe my ears when I viewed this excerpt from Werner Herzog’s recent film about Antarctica courtesy Zooillogix . . .

Wow! Amazing, huh? Though the bit halfway when the researchers listen to the seals under [...]

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