Tetrapod Zoology: Amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals - living and extinct | Scientific American Blog Network. DEEP SCIENCE. BiofilmShewanella putrifaciens exhibiting filamentous connections known as "nanowires. " The nanowires are a recently discovered physiological behavior common to most microorganisms and represent a response to adverse environmental stress. The nanowires provide conduits for energy sharing and communication between individual cells.Source: Uri Gorby-Pacific Northwest National Laboratory The surprising discovery of deep subsurface microbial communities in the mid-1980s launched a new and rapidly expanding subdiscipline within biology, known as geomicrobiology.
In geomicrobiology, the fields of geology, geophysics, hydrology, geochemistry, biochemistry, and microbiology have merged to study how life on this planet interacts with the earth's geology, how life may have originated and how life evolved over billions of years. Biofilm: Black fluid emanating from a heavily corroded bore-hole at 3.1 km depth in the Mponeng gold mine in South Africa. Flood Maps. The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us. Demonstrations, videos from our research, videos of us speaking, etc. Dan's YouTube Channel includes most of these videos as well as favorites from around the web that are related to or mentioned in our book.
You can view more videos on his personal website The original selective attention task This video is the one that started our collaboration and inspired the book. You can read more about it here. The Monkey Business Illusion This was Dan's submission to the 2010 Best Illusion of the Year contest. A movie perception test - conversation This video illustrates how movie perception works and is from a study by Dan and his colleague Daniel Levin. A movie perception test This video illustrates how movie perception works and was from a study by Dan and his colleague Daniel Levin. The original "door" study This video shows a subject in a person-change study conducted by Dan and his colleague Daniel Levin.
Dan's presentation at TEDxUIUC 2011 Dan's talk entitled "Seeing the world as it isn't. " Daily Nature and Science News and Headlines | National Geographic News.