HHMI BioInteractive Short Films
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- Website
- http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/shortfilms/
- Description
- Short documentary films for science education, focused on genetics, biology, earth science, evolution.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2017-11-28 15:51
- last episode published
- 2017-11-28 16:00
- publication frequency
- 93.09 days
- Contributors
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Author
- Explicit
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- Number of Episodes
- 23
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- Detail page
- Categories
- Education TV & Film Natural Sciences K-12 Science & Medicine
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Episodes
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| 2017-11-28 | Watch the story of how gene therapy restored the sight of a nearly-blind young patient. Told from the perspective of two researchers who spent over 25 years working to develop this breakthrough technology, this short film chronicles their successes and... |
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| 2016-05-03 |
Some Animals Are More Equal than Others: Keystone Species and Trophic Cascades Keystone species and trophic cascades are fundamental concepts in ecology. This short film tells the story of how these concepts were first established through the pioneering experiments of two young researchers: Robert Paine and James Estes. |
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| 2016-01-28 | Forty years ago in Laetoli, Tanzania, a team of paleontologists discovered a set of 3.6-million-year-old fossil footprints of early hominids —likely our ancestors. The team was led by Mary Leakey, the pioneering subject of this animated feature. The fi... |
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| 2016-01-28 | In 1938, South African museum curator Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer came across a strange blue fin poking out of a pile of fish. With its fleshy, lobed fins and its tough armored scales, the coelacanth did not look like any other fish that exists today. T... |
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| 2015-06-29 | Our human ancestors in Africa likely had dark skin, which is produced by an abundance of the pigment eumelanin in skin cells. In the high ultraviolet (UV) environment of sub-Saharan (or equatorial) Africa, darker skin offers protection from the damagin... |
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| 2015-03-19 | This animated short tells the story of Alfred Wegener, a German astronomer and atmospheric scientist, who came up with the idea that continents once formed a single landmass and had drifted apart. Continental drift explained why continents' shapes fit ... |
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| 2015-03-16 | Ten thousand years ago, corn didn't exist anywhere in the world, and until recently scientists argued vehemently about its origins. Today the crop is consumed voraciously by us, by our livestock, and as a major part of processed foods. So where did it ... |
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| 2015-03-16 | The discovery of Archaeopteryx in a quarry in Germany in the early 1860s provided the first clue that birds descended from reptiles. But what kind of reptile? In the last 40 years, scientists have identified many shared features between birds and two-l... |
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| 2015-03-16 | Paleontologists have studied the fossil record of human evolution just like they have done for other major transitions, including the evolution of tetrapods from fish and the evolution of birds from dinosaurs. In this film, part of the Great Transition... |
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| 2014-10-26 | In 1674, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek looked at a drop of lake water through his homemade microscope and discovered an invisible world that no one knew existed. His work inspired countless microbiology researchers, including HHMI investigator Bonnie Bassler... |
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