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Amazing Animals: Design Vs. Darwinism - Christopher Ashcraft - Excerpt
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Amazing Animals: Design Vs. Darwinism - Christopher Ashcraft - Excerpt
Entire video: Amazing Animals: Design vs. Darwinism - Christopher Ashcraft Evolution Vs. The Honey Bee - an Architectural Marvel - video Can it bee? by Jonathan Sarfati Excerpt: How bees navigate: Bees have airspeed gauges; gyroscopes; a ‘compass’ that detects the polarization of sunlight; UV sensors to track the horizon to measure tilt; and two compound eyes, each with 7,000 hexagonal (six-sided) facets.   The 15 Coolest Cases of Biomimicry: 1. Velcro 2. Passive Cooling 3. Gecko Tape 4. Whalepower Wind Turbine 5. Lotus Effect Hydrophobia 6. Self-Healing Plastics 7. The Golden Streamlining Principle 8. Artificial Photosynthesis 9. Bionic Car 10. Morphing Aircraft Wings 11. Friction-Reducing Sharkskin 12. Diatomaceous Nanotech 13. Glo-Fish 14. Insect-Inspired Autonomous Robots 15. Butterfly-Inspired Displays Mantis Shrimp Eyes Could Show Way To Better DVD And CD players "Our work reveals for the first time the unique design and mechanism of the quarter-wave plate in the mantis shrimp’s eye. It really is exceptional — out-performing anything we humans have so far been able to create." Shark Skin As Antibiotic Excerpt: New technologies developed after studying shark skin will soon be appearing at a hospital near you. Scientists at Sharklet Technologies, a Florida-based biotech company, have been studying shark skin for the interesting fact that bacteria just doesn’t seen to stick to it. Under the microscope, it appears that shark skin is composed of diamond-shaped bumps that give it this unique property. Hospital tests using plastic tubing (as used in intravenous lines and catheters) printed with this shark skin pattern showed that microorganisms which can cause potentially...
Channel: metacafe
Category: Pets & Animals
Video Length: 587
Date Found: March 11, 2011
Date Produced: February 23, 2010
View Count: 15
 
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