A colleague in Biology had his Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy class make videos explaining something they studied in class. He’s posted the results to YouTube and Facebook, so the students can see them, but thanks to the magic of the Internet, you, too, can learn about the bite force of bats from a college student in a ski mask and rubber wings:
Other videos cover muscle retention in burrowing tree frogs, brachycardia in penguins, hypoxemia in penguins, and prey localization in sharks.
It’s pretty amazing what the kids these days get up to, with their cameras and their editing software and their silly costumes…
Apropos comments about appropriate use of graphics in talks, I have to love that pie chart at 1:17 in the video! That is just about how most PowerPoint presentations look to everyone except the presenter.
Yeah, it is pretty amazing. Not half as amazing as it will be when that video gets discovered when one of them is a university president a few decades from now.