Videos | Wednesday 7 January 2009

This has to be one of the oddest (and strangely mesmerizing) things on the net: ants flying through the air in extreme slow motion propelled by the rapid closing of their jaws. All set to a very peculiar sound track. The ant at the top of the image above is cart-wheeling its way over the other two.
Videos | Wednesday 7 January 2009

MASTODON - "March of the Fire Ants"; taken from the critically acclaimed album Remission - in stores now via Relapse Records. www.mastodonrocks.com www.myspace.com/Mastodon Producer/Director: Chad Rullman for Supercollider Films www.Relapse.com www.MySpace.com/RelapseRecords
Videos | Wednesday 7 January 2009

http://www.ted.com Starting with the simple tale of an ant, philosopher Dan Dennett unleashes a devastating salvo of ideas, making a powerful case for the existence of memes -- concepts that are literally alive. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10
Videos | Wednesday 7 January 2009

More at: http://www.reallybored.net These ants are called bullet ants because being stung by them feels like being shot. These men get stung on the hands so many times they turn completely BLACK with poison. And they have to do it more than once, or twice, or even five times...
Videos | Wednesday 7 January 2009

http://www.ted.com With a dusty backhoe, a handful of Japanese paint markers and a few students in tow, Deborah Gordon digs up ant colonies in the Arizona desert in search of keys to understanding complex systems. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10
Videos | Wednesday 7 January 2009

http://www.pbs.org/nova/eowilson World-renowned naturalist Edward O. Wilson explains amazing discoveries in ant communication and behavior. Watch NOVA every Tuesday night on PBS. Or join us online at http://www.pbs.org/nova "Lord of the Ants" was produced for NOVA/WGBH by Windfall Films & Neil Patterson Productions Funding for NOVA is provided by David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. To learn more, visit http://www.pbs.org/nova/eowilson
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