A very short video with a powerful effect. Small changes over time produce dramatic results:
h/t: Michael Fisher
Definitely worth sharing with the little monkeys at home.
Then pair it with this one on biological evolution by Carl Sagan:
If you are looking for more fun you can try a game of “telephone.” (Hint for small families. We used to do this with long, tricky sentences. Try Shakespeare or a proverb. I’d start and whisper to the kiddo. The kiddo whispered to Daddy and Daddy purposefully got it wrong every time.)
Boy, that music, along with the video was “GREAT”.. I had my wall’s shaking.. i might have a Police car rolling up to my House soon.. LOL…
I got to play it, just one more time.. here I go…
Yea.. Baby..
Glad I helped to get your woo-woo started this morning, Paul!
I am shocked by the brilliance of Sagan ending his video with woman. Western culture has always illustrated man as the prototype, but parthenogenesis, in addition to gestation, illustrate the primal importance of woman in the pattern of evolution.
I am also hugely impressed, Anne, with your use of the game, Telephone, and its adaptation for small families. Excellent illustration of morphologic change. When I was young, the alternate name for this game was “Gossip.” It was used to develop critical reasoning by illustrating how stories morph though numerous iterations and how gossip should not just blindly be believed, as it may be completely unrelated to truth.
Thanks, Doc! I’m having oodles of fun.
Anne, is there some setting you can use that would show responses from here in direct relationship to the comments to which they respond — you know, like on WEIT? Here, they come with a bit of the original blog, so continuity is lost. (I wonder what my blog does. Haven’t added a new blog in some time, now.)
I’m not sure, but I don’t think so. Let me take a closer look at WEIT.
Very cool example