For Everyone Who Thinks Humans are Special

[iNow]

Watch this:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then this:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then finally, this:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

... and laugh at yourself.

 

Enjoy.

Edited September 14, 2008 by iNow

[Edtharan]

I liked that talk about crows, especially the idea of training crows to perform useful tasks (and get paid peanuts - literally ).

[iNow]

Yeah, I saw that one months back, but it has always stood out in my memory. What inspired the thread was the first one, though. It was so vast and so amazing and so far away from any primate issues.

 

 

Here is another good one, about 10 years later, from the same guy (much shorter though):

[I_Pwn_Crackpots]

Nice videos! Though, I'm not sure what any of these videos have to do with humans.

 

The deep sea one is particularly interesting. Gigantic creatures that inhabit the ocean so deep that there is no light, one has to wonder how the ecosystem down there got started in the first place...

[Edtharan]

one has to wonder how the ecosystem down there got started in the first place...

They could have started there in the first place we are the result of a migration away form them.

[JohnB]

But my teachers always said I was "special".

 

Great vids. The octopus in the last one is incredible. I've seen footage of cuttlefish doing this sort of stunt, but not an octopus.

[iNow]

It really puts things into perspective, doesn't it?

[Moontanman]

I still cannot watch videos due to connection speed but Humans are not the only game in town by a long shot, crows are so intuitive it's scary, but for the lack of thumbs no telling what they could do!

[iNow]

But my teachers always said I was "special".

Yes, I'm sure they did.

[Sayonara]

It's nice to see TED talks that are actually about the wonder of discovery. Just yesterday I watched a 3 1/2 minute talk about one woman's experience with a brain tumour which was spliced onto another 3 1/2 minutes of adverts.

[Mrs Zeta]

Humans ARE special. They made the videos!