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View Resource Stickleback Environment

This video illustrates that at the end of the ice age, the retreating ice sheet created many new lakes, some of which were colonized by sticklebacks. The presence of different predators in different lakes dictated the subsequent evolution of each isolated lake stickleback over the course of about 10,000 years. Some groups kept their spines to use against predatory fish, such as trout. Others lost...

http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/evolution/stickleback_env...
View Resource Troubles on Russia's Lake Baikal

In this short video, workers at an ailing paper mill in Siberia are clinging to their jobs in the face of financial pressure and criticism from environmentalists concerning Lake Baikal in Russia.

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/11/08/world/europe/12480...
View Resource The Fight Over Wind Power in Vinalhaven

In this short video, a small group of island residents are fighting three wind turbines built on the island of Vinalhaven off the coast of Maine.

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/10/05/business/124806913...
View Resource Breeding Corn from Teosinte

This short video talks about how corn was originally bred from the teosinte plant by native Mexican farmers. The morphologies of modern-day corn and teosinte plants are compared to illustrate how artificial selection can bring about dramatic changes in plants.

http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/evolution/breeding_corn.h...
View Resource Becoming Han Solo

In this short video in Brooklyn, New York, a nearly paralyzed boy, who cannot talk, uses an iPad to tell his mother what he wants to be for Halloween.

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/10/29/nyregion/124806925...
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