History 5, 001 - Fall 2014 European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present - Thomas W. Laqueur Creative Commons 3.0: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
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High-speed video of hand-made models of winged seeds, showing how a single-winged seed (left) autorotates like a helicopter, which slows its descent, while double-winged seeds do not. The longer a seed remains airborne, the greater chance of wind dispersal.
The whirling, winged seeds of today’s conifers are an engineering wonder and, as University of California, Berkeley, scientists show, a result of about 270 million years of evolution by trees experimenting with the best way to disperse their seeds.
Whirling, or helicoptering, keeps a seed aloft longer, increasing the chance that a gust of wind will carry a seed to a clearing where it can sprout and grow unimpeded by competitors.
“Winged seeds may have contributed to the success of these conifers,” said paleobotanist Cindy Looy, an assistant professor of integrative biology at UC Berkeley, a member of the Berkeley Initiative for Global Change Biology (BiGCB) and a curator with UC Berkeley’s Museum of Paleontology.
Video by Roxanne Makasdjian and Phil Ebiner; footage by Robert Stevenson, Dennis Evangelista and Cindy Looy
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eCHEM 1A: Online General Chemistry
College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
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Chemical Demonstrations by Lonnie Martin
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Developed with the support of The Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation
Our final lecture, which winds up the series (except for a postlude and two addenda), deals with the many Chan-associated paintings preserved in Japan that are grouped here, loosely, under the term Sōgenga. It concludes with the surviving works from two series of "Eight Views of the Xiao-Xiang Region," one attributed to Muqi, the other by Yujian—paintings that can be taken as representing the last stage in the long development of landscape painting in China that has been the central subject of this series.
Public Health 241, 001 - Spring 2015
Statistical Analysis of Categorical Data - Nicholas P. Jewell
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