Free evolution and biomedicine dvds!

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has a nice offer. You can order their dvds of the annual "Holiday Lectures on Science" for free (including no shipping). I have a bunch myself.

http://www.hhmi.org/catalog/main?act...isting&catId=2

Of interest to this forum would be their one on evolution:

Evolution: Constant Change and Common Threads
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How has the amazing diversity of plants and animals evolved? What can fossils, butterflies, and stickleback fish tell us about the deep common ancestry of all living forms? In four presentations, Dr. Sean B. Carroll and Dr. David M. Kingsley explore how key developmental genes, natural selection, and time fuel the evolutionary process. They also discuss how Charles Darwin¿s ideas about evolution ignited a revolution in biology that continues to this day.

DVD includes detailed chapter search by scientific topic; direct access to animations; English subtitles; interviews with the speakers; special features on genetic switches, selection, stickleback fossils, and visualizing gene activity; and a discussion on evolution and religion featuring two theological experts.

Presented at HHMI¿s 2005 Holiday Lectures on Science. Two discs, lecture time approx. 240 min.

http://www.hhmi.org/catalog/main?action ... itemId=304

Nice!!! Thanks for sharing, Havermayer! I'm going to order some for myself right now!!

yay for shameless plugs

Troll patrol, I choose you! Use banhammer!

But... They're FREE! Lol! (You're right, it does seem like trolling since this is the OP's one and only post, but isn't the subject is totally appropriate? It was even placed in the right section of the forum. How do you decide if this is trolling or not? I think "someone trying to offer something" is an overly-simplistic definition of trolling.) I'd like to thank the OP again... I ordered 13 of those DVDs! Lol! If I have to pay for it in the end in the form of snailmail spam... So be it.

DAMN! Grammar typo, and it's too late to correct it.

Personally I think it's okay...I just wish I'd at least got an introduction to the individual before the peddling.

Thanks, Havermeyer. Those will definitely be handy.

IDK if it's real or not, I just ordered a bunch of them lol...

Originally Posted by Chris

IDK if it's real or not, I just ordered a bunch of them lol...

It is. I have their whole catalogue, and have donated some to various high schools too. The HHMI is pretty big too, and they're one of the wealthiest philanthropic organizations in the world, with an endowment of 17.5 billion dollars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hug ... _Institute

Have fun guys!