I wrote a post this week at Scientific American detailing the work of John Pavlus at Small Mammal Films.  I absolutely love John’s use of the creative process in dealing with some pretty complicated scientific topics.  My favorite short film was created for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s ipad app, and features the sea slug Aplysia californica, the subjects of nobel winning researcher Dr. Eric Kandel.  Just try not to cringe as the sea slug glides across the shiny new ipad screen!

Life is Learning | HHMI iPad app Promo from Small Mammal on Vimeo.

Check out more of John’s work and read his advice to aspiring science film-makers HERE.  Enjoy!

My latest post at Scientific American describes what was certainly a ‘bucket list’ thing for me:  A real, live conversation with David Attenborough! It was so exciting to hear his voice on the phone – even several days later I’m still all giddy about it

Just what were we talking about?  Here’s the post:
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In what was definitely one of those very surreal moments in my science-bloggy life, I actually had Sir David Attenborough on my phone this morning as part of a teleconference organized by National Geographic Entertainment’s Cinema Ventures(NGECV).  WOW…and YES, he sounds exactly the same on the phone as he does in his documentaries.  David and his team are busy at work promoting the North American premiere of their feature film ‘Flying Monsters 3D’ presented by NGECV, a ground-breaking combination of factual documentary and the latest in CGI … Read More »