April 2014

Last week's episode of "Your Inner Fish" was great! Really cool animations of embryos and long-extinct creatures, some excellent science, a fair bit of "filler" - taking up valuable minutes of show time (which could have been filled instead with MORE SCIENCE!) with landscapes and...

- Our arms, legs, necks and lungs were bequeathed to us by a fish that lumbered onto land some 375 million years ago. I just found out that one of my favourite books has been made into a new TV show. "Your Inner Fish: A Journey...

The body knows how to follow the mouth. Mouth-directed movement is closely followed by eye directed movement, and reaching with the dominant hand. The body learns to follow, pushing and pulling on the ground or whatever stable surface is available. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ko7U1pLlg As I mentioned in previous posts,...