Comments on: A Scientific Jonah: My profile of Joy Reidenberg in tomorrow's New York Times http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/02/06/a-scientific-jonah-my-profile-of-joy-reidenberg-in-tomorrows-new-york-times/ Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:13:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Joy Reidenberg http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/02/06/a-scientific-jonah-my-profile-of-joy-reidenberg-in-tomorrows-new-york-times/#comment-17572 Joy Reidenberg Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:07:14 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5500#comment-17572 Dear Zackoz: Yes, we did do an episode ont he giraffe where we showed the "unintelligent design" of the looping branch of the vagus nerve 9called the recurrent laryngeal nerve). It aired in the UK on Channel 4, and in the US it aired under the title of "Raw Anatomy" on the National Geographic Channel and then again as INside Nature's Giants on Nat Geo Wild. Clips from the British version of this show can probalby still be found on YouTube, but if you want to see it on American television, please write to PBS and let them know you would likethem to air more episodes of Inside Nature's Giants. Windfall Films has filmed 18 episodes of Inside Nature's Giants so far! Thanks, Joy Dear Zackoz:
Yes, we did do an episode ont he giraffe where we showed the “unintelligent design” of the looping branch of the vagus nerve 9called the recurrent laryngeal nerve). It aired in the UK on Channel 4, and in the US it aired under the title of “Raw Anatomy” on the National Geographic Channel and then again as INside Nature’s Giants on Nat Geo Wild. Clips from the British version of this show can probalby still be found on YouTube, but if you want to see it on American television, please write to PBS and let them know you would likethem to air more episodes of Inside Nature’s Giants. Windfall Films has filmed 18 episodes of Inside Nature’s Giants so far! Thanks, Joy

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]]> By: zackoz http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/02/06/a-scientific-jonah-my-profile-of-joy-reidenberg-in-tomorrows-new-york-times/#comment-17570 zackoz Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:02:09 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5500#comment-17570 If I recall correctly, I may have seen the episode on the giraffe a while back, showing the recurrent vagus nerve (have I got the right term?), coming from the brain, descending the neck and looping right back up. A wonderful example of nature's conspicuously weird design flaws. If I recall correctly, I may have seen the episode on the giraffe a while back, showing the recurrent vagus nerve (have I got the right term?), coming from the brain, descending the neck and looping right back up.

A wonderful example of nature’s conspicuously weird design flaws.

]]> By: James Davies http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/02/06/a-scientific-jonah-my-profile-of-joy-reidenberg-in-tomorrows-new-york-times/#comment-17569 James Davies Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:56:26 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5500#comment-17569 I've been watching these "Inside Nature's Giants" shows and have been loving them. Thanks for the great profile. I’ve been watching these “Inside Nature’s Giants” shows and have been loving them. Thanks for the great profile.

]]> By: Mike Lewinski http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/02/06/a-scientific-jonah-my-profile-of-joy-reidenberg-in-tomorrows-new-york-times/#comment-17568 Mike Lewinski Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:53:50 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5500#comment-17568 <em>"She hopes the show will bring some attention to the science of anatomy, which is often overshadowed by high-profile fields like genetics and stem cell research."</em> Couldn't genetics be considered a specialization of anatomy? And stem cell research too? “She hopes the show will bring some attention to the science of anatomy, which is often overshadowed by high-profile fields like genetics and stem cell research.”

Couldn’t genetics be considered a specialization of anatomy? And stem cell research too?

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