Teaching material "Coevolution" online

Organisms do not live in an isolated way in the abiotic world. Rather they interact in manifold ways with organisms of the same species or other species. These interactions often put interactive selection pressures on the involved organisms.
Our new teaching material on coevolution is accompanying the video “An evolutionary arms race”

http://www.evolution-of-life.com/en/teach/coevolution.html#c342

Romanian subtitles for three "Evolution of life" movies

Thanks to the generous contribution of Daniel and Sorina Andriev three “Evolution of life” movies are now available with Romanian burned-in subtitles http://www.youtube.com/evolutionoflife09
Daniel is romanian translator and Sorina has a Biology PhD and is teaching Ecology and Environment Protection.

They offered their professional competencies to provide a set of Romanian subtitles to the following movies:
Darwin on the evolution trail (Darwin pe drumul evoluţiei)
O as Origin (Apa - sursa vieţii)
An evolutionary arms race (O cursă a înarmării evoluţionistă)

Daniel: “Check out these exciting movies about evolution on the project's Youtube channel. You may find out how Darwin set up the basis for his theory during a long voyage, how a small molecule can lead to life on Earth and how an evolutionary arms race is continuously developing in an ant colony. These movies are an easy educational way for kids to better understand what they consider "boring lessons" at school. And, as grown ups, you may be surprised. It's never too late to discover new things!”

A great example of how internet connects people and how participative collaboration can improve science communication world-wide.

New movie published: Good Milk / Bad Milk

We have just published the last short movie of the Evolution-of-Life project. The movie shows what Joachim Burger (University of Mainz) and Sarah Tishkoff (University of Pennsylvania) have discovered about milk and why some people can digest milk whereas others can't. The movie is available in English, with German or French subtitles. 

The beautiful and funny illustrations were made by Anna Jreisat.

Credits
Directors : Robert Sigl, Bernhard Rübe, Brant Backlund & Marion Hartl - Script : Lawrence Martin & Pleuni Pennings - Camera operator : Robert Sigl, Bernhard Rübe, Brant Backlund - Editor : Lawrence Martin - Animations : Kerstin Feurle - Illustrations : Anna Jreisat - Music : Seiji Nair - Audio Post-Production: Paul Darling - "Clean lab" footage : Alan Cooper & Jeremy Austin - Executive Producer : Pleuni Pennings - Production : LMU Munich (2012).

Spanish subtitled "Mutations - selection: the bacteria resist"

Surf, share, comment…and if the participation age of the Internet would even be more?A great example of active contribution has just come up for the “Evolution of life” project.Marcelo Oré Vásquez, medical doctor from Mexico, sent us a Spanish translation to the voices from the movie “Mutations – selection: the bacteria resist”

Marcelo: “Generally speaking, Mexico and Latin America are countries... where people have been used for many many years to self-medicate, including with antibiotics!!!Personally, I know a lot of cases, including relatives and friends! It's really terrible... Recently (2 or 3 years ago) the Secretariat of Health has finally put an end to this, making it compulsory for drug stores to sell antibiotics only to those people showing a valid medical prescription for the antibiotic to be sold.”

You can now view the movie with its Spanish subtitles on our youtube channel:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYIBTLEiNSo

It’s the opportunity to remind you that we already had this excellent example of user’s contribution, as Sorina and Daniel Andriev have sent us Romanian translations for « Darwin on the evolution trail », « O as Origin » and « An evolutionary arms race ».
On your demand we could envisage to create burn-in Romanian subtitles.«

Muchas gracias » to Marcelo and « mulţumesc” to Sorina and Daniel!

Text transcripts for the simulations

Text transcripts for the simulations are now available online in order to make the content more accessible and to help teachers using the simulations with their students in countries of other languages than those proposed on the web site.

You will find in the "download" section under each simulation a new link (text transcript). See here:
http://www.evolution-of-life.com/en/explore/simulation/fiche/the-flow-of-genetic-information.html

Simulation "The flow of genetic information" now online

The cell is a structure that is criss-crossed by flows: flows of energy, matter, and information. The major carrier of the flows of information is the genetic material that holds genetic information. This consists of a molecule with a relatively simple structure: DNA. In effect, there are 4 bases combined in this molecule.How can a molecule with a seemingly simple structure contain all the information on an individual’s characteristics? How is this information expressed? How is this information preserved during cell division whether it is mitosis or meiosis? Animated sequences plunge us into and guide us through this mystery. Grab on to one of the passing genetic flows and come surf!

http://www.evolution-of-life.com/en/explore/simulation/fiche/the-flow-of-genetic-information.html

Video about the making-of "Evolution of life"

The MEDEA Awards organizers (www.medea-awards.com) produced a video on the background and making-of about "Evolution of life".

The video is here: http://youtu.be/dFqj-scjAHM