{"id":20,"date":"2018-09-13T14:02:45","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T21:02:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-09-13T14:47:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T21:47:39","slug":"the-shape-of-li","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/the-shape-of-li\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shape of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00008G7J4\/cooltools-20\">8-part (4 DVD set)<\/a> series is a National Science Foundation\/PBS production that is the most taxonomic of any presentation I&#8217;ve seen.  <em>The Shape of Life<\/em> addresses the 8 major categories of animal life &#8212; phylum by phylum. Starts with sponges, heads toward round worms, and so on. You get the full diverse view of life &#8212; all intelligently organized around a taxonomic framework (without the vocabulary), and expertly illustrated with great (mostly undersea) BBC-type footage. Despite the wonderful nature photography, the creators work really hard to convey the innovations offered by each phylum, and it works. This series cured me of a rather vague notion of animal diversity, despite my work at All Species. I&#8217;d love to ingest the same mind-opening treatment for the plant world, as well as the other 3 kingdoms.<\/p>\n<p>[New DVD sets are available on Amazon for <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2QrUAgA\">as little as $12<\/a>, including shipping &#8211; MF]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presents the full diversity of life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32180,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/32180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}