When species meet - Excerpt of a lecture by Donna Haraway

[borgduck]

Shut up! You're boring Homer Simpson!

[Arjahn767]

The response has over 10 times the number of views as the video itself.

[KevinForTheWins]

I find it funny how there are more comments about the video response than the video itself. Not that I'm defending this vid... This is boring as FUCK!

[PickachuPlanet]

That's boring. You're boring everybody. Quit Boring Everyone.

[mrjohngarland28]

Quoting the video response even thought you already know someone has already quoted it, that's a paddlin'

[aaronmathewclem]

lol the two women in the audience are the ones that posted the simpsons "quit boring everyone" video

[alexmoonscar1012]

A few of the suggestions:

OMG WHO THE HELL CARES!

Quit Boring Everyone!

The suckiest bunch of sucks

[robertsfunny1995]

What's she trying to say?

[HammerNewbs]

BORING!!

[EcoRover]

I like the way that Americans use the word "boring" as cultural code for, "I'm stupid and cannot hold an idea in my head..."

[MrUSAGameplay]

@EcoRover they are saying that because of the video response. get a sense of humor

[FlamingGamer1]

quit boring everyone!

[TheNeonIcing]

XD At the video response

[IrishHipHopHead]

Bo-ring quit it , Quit Bo-ring me !

[artregeous]

history of domestications she said????? bitch can open wikipedia and read suicide inducing paazites instead of mumbling just an expression not even as a proposal in fucking minutes takes shorter to read from wiki pedia instead of mental masturbation of this bitch what a bitch howbout epigenetics but i bet in campus certain scientist would cahnge their way to not bump into her on their way to work at lab while hers is just a blow job against trade winds

[TheLyingPrincess]

That's boring, you're boring everybody. Quit Boring Everyone!!!!!!!

[FireypepperCP]

QUIT BORING EVERYONE!!!

[Mrvideosandgames]

QUIT BORING EVERYONE!!!

[rossyboy108]

QUIT BORING EVERYONE!!!

[Donsepeter]

The response video have more views

[biologyprodigy]

@Donsepeter lol

[wmhoad]

"companion species record as earth creatures" Say what?!

[Bloxy123]

*See video response for my comment*

[maddcatone]

I don't see how that ties to "Human nature" I understand that our existence has been shaped by retro-viruses that fuse into our genomic structure and how it is an inter-special relationship, but this really seems to be an excerpt with no stated hypothesis or conclusion. Maybe I'm just stupid, but that's how it seems to me.

[Blubiblub23]

Quit Boring Everyone!

[dadplusone]

booooorrrinnggg

[gfuzzy]

That's boring. You're boring everybody! Quit boring everyone!

[tfavors28]

You have to give her credit.  She is trying to make a very boring subject sound interesting, but she is failling horribly and as a result, she is just making the subject more complicated and thus more boring.

[johnny3400]

welcome to snoozeville and shes the mayor!

[Magicrazy1]

Boring!

[hyperseauton]

Philosophy is boring, is it not? I like being bored for reasons probably to be found in childhood.

[Harpakhrad11]

So, what about the rest of the lecture?

[Noodle52]

video response lulz

[biologyprodigy]

@Noodle52 lol

[ai1sa]

material semiotics = we are shaped in relationships.

Those relationships are more than just the human ones we have, but include traces of other interactions such as with viruses ...

She's right, its worth considering how we are formed, shaped, evolving. Personally i preferred her other writing about how my attachments with technologies reshape me. I liked the playfulness inherent in assuming myself cyborg.

[aikidorngabriel]

It´s very good to see some useful information here!

[Jadiebloop]

i liek the video responce

[Omniverse111]

I had to re-peat this. Alot. But what i got out of it was i wanted to impregnate her and spend 24/7 time with the child struggling to let that child know about being natural. : )

[RyuDarragh]

Bird, what she is implying is that both in terms of human behavior (what behaviors we learned and adopted from other species) and in terms of DNA (what DNA sequences may have become entwined in ours by viral transgenics), that what we define ourselves as is made up of more than just "human". That we, ourselves and our behavior, are made up of ourselves as we evolved *plus* some tiny bit of all the other species we have interacted with over the millenia.

[RBTTIX]

Hey I wrote that paper and she stole my lecture.

[t8anderso]

What a waste of time!

[ThompsonSeedless]

Love the audience reaction

[spoocyguy]

haha, um, what audience reaction??

[GetMeThere1]

The reason for this woman's presence in academia: her relentless hunt for undergrad pussy...

[glendouglas2]

its like if you copy a cell over and over

the cell lose it coheashon it become useless if you remove more cells

the faster lost of coheashon

[glendouglas2]

but what if the dna is some thing more

if you remove the part of the dng that makes a person dume maybe that dng is use to fighting off some thing that we dont know about yet or have not come across

if all are dng is code it and we get sick

and we dont have that dna which is use to fight off what ever may be killing us we all die end of human race

[glendouglas2]

once the human race understand what each person is like thowe ther DNA from mother to father thay may try to remove the parts that make people hate or kill each other but when you remove one person dna that control say that part of the person soul what are you left with an enty Box ready to fill it ,with ever you want will make a human with out feeling make him or her smater feel no fear so you program you kids future thowe ther DNG so if you want you kids to be smart

[BirdValiant]

I have no idea what you are trying to say. Please at least try to spell.

[jhozae]

be nice...he's evolving.

[DrakeMagnum]

sounds interesting, but I think I need more specifics and more context to fully understand what she is saying..

[MydogBuddyMax]

I think one of the ladies seated was starting to node off....

[ahhotdog]

ummm... i know that im made from a sperm and an egg...

[mpower6428]

ooooooooo she's goin straight to hell for THAT one.

[Salmo77]

lolz

[ChaingangFTW]

he is wierd

[Niteshade101]

I found this very interesting =)

[michaeldeng1981]

SHIT,

[Sweatybus]

it is flattering that she thinks I know.

Unfortunately I don't.

[asumazilla]

What advantage, these brains are very expensive to maintain, need a lot of energy, and we don't really need them most of the time :)

[objvif]

I have been told that I am part tree gibbon.

[relic1076]

My nickname used to be tree-frog due to how easily I scale up trees and dance through the branches. I'm hoping you're told that for the same reason and not because when you're angry you fling poo. lol

[PerfectBlindness]

Perhaps we are part octopus.

[jeffsadowski]

Sounds too much like me. I'm a terrible speaker and I would try and work on it a lot before I talked in front of a crowd. She said "you know" too many times. She needs improving but it was some what interesting :-)

[climbingfool2]

HAHA *cut to audience, gripped in confusion*

[0ThouArtThat0]

Glad to see biosemiotics getting some coverage.

[RarewareLover]

coooooool

[lie2purify]

Damn lady stand still for four seconds please your making me dizzy. Christ

[kurwinsky]

The question she's making is not new...Now what do i care if they discovered my ancestors domesticated a four eyed giant bacterium!

[CozmoNz]

wow, she cant stop moving :D

[x3ni1992]

LAWLZ, I noticed that too.

[joebloggsgogglebox]

She seems to be making a bit of a mouthful of her message. I also notice she checks her watch a couple of times, maybe she is trying to prolong the talk by waffling on a bit.

[AtheistCitizen]

all very Dawkinsian

[Jake1722]

she is very bright and open minded, that was cool to hear that from a professional,

[b4skin]

...so she's 'bright,open-minded and cool'...and a 'professional' "scientist" as well!

My question is if they've discovered, genetitalically (yes, I spelled it 'right') speaking, when lesbianism came into play...or are we just discovering it now in this video. NOT that there's anything wrong with that!

[Flyborg]

I didn't know it was possible to talk for that long without saying anything.

Maybe it was just out of context, but seriously; NOTHING was really said. It was just the "filler" material that you add to an essay to bring it up to the length requirement.

[gromann]

She gave an inflated explination of animal domestication and ape interspecies breeding as how humans evolved... thats about it... nothing exciting

[miva55]

didn't understand anything....

[Pinoffs]

Did not understand shit :(

[dotonadot]

To be honest I found that kind of confusing.  I'm gonna wait a while and hopefully I'll understand the next time I watch it.

[letsgoandhavesomefun]

lol, says the one thats from America, and for the records I was taking the p*ss, but stupid people like you can't see that =]

[M0taX]

Crazy women (or maybye the wisest)

[SpinergyDude]

Oh so she has an animal fetish... She likes horses maybe... O,o

[GetMeThere1]

I have a PhD in molecular and cell biology, and have been widely interested in all areas of biology for many years. I HAVE NO IDEA (more or less) WHAT THIS WOMAN IS BABBLING ABOUT!

[swyft187]

Doesnt it have something to do with how virals and bacteria changed us; if they even did affect us more then we think or not? Try to find some links maybe?

[GetMeThere1]

She acknowledged the existence of ERVs--a single tree in a forest of gibberish. Trust me, this is pseudo-intellectualism, as it's sold today.

[nickmusic12]

lol she needs to smoke something ....who agrees?

[hidro7hypnotiq7]

i dont see a wedding ring...she must own a dog...

[ILRRLM]

Religion is non-scientific theory, non-scientific theory can't be proven or even explored by logic.

Happiness found by religion, has little to do with religion its self, but the morals taught by the preachers of the religion. Happiness is a perception, and perception is dilusion.

[JoshuaGodinez]

Holy cow. So, separate species can become embedded in our genes? I guess I need to get more knowledge. She seems to be saying that bacterias and viruses can adjust our DNA to their benefit and those changes become a permanent part of our species. I don't understand why she thinks we'll be able to walk back those changes to see what we used to be like and what changes were made.

[Agentkalaw]

one example is the mitochondria. look it up. it has a bacterial lineage. but now is a n integral part of the human makeup.

[FerociousBoo]

At least we could search for these signatures in our genomes and reconstruct the history of interspecies encounters (I guess?) maybe using data from something like Genographic project. But I see this as an exercise in purely academic research with no practical use.

[jeffsadowski]

Thanks JoshuaGodinez you made more sense in your comment then I could make out from the lady in the video. Seriously she wasn't very clear but I think I understand it a lot better with your comment.

[pinkilehniously]

Yes Joshua, Viruses do get embedded in our DNA. Bacteria don't, though. On the other hand, there's a theory about mytochondrion (small organels that are within our cells and help us to obtain energy), being some kind of ancient separate being that have their own DNA and started living inside our cells a long time ago in a symbiotic relationship (where they got protection and we got energy). It's very interesting what she said and not too crazy, actually :)

[letsgoandhavesomefun]

lol they spelt expert wrong

[TheMilkEyedMender]

If you mean 'Excerpt' then it's not a misspelling. It's a word that means a small part of something much larger.

[OccamKant]

Yeah, because the word is EXCERPT, which means a fragment.

[slugz65]

its not supose to be expert...its excerpt..like a part of a speech or watever..

[FerociousBoo]

You may wanna look it (excerpt) up in a dictionary, they obviously did not mean 'expert'

[letsgoandhavesomefun]

OMG I JUST I WAS MESSING AROUND I OBVIOUSLY KNOW WHAT IT FUCKING MEANS,i thought, since youtube being mainly "youth" today maybe i could have a play. Actually read the comments next time you stupid idiot.

[chris3443]

This thread is hilarious

[swwigy]

Lol you can't read!

[letsgoandhavesomefun]

DANSCHI BRANSCHI XD

[ultimatelights13]

nice

[chris3443]

What a load of balony.