Volcano demonstration, new bat, and Reading Rainbow

If you want to repeat the volcano demonstration at home, it can be made by putting wax chunks in a glass jar, covering them with sand, and then covering the sand with water. Put a thin layer of water in a shallow pan, then put the jar in the water, then heat. The extra water will boil away, helping the glass warm up more evenly so it doesn't break from the heat. Once it's gone, the glass will continue to heat from the bottom up, and the wax will melt and shoot through the sand to harden in the water.

A new species of bat was discovered! 

Finally, there's a kickstarter for Reading Rainbow. Check it out!

Solar-Panel Roads!

While not related to genetics, there's a eco-friendly project looking for funding to create solar panel roads!



This is what it'd look like in practice.



Here's a demonstration of one of their features, the ability to melt snow and clear the roads more safely and effectively than plows and salting.

Evolution games!

A bunch of short games that have to do with evolution!

A more difficult game that models the random unfairness of evolution.

Remember:

Creatures have extra babies because only the fittest survive!
Mutation is random and usually not helpful!
But without mutation, a species would die out every time things changed!

In conclusion,



Can you identify the mutations?