hehehe

Light of My Life just came to ask me if I had any videos. Apparently his religion teacher had sent him (no idea why they're watching random movies in that class...usually it's pretty hardcore...). I took stock of my science movie collection and first handed over a Bill Nye DVD, which he then returned to me when I offered him the 1983 NOVA classic: "The Miracle of Life." teehee :)

If you ever watched that in high school, you remember because it scarred you for life...

[From Amazon.com: Still startlingly beautiful after several years, Nova's The Miracle of Life records human conception for the first time on film, and much more. Living, functioning reproductive systems are laid bare to the camera, and there is so much to explore and absorb that Nova's expert guidance is much needed and appreciated. The viewer follows an egg from its follicular development in an ovary, through the delicate, flowery fallopian tube for fertilization, and on to the uterus for development and eventual birth. Likewise, we follow the shorter journey of millions of sperm as they develop and strive mightily to reach the egg. (There isn't a man alive who can watch intraurethral footage without squirming--see for yourself!) Photographer Lennart Nilsson has shown us something profoundly beautiful and yet has left its fundamental mystery intact. The Miracle of Life is a rarity: a documentary that is also art. --Rob Lightner]