Ashley Hamer

1 month ago | descript.com | Ashley Hamer

When you want to make a video, there’s a lot to consider. What will it be about? Where will you film it? What should the script say? How are you going to edit this thing? Answering those questions is one part of what video pros call preproduction: the preparation you do before you produce a video. Preproduction might sound like overkill if all you’re making is a video where you talk into the camera for two minutes.

1 month ago | descript.com | Ashley Hamer

At Descript, we use Descript every day, for all sorts of video—sharing info, presentations, reporting on research, quick messages, and of course all of our marketing video. We kind of have to, but we also routinely find that video is just a superior way to communicate—and Descript makes it easy. Here's an example. Kayla Gervais is on Descript's technical support team—in essence, she's who you're escalated to when you've got a really sticky Descript problem.

2 months ago | livescience.com | Ashley Hamer

Kangaroos are pretty peculiar on the outside: They're the world's largest marsupials, they hop to get around, and they use their tails as a fifth limb. But they're also pretty unusual on the inside: Female kangaroos have two vaginas — or three, if they've given birth. Why could that be? The most likely explanation is that it's an adaptation to Australia's unforgiving environment.

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Ashley Hamer

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. When they're giving birth, kangaroos have a total of three vaginas. | Credit: Marc Anderson via AlamyKangaroos are pretty peculiar on the outside: They're the world's largest marsupials, they hop to get around, and they use their tails as a fifth limb. But they're also pretty unusual on the inside: Female kangaroos have two vaginas — or three, if they've given birth. Why could that be?

2 months ago | livescience.com | Ashley Hamer

Egg fertilization is often described as an epic swim meet: Millions of sperm swim as fast as they can toward the egg until one — the fastest, strongest, healthiest sperm of them all — wins the race and wriggles into the egg, with the prize of passing its genes to future offspring. But is this really how it happens? Do sperm really race to the egg? Yes and no, David J. Miller, a professor in the animal sciences department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, told Live Science.