Another round of avatars for your perusal, with a few notes on each queue. Thanks everybody for your votes and encouragement!




Surgery Sift
This queue was inspired by Snoozedoctor, who encouraged me to “go medical” after the sleep sift. There were some very interesting comment threads in some of them, and spurred some other interesting posts.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Laparoscopic-Surgery-Surgery-Through-a-Single-Incision
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Origins-of-Antiseptic-Surgery-Lord-Lister
http://www.videosift.com/video/Medical-Maverics-Self-experimentation-and-Anesthesia
http://www.videosift.com/video/Worlds-First-Partial-Face-Transplant
http://www.videosift.com/video/Transplanting-the-Human-Head



Sleep
Dreams and sleep have challenged our understanding for all time, and it never seems that we get enough of either. All time easiest avatar, just turned down the lights and closed my eyes.

http://www.videosift.com/video/John-Lennon-How-do-you-Sleep
http://www.videosift.com/video/Secrets-of-Sleep-Dream-Telepathy
http://www.videosift.com/video/American-Dream-from-Tribute-American-1924
http://www.videosift.com/video/Anderson-Cooper-Visits-s-Sleep-Clinic
http://www.videosift.com/video/Living-With-Cataplexy-and-Narcolepsy-BBC-Short



WSFT RadioSift
A radio queue on a video site? I had my doubts, but was happy with what I dug out of the Siftmines.

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Beginning-of-Commercial-Radio
http://www.videosift.com/video/Black-Shadows-excerpt-from-Radio-Parade-1935-In-Color
http://www.videosift.com/video/Radio-Caroline-Offshore-Pirate-Radio-UK
http://www.videosift.com/video/Radio-Follies-1935
http://www.videosift.com/video/Walter-Cronkite-on-Amateur-Radio
http://www.videosift.com/video/Radio-Hams-1939
http://www.videosift.com/video/WKRP-in-Cincinatti-Pink-Floyds-Dogs



Sift Patrol
This was probably one of the hardest to put together, because it’s so difficult to find anything other than videos that (A)depicted police officers as evil oppressors of the people or (2) mawkish, maudlin tributes to heroes. Tried to focus on their daily challenges and as usual something oldey for Swampgirl’s Vintage Channel.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Booked-for-Safekeeping-Police-Training-Film-1960
http://www.videosift.com/video/Cop-Saves-Womans-Dog-with-Doggy-CPR
http://www.videosift.com/video/This-is-why-they-made-Tasers
http://www.videosift.com/video/British-Policeman-Narrowly-Escapes-Suspects-Knife
http://www.videosift.com/video/Starchase-Suspect-Vehicle-Tracking-Device
http://www.videosift.com/video/Police-Video-Tip-of-the-Week-Traffic-Stop-Training-Video
http://www.videosift.com/video/Automated-License-Plate-Recognition-System-ALPR



Love and Sex
Kept this one pretty loose, so to speak. Anything with “love” in the title qualified. Still, really couldn’t find what I was looking for. Such is love.

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Beatles-Real-Love
http://www.videosift.com/video/William-Gibson-on-Love-and-Sex-1967
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Science-of-Love-Lesbian-Interest-Short-film
http://www.videosift.com/video/Matchmaking-with-DNA
http://www.videosift.com/video/SLUT-Easy-to-Love
http://www.videosift.com/video/Sex-and-Love-in-the-Bible-History-Channel
http://www.videosift.com/video/Experiment-Love-and-Danger\



Black and White
Inspired by a friend who has black and white parents, a look at race, the game of chess, and a little photography

http://www.videosift.com/video/Look-to-the-cookie-Elaine-Look-to-the-cookie-005
http://www.videosift.com/video/Janis-Ian-Black-White
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Human-Stain-Coleman-and-his-Mother
http://www.videosift.com/video/Ebony-Ivory-Music-Video
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-White-The-Black
http://www.videosift.com/video/WeeGee-Tribute-to-Arthur-Fellig



Cryptids and Cryptozoology
This was great fun. Just because you’ve never caught one, doesn’t mean they don’t exist! These mythical creatures can never be disproven, that’s their beauty!

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Search-for-Nessie
http://www.videosift.com/video/Arthur-C-Clarke-Monsters-of-the-Deep
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Mystery-of-the-Mothman
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Mysterious-Rods-Phenomena
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Jersey-Devil-Weird-NJ
http://www.videosift.com/video/A-C-Clarkes-Mysterious-World-CryptoZoology
http://www.videosift.com/video/Christian-Cryptozoology
http://www.videosift.com/video/A-Twelve-Pack-of-Bigfoot-footage
http://www.videosift.com/video/Chupacabra-Caught-and-Analyzed



HotRods!
One last look at the wonderful world of big-bore internal combustion before everyone switches to whisper quiet hybrid eco whatsits. Vroom!

http://www.videosift.com/video/Ingenuity-in-Action
http://www.videosift.com/video/Hot-Rod-Heart
http://www.videosift.com/video/1927-Volvo-HotRod
http://schmawy.videosift.com/video/Hot-Rodding-is-Dead
http://www.videosift.com/video/Pinstripers-in-Actions
http://www.videosift.com/video/Ed-Big-Daddy-Roth-interviews-Von-Dutch

previously...
http://blog.videosift.com/schmawy/The-Many-Faces-of-Serious-Cat


Thanks again everybody!