(Video) Black History Month:Celebrating One Of The Geniuses Among Us, John Dabiri

February 1, 2011, Pasadena, California]-----February has been set aside as Black History Month, but our history should be celebrated, acknowledged, taught and immortalized just as any other part of American and global history. After-all, it's part and parcel of the whole. In fact, it's the origin of it all.

John Dabiri of Pasadena, California, is one of the geniuses walking amonst us today. Like the great African Pioneers who came before him, he is blazing a trail across our scientific world at only 30 years old. He is the recipient of the 2010 McArthur Fellowship award of $500,000.

Dabiri is a biophysicist, who works in the field of scientific exploration: from theoretical fluid dynamics, evolutionary biology, and biomechanics—to unraveling the secrets of one of the earliest means of animal locomotion.

Didn't understand a word I just typed? Neither did I, but one thing I do know--John Dabiri is brilliant.

Take a look at the attached video, he will explain what he does so the scientifically challenged among us (like me and maybe you), will understand.

Below is a short bio on Dabiri:

John Dabiri received a B.S.E. (2001) from Princeton University and an M.S. (2003) and Ph.D. (2005) from the California Institute of Technology, where he is currently an associate professor of aeronautics and bioengineering. His scientific articles have appeared in such journals as Nature, the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, the Journal of Experimental Biology, and PNAS.