Science Friday Video Podcast
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Science Friday, as heard on NPR, is a weekly discussion of the latest news in science, technology, health, and the environment hosted by Ira Flatow. Ira interviews scientists, authors, and policymakers, and listeners can call in and ask questions as well. Watch the latest science videos from the Science Friday website.
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Stressed? You're Not Alone.
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Friday, Nov 20, 2009
It's the holiday season. How are you coping?
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Clone This Smile
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Friday, Nov 13, 2009
Like a digital video puppet, the facial expressions of one person can be cloned in real time and mapped onto the digital face of another person.
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CreatureCast: Why Cells Cooperate
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Friday, Nov 6, 2009
How did multicellular organisms evolve? Sophia Tintori and Cassandra Extavour, developmental biologist at Harvard, talk about the development of multicellular organisms.
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Behold The 1000 Pound Pumpkin
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Friday, Oct 30, 2009
Robert Sabin has been growing giant pumpkins (the breed is Atlantic giant) for over ten years. Does his top pumpkin have the heft to win the Long Island Giant Pumpkin Weigh-Off at Hicks Nurseries? Find out.
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Seeing Through The Eyes Of An Armadillo
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Friday, Oct 23, 2009
Sam Easterson is the curator of the Museum of Animal Perspectives--an online repository of remotely-sensed wildlife imagery. All the footage comes from cameras implanted in the landscape or strapped to the backs of animals.
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Bird In Hand To Save Those In The Bush
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Friday, Oct 16, 2009
Braddock Bay, on the southern shore of Lake Ontario, is a prime pit stop for migrating birds. In a converted hot dog stand near the Bay, ornithologists and volunteers capture, study and release about 10,000 passing birds each year.
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Pluto Controversy: The Backstory
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Friday, Oct 16, 2009
Neil DeGrasse Tyson recounts the controversy about America's favorite former planet -- Pluto. He talks with Ira in the NPR studio in New York about the new rules for planetary status.
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How To Band A Bird
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Friday, Oct 9, 2009
David Bonter, ornithologist at Cornell University and vice president of the Braddock Bay Bird Observatory, took us to Braddock Bay to learn how to band birds. Watch Bonter put a tiny aluminum bracelet on a swamp sparrow.
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Recipe For A River
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Friday, Oct 2, 2009
For nearly 100 years, scientists have been trying to create a meandering river in the lab. Christian Braudrick and Bill Dietrich of University of California, Berkeley, have finally found a recipe. Go into the lab to see the mini meandering river flow.
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Turtles On The Wrong Side Of The Tracks
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Friday, Sep 25, 2009
Michael Musnick studies wood turtles in the Great Swamp -- a stretch of wetland about 60 miles north of New York City. He found turtles dying in the railroad tracks and proposed a solution to New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority: tiny turtle bridges.
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Battling Blight
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Friday, Sep 18, 2009
Tim Stark, tomato farmer and owner of Eckerton Hill Farm in Lobachsville, PA, describes his battle with late blight this summer.
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CreatureCast: Light-Up Squid
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Friday, S 11,
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Squid (the kind served as calamari) can make their skin pulse different colors. Biologist Casey Dunn and his student Sophia Tintori were interested in how this works, so they asked their colleagues at the University of California, Santa Barbara for an explanation. Tintori explains the phenomenon in the first episode of what they've dubbed CreatureCast.
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Space Golf, Astronaut Included
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Friday, Sep 04, 2009
The New York Hall of Science in Queens, NY opened a space-themed mini golf course this summer. Charles Camarda, a NASA engineer and former astronaut, agreed to play a round, and explain some of the science as he putted.
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Stovetop Science: Frying Hollandaise
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Friday, Aug 28, 2009
Chef Wylie Dufresne, the owner of New York City restaurant wd-50, experiments with food, literally. He has lab notebooks detailing what certain chemicals do to certain dishes. Science Friday stopped in at Dufresne's kitchen to see how he prepares his scientific spin on eggs Benedict.
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Sea Worms, Rice Snorkels, Cell Battles
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Friday, Aug 21, 2009
Science Friday brings you a highlight reel of science news from the week, including: sea worms that drop bioluminescent bombs, how deepwater rice avoids drowning and what happens when bacteria and fruit fly immune cells meet.
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Lasers, Glowing Dye Illuminate Jellyfish
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Friday, Aug 14, 2009
John Dabiri, bioengineer at Caltech, has developed new techniques for studying the motion of aquatic animals. In a recent study in the journal Nature, Dabiri and colleagues explain how swimming animals mix the ocean.
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Museum Artists Keep It Real
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Friday, July 31, 2009
No guesswork is allowed in museum art: scientists review everything from the color and texture of the tree bark to the facial expression of the animals in dioramas. Go behind the scenes at the American Museum of Natural History with artist Steve Quinn to see what is involved in creating an exhibition.
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Heart Cells Beat On A Living Band-Aid
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Friday, July 24, 2009
Put rat heart cells on a piece of synthetic mesh and within a few days, the mesh starts beating in the petri dish. The hope is that down the road the beating patch be used like a living band-aid to treat damaged hearts.
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When Bats Attack...Moths
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Friday, July 17, 2009
For the last 50 million years, bats and moths have been engaged in an arms race: moths evolving new tricks to escape bats and bats developing new ways to catch moths. William Conner, a biologist at Wake Forest University, studies this interaction by filming bat attacks.
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No Mow: Try Moss
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Friday, July 10, 2009
Summertime doesn’t have to mean hours behind the lawn mower, at least for shade-dwellers. David Benner, horticulturist and moss enthusiast, cut grass out of his life 40 years ago. Benner shares tips for moss cultivation.
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Celebrate Explosive Chemistry
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Friday, July 03, 2009
July Fourth: A day for picnics, parades and chemistry. Bassam Shakhashiri, chemistry professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, explains the science of fireworks.
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Flaming Bubbles
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Friday, July 03, 2009
Theo Gray, author of Mad Science, demonstrates what happens when you fill bubbles with hydrogen and light them on fire. Warning: SciFri does not advise trying this at home.
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This Airplane Flies Itself
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Friday, June 26, 2009
This small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) takes off like a helicopter but flies like an airplane. The vehicle, named V-Bat, can fly at over 100 mph for more than five hours. Stephen Morris, the president of the company that designed the prototype, explains how it works.
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Fluke Footage Catches Whale In The Act
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Friday, June 19, 2009
For years, longline fishermen in Alaska have complained that whales have been stealing their sablefish catch. A team of researchers mounted a video camera to a fishing line and caught a sperm whale stealing.
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Secret To Slithering Is In The Scales
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Friday, June 12, 2009
Researchers filmed snakes slithering up inclines and sliding down plains; they outfitted the snakes in jackets and photographed them through jello, all to better understand snake locomotion.
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