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Building The Pied P...
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14:10:00 04/27/12

Mechanical engineer Maurizio Porfiri designs robot fish. A few years ago, he found that real fish would mill about his aquatic robot, and now he’s trying to unders...

Building The Pied Piper Of Fish

Added 04/27/12
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Building The Pied Piper Of Fish

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Mechanical engineer Maurizio Porfiri designs robot fish. A few years ago, he found that real fish would mill about his aquatic robot, and now he’s trying to understand why. His research suggests that it has less to do with how the robot looks, than how it makes fish feel.

SciFri: Untangling...
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18:00:00 04/20/12

Kelly Ward, senior software engineer for Walt Disney Animation Studios, was tasked with bringing Rapunzel's locks to life in Disney's Tangled. The hair had to look...

SciFri: Untangling the Hairy Physics of Rapunzel

Added 04/20/12
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SciFri: Untangling the Hairy Physics of Rapunzel

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Kelly Ward, senior software engineer for Walt Disney Animation Studios, was tasked with bringing Rapunzel's locks to life in Disney's Tangled. The hair had to look realistic, but not too real — otherwise Rapunzel would be towing 80 pounds of hair behind her.

Untangling The Hair...
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14:10:00 04/20/12

Kelly Ward, senior software engineer for Walt Disney Animation Studios, was tasked with bringing Rapunzel's locks to life in Disney's Tangled. The hair had to look...

Untangling The Hairy Physics Of Rapunzel

Added 04/20/12
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Untangling The Hairy Physics Of Rapunzel

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Kelly Ward, senior software engineer for Walt Disney Animation Studios, was tasked with bringing Rapunzel's locks to life in Disney's Tangled. The hair had to look realistic, but not too real — otherwise Rapunzel would be towing 80 pounds of hair behind her.

SciFri: Desktop Di...
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18:00:00 04/13/12

Ecologist Edward O. Wilson takes us on a tour of his office, located in Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology. Wilson, who has studied ants for 60 yea...

SciFri: Desktop Diaries: E. O. Wilson

Added 04/13/12
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SciFri: Desktop Diaries: E. O. Wilson

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Ecologist Edward O. Wilson takes us on a tour of his office, located in Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology. Wilson, who has studied ants for 60 years and has won two Pulitzer prizes for his writing, shows off Harvard's ant collection (the largest in the world), plays a backwoods fiddle and explains how he looks to Darwin (a bobble head doll, in this case) for encouragement.

SciFri: Desktop Di...
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18:00:00 04/13/12

Ecologist Edward O. Wilson takes us on a tour of his office, located in Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology. Wilson, who has studied ants for 60 yea...

SciFri: Desktop Diaries: E. O. Wilson

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SciFri: Desktop Diaries: E. O. Wilson

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Ecologist Edward O. Wilson takes us on a tour of his office, located in Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology. Wilson, who has studied ants for 60 years and has won two Pulitzer prizes for his writing, shows off Harvard's ant collection (the largest in the world), plays a backwoods fiddle and explains how he looks to Darwin (a bobble head doll, in this case) for encouragement.

Desktop Diaries: E....
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14:10:00 04/13/12

Ecologist Edward O. Wilson takes us on a tour of his office, located in Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology. Wilson, who has studied ants for 60 yea...

Desktop Diaries: E.O. Wilson

Added 04/13/12
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Desktop Diaries: E.O. Wilson

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Ecologist Edward O. Wilson takes us on a tour of his office, located in Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology. Wilson, who has studied ants for 60 years and has won two Pulitzer prizes for his writing, shows off Harvard's ant collection (the largest in the world), plays a backwoods fiddle and explains how he looks to Darwin (a bobble head doll, in this case) for encouragement.

SciFri: Coyotes Cr...
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18:00:00 04/06/12

Coyotes have been spotted in the Bronx, Queens and even Manhattan. Wildlife biologist Mark Weckel has been documenting their immigration to New York City through "...

SciFri: Coyotes Cruise NYC

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SciFri: Coyotes Cruise NYC

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Coyotes have been spotted in the Bronx, Queens and even Manhattan. Wildlife biologist Mark Weckel has been documenting their immigration to New York City through "camera traps" he has set up in the city parks. Weckel explains the project and shares some of his best coyote footage.

SciFri: Why Spider...
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18:00:00 03/30/12

William Eberhard, of the Smithsonian Tropic Research Institute and the University of Costa Rica, and colleague Daniel Briceno film spiders in the lab, in the field...

SciFri: Why Spiders Don't Stick To The Web

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SciFri: Why Spiders Don't Stick To The Web

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William Eberhard, of the Smithsonian Tropic Research Institute and the University of Costa Rica, and colleague Daniel Briceno film spiders in the lab, in the field and under a dissecting microscope to untangle this longstanding arachnological mystery. The secret to not getting stuck? Oily, hairy legs and delicate movements.

Coyotes Cruise NYC
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14:10:00 03/30/12

William Eberhard, of the Smithsonian Tropic Research Institute and the University of Costa Rica, and colleague Daniel Briceno film spiders in the lab, in the field...

Coyotes Cruise NYC

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Coyotes Cruise NYC

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William Eberhard, of the Smithsonian Tropic Research Institute and the University of Costa Rica, and colleague Daniel Briceno film spiders in the lab, in the field and under a dissecting microscope to untangle this longstanding arachnological mystery. The secret to not getting stuck? Oily, hairy legs and delicate movements.

SciFri: Picture An...
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18:00:00 03/23/12

Back in the 1990s, Bradley Smith was funded by the NIH to photograph and take MRI scans of human embryos and post them to the web. Intended for clinicians, Smith s...

SciFri: Picture An Embryo

Added 03/23/12
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SciFri: Picture An Embryo

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Back in the 1990s, Bradley Smith was funded by the NIH to photograph and take MRI scans of human embryos and post them to the web. Intended for clinicians, Smith says these images were more interesting to the public than he had anticipated. Smith unpacks our complicated relationship with embryo imagery.

Picture An Embryo
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14:10:00 03/23/12

Back in the 1990s, Bradley Smith was funded by the NIH to photograph and take MRI scans of human embryos and post them to the web. Intended for clinicians, Smith s...

Picture An Embryo

Added 03/23/12
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Picture An Embryo

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Back in the 1990s, Bradley Smith was funded by the NIH to photograph and take MRI scans of human embryos and post them to the web. Intended for clinicians, Smith says these images were more interesting to the public than he had anticipated. Smith unpacks our complicated relationship with embryo imagery.

SciFri: Getting We...
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18:00:00 03/16/12

SciFri: Getting Weightless

Added 03/16/12
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SciFri: Getting Weightless

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Teen Launches LEGO ...
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14:10:00 03/16/12

Estimated altitude for this flight was about 115,000 feet, says Raul Oaida, 18-years-old. Raul launched the shuttle, along with a video camera and a GPS tracker, b...

Teen Launches LEGO Shuttle Into Space

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Teen Launches LEGO Shuttle Into Space

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Estimated altitude for this flight was about 115,000 feet, says Raul Oaida, 18-years-old. Raul launched the shuttle, along with a video camera and a GPS tracker, by way of a large helium balloon. Flight time was about three hours--the shuttle landing about 150 miles south of where it took off.

SciFri: How A LEGO...
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18:00:00 03/15/12

Estimated altitude for this flight was about 115,000 feet, says Raul Oaida, 18-years-old. Raul launched the shuttle, along with a video camera and a GPS tracker, b...

SciFri: How A LEGO Shuttle Got To Space

Added 03/15/12
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SciFri: How A LEGO Shuttle Got To Space

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Estimated altitude for this flight was about 115,000 feet, says Raul Oaida, 18-years-old. Raul launched the shuttle, along with a video camera and a GPS tracker, by way of a large helium balloon. Flight time was about three hours--the shuttle landing about 150 miles south of where it took off.

SciFri: Coolest La...
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18:00:00 03/09/12

Convincing a rat to run on a treadmill is just another day at the office for the researchers at the Concord Field Station (CFS), a Harvard lab located in Bedford, ...

SciFri: Coolest Lab Ever?

Added 03/09/12
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SciFri: Coolest Lab Ever?

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Convincing a rat to run on a treadmill is just another day at the office for the researchers at the Concord Field Station (CFS), a Harvard lab located in Bedford, Mass. The lab focuses on comparative biomechanics, which requires lots of animals--including an emu, parrots, jerboas, goats--and lots of devices to document their movement.

Coolest Lab Ever?
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14:10:00 03/09/12

Convincing a rat to run on a treadmill is just another day at the office for the researchers at the Concord Field Station (CFS), a Harvard lab located in Bedford, ...

Coolest Lab Ever?

Added 03/09/12
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Coolest Lab Ever?

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Convincing a rat to run on a treadmill is just another day at the office for the researchers at the Concord Field Station (CFS), a Harvard lab located in Bedford, Mass. The lab focuses on comparative biomechanics, which requires lots of animals--including an emu, parrots, jerboas, goats--and lots of devices to document their movement.

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Desktop Diaries: Oliver Sacks

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Desktop Diaries: Oliver Sacks
12/03/10

Many of us spend more waking hours at our desk than anywhere else. Writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks explains what his desk means to him. From lumps of metal to lemurs, Sacks describes some of his treasures, his preferred method for writing his books and why he takes comfort in dense metals.