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Not The Fleas' Knees
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14:10:00 02/11/11

Fleas are admirable jumpers -- a talent that humans have recognized for thousands of years, according to engineer Greg Sutton. Yet, until this week, exactly how fl...

Not The Fleas' Knees

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Not The Fleas' Knees

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Fleas are admirable jumpers -- a talent that humans have recognized for thousands of years, according to engineer Greg Sutton. Yet, until this week, exactly how fleas propel themselves wasn't understood. Sutton and Malcolm Burrows, of the University of Cambridge, filmed fleas jumping, analyzed flea anatomy, made mathematical models and cracked the flea leap mystery.

Aquarist To The Stars
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14:10:00 02/04/11

Justin Muir, founder of City Aquarium in Brooklyn, N.Y., designs custom fish tanks. But think big: these aquariums run his clients (primarily celebrities, professi...

Aquarist To The Stars

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Aquarist To The Stars

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Justin Muir, founder of City Aquarium in Brooklyn, N.Y., designs custom fish tanks. But think big: these aquariums run his clients (primarily celebrities, professional athletes and Wall Street moguls) anywhere between $50,000 and $400,000. We went on a fish shopping expedition with Muir and visited his warehouse, where he cultivates giant clams and coral, and medicates his fish before they are transplanted to his client's aquariums.

How To Lift A Beat
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14:10:00 01/28/11

If the term "sample" reminds you more of a cheese tasting than music making, this video is for you. DJ, music producer and clothing designer Aaron LaCrate walks us...

How To Lift A Beat

Added 01/28/11
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How To Lift A Beat

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If the term "sample" reminds you more of a cheese tasting than music making, this video is for you. DJ, music producer and clothing designer Aaron LaCrate walks us through Sampling 101--taking a snippet of a song and repurposing it in another work. LaCrate explains the process but doesn't sample in his own music -- to "clear" a lifted beat for use is complicated, and expensive.

Garbage Monsters
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14:10:00 01/21/11

Your trash could come back to haunt you. That's the the moral of this cautionary tale created by students from Miami Beach Senior High. They won top honors in the ...

Garbage Monsters

Added 01/21/11
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Garbage Monsters

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Your trash could come back to haunt you. That's the the moral of this cautionary tale created by students from Miami Beach Senior High. They won top honors in the Oceans 2030: Youth Outlook Multimedia Contest.

Fossil From Dawn Of...
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14:10:00 01/14/11

Researchers unearthed Eodromaeus murphi from a valley in Argentina. This dinosaur was four feet long, fifteen pounds and lived 230 million years ago, just a few mi...

Fossil From Dawn Of Dinos

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Fossil From Dawn Of Dinos

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Researchers unearthed Eodromaeus murphi from a valley in Argentina. This dinosaur was four feet long, fifteen pounds and lived 230 million years ago, just a few million years after dinosaurs first evolved.

Extreme DIY: Homema...
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14:10:00 01/07/11

Jim Smith, 23, is taking citizen science to another level. He designed and built his own 3D printer, which sits in the corner of his living room. We made a house c...

Extreme DIY: Homemade 3D Printer

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Extreme DIY: Homemade 3D Printer

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Jim Smith, 23, is taking citizen science to another level. He designed and built his own 3D printer, which sits in the corner of his living room. We made a house call, got a tour of the machine and did some printing.

When Leaf-cutters C...
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14:10:00 12/31/10

Leaf-cutter ants rely on their razor-sharp mandibles to cut leaves to pieces. But over time, their mandibles dull. Physicist Robert Schofield looked at what happen...

When Leaf-cutters Can't Cut It

Added 12/31/10
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When Leaf-cutters Can't Cut It

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Leaf-cutter ants rely on their razor-sharp mandibles to cut leaves to pieces. But over time, their mandibles dull. Physicist Robert Schofield looked at what happens when the aging ants struggle with their snipping.

Preserving The Craf...
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14:10:00 12/17/10

Schwendeman's Taxidermy Studio has been mounting animals for sportsmen, museums and nature centers, for nearly ninety years. Take a tour of the studio and learn ho...

Preserving The Craft Of Taxidermy

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Preserving The Craft Of Taxidermy

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Schwendeman's Taxidermy Studio has been mounting animals for sportsmen, museums and nature centers, for nearly ninety years. Take a tour of the studio and learn how to flesh a bear, mount a rack and split an ear.

Growing Snowflakes ...
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14:10:00 12/10/10

Are you dreaming of a white Christmas? Try making your own winter wonderland. Ken Libbrecht, Caltech physicist and author of The Secret Life of a Snowflake, devise...

Growing Snowflakes In A Bottle

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Growing Snowflakes In A Bottle

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Are you dreaming of a white Christmas? Try making your own winter wonderland. Ken Libbrecht, Caltech physicist and author of The Secret Life of a Snowflake, devised an experiment to grow a snow crystal in an old plastic bottle. Dry ice required.

Desktop Diaries: Ol...
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14:10:00 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 ...

Desktop Diaries: Oliver Sacks

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Desktop Diaries: Oliver Sacks

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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.

Cranberry Sauce Wit...
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14:10:00 11/24/10

With the holiday season fast approaching, we hit the streets of New York City to see if people were feeling especially stressed. Paul Rosch, president of The Ameri...

Cranberry Sauce With A Side Of Stress

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Cranberry Sauce With A Side Of Stress

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With the holiday season fast approaching, we hit the streets of New York City to see if people were feeling especially stressed. Paul Rosch, president of The American Institute of Stress and a professor at New York Medical College, and Sheldon Cohen, psychologist at Carnegie Mellon University, weigh in on the effects of stress and offer a few tips for how to mitigate it.

Untangling The Hair...
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14:10:00 11/19/10

Kelly Ward, senior software engineer for Walt Disney Animation Studios, was tasked with bringing Rapunzel's locks to life in Disney's new movie, "Tangled." The hai...

Untangling The Hairy Physics Of Rapunzel

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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 new movie, "Tangled." The hair had to look realistic, but not too real -- otherwise Rapunzel would be towing 80 pounds of hair behind her.

Hunting The Wild Li...
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14:10:00 11/12/10

Lichens grow practically everywhere, but they have been neglected by scientists for years, says James Lendemer, a lichenologist with New York Botanical Garden. Len...

Hunting The Wild Lichen

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Hunting The Wild Lichen

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Lichens grow practically everywhere, but they have been neglected by scientists for years, says James Lendemer, a lichenologist with New York Botanical Garden. Lendemer took Science Friday on a trip to the Tannersville Cranberry Bog in Pennsylvania to track down these misunderstood creatures.

These Babies Can Ou...
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14:10:00 11/05/10

Australian brush turkeys have to fend for themselves as babies. They're what biologists call "super precocial." The birds fly the day they hatch, and hatchlings ca...

These Babies Can Out-Climb Their Parents

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These Babies Can Out-Climb Their Parents

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Australian brush turkeys have to fend for themselves as babies. They're what biologists call "super precocial." The birds fly the day they hatch, and hatchlings can climb vertical ledges better than adults.

Trapping Eels
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14:10:00 10/29/10

Every year, American eels migrate down coastal rivers towards the Atlantic to spawn. During the migration, eel fisher Ray Turner catches thousands in the Delaware ...

Trapping Eels

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Trapping Eels

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Every year, American eels migrate down coastal rivers towards the Atlantic to spawn. During the migration, eel fisher Ray Turner catches thousands in the Delaware river in an eel weir he builds by hand.

Physics Of Giant Pu...
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14:10:00 10/22/10

Pumpkins of the Atlantic Giant variety can weigh more than 1800 pounds. For a mechanical engineer with an interest in plus-sized fruit, like Georgia Tech’s David H...

Physics Of Giant Pumpkins

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Physics Of Giant Pumpkins

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Pumpkins of the Atlantic Giant variety can weigh more than 1800 pounds. For a mechanical engineer with an interest in plus-sized fruit, like Georgia Tech’s David Hu, this raises an interesting physics question: how can the pumpkin get so big without breaking?

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Not The Fleas' Knees

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Not The Fleas' Knees
02/11/11

Fleas are admirable jumpers -- a talent that humans have recognized for thousands of years, according to engineer Greg Sutton. Yet, until this week, exactly how fleas propel themselves wasn't understood. Sutton and Malcolm Burrows, of the University of Cambridge, filmed fleas jumping, analyzed flea anatomy, made mathematical models and cracked the flea leap mystery.