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Science and technology news from the acclaimed public radio program Science Friday. (English)
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Added to The Feed Directory on Sun, 6 Jun 2004 17:12:55 PDT
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Last Feed Sample: In this special holiday rebroadcast, we travel to Milwaukee, Wisconsin to find out about the science behind lagers, ales, and porters. Raise a glass to the science of brewing!
Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:21:06 PST
In this hour, it's our post-Thanksgiving selection of highlights from the 18th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, recognizing the strange, silly, and stupid in the world of science.
Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:21:06 PST
It's officially the holiday season, time for turkey, mashed potatoes, and a few more inches on our waistlines. In this segment, we'll take a look at how mood, memories and even smell influence what we put on our plates--and into our mouths.
Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:21:06 PST
Are all turkeys created equal? Maybe not. A growing number of Americans are forking over hundreds of dollars for "heritage turkeys" for their Thanksgiving spreads, experts say. What's so special about heritage birds? We visit Garden of Eve, an organic farm in Riverhead, NY, to find out.
Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:21:06 PST
With the stock market tanking and foundation underwriting on the decline, Science Friday is faced with a choice for the future of our web site: to increase our funding revenue from more advertising or to ask that our visitors pay a nominal subscription rate...
Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:21:06 PST
Robert Creamer, a photographer based in Maryland, uses a high-resolution scanner as his camera. Creamer's subjects are largely botanical, picked right from his own greenhouse. He arranges flowers over the scanner, sometimes suspending them with wires, even burning them during the scan. His work has been featured at the Smithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History in Washington DC.
Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:21:06 PST
If President-elect Obama wants to make an eye opening statement about just how bad our financial situation is let him cancel all the fancy inaugural partying and spend the money getting Americans back to work building the green economy he says he wants...
Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:21:06 PST
Science Friday director Charles Bergquist stops in at the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems at the Javits Center in New York for a look at new car technologies. Down the road, cars may be able to drive themselves ... but will they be able to parallel park? Check out Southwest Research Institute's autonomous vehicle and watch it navigate the streets of New York.
Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:21:06 PST
We know who built the Great Pyramid of Egypt, but we still don't know HOW it was done. In this segment, we'll talk about theories of the Great Pyramid's construction.
Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:21:06 PST
In this segment, we'll listen in on a phone call from Atlantis to Antarctica, to check in with researchers studying organisms that live in extreme environments.
Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:21:06 PST
We'll learn about new studies that take a census of just what lives inside your gut. New work published this week indicates that the human intestines may be home to over 5,600 different bacterial species and strains.
Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:21:06 PST
While politicians and economists argue over what should be done to shore up the American auto industry, we'll take a look at progress towards a plug-in cars. Could the current financial crisis help provide the jolt needed to get electric cars and advance
Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:21:06 PST
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