Science Friday Video Podcast
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Podcast Description
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.
| Name | Description | Released | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VideoSciFri: From The Archive: Battling Blight | A look back at a farmer's battle with late blight during the summer of 2009. | 25 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoSciFri: Bon Appetit, From The Backyard | Some New Yorkers are taking “locavore” to the next level -- eating snails from the yard, foraging mushrooms in the parks. Super foragers Anya Pozdeeva and Christopher Toole, of Vertically Integrated Farms, share foraging tips, and explain their plan to turn New York City into a food production center through apartment-fish-farms and food forests. | 18 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoSciFri: Cracking the Egg Sprinkler Mystery | If you spin a hard-boiled egg in a pool of milk, the milk will wick up the sides of the egg and spray off at the egg’s equator. Engineer Tadd Truscott launched an investigation to figure out why this happens -- complete with a custom-built spinning apparatus, billiard balls and high speed video cameras. | 4 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoSciFri: Pied Piper of Fish | 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. | 27 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoSciFri: Untangling the Hairy Physics of Rapunzel | 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. | 20 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoSciFri: Desktop Diaries: E. O. Wilson | 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. | 13 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoSciFri: Coyotes Cruise NYC | 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. | 6 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoSciFri: Why Spiders Don't Stick To The Web | 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. | 30 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoSciFri: Picture An Embryo | 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. | 23 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoSciFri: Getting Weightless | -- | 16 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoSciFri: How A LEGO Shuttle Got To Space | 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. | 15 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoSciFri: Coolest Lab Ever? | 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. | 9 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoSciFri: Desktop Diaries: Neil deGrasse Tyson | Many of us spend more time at our desks than anywhere else. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson takes us into his office at the Hayden Planetarium in New York City for a tour of his office. From a Saturn lamp Tyson made as a kid to his van Gogh pillow, Tyson highlights some of his universe-themed paraphernalia, and talks about what his journey to science stardom has been like. | 2 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoSciFri: Secret Life Of Ice | Look at frozen water through cross-polarized light, and zoom in with a macro lens, and you'll find a colorful and intricate landscape. Edward Aites, a photographer and videographer specializing in time-lapse, said he was looking for something to explore in his studio during the winter months and started playing around with ice. The results are mesmerizing. | 24 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 14 Episodes |
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