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Learning with Age
From: Susanne Bard
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Both younger and older people can readily learn new information, but older people have a harder time filtering out irrelevant and distracting infor...

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  • Added: Dec 06, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
3-D Talking Map
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Touching the miniature buildings on the map activates auditory information and directions. , Credit: University of Buffalo
3-D talking maps use a variety of sensory modalities to help the visually impaired find their way around college campuses and other institutions.

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  • Added: Dec 06, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Neurosexism
From: Susanne Bard
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Our ideas about how the anatomical differences in male and female brains explain the behaviors of men and women may be based on bias rather than sc...

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  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Yaupon Tea
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Yaupon tea is brewed from the leaves of Ilex vomitaria., Credit: Mary Vaux Wolcott
Can you get a caffeine fix without growing your carbon footprint?

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  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Wine's Fruity Nose - Thanksgiving 2014
From: Susanne Bard
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You can thank fruit flies for your favorite wine’s fruity “nose”.

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  • Added: Nov 23, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 3
NanoArchaeology
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: A 17 cm carved stone figurine shown inside the SEM chamber ready for non-destructive imaging and analysis, Credit: (Timothy Rose/Smithsonian)
Modern technology reveals ancient techniques used in the production of purloined antiquities.

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  • Added: Nov 23, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Lost Languages in the Brain
From: Susanne Bard
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When children are adopted internationally, the first language they hear as babies may not be entirely lost.

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  • Added: Nov 23, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mind-Controlled Medicine
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: A brainwave-triggered implant which could potentially turn on genes controlling the production of therapeutic proteins., Credit: March Folcher/ETH Zurich
Could brainwaves one day trigger an implant that stops epilepsy and chonic pain episodes before they begin?

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Politics of Disgust
From: Susanne Bard
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Brain scans reveal our political leanings.

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  • Added: Nov 01, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Lactose Intolerance Genetics
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: The practice of cheesemaking goes back many centuries in various cultures around the world. (A page from the 14th century Medieval handbook Taccuino Sanitatis from the Biblioteca Casanatense in Rome, Italy)
Central Europeans developed a dairying culture at least 4,000 years before they evolved the ability to digest milk.

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  • Added: Nov 01, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Monkeys of New Guinea
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Goodfellow's tree-kangaroos inhabit the rainforests of New Guinea., Credit: (Liquid Ghoul/Wikipedia)
Tree kangaroos hop up trees instead of swinging through them like monkeys.

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  • Added: Oct 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Playful Fish
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: A cichlid fish strikes a bottom-weighted thermometer that would immediately right itself. , Credit: (Ann Hawthorne)
Some fish appear to play with objects in their tanks.

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  • Added: Oct 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Superspreaders
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Mary Mallon, aka "Typhoid Mary, Credit: From the The New York American newspaper, dated June 20, 1909.
Learning about the immune system from people who catch germs but don’t get sick.

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  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Curiosity to Learn
From: Susanne Bard
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Heightened curiosity about one subject primes people to learn less interesting information as well.

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  • Added: Oct 11, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Human Gut Powered Fuel
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Isaac Cann, Credit: L. Brian Stauffer
Human gut microbes could break down grasses into sugars for biofuel production.

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  • Added: Oct 09, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Monarch Butterfly Genetics
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Monarchs in flight., Credit: Sonia Altizer
Scientists have identified the genetic underpinnings of monarch butterfly migration.

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  • Added: Oct 09, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
2014-15 Flu Shot
From: Susanne Bard
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Healthy people need the flu shot every year, especially to help protect those who are more vulnerable to complications from the virus.

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  • Added: Sep 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Spreading Viruses
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Viruses spread from room to room much more quickly than you might think.

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  • Added: Sep 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Early Autism Intervention
From: Susanne Bard
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An early intervention for autism shows promise for helping babies who have not yet been diagnosed with the condition.

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  • Added: Sep 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mystery Suckers
From: WFHB
Series: Better Beware!
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"Secret shopper" companies can be legit -- but can also be a nasty scam. Here's the story of one local lady who has seen both kinds.

  • Added: Aug 13, 2014
  • Length: 04:51
Origami Robots
From: Susanne Bard
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Using origami techniques to make real life Transformer robots.

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  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Anti-Cancer Venom
From: Susanne Bard
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Researchers are developing a technique to attack cancer cells with animal venoms.

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  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Brain Chip
From: Susanne Bard
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Improving computers by making them think more like humans.

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  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 2
Transgenerational Obesity
From: Susanne Bard
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Did now-banned pesticides contribute to the obesity epidemic?

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  • Added: Jul 26, 2014
  • Length: 01:05
  • Purchases: 4
Domestication Syndrome
From: Susanne Bard
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A new hypothesis ties domestication in mammals to “cute” physical features.

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  • Added: Jul 21, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1