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Science Friday: Science Friday, 1991: The Ozone Hole
In an anniversary year look back into the Science Friday archives, we bring you a clip from our first show, on the problem of the ozone hole.
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Science Friday: Stem Cell Policy Update
This week, a federal district court judge blocked President Obama's executive order dealing with federal financing for embryonic stem cell research. We'll talk about the ruling and what it means for researchers.
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Science Friday: Solar / Wind Energy Update
We'll get the latest on solar and wind power projects in the US. What can be learned from the European renewable energy industry?
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Science Friday: Science Fiction Technology
How do filmmakers create the visions of technology that fill science fiction films?
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Science Friday: The Science of Smell
What goes on in the nose and brain when we smell a smell?
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Science Friday: Exploring the Wild Life of Our Bodies
Biologist Rob Dunn explains how the organisms that share our world have shaped us. [17 mins. 39]
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Science Friday: Magnetic Soap May Help Clean Up Spilled Oil
Scientists have created an iron-containing soap that can be removed from solution with a magnet.
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Science Friday: Struggling to Contain a Rising Mississippi
Ira Flatow and guests discuss whether boxing in the Mississippi is a sustainable long-term solution.
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Science Friday: Studying Schizophrenia, by Giving It to Computers
Dr. Ralph Hoffman discusses how he made computers recall stories as a schizophrenic patient would.
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Science Friday: The Physics of Setting Leaves Aflame
Even if cheap pyrotechnics isn't your thing, the physics behind how this works is relevant to anyone with eyes.
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Science Friday: Can Viruses Be Used to Fight Cancer?
A look at potential new cancer treatments, including oncolytic viruses and hyperthermia.
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Science Friday: Was Stealth Technology Used in Bin Laden Raid?
A helicopter tail left behind after the raid on Osama Bin Laden's hide-out may offer some clues about stealth technology used in the mission.
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Science Friday: Video Pick of the Week: Frogs Shake It Up
How do tree frogs get the word out? New research published this week says male red-eyed treefrogs communicate with one another in aggressive contests by using vibrations they send through their plant perches.
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Science Friday: Online Privacy
Facebook has dozens of toggles for privacy settings on its service, and a privacy policy longer than the US Constitution. Is it getting too hard to keep hold of our privacy online?
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Science Friday: Understanding Medical Statistics
Relative risk? Survival rates? In this segment, we'll try to parse the language of medical studies and talk about how researchers and doctors interpret medical data.
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Science Friday: Stroke of Insight
In this segment, guest host Joe Palca talks with Jill Bolte Taylor, a brain scientist who suffered a stroke in 1996 at the age of 37.
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Science Friday: Deborah Blum and the Poisoner's Handbook
Before CSI or Law and Order, how did chemical crimes come to light? Ira talks with author Deborah Blum about her new book about the dawn of medical forensics.
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Science Friday: Looking Back on the Laser
Optical scientists are celebrating 2010 as the 50th anniversary of the laser.
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Science Friday: Jonathon Keats and "Virtual Words"
We'll talk about how the rapid pace of technology is creating new words and how new ideas drive new language.
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Science Friday: The Dirt on Mammoth Dna
Researchers examining DNA evidence gathered from soil samples say that the woolly mammoth may have survived for thousands of years longer than the fossil record indicates.
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Science Friday: Weekends at Bellevue
Have you ever wondered what the weekend shift might be like in a major city's psychiatric emergency room?
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Science Friday: Who's an Expert?
With technology placing endless information at our fingertips, has 'expertise' changed its meaning?
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Science Friday: Texting Aid Dollars
Much of the financial support for earthquake-stricken Haiti has a high-tech source -- the text message.
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Science Friday: Defining a Data Deluge
Researchers attempt to measure the amount of information humanity can store and transmit.