Ben Brown and Curt Markwardt have developed an extreme pogo stick that enables the user to leap to unbelievable heights with very little energy.
Grade levels: Senior High (10-12)
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Nanotube Battery
Using tiny carbon nanotubes, chemists invent a tiny fuel cell powered by a small, but very hot flame.
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Old Ironsides
The USS Constitution, a veteran ship from the War of 1812, gets a major restoration thanks to some very old blueprints.
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Bra Gas Mask
Ziya interviews Dr. Elena Bodner, the inventor of a brassiere that can do double duty as a gas mask.
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Jay’s Journal: Tools
Jay discusses reseach into how tool use can change the body schema in your brain.
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The Tortoise and the Fire
The Jones Ecological Research Center routinely burns hectares of their land to protect the habitat of the endangered and unusual gopher tortoise.
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Virtual Blue Whale
Find out how a Blue Whale skeleton from PEI found a new home in Vancouver and was digitally archived, bone by bone, with a 3D laser scanner.
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White Noise
Jay interviews Lora Koenig of Operation Ice Bridge to discuss how scientists are studying Arctic and Antarctic ice from airborne labs.