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Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist and the Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Nature History. He also collects cosmic-themed neckties and has an amazing cosmic vest.
Air date: 04/23/2010
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Mollie Woodworth is working toward her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at Harvard University. She studies the cerebral cortex of mice to learn about ways to treat humans with brain injuries and diseases. In her spare time, Mollie coaches the MIT cheerleading squad and does quite a lot of cheering herself.
Air date: 09/21/2010
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Jean Berko Gleason is a Professor Emerita at Boston University and was one of the founders of the field of psycholinguistics. She created the famous "wug test," which reveals how children learn the rules of language, such as making singular words plural. While now in her 70s, Jean continues to get...
Air date: 10/06/2010
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Rachel Collins is a microbiologist who studies the effectiveness of various antibiotics. She also loves horror movies and black metal music, and she is, in fact, a professional wrestler known as "MsChif." Rachel's wrestling tagline is that she is "your soul's tormenter," and some of her most...
Air date: 10/20/2010
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Physicist Stephon Alexander, an associate professor at Haverford College, is fascinated by big questions in theoretical cosmology, quantum gravity, and particle physics. He's also an accomplished jazz saxophonist. Learn how a high school physics teacher helped fuel his passion for both science and...
Air date: 11/03/2010
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