Babies on the Brink SciFri 2015-04-06 | Since the 1960s, developmental psychologists point to the "Visual Cliff"—an experiment that plops babies on a fake precipice—as proof that infants learn to fear heights as they learn to crawl. Yet, over the past 25 years, a series of rigorous (and adorable) experiments by Karen Adolph of NYU's Infant Action Lab has shattered this myth, revealing that while babies can learn from experiences near high ledges or narrow bridges, it's not a phobia they acquire.Produced by Luke Groskin Starring Derek Hough, Tessa Rose Confessore, and Clarabelle Kaufman Music by Audio Network Footage Stills and Additional Footage provided by Karen Adolph and the NYU Infant Action Lab, Eleanor Gibson and R.D. Walk KTCA Twin Cities Public Television Ira FlatowGlacier National Park (C.C. 3.0)
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Down to Earth: Mission Control Live! 10/11/24 SciFri 2024-10-12 | Each week of Down to Earth features a special online live event: Mission Control Live! These fun, interactive sessions are your chance to meet real experts and learn what it’s like to work in space science. Bring your questions and get ready to be inspired. Meet a veteran of the International Space Station! Special Guest Cady Coleman is a retired NASA astronaut and the author of "Sharing Space: An Astronaut’s Guide to Mission, Wonder, and Making Change." Learn what it takes to be a NASA astronaut. What do you want to know about living in space? - - - Send a question in advance at i1j7zijgb78.typeform.com/to/HnLhBrEO REGISTER FOR DOWN TO EARTH TO JOIN US on Oct. 11! https://forms.gle/JBYkiMvdqboLRbpL6 Find out more about the SciFri Down to Earth program: sciencefriday.com/downtoearth Got questions? Need disability or language accommodations? Send us an email at educate@sciencefriday.com. - - - This is a SciFri Educate event. Science Friday partners with educators and scientists to create free STEM activities, lessons, and resources for all learners. Learn more at http://www.sciencefriday.com/Educate
Down to Earth: Mission Control Live! 10/4/24 SciFri 2024-10-05 | Each week of Down to Earth features a special online live event: Mission Control Live! These fun, interactive sessions are your chance to meet real experts and learn what it’s like to work in space science. Bring your questions and get ready to be inspired. In our first Mission Control Live! we’ll meet special guest Dr. Michael Wong, an astrobiologist and planetary scientist at Carnegie Science’s Earth & Planets Laboratory. He studies planetary atmospheres, habitability, biosignatures, and the emergence of life across the Universe. What do you want to know about life beyond the Earth?Use our FREE graphic organizer to take notes: https://qrco.de/bfSR7y --- Send a question in advance at i1j7zijgb78.typeform.com/to/HnLhBrEO REGISTER FOR DOWN TO EARTH TO JOIN US on Oct. 4! https://forms.gle/JBYkiMvdqboLRbpL6 Find out more about the SciFri Down to Earth program: sciencefriday.com/downtoearth Got questions? Need disability or language accommodations? Send us an email at educate@sciencefriday.com. - - - This is a SciFri Educate event. Science Friday partners with educators and scientists to create free STEM activities, lessons, and resources for all learners. Learn more at http://www.sciencefriday.com/Educate
A Sand County Almanac: Expert Livestream and Q&A - #SciFriBookClub SciFri 2024-10-02 | Join us for our November SciFri Book Club livestream, all about A SAND COUNTY ALMANAC by Aldo Leopold. FEATURED GUESTS: - Curt Meine is a conservation biologist, environmental historian, and writer. He is the author of Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work, the first biography of Leopold, which received a number of awards and was reissued in 2010 after its original publication in 1988. He serves as Senior Fellow with the Aldo Leopold Foundation in Baraboo, Wisconsin. - Roberta L. Millstein is an Emerit Professor in the Department of Philosophy at UC Davis. Her research focuses on the philosophy of science, the history & philosophy of biology, and environmental ethics. Her book, The Land Is Our Community: Aldo Leopold's Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium, was published in 2024. - Buddy Huffaker is the executive director of the Aldo Leopold Foundation. His academic background is in landscape architecture and plant ecology, and he has helped grow the Foundation’s reach and impact for the last twenty-five years. - - - This is a #SciFriBookClub event, where attendees can hear from the author about topics related to our Book Club pick. Listeners talk with fellow attendees and ask questions to our guests via chat! Find out more about the SciFri Book Club: sciencefriday.com/scifri-book-club By RSVPing for this event, you are signing up for Science Friday's newsletter. You can opt out at any time.
Down To Earth: Space Science For Community Change SciFri 2024-09-25 | Use innovation from the International Space Station to solve real-world environmental challenges in your community.docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfScuhxi-o4FWxtnT6LSSgRw-2YTyQNEWzY6d2yyeMa1qVcEg/viewform
Down to Earth: Mission Control Live! 10/18/24 SciFri 2024-09-24 | Each week of Down to Earth features a special online live event: Mission Control Live! These fun, interactive sessions are your chance to meet real experts and learn what it’s like to work in space science. Bring your questions and get ready to be inspired. In addition to working on her PhD, astrobiologist Emilie Lafleche is also an analog astronaut. What’s that? Analog astronauts simulate multi-week Lunar and Martian missions so scientists can research the effects on humans and test technology before it’s launched into space. How do scientists prepare for space from Earth? - - - Send a question in advance at i1j7zijgb78.typeform.com/to/HnLhBrEO REGISTER FOR DOWN TO EARTH TO JOIN US on Oct. 18! https://forms.gle/JBYkiMvdqboLRbpL6 Find out more about the SciFri Down to Earth program: sciencefriday.com/downtoearth Got questions? Need disability or language accommodations? Send us an email at educate@sciencefriday.com. - - - This is a SciFri Educate event. Science Friday partners with educators and scientists to create free STEM activities, lessons, and resources for all learners. Learn more at http://www.sciencefriday.com/Educate
Down to Earth: Mission Control Live! 10/25/24 SciFri 2024-09-24 | Each week of Down to Earth features a special online live event: Mission Control Live! These fun, interactive sessions are your chance to meet real experts and learn what it’s like to work in space science. Bring your questions and get ready to be inspired. Dr. Julia Badger headed up the team that built Robonaut—a humanoid robot that helps humans explore space—for the ISS. Now, she’s the Autonomy and Vehicle Systems Manager (VSM) system manager for the Gateway program at NASA-Johnson Space Center, working to put our first space station in orbit around the Moon. How can robots make life better for humans everywhere in the Universe? - - - Send a question in advance at i1j7zijgb78.typeform.com/to/HnLhBrEO REGISTER FOR DOWN TO EARTH TO JOIN US on Oct. 25! https://forms.gle/JBYkiMvdqboLRbpL6 Find out more about the SciFri Down to Earth program: sciencefriday.com/downtoearth Got questions? Need disability or language accommodations? Send us an email at educate@sciencefriday.com. - - - This is a SciFri Educate event. Science Friday partners with educators and scientists to create free STEM activities, lessons, and resources for all learners. Learn more at http://www.sciencefriday.com/Educate
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How to detect forgeries of rare books and historical manuscripts. With: @rebecca.romney SciFri 2024-09-19 | ...
Forest Walking: Authors Livestream and Q&A - #SciFriBookClub SciFri 2024-09-19 | Unpredictable weather changes and an increase in heat waves have made it more difficult to stay safe outside recently—co-authors Peter Wohlleben and Jane Billinghurst are here to help! Hear from these experienced naturalists on how their book, Forest Walking: Discovering the Trees and Woodlands of North America, teaches readers to engage with their local forested areas in a deeper way. - - - This is a #SciFriBookClub event, where attendees can hear from the author about topics related to our Book Club pick. Listeners talk with fellow attendees and ask questions to our guests via chat! Find out more about the SciFri Book Club: sciencefriday.com/scifri-book-club By RSVPing for this event, you are signing up for Science Friday's newsletter. You can opt out at any time.
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Sometimes, a rare book is interesting because of who owned it in the past. With: @rebecca.romney SciFri 2024-09-12 | ...
Why science is based more on collaboration than individual geniuses. With @rebecca.romney SciFri 2024-08-29 | ...
The Invention of Nature: Author Livestream and Q&A - #SciFriBookClub SciFri 2024-08-29 | Who has a Brazilian river, Mexican mountain, glacier in Greenland, crater on the Moon, as well as four counties and 13 towns in the US named after him—although today, he’s largely forgotten? Meet globe-trekking explorer, scientist, and environmentalist Alexander von Humboldt. Join us for a conversation with author Andrea Wulf, a quest to put Humboldt back in the spotlight. - - - This is a #SciFriBookClub event, where attendees can hear from the author about topics related to our Book Club pick. Listeners talk with fellow attendees and ask questions to our guests via chat! Find out more about the SciFri Book Club: sciencefriday.com/scifri-book-club By RSVPing for this event, you are signing up for Science Friday's newsletter. You can opt out at any time.
What book from 1705 changed how the world saw insects and nature? With @rebecca.romney SciFri 2024-07-26 | ...
Brave the Wild River: Author Livestream and Q&A - #SciFriBookClub SciFri 2024-07-19 | Risk vs. reward are always at play for scientists—more so when you aim to chart the unknown botany of the perilous Colorado River in the 1930s. Join us for a conversation with science journalist Melissa L. Sevigny on the experience researching and recounting Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter’s harrowing adventure. - - - This is a #SciFriBookClub event, where attendees can hear from the author about topics related to our Book Club pick. Listeners talk with fellow attendees and ask questions to our guests via chat! Find out more about the SciFri Book Club: sciencefriday.com/scifri-book-club By RSVPing for this event, you are signing up for Science Friday's newsletter. You can opt out at any time.
The first edition of ‘Origin of Species’ does not include the word evolution with @rebecca.romney SciFri 2024-07-12 | ...
The Den That Octopus Built SciFri 2024-06-21 | Author Randi Sonenshine reads a sample of her new book. Learn more at: www.sciencefriday.com/educatewww.randisonenshine.com
Meet Grimalditeuthi a cephalopod that uses a tentacle to attract prey @MBARIvideo #CephalopodWeek SciFri 2024-06-18 | ...
Happy #CephalopodWeek. SciFri 2024-06-16 | To celebrate @sarahmackattack joins us to explore the wonders of squid skin.
