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Behind the Holiday: Mother's Day - Herstory 0
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Explore ethical and philosophical questions about the first "immortal" cell line with Exploratorium science writer Kevin Boyd. As visitors examine a microscope view of living HeLa cellsâthe first âimmortalâ cell lineâthey explore ethical and philosophical questions about these historic an
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(May 19, 2010) Professor Robert Sapolsky gives what he calls "one of the most difficult lectures of the course" about chaos and reductionism. He references a book that he assigned to his students. This lecture focuses on reduction science and breaking things down to their component parts i
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O'Reilly Webcast: Cyborg Anthropology: A Short Introduction
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Sometime in the 1980s, Caspar Salmon's grandmother was invited to a gathering on the Welsh island of Anglesey, attended exclusively by people with fish surnames. Or so he says. Thirty years later, filmmaker Charlie Lyne attempts to sort myth from reality as he searches for the truth behind
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