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How do astronomers photograph a black hole? How often do planes get hit by lightning? What does the EPA actually do? Science is all around us and transforming our world at a rapid pace. Extragalactic astrophysicist Sabrina Stierwalt is here to guide you through it. She’ll help you make sense of the everyday and the once-in-a-lifetime. Rights of Albert Einstein are used with permission of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Represented exclusively by Greenlight.

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277 - 5 Simple Ways to Boost Our Intelligence Mar 20, 2018

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Popular media is full of suggestions on how to improve our brain health and cognition. But can we really boost our intelligence?
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206 EE Why and How Do Smells Trigger Memories? Mar 12, 2018

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276 - How Do We Find Exoplanets? Mar 05, 2018

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Astronomers have found more than 3700 worlds outside of our solar system in the past 25 years. How do they find them?
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275 - How Close is Too Close to Live by the Highway? Feb 26, 2018

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More and more people are living, working, and going to school close to the freeway. But how close is too close?
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274 - Lessons on Early Aviation with Bessie Coleman Feb 19, 2018

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Bessie Coleman paved the way as the first black and Native American woman to earn a pilot's license in 1921. What was flying like back then?
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273 - The Physics of Figure Skating Feb 12, 2018

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Although figure skaters make their sport look easy, executing the perfect jump requires a precise combination of speed, force, vertical velocity, angular momentum, friction and of course timing. How do these crucial pieces work together to create the perfect loop, flip, salchow, axel or lutz?
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271 - How Does Sand Get Its Color? Jan 29, 2018

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Whether it’s white, black, pink, red, or even green, the color of sand provides clues as to its makeup and offers a peek into the beach’s history.
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270 - How Can Science Combat the Opioid Crisis? Jan 22, 2018

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How do opioids work and who is at risk for an opioid addiction? What opioid addiction treatments are more effective and can we vaccinate against addiction?
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269 - How Do We Measure Time? 5+ Innovative Ways Jan 15, 2018

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How do we measure time? How accurate are today’s clocks relative to the first clocks of ancient times? And what is the definition of a second?
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268 - Is Chocolate Really Going Extinct? Jan 08, 2018

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Recent science news suggests we could be without chocolate as early as the year 2050. But is there really cause for alarm? How can we separate fact from fiction when it comes to science reporting?
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