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Science On The Radio
Tuesday & Thursday at 2:30 PM & 9:30 PM

Dr. Marvin Druger

How does a ball point pen work? What does science have to do with Valentine's Day? What's different about Einstein's brain? Listeners will learn the answers to these questions and many more when they tune into "Science on the Radio," a 90-second science information segment featuring Marvin Druger, chair of the Department of Science Teaching and professor of biology and science education at Syracuse University.

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September 2010 Title   August 2010 Title   July 2010 Title
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9/28     8/26     7/27  
9/30     8/31     7/29  

 

June 2010 Title   May 2010 Title   April 2010 Title
6/1 Neurogenesis   5/4 Weather Basics   4/1 Weather Basics
6/3 How GPS Works   5/6 Finger Lakes History   4/6 Finger Lakes History
6/8 Ivory Billed Woodpecker   5/11 Einsteins Brain   4/8 FMRIs and Telling Lies
6/10 Hela Cells   5/13 LHC Secrets of the Universe   4/13 Two Nature Poems
6/15 Thalidomide uses   5/18 Druger Technology poem   4/15

Science Teachers
6/17 Science Teaching Methods   5/20 Eraticating Disease   4/20 Regeneration
6/22 Human Origins   5/25 Spring Poem   4/22 Squirrels
6/24 Nano Technology   5/27 Earthlike GJ1214B   4/27 The Planet Corot B7
6/29 Alzheimer's II         4/29 How Cheese is Made

 

March 2010 Title   February 2010 Title   January 2010 Title
3/2 Surviving the Winter   2/2 Chipmunk's Winter Lives   1/5 Science Teachers
3/4 Hubble History   2/4 Asian Carp   1/7 Sudden Brilliant Thoughts
3/9 Zebra Mussels   2/9 Moon L-Cross Probe   1/12 Accidental Pennicilin find
3/11 Earthquake Origins   2/11 Moon Water   1/14 Regeneration
3/16 Journal Fabrication Test   2/16 Obama and Stem Cells   1/19 FMRIs and telling lies
3/18 Mars Rovers Still Going   2/18 Hydrofracking   1/21 The Planet CorotB7
3/23 Science Teaching Crisis   2/23 Off Shore Drilling   1/26 Weather Basics
3/25 Finger Lakes History   2/25

Lamarck Bio

   1/28 Finger Lakes History
3/30 How Cheese is Made            

 

December 2009 Title   November 2009 Title   October 2009 Title
12/1 Swine Flu Basics   11/3 2009 Nobel Prize Winners   10/6

Swine Flu Basics
12/3 How Cheese is made   11/5 Finger Lakes History   10/8 Swine Flu Vaccine
12/8 Squirrels   11/10 Moon Rocket Crash   10/13 What's Entomaphagy?
12/10 Search for Extra Terrestrial Life   11/12 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine   10/15 Accidental Penicillin Find
12/15 Christmas Trees   11/17 Weather Basics   10/20

Science Teachers
12/17

Peanut Allergies

   11/19 The Planet Corot B7   10/22 Two Nature Poems
12/22 Heron Island Great Barrier Reef   11/24 Two Poems   10/27 Sudden Brilliant Thoughts
12/24 N/A   11/26 FMRIs and Telling Lies   10/29 Regeneration
12/29 Antibiotic Resistance            
12/31 N/A            

 

September 2009 Title   August 2009 Title   July 2009 Title
9/1 Cataracts   8/4 String Theory   7/2 Large Handron Collider
9/3 Yawning   8/6 Spirit and Opportunity Mars Rovers   7/7 Mercury
9/8 Trans Fat   8/11 Fly Antenna   7/9 Lucy
9/10 Mars Phoenix Craft   8/13 Neanderthals   7/14 Missing Link
9/15 Five Dollar Bill Security   8/18 Stem Cell Politics   7/16 Silicon
9/17 Tattoos   8/20 Piltdown Skull   7/21 Smaller Than Atoms
9/22 Vitamins   8/25 Atomic Clock   7/23 Social Bees
9/24 Bagels with Poem   8/27 Refrigerators   7/28 Stingrays
9/29 BMI         7/30 Story Musgrave, Astronaut

 

June 2009 Title   May 2009 Title   April 2009 Title
6/2 Bottled Water   5/1 Hibernation   4/2 Fingerprints
6/4 Dark Matter Observations   5/5 Fingerprints   4/7 Lincoln's Health
6/9 Frontiers of Science   5/7 Pandemics   4/9 Syracuse's Salt History
6/11 Defining Consciousness   5/12 Bacteria Resistance   4/14 The Spanish Flu
6/16 Dolly Cloning   5/14 INDY Gene   4/16 Daylight Saving Time
6/18 Worlds Oldest Person   5/19 52 Super Foods   4/21 DNA Day
6/23 Earth Like Planet   5/21 Living Long   4/23 The Dark Side of the Moon
6/25 Earthworms   5/26 Time Zones   4/28 Silly Putty
6/30 el Nino, la Nina   5/28 Hybrid Cars   4/30 Bee Shortage

 

March 2009 Title   February 2009 Title   January 2009 Title
3/3 52 Super foods   2/3 How a refrigerator works   1/1 N/A
3/5 Adult Neurogenesis   2/5 Yawning   1/6 Urine to Water
3/10 Darwin's Birthday   2/10 Trans fats   1/8 Space Shuttle Disasters
3/12 Five Dollar Bill Security   2/12 Candy   1/13 Fruit Fly Reproduction
3/17 Redback Spiders l   2/17 Atomic Clock   1/15 Scientific Method
3/19 Velcro Invention   2/19 Cataracts   1/20 Blowflies
3/24 DNA Fingerprint   2/24 DNA sequencing   1/22 Spacecraft Assembly
3/26 Mars Phoenix Craft   2/26 Hibernation   1/27 Blowflies and Forensics
3/31 Darwin's and Lincoln's Birthdays            

 

 
 

 

  

 
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