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SciTech Now: Infrastructure
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Reporter Andrea Vasquez takes us inside the offices of Etsy, a company that is changing the way handcrafted goods are bought and sold. We sit down with Professor Ari Juels, of Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, and discuss the state of cyber security. We go down to the intricate St. Louis sewer system and see how the city plans to update the underground tunnels. And professionals at Columbia University are working to uncover the vast mysteries of the human brain and treatments for neurological diseases.

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Career and Technical Education
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Technology and Engineering Education
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Utah Education Network
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SciTech Now
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MMG Tech Initiative
Date Added:
10/20/2010
SciTech Now: Innovation through Play
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Do you love to play video games? We head to New York University Polytechnic School’s Game Innovation Lab and take a look at the ever-changing gaming industry. We sit down with Joanna Stern of the Wall Street Journal and discuss today’s wearable devices. We chat with David Hose; co-founder of Soundwall. And curator Ross MacPhee of the American Museum of Natural History takes us on an adventure-exploring moose in the wild.

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Career and Technical Education
Science
Technology and Engineering Education
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Utah Education Network
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SciTech Now
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MMG Tech Initiative
Date Added:
10/20/2010
SciTech Now: Insect Flight
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It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s an insect! We go inside the lab at Pennsylvania State University where high-speed cameras are used to understand the mechanics of insect flight. Science author and self-proclaimed science evangelist, Ainissa Ramirez, explains how plants know which way is up. We take a look at the science behind yawning. And we visit a sustainable cemetery inside a nature preserve.

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Career and Technical Education
Health Science Education
Science
Technology and Engineering Education
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Utah Education Network
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SciTech Now
Author:
MMG Tech Initiative
Date Added:
10/20/2010
SciTech Now: Invisibility Cloak (Segment)
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In this clip from "SciTech Now, scientist author and self-proclaimed science evangelist, Ainissa Ramirez, shares with us how invisibility cloaks may be more than science fiction.

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Career and Technical Education
Science
Technology and Engineering Education
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Utah Education Network
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SciTech Now
Author:
MMG Tech Initiative
Date Added:
10/20/2010
SciTech Now: IssueVoter
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We discover a wheelchair, created by a choreographer, that allows dancers with disabilities to move in new directions. Maria Yuan, found and CEO of IssueVoter, shares how her online platform uses tech to promote civic engagements. We go behind the scenes at a biotech company where spider DNA is used to alter silkworms to produce spider silk. And we look at the science behind making a great beer.

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Career and Technical Education
Health Science Education
Science
Technology and Engineering Education
Provider:
Utah Education Network
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SciTech Now
Author:
MMG Tech Initiative
Date Added:
10/20/2010
SciTech Now: Jennifer French (Segment)
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In this clip from SciTech Now, we see how electrodes implanted on athlete Jennifer French’s muscles are helping her compete once again and take home a silver medal from the U.S. Paralympics.

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Career and Technical Education
Science
Technology and Engineering Education
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Utah Education Network
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SciTech Now
Author:
MMG Tech Initiative
Date Added:
10/20/2010
SciTech Now: Job Hunting
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We look at a few of the invasive species affecting and harming Florida’s ecosystem. We discover how job search engines are taking a hint from dating, gaming and social media websites to find what might be missing from paper applications in our technological age. Planetary Physicist Phil Metzger discusses the future of Mars exploration and how the Mars Generation may helps us get there. And we go behind the scenes at the American Museum of Natural History to learn all about dinosaur fossils.

Subject:
Career and Technical Education
Science
Technology and Engineering Education
Provider:
Utah Education Network
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SciTech Now
Author:
MMG Tech Initiative
Date Added:
10/20/2010