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Oct. 07, 2011
Video Pick: Mapping Flames
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| Tadd Truscott and Dale Tree, engineers at Brigham Young University, are videoing fire with high speed cameras to try to make a 3D reconstruction of a flame. Poetic and practical, they say: quantifying flames could help us burn fuel more cleanly and efficiently. |
Produced by Flora Lichtman, Correspondent and Managing Editor, Video
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Flora Lichtman
Author, "Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us" (Wiley, 2011)
Multimedia Editor,
NPR's Science Friday
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