Flora Lichtman is host of The Adaptors podcast and former SciFri multimedia producer in New York, New York.
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Field Trip to a Fungi Foray
This convention is for mushrooms and the people who love them.
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To The Bat Cave!
Bat biologist Nickolay Hristov, of UNC’s Center for Design Innovation and Winston-Salem State University, develops new techniques for filming and visualizing bats.
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Tour A Bat Cave
Nickolay Hristov uses a long-range laser scanner and portable thermal cameras to see bats in new ways.
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Unwinding the Cucumber Tendril Mystery
Plants may be stationary, but they're rarely still, says biologist Roger Hangarter, creator of the website Plants in Motion.
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Unwinding the Cucumber Tendril Mystery
Researchers use time-lapse photography and a prosthetic plant to understand why cucumber tendrils twist.
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Science of Good Dancing
Evolutionary psychologist Nick Neave filmed men dancing, converted the videos into dancing avatars and asked women to rate the avatars' dancing ability.
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Poop and Paddle
This toilet floats. It's an outhouse and sewage-treatment plant in one.
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Martian Lab Made in Manhattan
What's it like to build tools for Curiosity? Intense.
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SciFri Book Club Talks ‘Monkey Mind’
Peer into the anxious mind of writer Daniel Smith with the SciFri Book Club.