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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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October 2009	Title	September 2009	Title	August 2009	Title
10/6	Swine Flu Basics	9/1	Cataracts	8/4	String Theory
10/8	Swine Flu Vaccine	9/3	Yawning	8/6	Spirit and Opportunity Mars Rovers
10/13	What's Entomaphagy?	9/8	Trans Fat	8/11	Fly Antena
10/15	Accidental Penicillin Find	9/10	Mars Phoenix Craft	8/13	Neanderthals
10/20	Science Teachers	9/15	Five Dollar Bill Security	8/18	Stem Cell Politics
10/22	Two Nature Poems	9/17	Tattoos	8/20	Piltdown Skull
10/27	Sudden Brilliant Thoughts	9/22	Vitamins	8/25	Atomic Clock
10/29	Regeneration	9/24	Bagels with Poem	8/27	Refrigerators
		9/29	BMI

July 2009	Title	June 2009	Title	May 2009	Title
7/2	Large Handron Collider	6/2	Bottled Water	5/1	Hibernation
7/7	Mercury	6/4	Dark Matter Observations	5/5	Fingerprints
7/9	Lucy	6/9	Frontiers of Science	5/7	Pandemics
7/14	Missing Link	6/11	Defining Consciousness	5/12	Bacteria Resistance
7/16	Silicon	6/16	Dolly Cloning	5/14	INDY Gene
7/21	Smaller Than Atoms	6/18	Worlds Oldest Person	5/19	52 Super Foods
7/23	Social Bees	6/23	Earth Like Planet	5/21	Living Long
7/28	Stingrays	6/25	Earthworms	5/26	Time Zones
7/30	Story Mustgrave, Astronaut	6/30	el Nino, la Nina	5/28	Hybrid Cars

April 2009	Title	March 2009	Title	February 2009	Title
4/2	Fingerprints	3/3	52 Super foods	2/3	How a refrigerator works
4/7	Lincoln's Health	3/5	Adult Neurogenesis	2/5	Yawning
4/9	Syracuse's Salt History	3/10	Darwin's Birthday	2/10	Trans fats
4/14	The Spanish Flu	3/12	Five Dollar Bill Security	2/12	Candy
4/16	Daylight Saving Time	3/17	Redback Spiders l	2/17	Atomic Clock
4/21	DNA Day	3/19	Velcro Invention	2/19	Cataracts
4/23	The Dark Side of the Moon	3/24	DNA Fingerprint	2/24	DNA sequencing
4/28	Silly Putty	3/26	Mars Phoenix Craft	2/26	Hibernation
4/30	Bee Shortage	3/31	Darwin's and Lincoln's Birthdays

January 2009	Title	December 2008	Title	November 2008	Title
1/1	N/A	12/2	Metric system	11/4	Hadron Collider
1/6	Urine to Water	12/4	Metric system 2	11/6	Onondaga Lake
1/8	Space Shuttle Disasters	12/9	Mauvine	11/11	Leaf Color
1/13	Fruit Fly Reproduction	12/11	Fruit Flies	11/13	Teachers
1/15	Scientific Method	12/16	Pigeon Courtship	11/18	Solar Panels
1/20	Blowflies	12/18	How Flies Fly	11/20	Lice
1/22	Spacecraft Assembly	12/23	Christmas Trees	11/25	Cuica
1/27	Blowflies and Forensics	12/25	N/A	11/27	Cloning
		12/30	Antibiotic Resistance

October 2008	Title	September 2008	Title	August 2008	Title
10/2	Fireflies	9/2	Hand Washing	8/5	Pandas
10/7	Black Holes	9/4	Oil	8/7	Wildfires
10/9	Weather Vocabulary	9/9	Green Lakes State Park	8/12	Colony Collapse Disorder
10/14	A History of Flight	9/11	Cloud Seeding	8/14	Acupuncture
10/16	Wright Brothers	9/16	Chopin's Heart	8/19	Insects
10/21	Beta Cells and Insulin	9/18	Hoover Dam	8/21	White Nose Syndrome
10/23	Anthrax	9/23	Tasmanian Tiger	8/26	Plastics
10/28	Fireflies	9/25	Grand Canyon	8/28	Entomophagy
10/30	Hepatitis	9/30	Lazarus taxon

July 2008	Title	June 2008	Title	May 2008	Title
7/1	Asian Tiger Mosquito	6/3	Acne	5/1	Cellulosic Ethanol
7/3	Greenhouse Gases	6/5	Fat Cells	5/6	Soap
7/8	Sleep and Memory	6/10	Galaxies	5/8	Polio
7/10	Antibiotics and Bacteria	6/12	Cancer	5/13	Halley's Comet
7/15	Barcodes	6/17	Earthquakes	5/15	Sickle Cell
7/17	Hubble Telescope	6/19	Dinosaurs	5/20	Smallpox & Polio
7/22	Electron Microscopes	6/24	DEET	5/22	Keplar Spacecraft
7/24	Diabetes	6/26	Cane Toads	5/27	Morgan Genetics
7/29	Coelacanth			5/29	Cellulosic Ethanol
7/31	Mars

April 2008	Title	March 2008	Title	February 2008	Title
4/1	Leap Year	3/4	Cockroaches	2/5	Cockroaches
4/3	Genetics	3/6	Bridges	2/7	Eclipses
4/8	Mercury	3/11	Macular Degeneration	2/12	Extinction
4/10	Genetic Therapy	3/13	Mass Extinction	2/14	Francis Crick
4/15	Buck Rogers	3/18	Nuclear Power	2/19	James Watson Remarks
4/17	Ethanol	3/20	Plant Defenses	2/21	Lies
4/22	Jupiter	3/25	Superconductivity	2/26	Radio Waves
4/24	Water	3/27	TIMMS	2/28	Skunk
4/29	Whirling Disease

January 2008	Title	December 2007	Title	November 2007	Title
1/1	Woodpeckers	12/4	Trans Fat	11/1	DNA Sequencing
1/3	Cataracts	12/6	Space Repairs	11/6	Bacteria Resistance
1/8	DNA Ethics	12/11	Joan of Arc	11/8	Fungus Among Us
1/10	Bottled Water	12/13	Plastics	11/13	Honey Bee Shortage
1/15	DNA Scientists	12/18	Hurricanes	11/15	Mercury
1/17	Junk DNA	12/20	Christmas Trees	11/20	How a Refrigerator Works
1/22	Pandemics	12/25	(No Program)	11/22	Golden Rice
1/24	Tattoos	12/27	Venter Genome	11/27	TB
1/29	Wireless Lans			11/29	Wine
1/31	Vitamins

October 2007	Title	September 2007	Title	August 2007	Title
10/2	Africa Trip	9/4	Story Mustgrave Astronaut	8/2	Lucy Skeleton Tour
10/4	Atomic Clock	9/6	Sunscreen	8/7	Microwave Ovens
10/9	Bottled Water	9/11	Thanks to Animal Research	8/9	Playing Dead
10/11	Bear Bile	9/13	Valentines	8/14	Poisonous Animals & Plants
10/16	Elephants	9/18	Yawning	8/16	Silicon
10/18	Black Flies	9/20	Hybrid Cars	8/21	Smaller Than Atoms
10/23	Earthworms	9/25	Arctic Ice Melting	8/23	Spirit & Opportunity Mars Rovers
10/25	BMI	9/27	Bacteria	8/28	Stem Cell Breakthrough
10/30	Dark Matter			8/30	Stem Cell Funding

July 2007	Title	June 2007	Title	May 2007	Title
7/3	Fearless Mice	6/5	Bagels	5/1	Animal Planning
7/5	First DNA Conviction	6/7	Darwin and Mendle	5/3	Arctic Ice Melting
7/10	Goosebumps	6/12	Defining Consciousness	5/8	Bacteria Everywhere
7/12	Honey Bee Genome	6/14	Dolly Cloning	5/10	Darwin Publishing
7/17	Human Genome Proteins	6/19	Drug Side Effects	5/15	Dolly Cloning
7/19	Hwang Fake Cloning	6/21	Earth Like Planet	5/17	Fermets Last Theorem
7/24	Joan of Arc Fraud	6/26	El Nino, La Nina	5/22	Gyro Pitch
7/26	KTV Japan Fraud	6/28	Exercise & Brain Cells	5/24	Homeopathy
7/31	Large Handron Collider			5/29	Hybrid Cars
				5/31	Lightning & Thunder

April 2007	Title	March 2007	Title	February 2007	Title
4/3	Mars Rovers	3/1	El Nino, La Nina	2/1	Silicon
4/5	Honey Bee Genome	3/6	Lucy Skeleton Tour	2/6	Goose Bumps
4/10	Story Mustgrave	3/8	Sunscreen	2/8	Playing Dead
4/12	Human Genome Proteins	3/13	Thanks to Animal Research	2/13	Valentines Day
4/17	Large Handron Collider	3/15	Microwave Ovens	2/15	Bagels
4/19	Smaller Than Atoms	3/20	First DNA Conviction	2/20	Hwang Fake Cloning
4/24	Dolly Cloning	3/22	Poisonous Animals & Plants	2/22	Fearless Mice
4/26	Exercise & Brain Cells	3/27	Stem Cell Funding	2/27	Stem Cell Breakthrough
		3/29	Yawning

January 2007	Title
1/2	Social Bees
1/4	String Theory
1/9	Neanderthals
1/11	Hair
1/16	Lucy
1/18	Missing Link
1/23	Stingrays
1/25	Norovirus
1/30	Lake Effect


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