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Science

Mayo Clinic tests new smallpox vaccine

In Rochester, Mayo Clinic staff are currently working on what they believe may be a new safer smallpox vaccination. They are the only researchers in the US conducting tests on humans.

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Are high-tech gadgets too much of a good thing?

You can buy computerized toasters and cell phones with cameras. Sophisticated technology creeps into lots of things that weren't so complicated before.

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Jane Goodall

An encore broadcast with Jane Goodall, the world's foremost authority on and passionate advocate for chimpanzees. A new IMAX film about her is currently showing at the Science Museum of Minnesota. Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees traces Goodall's work with the chimpanzees of Gombe National Park in Tanzania.

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Science and Being

MPR's First Person explores the fascinating, expanding conversation between science and religion. How do science and religion inform our understanding of what it means to be human? What does this mean for a cancer researcher who is also a Talmud scholar, a computer scientist who is also a theologian, and an Anglican priest who is also a geneticist?

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Tuning Weber Music Hall

The University of Minnesota-Duluth's new Weber Music Hall was designed for near perfect acoustics. An acoustician's fine tuning makes it perfect.

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Driving with gas; hydrogen, that is.

Is hydrogen the fuel that will help us kick our dependence on foreign oil? The world's major car companies are in a race. They are trying to get models powered by hydrogen fuel cells to showrooms as early as next year.

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Feedlot "encyclopedia" hits the shelves

Work is almost complete on what may be the largest study ever attempted of animal feedlots. Minnesota farmers, government officials, and environmental groups all had a role in designing the report, which has taken four years and cost $3 million.

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Health Department plan to collect medical records creates privacy concerns

The Minnesota Department of Health is planning to gather more data from individual medical records for use in tracking the spread of diseases and how they're treated in the state. But privacy advocates fear the information could be misused.

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School districts launch cyber charters

Two Minnesota school districts are launching unique online learning programs this week. Hopkins and Chisago Lakes have broken new ground by creating cyber charter schools within their districts to deliver instruction to some students over the Internet instead of traditional classrooms.

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