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Nuts and bolts history

Inventions like the cotton gin and the light bulb have changed history, but textbooks usually reserve mention to small paragraphs at the sides of pages. The authors of a new textbook use the discovery and evolution of inventions large and small as a way to explain how America became the nation it is today.

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PRT pulls into the station

A prototype personal rapid transit system is being built in Fridley.

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The night sky

If you love looking at stars, you'll want to brave the winter cold. Skies are clearer, nights are longer. Find out how to find Venus, Jupiter and Saturn, as well as when to catch the next lunar eclipses.

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Universal theories

There are two basic questions today's physicists are trying to solve: "What is the universe made of?" and "How does the universe work?" . The answers scientists are coming up with seem crazy today but may end up as scientific truths tomorrow.

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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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