06/05/2002
Dr. Bortrum
Goodbye, Annie
A farewell to a remarkable woman
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05/30/2002
Dr. Bortrum
Lightning and Chatting with Ben
Franklin''s kite flying is 250 years old
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05/23/2002
Dr. Bortrum
Foul Shots
Simple physics explains poor free throw performance in the NBA
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05/16/2002
Dr. Bortrum
Defending Ourselves from Asteroids
The Yarkovsky effect and nudging an asteroid off course
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05/09/2002
Dr. Bortrum
World-Ending Scenarios
The dinosaur extinction and lessons for our own survival
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05/02/2002
Dr. Bortrum
Confused Honeybees
Honeybee communication skills altered by clever tunnel builders
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04/25/2002
Dr. Bortrum
Truly
Has a new kind of star been found made of quarks? Possibly.
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04/18/2002
Dr. Bortrum
Nitric Oxide, Hat Birds and Scriabin
A potpourri of strange behaviors plus NO to the rescue
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04/11/2002
Dr. Bortrum
Memories
Medical stents and underwire bras incorporate shape-memory alloys
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04/04/2002
Dr. Bortrum
Unsolved Southwest Florida Mysteries
Flipping horseshoe crabs and the mystery of black water
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03/27/2002
Dr. Bortrum
Survival Under Pressure
Bacterial survivors of high pressure squeezing
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03/21/2002
Dr. Bortrum
Frisky Fusing Bubbles?
Are the claims of "bubble fusion" real? Some say yes, some say no.
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03/14/2002
Dr. Bortrum
A Really Big Free Lunch
Inflation explains the origin of everything - creating a universe out of nothing
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03/07/2002
Dr. Bortrum
Can You Count to 60?
Richard Feynman, postponing the Columbia launch and counting from 1 to 60
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02/28/2002
Dr. Bortrum
Twisted Minds and Mirrors
Adaptive optics uses flexible mirrors to sharpen telescopic images
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