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Leyla Acaroglu busts common environmental myths 

Busting environmental myths such as the often debated question: paper or plastic?

How do we know we’re making the right ecological choices? Sustainability strategist Leyla Acaroglu has been working to answer this question. She joins reporter Andrea Vasquez to bust a few common eco myths.

Tour a vast collection of early medical devices 

A unique collection of scientific and medical devices from decades past sheds light on innovations old and new.

For more than 30 years, Steve Erenberg has collected early scientific and medical objects and instruments. Erenberg’s store and museum in Peekskill, New York, is packed with Victorian medical masks, surreal anatomical models and long forgotten devices.

A Matter of Fact: Tardigrades 

Can scientists revive frozen life?

Teachers bring new technology into the classroom 

Teaching teachers how to integrate new technologies into the classroom.

With tablets, smart boards and 3D printers, technology plays in increasingly important role in schools. The Creative Technology Program at Columbia University’s Teachers College trains future educators on how to bring tech into art class. Reporter Andrea Vasquez sat in on a class and found out that it’s not about replacing canvas with screens, but adding to students’ artistic arsenals. Our story is part of American Graduate, a project made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to help local communities find ways to keep students on the path to graduation.

Can ants and mold slime explain collective human behavior? 

How might ants and slime mold help us understand collective human behavior?

For Simon Garnier of the New Jersey Institute of Technology, traffic on the New Jersey Turnpike has become an opportunity to ponder human inefficiency. Garnier is studying ants and slime mold in order to better understand collective human behavior.

Happy birthday to fossil collector and paleontologist, Mary Anning (1799 - 1847)! 

How do snowflakes form? 

Learn how snowflakes form and why they have 6 sides.

Scientist and author Ainissa Ramirez joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss one of her latest podcast episodes, “Why Snowflakes Have 6 Sides.”

A Matter of Fact: Tarantulas 

In early 2016, scientists discovered 14 new species of American tarantulas.