Mathematical Moments from the American Mathematical Society

Mathematical Moments from the American Mathematical Society

112 episodes

Mathematical Moments promote an appreciation and understanding of the role mathematics plays in science, nature, technology, and human culture. Hear experts talk about how they use mathematics in various applications from improving film animation to analyzing voting strategies.

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Explaining Wildfires Through Curvature

Published: Oct. 17, 2023, 2:33 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 57 seconds

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Bridges and Wheels, Tricycles and Squares

Published: Oct. 13, 2023, 2:33 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 57 seconds

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Bringing Photographs to Life

Published: July 13, 2023, 3:49 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 57 seconds

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Giving Health Care Policy a Dose of Mathematics

Published: April 5, 2023, 2:49 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 31 seconds

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Using Math to Support Cancer Research

Published: Dec. 29, 2022, 6:39 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 15 seconds

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Keeping the Lights On

Published: Nov. 15, 2022, 2:38 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 39 seconds

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Driving Up Air Pollution

Published: June 28, 2022, 2:38 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 24 seconds

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Deblurring Images

Published: May 19, 2022, 2:38 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 44 seconds

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Exploring Thermodynamics with Billiards

Published: Feb. 14, 2022, 6:38 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 36 seconds

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Pinpointing How Genes Interact

Published: Oct. 21, 2021, 6:38 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 29 seconds

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Securing Data in the Quantum Era

Published: Sept. 1, 2021, 6:38 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 53 seconds

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Taking the "Temperature" of Languages

Published: July 6, 2021, 6:38 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 39 seconds

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Doing the Math

Published: May 24, 2021, 6:38 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 11 seconds

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Making Room for Patients

Published: April 26, 2021, 6:38 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 26 seconds

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Fighting Fires

Published: March 22, 2021, 6:38 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 6 seconds

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Describing Dryland Vegetation Patterns

Published: Feb. 22, 2021, 6:38 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 31 seconds

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Mixing Math and Cooking

Published: Jan. 25, 2021, 6:38 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 53 seconds

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Cracking Open Black Boxes

Published: Jan. 27, 2020, 6:38 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 12 seconds

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Solving the Mystery of the Wine Legs

Published: Oct. 21, 2019, 6:38 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 3 seconds

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Picturing Powehi

Published: Sept. 23, 2019, 6:38 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Unmasking Deepfakes

Published: Sept. 23, 2019, 6:35 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Making Beautiful Mathematics

Published: Sept. 23, 2019, 6:31 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Keeping People Alive Part 2

Published: Aug. 19, 2019, 7:23 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Keeping People Alive Part 1

Published: Aug. 19, 2019, 7:20 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Making the Earth Flat

Published: June 12, 2019, 5:34 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Screening for Autism

Published: June 10, 2019, 5:31 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Unbunching Buses

Published: June 9, 2019, 5:24 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Winning the Race

Published: June 2, 2019, 5:16 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Revolutionizing and Industry

Published: Sept. 17, 2018, 6:03 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Going Into a Shell

Published: Sept. 17, 2018, 6:01 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Keeping the Roof On

Published: Sept. 17, 2018, 5:55 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Scoring with New Thinking

Published: Sept. 17, 2018, 5:52 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Generating Patterns Part 2

Published: Aug. 22, 2017, 7:07 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Generating Patterns Part 1

Published: Aug. 22, 2017, 7:01 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Hunting for Planets

Published: Aug. 22, 2017, 6:57 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Designing Better Bicycles

Published: May 10, 2017, 6:50 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Maintaining a Balance Part 2

Published: Oct. 11, 2016, 5:26 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Maintaining a Balance Part 1

Published: Oct. 11, 2016, 5:24 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Trimming Taxiing Time

Published: Oct. 11, 2016, 5:20 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Making Art Work

Published: Oct. 11, 2016, 5:17 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Explaining Rainbows

Published: Oct. 11, 2016, 5:15 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Farming Better

Published: Oct. 11, 2016, 5:10 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Dis-playing the Game of Thrones: Part 2

Published: June 9, 2016, 7:05 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Dis-playing the Game of Thrones: Part 1

Published: June 9, 2016, 7:01 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Thwarting Poachers: Part 2

Published: June 9, 2016, 6:55 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Thwarting Poachers: Part 1

Published: June 9, 2016, 6:49 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Working With the System: Part 2

Published: Oct. 5, 2015, 2:53 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Working With the System: Part 1

Published: Oct. 5, 2015, 2:49 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Scanning Ancient Sites

Published: Oct. 5, 2015, 2:47 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Piling On and on and on

Published: Oct. 5, 2015, 2:45 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Adding a New Wrinkle Description

Published: Oct. 5, 2015, 2:42 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Holding the Lead Description

Published: Oct. 5, 2015, 1:08 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Going Over the Top - Designing roller coasters

Published: Dec. 3, 2014, 4 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Treating Tremors - Helping with Parkinson's disease - Part 2

Published: Dec. 3, 2014, 3:52 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Going Back to the Beginning - The Big Bang

Published: Dec. 3, 2014, 2:43 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Providing Power

Published: Dec. 3, 2014, 2:32 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Being Knotty: Part 1

Published: Sept. 15, 2014, 5:44 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 20 seconds

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Exploiting a Little-Known Force: Part 1

Published: Sept. 15, 2014, 5:43 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Exploiting a Little-Known Force: Part 2

Published: Sept. 15, 2014, 5:38 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Being Knotty: Part 2

Published: Sept. 15, 2014, 5:29 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 20 seconds

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Scheduling Sports

Published: June 9, 2014, 2:45 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 20 seconds

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Unifying Diverse Cities: Part 1

Published: Dec. 9, 2013, 6:49 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 50 seconds

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Making an Attitude Adjustment: Part 1

Published: Dec. 9, 2013, 6:46 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 50 seconds

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Making an Attitude Adjustment: Part 2

Published: Sept. 18, 2013, 5:21 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 50 seconds

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Unifying Diverse Cities: Part 2

Published: Sept. 18, 2013, 5:18 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 50 seconds

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Getting Inside Your Head - The brain's communication pathways: Part 2

Published: Sept. 18, 2013, 5:05 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 50 seconds

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Thinking Outside the Box Score - Math and basketball: Part 2

Published: Sept. 18, 2013, 5 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 50 seconds

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Working Up a Lather : Part 4

Published: Aug. 20, 2013, 6:37 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 50 seconds

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Working Up a Lather : Part 3

Published: Aug. 20, 2013, 6:36 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 50 seconds

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Working Up a Lather : Part 2

Published: Aug. 20, 2013, 6:34 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 50 seconds

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Working Up a Lather : Part 1

Published: Aug. 20, 2013, 6:30 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 50 seconds

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Freeing Up Architecture: Part 2

Published: July 25, 2013, 7:18 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 50 seconds

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Freeing Up Architecture: Part 1

Published: July 25, 2013, 7:10 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 50 seconds

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Describing the Oceans

Published: Oct. 1, 2012, 2:25 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 58 seconds

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Finding Friends: Part 2

Published: Oct. 1, 2012, 2:14 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 45 seconds

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Finding Friends: Part 1

Published: Oct. 1, 2012, 2:02 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 45 seconds

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Catching and Releasing: Part 2

Published: Oct. 1, 2012, 1:46 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 25 seconds

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Catching and Releasing: Part 1

Published: Oct. 1, 2012, 1:21 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 15 seconds

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Putting the auto in automobile

Published: Aug. 22, 2012, 2:48 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 12 seconds

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Forecasting Crime Part 2

Published: Aug. 21, 2012, 1:53 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 12 seconds

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Forecasting Crime Part 1

Published: Aug. 21, 2012, 1:49 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 12 seconds

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Being on the Cutting Edge

Published: June 15, 2012, 7:56 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 12 seconds

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Getting a Handle on Obesity

Published: June 15, 2012, 7:50 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 12 seconds

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Keeping Things in Focus - Part 2

Published: Oct. 5, 2011, 6:20 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 12 seconds

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Keeping Things in Focus - Part 1

Published: Oct. 5, 2011, 6:15 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 12 seconds

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Harnessing Wind Power - Part 2

Published: Oct. 5, 2011, 6:04 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 12 seconds

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Harnessing Wind Power - Part 1

Published: Oct. 5, 2011, 6:01 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 12 seconds

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Keeping the beat - Part 2

Published: Oct. 5, 2011, 5:57 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 12 seconds

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Keeping the beat - Part 1

Published: Oct. 5, 2011, 5:45 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 12 seconds

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Sustaining the Supply Chain - Part 2

Published: July 12, 2011, 6:39 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 12 seconds

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Sustaining the Supply Chain - Part 1

Published: July 12, 2011, 6:35 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 35 seconds

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Answering the Question, and Vice Versa

Published: July 12, 2011, 6:25 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 17 seconds

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Sounding the Alarm - Part 2

Published: June 16, 2011, 5:56 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 20 seconds

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Sounding the Alarm - Part 1

Published: June 16, 2011, 5:28 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 23 seconds

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Putting Another Cork in It - Part 2

Published: April 21, 2011, 7:43 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 39 seconds

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Putting Another Cork in It - Part 1

Published: April 21, 2011, 7:38 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 6 seconds

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Assigning Seats - Part 2

Published: Dec. 10, 2010, 8 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 32 seconds

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Assigning Seats - Part 1

Published: Dec. 10, 2010, 7:57 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 26 seconds

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Knowing Rogues - Part 2

Published: Dec. 10, 2010, 7:55 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 14 seconds

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Knowing Rogues - Part 1

Published: Dec. 10, 2010, 7:49 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 2 seconds

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Creating Something out of (Next to) Nothing

Published: Dec. 10, 2010, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 33 seconds

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Getting at the Truth - Part 2

Published: Dec. 10, 2010, 7:43 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 50 seconds

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Getting at the Truth - Part 1

Published: Dec. 10, 2010, 7:38 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 41 seconds

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Resisting the Spread of Disease - Part 2

Published: Sept. 28, 2009, 1:58 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 38 seconds

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Resisting the Spread of Disease - Part 1

Published: Sept. 28, 2009, 1:54 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 2 seconds

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Predicting Climate - Part 2

Published: Sept. 16, 2009, 1:38 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 20 seconds

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Predicting Climate - Part 1

Published: Sept. 16, 2009, 1:34 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 21 seconds

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Matching Vital Needs - Increasing the number of live-donor kidney transplants

Published: July 1, 2009, 2:07 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 24 seconds

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Pulling Out (from) All the Stops - Visiting all of NY's subway stops in record time

Published: May 18, 2009, 1:31 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 24 seconds

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Working It Out. Math solves a mystery about the opening of "A Hard Day's Night."

Published: April 10, 2009, 3:35 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 15 seconds

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Getting It Together

Published: Dec. 1, 2008, 2:59 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 15 seconds

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Restoring Genius - Discovering lost works of Archimedes - Part 2

Published: Nov. 13, 2008, 3:16 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 15 seconds

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Improving Stents - Part 2

Published: Nov. 13, 2008, 3:07 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 45 seconds

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Improving Stents - Part 1

Published: Nov. 13, 2008, 2:12 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 18 seconds

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Steering Towards Efficiency

Published: Aug. 28, 2008, 2:21 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 39 seconds

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Going with the Floes - Part 4

Published: June 5, 2008, 5:47 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 50 seconds

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Going with the Floes - Part 3

Published: June 5, 2008, 5:46 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 35 seconds

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Going with the Floes - Part 1

Published: June 5, 2008, 5:45 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 15 seconds

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Hearing a Master.s Voice

Published: June 5, 2008, 5:40 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 47 seconds

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Going with the Floes - Part 2

Published: June 5, 2008, 5:25 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 57 seconds

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Bending It Like Bernoulli

Published: April 14, 2008, 3:41 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 14 seconds

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Tripping the Light-Fantastic

Published: Feb. 14, 2008, 2:44 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 14 seconds

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Unearthing Power Lines

Published: Feb. 14, 2008, 2:38 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 14 seconds

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Making Votes Count

Published: Feb. 14, 2008, 2:33 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 14 seconds

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Folding for Fun and Function

Published: Feb. 14, 2008, 2:33 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 14 seconds

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Pinpointing Style

Published: Dec. 26, 2007, 5:11 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 35 seconds

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Predicting Storm Surge

Published: Dec. 26, 2007, 4:43 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 9 seconds

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Putting Music on the Map

Published: Dec. 26, 2007, 4:39 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 38 seconds

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Finding Fake Photos

Published: Dec. 26, 2007, 4:33 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 14 seconds

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Targeting Tumors

Published: Dec. 26, 2007, 4:21 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 24 seconds

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Making Movies Come Alive

Published: June 15, 2005, 7 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 35 seconds

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