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Cogito Conversation: Berkeley Groks Science Show Guys

07.02.2008 - Charles Lee, PhD,and Frank Ling, PhD, hosts of this fascinating and funny science radio show, appeared in Cogito's forums this spring for a conversation with our members. Check it out!

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cogito Conversation: Chemistry's Cutting Edge at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cogito, 06.25.2008

 Dr. Marco Leona heads the Department of Science Research at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Read our conversation to find out how this lands Dr. Leona and his staff precisely at the cutti...
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Help Find Lost Ladybugs

by Susan Lang
Cornell Chronicle, 06.25.2008

 A team of Cornell scientists is asking for help finding ladybugs: "Find 'em, photograph 'em, and send us the photos."
PBS NOVA: Carbon Sequestration

Capturing Carbon

PBS NOVA ScienceNOW, 07.02.2008

 Find out how an eighth-grader's science fair project inspired her scientist father to develop a new way to pull excess CO2 out of the atmosphere.
Jason Assouline

Cogito Snapshots: Research and the Earth

Cogito, 07.01.2008

 A series of snapshots about how researchers think about and try to protect the environment. We've got answers from a nanotube chemist and an atmospheric scientist so far.

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