The Monitor - 2008

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The Monitor 7/11/08
The Monitor (Episode 16)--In the Dark about White Matter No More
A train that doesn't even stop in Willoughby; Extinction rock; and more...

The Monitor 7/1/08
The Monitor (Episode 15)--Prime the Vote, Doritos for Science, and More
Voters who know their place; Chilling evidence of rapid climate meltdown; Humans to galaxy: "We're here!" via golden plaques and snack food; and DNA self-sequencing kit marketers parse "lab test"
The Monitor 6/19/08
The Monitor, ep. 14--Summer Awesomeness
Like a summer blockbuster, this episode is full of thrills--magnets that turn off a reporter's ability to speak; indestructible unmanned aerial vehicles; and more...
The Monitor 5/6/08
The Monitor, ep. 13--Colossal Squid, Narwhals and Improvisational Robotics
Scientists dissect the world's largest invertebrate; narwhals unseat polar bears as the most endangered mammal in the Arctic; introduced lizards underwent superfast evolution; and a new way to program robots that encourages them to improvise solutions to real-world problems
The Monitor 4/30/08
The Monitor ep. 12--Autism and Video Games
Are video games linked to autism? Are we the only intelligent life in the galaxy? Is PETA's X Prize for artificial meat going to work?

The Monitor 4/25/08
The Monitor ep. 11--Absence of Aid from U.S.S.R. Made Cubans Slimmer [Video]
In this week's episode of Scientific American's weekly news video roundup: bad times might lead to good health, the misuses of the iPod as a unit of storage, decisions happen seven seconds earlier than you think, and hear a Neandertal speak!

The Monitor 4/25/08
The Monitor ep. 10 - The Eco-Fabulous Episode [Video]
A haunting visualization of our CO₂ emissions; turning those emissions into plastics; deadly nanotech socks and a war of two press releases.

The Monitor 4/8/08
The Monitor Ep. 9 - Rake-Using Rodents and Olympic Doping Cheats
This week's science news video roundup includes rodents joining the club of tool users, Olympians with a gene that lets them beat doping tests, suspended animation via hydrogen sulfide and a network of earthquake-detecting laptops.

The Monitor 3/25/08
The Monitor ep. 8 - The Space Episode
Space methane suggests the possibility of space cows; space robots are serving their NASA masters (for now); and why is everything in space made of matter?

The Monitor 3/18/08
The Monitor ep. 7 - Sin, Hobbits, Drugs on Tap [Video]
What's in a name (why we aren't changing ours), hobbit or human, the Vatican's seven social sins, and drugs in our water, should we be worried?

The Monitor 3/4/08
The Monitor ep. 6 - The Killing Episode [Video]
On the horizon: killer asteroids, killer robots, a new way to kill killer pathogens, and an unkillable home for all the world's seeds

The Monitor 2/26/08
The Monitor ep. 5 - Digg makes you Dumb and an AAAS Roundup [Video]
The science news roundup that doesn't insult your intelligence or put you to sleep

The Monitor 2/13/08
The Monitor ep. 3 - Malaria, Physicists, Video Game Science, Cousin Love [Video]
The science news roundup that doesn't insult your intelligence or put you to sleep

The Monitor 2/6/08
The Monitor ep. 2 - Free Will, Death, Brains [Video]
The science news roundup that doesn't insult your intelligence or put you to sleep

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