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SSS 2009-07-21

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin . This will just take a minute. When you get caught in a downpour, you probably dont think about the size of the raindrops that assault you as you run for cover. But physicists do. And

SSS 2010-11-15

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. Thisll just take a minute. Heres a strange tale of two previously unrelated food products. First: chitlins, that delicacy of fried pig large intestines. Theyre well-loved throughout t

NPR 2008-09-13

Hurricane Ike is continuing to move northwest through the Gulf of Mexico. But already winds are picking up with the storm's outer bands pushing waves over Galveston's 17-foot-high seawall even though the storm is more than 100 miles out at sea. In a

NPR 2011-12-12

Syrian activists say the army and defected soldiers are clashing in the north and south of the country. NPRs Peter Kenyon reports observers say more than 60 people have been killed just since Friday. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Righ

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