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New Jr. Medical School Website

We have created a special Jr. Medical School Website that contains all of the reading assignments that you will need to earn the 1,000 reading points for graduation.

Read each passage and then send a short paragraph explaining how you might use the information in the future. If the article cannot benefit you, please report on that. You need the paragraph in order to receive full credit.

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Super School University, Jr. Medical School Robotics Journalism

The Kid's Talk Radio Science Show will being featuring a series of science projects working with national high school robotic teams from across the nation.

We have plans to tie some of our action research in Robotics to our Jr. Medical School programs in California and Mississippi. We will keep you posted about all of the new and exciting projects that we have on the horizon.

Robotics is the science and technology of robots, their design, manufacture, and application. [Robotics requires a working knowledge of electronics, mechanics and software, and is usually accompanied by a large working knowledge of many subjects. A person working in the field is a roboticist.

The structure of a robot is usually mostly mechanical and can be called a kinematic chain (its functionality being similar to the skeleton of the human body). The chain is formed of links (its bones), actuators (its muscles) and joints, which can allow one or more degrees of freedom. Most contemporary robots use open serial chains in which each link connects the one before to the one after it. These robots are called serial robots and often resemble the human arm. Some robots, such as the Stewart platform, use closed parallel kinematic chains. Other structures, such as those that mimic the mechanical structure of humans, various animals and insects, are comparatively rare. However, the development and use of such structures in robots is an active area of research (e.g. biomechanics). Robots used as manipulators have an end effector mounted on the last link. This end effector can be anything from a welding device to a mechanical hand used to manipulate the environment. ISO 10248 defines a robotic application on the industrial field.

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High Motivational Science Projects

Bob Barboza's Jr. Medical School students are from Mississippi. Bob lives in California. Bob teachers a Jr. Medical School course in space medicine and technology. Doug is an explorer. He loves going to places like Antarctica and the magnetic North Pole. Now he wants to go to the Amazon Jungle.

Every time Doug Stoup goes on an expedition, Bob Barboza and his students follow him and talk to him wherever he goes. We monitor his medial conditions and follow his virtual medial chart. We use our Kid's Talk Radio equipment and Jamie at PNN makes sure that we don't loose our connection. We publish all of our news reports on PNN, Kid's Talk Radio, and Teen TV.

Jr. Medical School and Kid's Talk Radio brings kids the news that they can use. We are made up of teachers that love to teach and students that love to learn.

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NOVA | PBS

NOVA brings you short audio stories from the world of science -- anything from hurricanes to mummies to neutrinos. For more science programming online and on air, visit NOVA's Web site at pbs.org/nova, or watch NOVA broadcasts Tuesday nights on PBS.

Updated: 07 Nov 12:05

Chasing Down Dinner

06 Nov 23:00

Evolving an ability to run long distances might have been key to survival for early humans. In this podcast, we talked to Dan Lieberman, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University, to find out why. Podcast produced by David Levin. Original interview by Gaia Remerowski. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. To learn more, go to pbs.org/nova/becominghuman

How We Became Human

29 Oct 22:00

Today, humans are rapidly changing the world's climate-but some anthropologists think climate may have once changed us. In this podcast, Rick Potts, director of the Human Origins Program at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, explains why a rapidly shifting environment could have shaped early human behavior. Podcast produced by David Levin. Original interview by Graham Townsley. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. To learn more, go to pbs.org/nova/becominghuman

Hands on Hubble

13 Oct 22:00

John Grunsfeld, an astronomer and astronaut, says that fixing the Hubble Space Telescope was be a delicate operation. In this podcast, he explains how astronauts had to literally let their fingers do the walking when working on satellite-and why the gloves of their space suits played a major role in the mission's success. Podcast produced by David Levin. Interview by Rush DeNooyer. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. To learn more, visit us online at pbs.org/nova/hubble

Capturing Darwin's Dilemma

02 Oct 22:00

In 1862, Charles Darwin faced his greatest dilemma-whether or not to go public with his incendiary theory of evolution. It was a turning point for him, and for science as a whole. Today, scriptwriter John Goldsmith, former head of the British Writer's Guild, has crafted the story into a two-hour special for NOVA. In this interview, he talked to NOVA's Susan Lewis about the challenges of making of the film, and his fascination with the Darwin family. Podcast produced by David Levin. Interview by Susan Lewis. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. To learn more, go to pbs.org/nova/darwin

Portland Science Pub

15 Sep 19:00

In this podcast, Neil deGrasse Tyson visits Portland, Oregon, to participate in a monthly event called the Science Pub. Sponsored by the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, the Pub invites researchers to talk about their work, answer audience questions, and have a beer. It's a science conversation done Oregon style. The original event lasted over two hours, but we trimmed the Q&A down to about 30 minutes. Podcast edited by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Additional funding is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0229297. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. For more fun science stories, visit our website at pbs.org/nova/sciencenow