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Science

Education policy meets neuroscience

Dr. Jack Shonkoff, a pediatrician and Dean at Brandeis University, says you can learn a lot about effective education policy by looking at the human brain and how it works. According to Shonkoff, neuroscience proves that emotional, social and verbal development don't happen independently in the brain; they're all interconnected, hence education reform has to address problems with schools, teachers, parents and communities. He spoke this summer to the Minnesota School Readiness Business Advisory Council, a group of local business leaders working on issues of early childhood development.

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U of M has another winner of an apple

September is peak time for apples in Minnesota, and the news for apple lovers this year can be summed up in one word -- Zestar! It's the latest variety developed by the apple breeders at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum's Horticultural Research Center in Chanhassen. Apple breeders have been creating, testing and eating apples at the center for almost 100 years. The U of M's chief apple research scientist took us on a tour of the orchards.

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Exploring the brain

A scientist who has spent his life studying the way the brain works explains why we still know so little about the body's most complex organ.

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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Former Howard Dean presidential campaign manager Joe Trippi speaks about campaign organizing and the use of the Internet. Trippi spoke at Ruminator Books in St. Paul.

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Registered traveler test program at MSP could be extended

The Transportation Security Adminsitration says its trial run of the "registered traveler" program is going so well it's considering extending the life of the project. The program allows some frequent flyers to bypass regular security checkpoints in their home airports by agreeing to background checks and identity verification through fingerprint and iris scans. The TSA launched the pilot program at the Minneapolis- St. Paul International Airport in early July.

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Rare fossil found in North Dakota valley

In a dry riverbed in eastern North Dakota, people on their hands and knees carefully uncover rare bones. This river valley was gouged from the earth 10,000 years ago by water from melting glaciers. In the bed of an ancient ocean, scientists found a giant sea turtle. The discovery is from a time and place far removed from the North Dakota wheat fields.

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University aims to thwart terrorist threats to food supply

Security must extend from the farmer to the fork as the government works to ensure that the nation's food supply is kept safe from terrorists, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said on Tuesday at the University of Minnesota.

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A new space age?

The privately funded rocket plane SpaceShipOne will go down in the history books as the world's first commercial manned space flight. Its success comes at a time when the government is reevaluating the private sector's role in space exploration.

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Reagan's death brings Alzheimer's to the forefront

A bipartisan measure to be introduced in Congress would double funding for national Alzheimer's research and honor the late President Reagan. Is the death of one high profile patient enough to spur advances in a disease that debilitates one in ten Americans age 65 and older?

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The battle against the bugs

Bugs are emerging from our gardens and marshes. Entomologists also are watching for signs of an insect that's killing thousands of ash trees in nearby states.

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