1918 Flu, Mass Extinction, Papyrus

Nov 21, 2006 on PBS at 8:00 PM

Summary

What caused the greatest mass extinction nearly 250 million years ago?1918 Flu: The 1918 flu virus is revived and decoded in the hopes that we can learn from it before the next pandemic.Profile: Cynthia Breazeal: A look at MIT social roboticist Cyn... (more)thia Breazeal.Papyrus: Can we use space-age technology to read papyri fragments that are almost 2,000 years old?

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