An interview on the road from Boston, MA to San-Francisco, CA.

We randomly met Larry in Detroit. He is the owner of the Car Wash Cafe there.

Seine-Saint-Denis Style

Photographer Amanda Means gave a public talk at the Harvard Museum of Natural History to explain her work. 

What do plastic tubes, strings and tin cans have in common? According to Chris and Meredith Thompson, they can all be musical instruments! At the 2008 Cambridge Science Festival, the Thompson twins show an audience of kids how fun the science of sound can be. 

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Engineers at the Harvard Microrobotics lab use insects as inspiration to build tiny robots that could one day help emergency rescue teams on the field.

Dr. Walter Lewin, an award-winning science educator and physics professor at MIT, demonstrates the key to a successful science lesson.

Classroom footage provided by MIT.

On the road from Boston to Portland, Maine, Nick Mills, professor in journalism at Boston University, indulges in his thoughts on commuting and traffic to two of his students.