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STEM Education and Tasmanian Devils Take to the Screen

Jul 07, 2011

For the pilot episode of its STEM education-focused special "It Ain't Rocket Science," Time Warner Cable's news channel NY1 spoke with Scientific American Editor-in-Chief Mariette DiChristina to learn more about the transmissible cancer that threatens to wipe out the shrinking Tasmanian devil population, devil facial tumor disease. "In the five-minute interview, DiChristina and [NY1's Kafi] Drexel discuss the manner of the cancer's transmission and the danger it poses," Scientific American says at its Observations blog.

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