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1918 Flu, Mass Extinction, Papyrus

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 Cynthia Breazeal.Papyrus: Can we use space-age technology to read papyri fragments that are almost 2,000 years old?

English
  • Originally Aired November 21, 2006
  • Runtime 60 minutes
  • Content Rating United States of America TV-G
  • Network PBS
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