The St. Johns River is experiencing large algal blooms. Will it get worse before it gets better? 2 Days, 5 boat captains, and 70 miles. See the blooms from above, underwater, and through a microscope.
Join Jacksonville University’s Dr. Melinda …
How do you weigh a 760 Ib manatee? Go behind the scenes with Jacksonville University’s The Science Of… and watch the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens manatee rehabilitation team load Frankie onto a stretcher and hoist him into the air. Then …
How do you take an X-ray of a 760 Ib manatee? Go behind the scenes with Jacksonville University’s The Science Of… and watch as the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens medical team X-rays, sonograms, and takes blood during a medical evaluation …
Did you know that Cahokia was the largest population density north of Mexico until Philadelphia in the 1800’s? And that trading reached far and wide, all the way to the Mill Cove complex in what is now now Jacksonville Florida? …
Did you know that law enforcement can tell where you’ve been by the isotopes in your hair? Or that isotope analysis can reveal whether beer meets the German Purity Law, and where sharks and Sea Turtles live? Dr. Jeremy Stalker, …
Ever wonder how polling is like brewing beer? Join Dr. Mike Binder, University of North Florida political science professor as he explains how good polling, like good beer, requires science and art.
Science On Tap – Jax meets the …
Manatee bones are extra heavy and dense, and yet they fracture more easily than your bones. Check out this fractured bone and learn what Dr. Gerry Pinto and Lucas Meers have to say about it.
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Vilanzo the manatee was beached and cold stressed, but got some new friends while he was rescued, rehabilitated, and released back into the wild by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens – watch …
Watch students and faculty from Jacksonville University, The Foundation Academy, and The Bolles School make drifter buoys and track ocean currents with NOAA satellites.
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…Did you know that you are automatically processing and responding to the world around you in ways that you don’t even perceive, based on priming, cognitive bias, the Stroop effect, confirmation bias, representativeness heuristic, and the availability heuristic? In a …