Larry Engel and the crew head to Stony Brook, where Alan Alda gets a lesson in primitive weapon- and bead-making from experimental archaeologist John Shea.
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October 6th, 2009
Working (and Playing) with Primitive Technology
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September 4th, 2009
Spark Blog: Alan Alda’s “King Kong” Encounter
Alan enters the lab at Yerkes hoping to learn about chimpanzees and facial recognition. But instead, the chimps show Alan and the crew who's boss.
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August 7th, 2009
Spark Blog: Behind the Scenes and Inside the Skulls
We took a look inside Alan's brain using an MRI machine. Apparently he has quite a plump hippocampus.
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July 1st, 2009
Spark Blog: Squirrels Bury Nuts, But Are They Planning Ahead?
Dan Gilbert and Alan Alda discuss whether animals have the ability to "prospect," or plan ahead.
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June 10th, 2009
Spark Blog: Video: Filming on a Freezing Footbridge
Producer Graham Chedd thought a chat en plein air would add some visual variation from the two-guys-sitting-on-a-couch-type shot that's always easy to get in a professor’s office.
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May 20th, 2009
Spark Blog: Video: Ancient Dental Cleaning
Amanda Henry showed us how she very gently scrapes dental plaque from the Skhul 5 skull’s molars to find out what our ancestors may have eaten.
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May 6th, 2009
Spark Blog: Larry Engel: Running Better in “Non-sneakers”
Harvard's Dan Lieberman argues that we humans evolved to become the best long-distance runners on earth -- and we did it barefoot!
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January 16th, 2009
Spark Blog: Video: North Carolina Through the Looking Glass
Larry Engel discusses the challenges and joys of filming Alan with the chimps at the North Carolina Zoo.
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December 10th, 2008
Spark Blog: Video: Scientist Tanya Chartrand on Filming with Alan Alda
Watch Tanya Chartrand describe what it was like for her as a scientist to be involved in a television shoot for "The Human Spark."
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November 24th, 2008
Spark Blog: Mimicking Alan’s Body Language
We’ve just finished shooting at Duke University a series of experiments with Tanya Chartrand on how humans unconsciously mimic each other, and how this makes us more social.
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