We took a look inside Alan's brain using an MRI machine. Apparently he has quite a plump hippocampus.
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August 7th, 2009
Spark Blog: Behind the Scenes and Inside the Skulls
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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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December 19th, 2008
Spark Blog: Alan Alda Meets the Chimps
We went to the North Carolina Zoo to meet the chimpanzees -- and evolutionary anthropologist Brian Hare. Here's what happened...
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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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October 21st, 2008
Spark Blog: Video: Making of a Fireside Chat Scene
In Arizona, Alan and archeologist Curtis Marean had a fireside chat about how modern humans replaced the Neanderthals. Check out this video to see how the scene was made.
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July 7th, 2008
Spark Blog: The Big Red Button
Graham Chedd tells the story of what happened at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, where researchers were examining Neanderthal teeth with a high-power x-ray.
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July 4th, 2008
Spark Blog: Our First Shoot
How long did it take Neanderthals to grow up? Graham Chedd meets with researchers who are using a giant particle accelerator to find an answer to this question.
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