This is the first installment of Audacious Little Things!
Meet an anthropologist who explains why she thinks the human animal delights in making miniatures of things, and then meet a sculpturist dubbed 鈥淭he 8th Wonder of the World鈥� whose art requires a microscope to see.
Find out how one kind of hydrozoan earned itself the title of 鈥淭he Immortal Jellyfish鈥�. Plus, what researchers think is going on when starlings fly together in those mesmerizing clouds, and what that has to do with creating underwater robots.
Finally, former US and New York State Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, reads his piece, 鈥淭he Butterfly Effect鈥� and ponders the reason why we are so compelled by its concept.
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- is a professor of Anthropology at the College of Arts & Sciences at Boston University
- is a British sculpturist who has set two world records with his microscopic art
- is a professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University who studies how starlings fly in groups to develop underwater robots that react to each other
- is an Associate Professor in the Department of Marine Biology at Texas A&M University at Galveston. She is also the Head of the Miglietta Lab, where she studies Turritopsis Dohrnii, a.k.a. the Immortal Jellyfish
- is a poet who served as Poet Laureate of the United States (2001-2003) and as New York State Poet (2004-2006)
Jessica Severin de Martinez and Catie Talarski contributed to this show.
