Insight With Vicki Gonzalez

Award-winning journalist Vicki Gonzalez hosts interviews with community leaders, advocates, experts, artists and more to provide background and understanding on breaking news, big events, politics and culture in the Sacramento region and beyond.

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Monday, December 29, 2014

Insight Best Of 2014: Science And Discovery

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Disease Causing Sea Stars To Waste Away
USGS Scientist Kevin Lafferty explains his research about what is causing star fish along the California coast to disappear.
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Science Balloon Class Project Takes Learning To New Heights
Mariposa County Science teacher Danielle Grate designed a science balloon with her students that would explore the outer atmosphere of the Earth while recording everything on video.
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Drought Research On Tree Rings
UC Berkeley Professor of Earth and Planetary Science B. Lynn Ingram published research in early 2014 that used tree rings to provide a historical perspective on drought and flood cycles in California, dating back centuries.
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Science Cafe: Problems In Geometry
Jesus De Loera is a professor of mathematics UC Davis. He appeared on Insight September 8, 2014 ahead of a Science Café discussion in Davis. Professor De Loera discussed old, easily described, yet incredibly difficult to solve geometry problems.
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