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Foam

Host Jacki Lyden talks with Sidney Perkowitz, author of Universal Foam: From Cappuccino To The Cosmos (Walker & Company/2000). Perkowitz, a professor of physics at Emory University, discusses the role of foam in science and in everyday life.

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