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Ask a Scientist: Why Does Group Categorization Matter?

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Why does group categorization matter? Kristina Olson, associate professor of psychology at University of Washington, discusses this concept. Part of the "Ask a Scientist" series.

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Runtime: 47 seconds

Person speaking. Caption: between one and one hundred nanometers.
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Episode 1
1 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person speaking and standing next to a poster board with "Control of matter at the nanoscale" surrounded by logos from different organizations. Caption: of matter at the atomic and molecular level.
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Episode 2
1 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person speaking. Caption: So a nanometer would be ten to the minus nine meters.
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Episode 3
1 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person speaking. Caption: and work on it to manage those risks.
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Episode 4
1 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person speaking. Caption: We can apply an electric field or magnetic fields to them.
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Episode 5
1 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person speaking. Caption: used for both doing diagnostics as well as theranostics.
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Episode 6
54 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person speaking. Caption: Nanoparticles have been used in sunscreens
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Episode 7
1 minutes
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person speaking. Caption: about nanobots replicating and taking over the world.
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Episode 8
1 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person speaking in front of a background showing planets and space. Caption: And he detected a set of three planets around this star.
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Episode 9
1 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Researcher Mark Mote, a man with short dark hair wearing a plaid shirt, talks in front of a large blue banner. A young woman is near him in the background. Caption. "And that can be as simple as telling it how to add numbers."
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Episode 10
51 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12