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Can you solve the virus riddle? - Lisa Winer

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Your research team has found a prehistoric virus preserved in the permafrost and isolated it for study. After a late night working, you’re just closing up the lab when a sudden earthquake hits and breaks all the sample vials. Will you be able to destroy the virus before the vents open and unleash a deadly airborne plague? Lisa Winer shows how.

If you start in the Northwest corner, in how many ways will you end up in the Southeast corner if you pass through every room exactly once?

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Meet The Creators

  • Educator Lisa Winer
  • Script Editor Alex Gendler
  • Director Outis
  • Sound Designer Weston Fonger
  • Associate Producer Jessica Ruby
  • Content Producer Gerta Xhelo
  • Editorial Producer Alex Rosenthal
  • Narrator Addison Anderson

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