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.
Suppose the size of the room was not n x n, but n x m. What do you know about the values of n and m that would make it possible to go directly from the Northwest corner to the Southeast corner without having to re-enter a room? What values would make it impossible?
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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
