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The cockroach beatbox - Greg Gage

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By dissecting a cockroach ... yes, live on stage ... TED Fellow and neuroscientist Greg Gage shows how brains receive and deliver electric impulses -- and how legs can respond. (Launching a series on Awesome Nature) "The Cockroach Beatbox" was animated by the TED-Ed Animation Team (Jeremiah Dickey, Biljana Labovic, Celeste Lai, Kari Mulholland and Franz Palomares)

There’s a lot of research on the benefits of “hands-on” science instruction—that is, actively engaging in experiments, versus reading about them in textbooks or watching videos of others performing experiments. What’s your feeling about the value of experiments in your science classes? What’s the most interesting—or the most boring—experiment you’ve ever done, and why?

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