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Kids with cancer videoconference with the birds

February 6, 2009 | | Leave a Comment

Students at the school inside the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center recently forgot their illnesses to visit with a Eurasian Eagle Owl, a Green Wing Macaw and a Lesser Sulfur Crested Cockatoo. During a recent videoconference with the Downtown Aquarium, instructors used the colorful birds to reinforce Bernoulli’s Principle, which explains the physics behind aerodynamic lift.

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