David Pogue, the host to our NOVA miniseries “Making Stuff”, wrote about the funny mishaps that happened during the filming of the series. Check it out here!

Anyway, I was doing a “standup” (talking to the camera) at the Fedex facility’s front door, when I received the ultimate disapproval rating–from a crow standing directly overhead at the edge of the roof. Let’s just say there’s a reason I didn’t turn my back to the camera for the rest of that sequence.

She somehow miscalculated the amount of fluid. For the second time, a Pogue shirt was sacrificed for science.

Our very own Daniel Parsons has written a new post for NOVA’s blog about our show “Making Stuff”.  Check it out!

At the moment biopsies are the standard tool for cancer diagnoses. While they are indeed accurate, the problem with them is that they only provide a glimpse of a tumor at one point in time. Dr. Cima’s implant would remain behind in place of the tissue that had been sampled by the biopsy and would make it possible to monitor a tumors growth and how it responds to treatment.

Dr. Michael Cima shows host David Pogue his implant.