Jessica Banks tries to keep everyone as awake as she is with the awe-inspiring objects she

Jessica Banks: Immersed in Wonder Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers

Premiered February 28, 2013
Jessica Banks: Immersed in Wonder

Jessica Banks is a roboticist, engineer and designer who creates kinetic furniture (furniture that moves) that she sells through her company, Rock Paper Robot. Among Jessica's other creative pursuits, she's a skull-ptor - she decorates small animal skulls (without the animals) and turns them into tiny works of art.

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Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers

Scientists are just like everyone else -they've got secrets. So who knows what happens when the lab coats come off? Actually, we do. And now you can too. In this series of short, web-exclusive videos, you'll meet intriguing scientists and engineers, and learn about their surprising lives outside the proverbial lab.

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