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Small-screen brainiacs
With help from the experts, show from 'Bones' to 'Fringe' are getting science down to, well, a science
In the beginning, there was the Professor.
Although he never could figure out how to repair the S.S. Minnow, Russell Johnson's high school science teacher, stranded with the other castaways on "Gilligan's Island," was so ingenious he could recharge a battery using only bamboo and coconuts, so morbidly cerebral it never occurred to him that he was the most likely mate for Ginger and Mary Ann....
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