Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers
Forever Wild? (#1304)
What exactly does it take to make wild places work the way they must? How can you manage a South African game park so the rhinos inside behave as if the land is as wild as ever? How can bison help return an Oklahoma cattle ranch to the prairie it once was? This episode includes the first important results to emerge from research being conducted inside Biosphere 2 in Arizona. Now completely reorganized as a climate research institute, with facilities like no other in the world, Biosphere explores the reactions of miniature wild ecosystems like rainforests and coral reefs to the kinds of global atmospheres that we may experience 50 or 100 years from now.
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Program Description: Alan Alda brings his unique blend of curiosity and humor to the exploration of the latest trends in science, medicine, technology and the environment.
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Past Episodes
These episodes of Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers aired in the last few months on Iowa Public Television.
- Hot Times In Alaska (#1404)
- Future Car (#1403)
- Don't Forget (#1402)
- The Dark Side of the Universe (#1405)
- Losing It (#1401)
- Robot Pals (#1510)
- Cybersenses (#1509)
- Worried Sick (#1310)
- The Secret Canyon (#1508)
- Hidden Motives (#1507)
- You Can Make It On Your Own (#1309)
- Chimp Minds (#1504)
- Going Deep (#1503)
- Hydrogen Hopes (#1506)
- Hot Planet - Cold Comfort (#1505)
- Surgical Slimmers (#1501)
- Calls of the Wild (#1308)
- Cars That Think (#1502)
- Coming to America (#1406)
- The Wonder Pill (#1307)
- Deep Crisis (#1306)
- Mysteries of the Deep (#1305)
- Forever Wild? (#1304)
- The Intimate Machine (#1303)
- Make Up Your Mind (#1302)
- Unearthing Secret America (#1301)
