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• You Can Make It On Your Own (#1309)

  As digital technology gets smaller and less expensive, it is empowering people in unprecedented ways--from villagers in rural India who use computers to monitor the quality of their food and water to children who use PCs to write and play music.

  • Thu, February 18, 7:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Thu, February 18, 1:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Thu, February 18, 6:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Sat, February 20, 5:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Sat, February 20, 11:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Sat, February 20, 5:00 PM on IPTV World

• Worried Sick (#1310)

  Stress is the curse of modern living--but is it really so new? What causes it? Does it affect people only? Can stress make people sick? And can relaxation make them better?

  • Thu, February 18, 9:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Thu, February 18, 3:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Thu, February 18, 5:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Fri, February 19, 1:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Sat, February 20, 4:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Sat, February 20, 10:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Sat, February 20, 4:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Sat, February 20, 10:00 PM on IPTV World

• Forever Wild? (#1304)

  What exactly does it take to make wild places work the way they must?

  • Sat, February 27, 4:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Sat, February 27, 10:00 AM on IPTV World

• Mysteries of the Deep (#1305)

  This episode features stories of the submarines and their pioneering crews that explored earth's last frontier.

  • Sat, February 27, 5:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Sat, February 27, 11:00 AM on IPTV World

• Losing It (#1401)

  This episode tackles the basic problem that confronts those who are overweight - how to lose weight and keep it off over the long term.

  • Thu, March 11, 7:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Thu, March 11, 1:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Thu, March 11, 6:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Sat, March 13, 5:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Sat, March 13, 11:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Sat, March 13, 5:00 PM on IPTV World

• Don't Forget (#1402)

  Alan Alda investigates how people create memories - and how as they age, memories become slippery and elusive, sometimes vanishing forever.

  • Thu, March 11, 9:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Thu, March 11, 3:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Thu, March 11, 5:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Fri, March 12, 1:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Sat, March 13, 4:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Sat, March 13, 10:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Sat, March 13, 4:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Sat, March 13, 10:00 PM on IPTV World

• Future Car (#1403)

  Alan Alda visits the research labs and testing tracks of the Big Three auto makers to find out what people will be driving in the future.

  • Thu, March 18, 7:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Thu, March 18, 1:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Thu, March 18, 6:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Sat, March 20, 5:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Sat, March 20, 11:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Sat, March 20, 5:00 PM on IPTV World

• Hot Times In Alaska (#1404)

  Alaska is warming up. It's now a few degrees warmer than it was a century and a half ago, and the trend seems to be accelerating. Already the landscape is changing dramatically - permafrost is thawing, glaciers are melting, forests are succumbing to drought and insect attack. Alan Alda meets Alaskan scientists who are working to find out if these are the first signs of global warming and what the future may hold.

  • Thu, March 18, 9:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Thu, March 18, 3:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Thu, March 18, 5:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Fri, March 19, 1:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Sat, March 20, 4:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Sat, March 20, 10:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Sat, March 20, 4:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Sat, March 20, 10:00 PM on IPTV World

• The Dark Side of the Universe (#1405)

  Alan Alda joins some of the world's leading astronomers as they wrestle with the startling implications of their latest discoveries: that everything we can see, from the world around us to the most distant galaxies, is only a tiny fraction of the entire cosmos. Most of what's out there is dark - either dark matter or dark energy. And our universe is perhaps only one in an infinity of universes.

  • Thu, March 25, 7:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Thu, March 25, 1:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Thu, March 25, 6:00 PM on IPTV World
  • Sat, March 27, 5:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Sat, March 27, 11:00 AM on IPTV World
  • Sat, March 27, 5:00 PM on IPTV World

• Coming to America (#1406)

  Who were the first Americans, and when did they arrive? Did they get here by land or sea? Did a single group populate the continent, or did many? Experts used to agree that the first Americans walked across the Bering land bridge from Asia about 12,000 years ago, then found their way south, eventually colonizing all of North and South America. But exciting recent finds at sites on both continents have triggered new theories. Alan Alda tries to find out who's saying what, and why.

  • Thu, March 25, 9:00 AM on IPTV World

Past Episodes

These episodes of Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers aired in the last few months on Iowa Public Television.

• Calls of the Wild (#1308)
• Deep Crisis (#1306)
• The Wonder Pill (#1307)
• Mysteries of the Deep (#1305)
• Forever Wild? (#1304)
• The Intimate Machine (#1303)
• Unearthing Secret America (#1301)
• Coming to America (#1406)
• The Dark Side of the Universe (#1405)
• Hot Times In Alaska (#1404)
• Future Car (#1403)
• Don't Forget (#1402)
• Losing It (#1401)
• Robot Pals (#1510)
• Cybersenses (#1509)
• Worried Sick (#1310)
• The Secret Canyon (#1508)
• Hidden Motives (#1507)

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