Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers
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.
Education Record Rights: 1 year from each broadcast.
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Scientific American Frontiers | Chimp Minds | PBS (#1504)
Full Program: A visit with an engaging if unruly bunch of cousins that we formally broke up with about 6 or 7 million years ago. 26:22
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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN FRONTIERS | Cybersenses | PBS (#1509)
Full Program: Replacement synthetic senses for people are now a reality. 26:20
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Scientific American Frontiers | Going Deep | PBS (#1503)
Full Program: The deep sub Alvin, past and future. 26:23
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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.
All Upcoming Episodes
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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 ...
- Sun, November 8, 3:00 AM on IPTV
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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 ...
- Sun, November 15, 3:00 AM on IPTV
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)
