Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers
Hydrogen Hopes (#1506)
Learn how hydrogen can be created from renewable sources like the sun & how it can be safely stored.
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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Mysteries of the Deep (#1305)
This episode features stories of the submarines and their pioneering crews that explored earth's last frontier.
- Sat, July 4, 4:00 AM on IPTV World
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Deep Crisis (#1306)
Follow efforts by biologists to figure out what's going on with salmon, once abundant on both East and West coasts of North America and now in catastrophic decline.
- Thu, July 9, 9:00 AM on IPTV World
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The Wonder Pill (#1307)
The placebo effect for years sneered at as a distraction from 'real' medical treatment now turns out to be a true phenomenon and a potential addition to modern medicine.
- Thu, July 16, 9:00 AM on IPTV World
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Calls of the Wild (#1308)
Eavesdrop on creatures as diverse as elephants and spiders, warblers and bees, crickets and bats. What are they saying, and why?
- Thu, July 23, 9:00 AM on IPTV World
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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, July 30, 9:00 AM on IPTV World
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- Thu, July 30, 8:00 PM on IPTV World
Past Episodes
These episodes of Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers aired in the last few months on Iowa Public Television.
- Mysteries of the Deep (#1305)
- Forever Wild? (#1304)
- The Intimate Machine (#1303)
- Make Up Your Mind (#1302)
- Unearthing Secret America (#1301)
- Robot Pals (#1510)
- Cybersenses (#1509)
- The Secret Canyon (#1508)
- Hidden Motives (#1507)
- Hydrogen Hopes (#1506)
- Hot Planet - Cold Comfort (#1505)
- Chimp Minds (#1504)
- Going Deep (#1503)
- Cars That Think (#1502)
- Surgical Slimmers (#1501)
- Coming to America (#1406)
- The Dark Side of the Universe (#1405)
