Video: Wired Science
PBS' newest weekly series, WIRED SCIENCE, translates Wired magazine s award-winning journalism into a fast-paced television show. WIRED SCIENCE brings Wired magazine's cutting-edge vision, stylish design and irreverent attitude to the screen with breakout ideas, recent discoveries and the latest innovations. The first season's 10 episodes will explore the complex research that defines 21st-century culture and innovation and will introduce viewers to the people making it happen.
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WIRED SCIENCE | Technology: Geek Dad, Japanese Robots | PBS (#108)
Full Program: What is "hot ice?" 54:14
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WIRED SCIENCE Student Video Contest | PBS
So you think you can take an ordinary science idea and turn it into an extraordinary online video? Well, here's your chance to prove it. WIRED SCIENCE wants high school students to share their science ... 00:59
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WIRED SCIENCE | Perfect Water | PBS
Hollywood film studios have been using computers to create special effects for years. But to make computer-generated water look real on the big screen, you have to understand some pretty complicated physics. ... 00:43
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WIRED SCIENCE | Luis von Ahn: Human Computation | PBS
Computer scientist Luis von Ahn is best known for inventing those twisted, blurry words that websites ask you to type to post a comment or send an email. Host Ziya Tong talks to the genius award recipient ... 07:02
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WIRED SCIENCE | Icy Depths | PBS (#110)
A Woods Hole expedition sails to the Arctic Ocean to test autonomous undersea vehicles (AUVs). These underwater robots are used to explore the frigid waters below the ice cap to discover new life forms ... 01:42
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WIRED SCIENCE | Dr. Schrempp's Chem Lab | PBS
Host Chris Hardwick learns how to turn cotton balls into smokeless gunpowder with chemist Chris Schrempp, star high school teacher and author of the book Bangs, Flashes, and Explosions. To see the full ... 05:45
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WIRED SCIENCE | Space Junkyard | PBS (#109)
Ever wonder where spaceships go to die? Special correspondent Adam Rogers visits a Southern California scrapyard to the find the place where the remnants of the Apollo missions were laid to rest. It's ... 01:18
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WIRED SCIENCE | Mixed Feelings | PBS
Neuroscientists in Wisconsin are helping blind patients see with their tongues. Find out how they're juggling the senses and rewiring the brain. To see the full segment, visit www.pbs.org/kcet/wired... ... 00:56
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WIRED SCIENCE | What's Inside Rainn Wilson? | PBS
WIRED SCIENCE host Chris Hardwick and The Office scene-stealer Rainn Wilson (recently named one of People magazine's "Sexiest Men Alive") dive deep into the chemical guts of a common household product ... 04:47
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WIRED SCIENCE | Deep Brain Stimulation | PBS
You've heard of a pacemaker for the heart, but what about for the head? We'll go under the knife with a Cardington, Ohio farmer who's getting electrodes implanted in his brain to alleviate the debilitating ... 02:29
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WIRED SCIENCE | Where's My Rocketbelt? | PBS
Rocketbelts went from being a grand military ambition to a classic James Bond moment, to part of a future that never materialized. WIRED SCIENCE travels to the first International Rocketbelt Convention ... 02:29
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WIRED SCIENCE | Laser Archeology | PBS
Ben Kaycra grew up playing on ancient Mesopotamian ruins in his native Iraq. As an adult, he became a civil engineer and developed lasers that can scan buildings and translate them into three-dimensional ... 02:45
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WIRED SCIENCE | The Business of Disease | PBS
Who decides when a disease or syndrome gets a name, a drug and its very own TV commercial? Host Ziya Tong takes a look at Restless Leg Syndrome, one of the newest diseases to hit the big time. To see ... 03:43
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WIRED SCIENCE | Satellite Shopping | PBS
It's been 50 years since the first satellite, Sputnik, was launched into orbit. Now, communication satellites are used in everything from radio and television to Internet connections. Special correspondent ... 04:02
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WIRED SCIENCE | Stressed Out | PBS
With normal wear and tear, bridges and aircraft have their mettle tested constantly. Fortunately, inspectors monitor these stressed out bodies to avoid catastrophic failures like the Minneapolis bridge ... 03:24
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WIRED SCIENCE | Peak Water | PBS
Peak oil is the idea that the earth's oil resources are coming to a close. But it's not just oil that is disappearing, the earth's fresh water supplies are dwindling and H2O is disappearing as an inexpensive ... 03:43
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WIRED SCIENCE | Audio Files | PBS
Magnetic tape and vinyl grooves almost died with the digital era. But in a world where, iPods and MP3s rule, some audio aficionados never gave up LPs, record needles, and cassettes. Did digital sound ... 03:06
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WIRED SCIENCE | X-Prize | PBS
Thirty-five years after NASA left the surface of the moon; we are trying to get back to the earth's only natural satellite. This time around, it may be private entrepreneurs, not NASA, who will get us ... 02:22
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WIRED SCIENCE | Blood Simple | PBS
From its unique core molecule, hemoglobin, to the attached proteins that designate types A, B, AB and O, blood has resisted our best efforts to master and commodify it. Yet, recent tests of a milky white ... 02:35
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WIRED SCIENCE | Ziya Goes to NextFest | PBS
Each year, WIRED magazine gathers science and technological inventors and innovators on one humungous floor to bring some of their best ideas about the future to public. The place is NextFest, held this ... 02:36
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