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Nightly Business Report | February 15, 2010 | PBS
Full Program: Your Mind and Your Money holiday special 24:23
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The Human Spark | Brain Matters | PBS (#103)
Full Program: Peer into Alan Alda's head as we uncover where our most human abilities reside. 54:12
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The Human Spark | Brain Matters | Kermit Loves Bucket | PBS (#103)
Alan Alda meets Harvard University cognitive psychologist Elizabeth Spelke, who is testing the representational thinking skills of children by asking them to relate a map to the real world. Can the... 03:08
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The Human Spark | Brain Matters | Social Networks | PBS (#103)
At Oxford University, Alan Alda finds out from Robin Dunbar how human social networks compare to those of chimps, and at Yale University, watches babies as young as three months old pick cooperative... 02:47
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The Human Spark | So Human, So Chimp | PBS (#102)
Full Program: Alan Alda explores how much humans and chimps have in common, and what sets us apart. 54:42
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The Human Spark | So Human, So Chimp | Monkey Business | PBS (#102)
Alan Alda visits Yale University's Laurie Santos at a small Caribbean island where she is studying rhesus monkeys' ability to steal grapes... and read minds. In "The Human Spark," Alan Alda visits... 03:34
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LIFE (PART 2) | Stress and Memory | PBS (#212)
From the LIFE (PART 2) episode "Brain Exercise," Dr. Gary Small tells us about the link between stress and memory. 00:47
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The Human Spark | Monkeys and Magic Fruit | PBS
Researcher Laurie Santos demonstrates an illusion test she runs on free-ranging monkeys in Puerto Rico. Seeing how the monkeys respond opens a window onto the evolution of our own cognitive... 05:01
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LIFE (PART 2) | Do crossword puzzles make us smarter? | PBS (#212)
Crossword puzzles are supposed to be good for your brain, right? If only it was that simple. Here's a clip from the LIFE (PART 2) panel that takes on brain exercise, from fiction to fact. 00:50
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LIFE (PART 2) | Walk Gently | PBS (#211)
Mary Ann Becklenberg, age 64, has been diagnosed with early stage Alzheimer's Disease. In this clip, we ask "If you could go back in time and write a letter to yourself today, what would you say?" 01:52
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NOW on PBS | Who's Helping Our Wounded Vets? | PBS (#547)
Full Program: Caregivers and America's new wounded warriors 22:57
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THIS EMOTIONAL LIFE | Stress / Mental Well-being | PBS (#102)
Neuroscientist Dr. Robert Sapolsky explains that sometimes "the right stress" can make us feel stimulated and he explains how stress affects our physical and mental selves. 02:30
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LIFE (PART 2) | Robert Thurman | PBS (#209)
Though he's the blond-haired, blue-eyed dad of Uma Thurman, Columbia University Professor Robert Thurman is also an ordained Buddhist monk whose books include Inner Revolution and Infinite Life. 01:42
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THE SCIENCE OF HEALING WITH DR. ESTHER STERNBERG | Preview | PBS
Author and medical researcher Dr. Esther Sternberg examines the role the brain plays in healing in the new PBS special THE SCIENCE OF HEALING WITH DR. ESTHER STERNBERG. The program addresses some... 05:47
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LIFE (PART 2) | The New Face of Alzheimer's | PBS (#211)
Mary Ann Becklenberg, a courageous, articulate 64-year-old woman who is speaking out for herself and others in the early stages of Alzheimer's. She represents a new face of Alzheimer's which... 06:30















