Video: Topics: Technology: Health
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NOVA | Making Stuff: Smarter Preview | PBS (#3805)
Explore a new generation of ingenious materials, from clothes that monitor your mood to real-life invisibility cloaks. 00:30
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Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | Ethics of Human Enhancement | PBS (#1351)
Technology may one day allow us to exceed our human limitations, but should we? 10:53
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TO THE CONTRARY | Meet the Beerys: DNA Sequencing and Rare Childhood Diseases | PBS
In the conclusion of our three-part series on genetic mapping and rare pediatric diseases, the Beery family shares their story of heartbreak and hope. Make sure to tune into this week's edition of... 07:18
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NOVA | Switching Genes On and Off | PBS
How "junk" DNA helped solve an evolutionary mystery. 04:54
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POV | A Healing Art | PBS (#2308)
Artificial eye makers rekindle hope for their patients and families. 07:04
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American Experience | Original Interview: Angelene Forester | PBS (#2002)
Angelene Forester remembers Walter Freeman's first patient -- her mother Ellen Ionesco. 02:57
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American Experience | Original Interview: Howard Dully | PBS (#2002)
Howard Dully discusses the lobotomy that Walter Freeman performed on him when he was 12. 02:43
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American Experience | Original Interview: Janis Jones-Thomson | PBS (#2002)
Janice Jones-Thomson looks back on the lobotomy done to her mother, Beulah Jones. 01:26
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American Experience | Government Film: Operation Cover Up | PBS (#1908)
U.S. Army film about the effects of protective hoods in a toxic atmosphere. 09:09
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American Experience | Government film: Incapacitation by Enterotoxin | PBS (#1908)
A U.S. Government film about food poisoning, and testing Enterotoxin on monkeys. 05:46
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American Experience | Government Film: Botulism | PBS (#1908)
A U.S. Government film on the effects of botulism toxin on Rhesus monkeys. 09:43
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Nature | The Venom Cure | PBS (#2209)
Full Program: There are thousands of animals on this planet whose venom may be able to help mankind. 51:15
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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Lobotomist Preview | PBS (#2002)
It was hailed by the New York Times as "surgery of the soul," a groundbreaking medical procedure that promised hope to the most distressed mentally ill patients and their families. But what began... 00:31
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Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | Personal Genetic Testing | PBS (#1301)
Full Program: The business of personal DNA testing; a memorial for the victims of United Flight 93. 25:31
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NOVA scienceNOW | Bird Brains, Space Storms, Profile: Yoky Matsuoka, Smart Bridges | PBS (#304)
Full Program: “Finch Brains”--What can the songs of zebra finches tells us about the human evolution of language? A lot more than we once thought. The way a finch learns to sing is similar to the way babies... 51:53













