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| Alien Invasion |
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Series: Scientific American Frontiers Subject: Science Category: Science Globalization of trade and travel means increasing threats from alien species: plants, animals, insects and diseases that wreak havoc in defenseless regions. |
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| Animal Einsteins |
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Series: Scientific American Frontiers Subject: Education, Science Category: Education , Science Animals...how intelligent are they? In this episode you'll meet some scientists who've studied the communication thought processes and problem-solving skills of animals and have discovered that they'r... |
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| The Art of Science |
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Series: Scientific American Frontiers Subject: Art & Photography, Science Category: The Arts , Science Is art a science? Is science an art? This episode of Frontiers looks at the ways these two fields overlap and influence each other, and how computers are challenging our conventional ideas about art, ... |
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| Beneath the Sea |
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Series: Scientific American Frontiers Subject: Science Category: Science New technologies and pioneering scientists have opened up the farthest reaches of the ocean in the last great age of human exploration on Earth. |
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| Beyond Science? |
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Series: Scientific American Frontiers Subject: Science Category: Science This episode explores topics that go beyond the realm of science; in other words, topics that are hard to explore in a rigorous scientific way. The scientific method gives us a way to evaluate claims ... |
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| Bionic Body |
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Series: Scientific American Frontiers Subject: Science, Health & Medicine Category: Science , Health & Medicine Researchers are uniting biology and technology to give hope to the paralyzed, using the latest science to repair and circumvent spinal cord injuries. |
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| Body Building |
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Series: Scientific American Frontiers Subject: Health & Medicine Category: Health & Medicine Studies remarkable advances being made to repair and replace damaged human body parts. In 2001, the first self-contained artificial heart, Abiocor, was implanted into human patients. |
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| Changing Your Mind |
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Series: Scientific American Frontiers Subject: Science Category: Science Alda meets two young women whose brains have remodeled themselves -- one temporarily in response to a week of being blindfolded, the other permanently after a devastating brain injury before birth. Th... |
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| Coming Into America |
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Series: Scientific American Frontiers Subject: Explorers Category: World History Who were the first Americans? New discoveries and techniques for dating them have archaeologists rethinking what we know - and rewriting history. |
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| Dark Side of the Universe |
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Series: Scientific American Frontiers Subject: Science Category: Science New discoveries about Dark Matter and Dark Energy have astronomers wondering if ours is but one of an infinity of universes. |
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| Dead Men's Tales |
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Series: Scientific American Frontiers Subject: Science Category: Science In this program, Alda meets scientists reconstructing mysterious past events from the evidence of excavated remains. Stories in the episode include the unexplained loss of the Confederate submarine Hu... |
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| A Different Way to Heal |
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Series: Scientific American Frontiers Subject: Science, Health & Medicine Category: Science , Health & Medicine Alternative medicines are a growing multi-billion dollar industry. But do they hold up under scientific scrutiny? |
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| Don't Forget |
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Series: Scientific American Frontiers Subject: Science, Health & Medicine Category: Science , Health & Medicine Scientists attempt to unravel the mysteries of memory-- how we make memories, where they come from and why some slip away. |
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| Dragon Science |
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Series: Scientific American Frontiers Subject: Ancient History, Science Category: World History , Science Alan Alda journeys across China, from dry western deserts and the world's most dramatic mummy find--well-preserved individuals from 4,000 years ago--to the steamy Yangtze River Valley, where scientist... |
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| Fat and Happy? |
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Series: Scientific American Frontiers Subject: Science, Health & Medicine Category: Science , Health & Medicine Alan Alda visits with Dr. George Blackburn of Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to explore society's obsession with diets that promise quick, painless results. Alda also visits Arizona's P... |
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| Flying High |
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Series: Scientific American Frontiers Subject: Science Category: Science Scientists look to birds for the secrets of flight, work on a sun-powered wing that may one day fly forever, and design flying robots with minds of their own. |
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| Gene Hunters |
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Series: Scientific American Frontiers Subject: Science Category: Science Alan Alda meets some of the brightest and most charismatic scientists hunting genes. Their work could unlock the mysteries of human disease. |
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| Growing Up Different |
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Series: Scientific American Frontiers Subject: Education Category: Education Alda meets several kids who are growing up different and the doctors and researchers who are trying to mitigate the difficulties they face. Cochlear implants restore some hearing to a profoundly deaf ... |
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| Hot Planet — Cold Comfort |
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Series: Scientific American Frontiers Subject: Global Warming, Revolutionaries Category: Current Issues , Science So you think global warming won't affect you? Wait until the great Atlantic Conveyor shuts down. And find out what's already happening in Alaska. |
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| Hot Times in Alaska |
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Series: Scientific American Frontiers Subject: Global Warming Category: Current Issues Alaska is warming up. It's now a few degrees warmer than it was a century and a half ago, and the trend seems to be accelerating. Already the landscape is changing dramatically -- permafrost is thawin... |
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| Hydrogen Hopes |
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Series: Scientific American Frontiers Subject: Science Category: Science Hydrogen may be the fuel of the future, but what will it take to safely and efficiently make the transition from today's fossil fuels? |
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| The Intimate Machine |
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Series: Scientific American Frontiers Subject: Engineering Category: Science Scientists blend technology with sociology to make our machines more fun to use. |
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| Inventing the Future |
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Series: Scientific American Frontiers Subject: Engineering Category: Science At MIT's famed media lab, scientists work on virtual dogs, smart cars and even a cyborg Alan. |
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| Journey to Mars |
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Series: Scientific American Frontiers Subject: Science, Engineering Category: Science Scientists work to overcome the challenges of exploring the red planet. |
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| Life's Really Big Questions |
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Series: Scientific American Frontiers Subject: Science Category: Science How did life arise on Earth? What separates humans from apes? Will machines one day invent themselves? Alan Alda meets the scientists looking for answers. |
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| Make Up Your Mind |
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Series: Scientific American Frontiers Subject: Science Category: Science Scientists look to the brain's frontal lobe as the seat of personality. |
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| Mysteries of the Deep |
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Series: Scientific American Frontiers Subject: Science Category: Science Scientists unlock secrets from the last frontier on Earth--the ocean's depths, where explorer Bob Ballard is changing science, history, and the future. 'The Uncivilized Engine of War' traces the world... |
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| Natural Born Robots |
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Series: Scientific American Frontiers Subject: Science Category: Science Nature still trounces humans in designing machines able to live comfortably in the world around them. Taking hints, engineers are increasingly turning to living creatures for robotic inspiration. |
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| Never Say Die |
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Series: Scientific American Frontiers Subject: Science Category: Science Is the ancient dream of eternal life becoming a reality? In the last few years, many barriers to understanding the aging process have come down. |
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| On the Ball |
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Series: Scientific American Frontiers Subject: Science Category: Science Today's technology can give athletes the edge, aid officials and enhance the spectator's experience of the game. |
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| Pieces of Mind |
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Series: Scientific American Frontiers Subject: Science Category: Science Aiming for insights into his own brain, Alan Alda visits scientists studying how the brain dreams, stores memories, and sorts language. Weighing just a few pounds, the most complex organ in the human ... |
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| Unearthing Secret America |
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Series: Scientific American Frontiers Subject: Colonial History Category: American History Archeologists shed new light on life in colonial America. |
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| Voyage to the Galapagos |
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Series: Scientific American Frontiers Subject: Science Category: Science Alan Alda follows in Charles Darwin's footsteps, meeting the animals and birds that inspired Darwin's theory of evolution. Alda joins scientists who witness the daily struggle for survival that has sh... |
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| Worried Sick |
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Series: Scientific American Frontiers Subject: Health & Medicine Category: Health & Medicine The 'fight or flight' response to stress once helped us evade predators, but its long term effects can get us into an different kind of trouble - ill health. |
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