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Aerial Surveyor
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The Rough Scientists had to make a Mars Rover which could explore strange new worlds. This week Kathy and Jonathan have to go one better and design an aerial surveyor that can explore much greater areas by floating above land. Just like the rover challenge, they've been given a tiny camera which will record whatever the aerial surveyor sees.
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Coming into America
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This program highlights current research which is challenging the traditional theory of how people first came to North America in prehistoric times. It has been assumed that the Clovis, the oldest people to populate the continent, moved south from Alaska as Canadian ice sheets were breaking up. New findings by archealogists indicate people may have come from more than one place following a number of routes including a Pacific coastal route, a Beringian land route and an Atlantic ice route. Clovis culture and technology is discussed. New research findings by Dennis Stanford, Jon Erlandson, Michael Collins, Al Goodyear, Steve Holen and David Yesner are presented.
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Big Smelt
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It's D-Day for our Rough Scientists, who must build a furnace and bellows so they can try to smelt and form gold into souvenirs as a reminder of their six-week stay in New Zealand. To turn their powdered gold flakes into a solid nugget they have to achieve the white-hot temperature of 1943 F (1062 C) so the gold will melt.
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Communication
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No space mission can succeed without communication, so our second set of Rough Science space challenges are all based around making contact. Jonathan and Kathy have to come up with a way of communicating that doesn't use sound waves - because in the vacuum of space, there's nothing for them to move through.
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Dragon Science
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Travel on a scientific journey around China, from the site of an ancient mummy find in Xinjiang to the world's largest dam on the Yangtze River. Meet scientists studying ancient herbal medicines and experimenting with hybrid rice to feed over one billion people. A stop in Beijing includes a test of a fuzzy logic system that may prevent traffic accidents.
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Gold Rush
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Five ingenious scientists start their epic journey on the other side of the world to hunt for gold. Kate Humble joins the team of modern-day prospectors as they follow in the footsteps of the original gold pioneers on the rugged and unforgiving west coast of New Zealand's South Island.
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Mediterranean on the Rocks
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Alan Alda travels to the Mediterranean Sea and investigates: how ancient peoples built papyrus boats; why an invasive species of algae, Caulerpa taxifola, threatens the environmental health of the area; how copper was made at a 2,500 year-old archaeological site in Cyprus; how scientist track the finback whale and treat and release injured sea turtles back to the sea.
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Life's Really Big Questions
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See how our hands set us free and play baseball, how an ancient telescope found an alien world, see a baby robot that may grow up without needing us, and learn why Noah's flood may have been a snowball. Hear the big questions that scientists are asking.
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Science Safari
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Alan Alda tours South Africa visiting a wildlife park, a township that uses herbs to treat illnesses, and an archaeological dig near Cape Town. He also investigates how South Africa is trying to control the mosquito population in an effort to eradicate malaria.
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Science in Paradise
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Host Alan Alda accompanies scientists in the Carribean tracking hawksbill turtles as part of a conservation project and working to save coral reefs afflicted with an unexpected disease. He visits Trinidad and learns to play that country's native instrument -- the steel pan -- and uncovers science stories in island sites from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico to the Soufriere Hill Volcano on the island of Monserrat.
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On the Ball
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Increasingly science and technology are providing a crucial performance edge to athletes and officials and even enhancing the spectator's experience the game. In Calgary, Alan visits with Joan Vickers, and finds out how her research on where athletes focus their gaze has improved the skills of basketball and tennis players, golfers -- even darts players. Alan goes to Fenway Park to checkout the high tech equipment -- a spin-off from research into tracking missiles -- helping baseball umpires separate balls from strikes. And Alan visits the Tennis Science Center at UC Davis to pick up some tips on his own favorite sport.
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Nordic Sagas
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Explores several aspects of current and ancient Norway, Iceland and Sweden. Includes the excavation and reconstruction of Viking ships, volcanic activity and life in Iceland, a segment on digital photography in Sweden and the effects of the Chernobyl disaster on reindeer in Sweden.
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Rover
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Week one's challenges are heavily focused on the "exploration" theme. Jonathan's challenge is to make a rover; a remote controlled vehicle that could explore strange new worlds. NASA come to Death Valley to test out their machines, so for Jonathan's ultimate test we subject his rover to a NASA style experiment in the desert. But unlike NASA, Jonathan has just three days and whatever he can find lying around the mine to come up with a working rover.
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Rocket
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All about rockets. Mike, Jonathan and Kathy have to make three different rockets, but there's a catch; they're only allowed to use one thing as a fuel -- and that's water! They've also got to design their rockets to carry a "passenger" -- a (raw) egg. And Ellen and Iain have to find a way of returning the egg safely to Earth.
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Spacesuit
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Although everyone thinks of space as very cold, in fact, if you stood on the sunny side of the moon, the temperature would be hot enough to boil the blood in your body. Spacesuits are designed to protect astronauts from these extremes of temperature. The Rough Scientists have to collectively design a cooling system for their very own spacesuit. And to test it out, at the end of day three, they're going to have to go to Death Valley and do a mock moon walk in their spacesuit - hopefully staying deliciously cool.
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Wild West, The
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Tracks rattleshakes in the Sonoran Desert, conducts a forensic detective hunt to identify one of Custer's last troopers, has a close encounter with a scorpion, trains with a cowgirl who uses science to rope a calf, and visits the Biosphere 2 rain forest located in the Arizona desert.
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Developing Image, The (1900-1934)
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Early in the 20th century, the 'Brownie'--the first affordable camera for the masses--was introduced. Over the next three decades, photographs are taken and used in myriad ways: to capture the vanishing Native American way of life in the West, to study and refine the way we work, to highlight social causes that require our attention, as a propaganda tool in the waging of war, to sell products, create media celebrities out of athletes and actors, and provide objective data in the advancement of science. Photography is slowly integrating itself into the fabric of our lives.
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Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
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It was perhaps the most spectacular flourishing of imagination and achievement in recorded history. In the 4th and 5th centuries BC, the Greeks built an empire that stretched across the Mediterranean from Asia to Spain. They laid the foudnation of modern science, politics, warfare and philosophy, and produced some of the most breathtaking art and architecture the world has ever seen. The first segment tells the story of the troubled birth of the world's first democracy, ancient Athens, through the life of an Athenian nobleman, Cleisthenes. The program closes on the eve of the new society's first great test: invasion by the mighty empire of Persia.
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Treasure Hunt
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The Rough Scientists step up their search for gold. The deadline is looming for series host Kate Humble and the five Rough Scientists, who must find and extract enough gold to make a souvenir of their stay on New Zealand's south island. As the tension mounts, Kate sets three tough challenges: to extract gold from rock and sand, to build an altimeter, and to use the altimeter to find buried gold from a treasure map.
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What is Music?
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This program examines sound-waves: why some sounds are musical and others just noise, and the relationship of regularity or irregularity of vibration to the perception of musicality, as well as such non-scientific questions as the cultural content of musical perception.
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Essence of an Instrument, The
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Program analyzes the essential features required in any instrument if a usable musical sound is to be produced. Program examines how energy can be provided, how sound can be amplified, how amplification changes the quality of sound, and the consequences for music produced by synthesizers and computers.
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Science, Strings and Symphonies
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Two groups of instruments use strings as the primary source of sound: those in which plucking set the strings in vibration, and the bowed strings. This program shows how the demand for more powerful sounds was met, and examines the instruments of Stradivari to determine what science can and cannot reveal about their magic. It also examines the ways in which scientific methods complement the skill of craftsmen in making instruments.
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Technology, Trumpets, and Tunes
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Despite its title, this program actually covers all the wind instruments, including the pipe organ. It considers the way in which the technology of making instruments has affected the course of musical development, particularly the development of valves for trumpets and Boehm's system of woodwind keys. The program examines the subject of vibrations in tubes, the role of finger holes, and the components of tone quality. It concludes by putting a camera inside a large church organ to show what happens inside this marvelous combination of thousands of pipes, hundreds of yards of pneumatic tubing or electric cables, and countless valves or relays in response to the movements of the organist's hands and feet.
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Scales, Synthesizers, and Samplers
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This program covers such problems as the production of varying degrees of loudness on harpsichords and spinets, the mechanical engineering of the modern piano, the origin of scales, and the inability of keyboard instruments to produce scales in all keys exactly in tune. Synthesizers demonstrate both the problem and its solution. The progression is from electronic organs to analogue synthesizers, from purely electronic oscillations to the addition, subtraction, multiplication, mixing, and performance of additional functions that comprise the complex sounds of music. The program also looks at digital sound and musique concrète, using the BBC Radiophonic Workshop to answer some of the questions about the partnership between science and music.
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Bones and Joints
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The effect of sports on bones and joints are shown as Dr. David Michaely diagnoses and treats injuries suffered by the Harvard University football team. Discusses movement and the human skeleton; structure and function of joints; effects of exercise; degenerative diseases; and bone growth, injury, treatment, and repair.
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People and the Power Game, The
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Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Hedrick Smith leads viewers into the shadows of American government, casting light on the influence of mainstream media and the lobbies, the power showdowns between the White House and Congress, and how their colliding agendas often produce gridlock.
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Fallacy of Global Warming, The
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Experts examine global warming by analyzing satellite images, archival weather records, tree rings, core samples from the ocean floor, and air frozen into ancient ice to investigate climatic changes over the past 250,000 years. After factoring in the effects of orbital variations, sunspots, volcanoes, and sulfur dioxide aerosols, scientists theorize that recent global warming is not as abrupt - nor as potentially cataclysmic - as previously believed.
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Alfred Kinsey: Social Science in America's Bedroom
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Sexuality was the last uncharted realm of social science until a controversial biology professor named Alfred Kinsey walked into America's bedroom and turned on the light. In this program, John Bancroft, director of The Kinsey Institute; James H. Jones, author of Alfred Kinsey : A Public/Private Life; and Kinsey's former colleague Paul Gebhard engage in a thoughtful assessment of Kensey's findings--data weakened, however, by the makeup of Kinsey's sample population, his own sexual experiences, and his desire to see a more inclusive ethic of tolerance in the U.S. Nonetheless, as a tool of social reform, Kinsey's work succeeded in opening a channel in the public discourse on a hitherto taboo subject.
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Climate Change: Science vs. Politics
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This program explores the dynamic interplay between science and policymaking. Though the world community has come to recognize the threat of global warming, the economic interests of each country have thwarted the development of a unified strategy. In Europe, environmental groups have despaired of relying on governments to take action. Instead, they lobby the banks to withhold financing from industries that contribute to the greenhouse effect.
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Science of Cloning, The
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In July 1996, Dr. Ian Wilmut used an electric charge to bring dormant cells to life, and from these cells a sheep named Dolly--the world's first cloned mammal--was created. This program begins by tracing the history of such genetic reproduction technology as in vitro fertilization, parthenogenosis, and genetic therapy--antecedents of modern cloning practices. Computer graphics then illustrate the biomechanics of cloning. Cloning's implications for biology, medicine, and agriculture are discussed. Harvard neurobiologist Dr. Lisa Geller discusses the possible role of cloning in the prevention of extinction, the creation of "super" breeds of animals, the curing of disease, and the growth of human organs needed for transplant.
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New Energy Sources
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As the need for energy increases while sources of petroleum are known to be running out, the search is on for cleaner and safer fuels. This program looks at tidal energy, which is renewable and does not cause atmospheric pollution, and at a new form of energy that may supply the engines of our future; green petroleum, which is manufactured from plants.
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Chemistry
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This program begins by summarizing the theoretical foundations of chemistry and explains the fundamentals of chemical bonding and reactions. It also deals with an interesting application of chemistry - brewing beer - and with chemical synthesis, which enables mankind to produce almost any chemical compound from almost any other.
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Fighting Pollution
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This program examines what is being done to fight pollution. Three examples are discussed: the filtration processes used to purify drinking water, the purification of industrial and sewage waste waters, and pyrolysis by vacuum, a procedure that makes possible the recycling of such troublesome waste as tires.
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Exploring Virtual Reality
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Examines the technology of virtual reality and the use of computers to simulate diverse acoustic sounds and reproduce the sounds of traditional instruments. Also focuses on the use of virtual reality to control robots who perform dangerous tasks.
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Physics and Physiology of Sports
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When we engage in sports activity, we are usually not aware of the scientific way in which the activity combines the principles of physics and physiology. This program describes the principles governing the following sports activities: scuba diving, flying, sailing, and gymnastics. Content ranges from nitrogen bubbles and the "bends" through the Bernoulli principle to semicircular canals, all essential constituents of our sporting activities.
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Communication Techniques
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Videotape no.5383
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Examines three communication technologies including photocopiers, cellular telephones, and computer systems that transcribe text into speech and will recognize the human voice. Explains how these technologies work and what their potential uses might be.
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Demography
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Videotape no.4883
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This program explains how demography works and how it predicts population movement and future growth, as well as how survey techniques work and how they are used. It also broaches the concept of human races which, according to scientists cited here, has no biological foundation, anatomically or genetically.
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Energy
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Videotape no.4361
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Living things consume energy. In nature, the energy of the sun is what nourishes plants, animals and human beings. However, man has learned to harness other forms of energy, such as electricity, which was largely responsible for the development of industrial societies. Scientists are also trying to master new energy forms. Hydrogen, available in unlimited quantities in water, is one of the resources of the future.
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