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NATURE | From Orphan to King | Language Skills | PBS (#2207)
An orangutan could 'speak' using 30 different signs, naming a hat, a wristwatch or a flower. From NATURE'S FROM ORPHAN TO KING airing November 25th at 8pm EST on PBS (check local listings.) Kidnapped ... 01:57
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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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International Pollination Symposium (#111)
Full Program: On June 27, 2007 at the International Pollination Symposium at Iowa State University, Marla Spivak from the University of Minnesota and Jeff Pettis from the USDA-ARS Bee Research Laboratory in Beltsville, ...
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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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NATURE | The Cheetah Orphans | Learning to Hunt | PBS (#2503)
Orphaned cubs Toki and Sambu, hand-reared by wildlife filmmaker Simon King, make the crucial transition to hunting on their own in the "NATURE" film "The Cheetah Orphans," premiering on PBS Sunday, November ... 01:22
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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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DragonflyTV Kids Do Science - Glo Germ
As the weather gets colder, kids seem to share a lot more germs. As busy scientists, we don't have time to get sick. Our DFTV question: how can we avoid spreading germs and viruses to our friends and ... 05:11
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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





















