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Nova scienceNOW volume 2011, episode 4
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Episodes include: Dog genius; Creative dolphins; Octopus & cuttlefish; and Profile - Irene Pepperberg and her talking parrot, Alex.
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
This four-episode NOVA program investigates how the brain functions. Hosted by astrophysicist and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson, the first episode examines whether the secrets behind magic tricks are actually wired into the human brain. In the second episode, Tyson investigates artificial intelligence and whether a robot can really be created to act, learn and think like a human. Scientists study mind control by "hacking" into the human...
Series
Nova scienceNOW volume 2011, episode 6
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Host Neil deGrasse Tyson examines the emerging technologies of social robots, robotic cars, earthquake forecasting, smart power grids, and designer microbes. Includes a profile of Jay Keasling, a pioneer in the cutting-edge field of synthetic biology.
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
David Pogue gives the third degree to scientists pushing the limits of technology, not only to solve horrific murders, but to try to prevent crimes. Peer inside the criminal mind and discover cutting-edge forensic techniques that help investigators stop criminals in their tracks.
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Mobile phones that read your mind? Video games that can cure cancer? Wearable robots that give you the strength of Ironman? David Pogue predicts which technologies will transform our daily lives. These advancements are already taking shape in laboratories around the world, and gadgets that once were purely science fiction are on the verge of becoming as common as the iPhones and Androids Pogue reviews every day.
