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Around the Americas Expedition Team
Original Air Date: 7/19/10 | Season 1, Episode 26
Date Added: 7/20/10
On May 31, 2009, exploratory ship Ocean Watch departed from Seattle, Washington on a daring scientific expedition around the North and South American...

Assassin Spiders Around the World
Original Air Date: 12/10/10 | Season 1, Episode 32
Date Added: 12/13/10
They may be small, but assassin spiders are among the most dangerous spiders on the planet ?- if you're another spider, that is. Join arachnologist...

Can the Distant Past Teach Us About Modern Crisis?
Original Air Date: 2/12/10 | Season 1, Episode 16
Date Added: 2/22/10
Are we the first civilization to live through climate change? How have past societies engineered sustainable solutions to a shifting world?...

Carl Zimmer: A Planet of Viruses
Original Air Date: 6/24/11 | Season 1, Episode 37
Date Added: 6/25/11
"Scientists are discovering viruses faster than they can make sense of them," says science writer Carl Zimmer of the most rapidly-evolving organism on...

Debunking 2012 Myths with NASA's David Morrison
Original Air Date: 6/20/10 | Season 1, Episode 25
Date Added: 6/21/10
For years, NASA's David Morrison has been an active critic of fears that the world will end in 2012... and of imaginative con artists who use mass...

Expedition: Papua New Guinea with Jack Dumbacher
Original Air Date: 5/6/10 | Season 1, Episode 23
Date Added: 5/11/10
Biologist Jack Dumbacher, Curator of Birds and Mammals at the California Academy of Sciences, recounts stories of his field expeditions to Papua New...

Globalizing the Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Original Air Date: 3/4/10 | Season 1, Episode 18
Date Added: 3/9/10
What's new in the search for alien life? SETI Director and 2009 Ted Prize winner Jill Tarter describes her vision of a globalized search for...

Great Ideas of Biology with Nobel Laureate Sir Paul Nurse
Original Air Date: 4/12/10 | Season 1, Episode 27
Date Added: 7/31/10
From Mendel to Darwin, DNA to bio-medicine and beyond, join professor Paul Nurse as he recounts a few of biology's greatest achievements and...

Lera Boroditsky: How Language Shapes Thought
Original Air Date: 4/7/11 | Season 1, Episode 36
Date Added: 4/8/11
Do the languages we speak shape the way we think? And can learning new ways to talk change how you think? Stanford psychologist Lera Boroditsky...

Life's Future in the Cosmos
Original Air Date: 2/11/11 | Season 1, Episode 34
Date Added: 2/14/11
In this captivating lecture, Lord Martin Rees, President of the Royal Society and England's Astronomer Royal, brings a lifetime of cosmological...

Lucy's Legacy: the Quest for Human Origins
Original Air Date: 8/5/11 | Season 1, Episode 38
Date Added: 8/5/11
Donald Johanson changed our understanding of the past with his 1974 discovery of a 3.2 million year-old skeleton now known as "Lucy." In this talk,...

Mammals and Climate Change
Original Air Date: 4/19/10 | Season 1, Episode 28
Date Added: 8/24/10
How will global warming affect animal development? Stanford biology professor Elizabeth Hadly explains her globe-spanning work on understanding animal...

Mary Roach: Packing for Mars
Original Air Date: 9/11/10 | Season 1, Episode 30
Date Added: 9/13/10
What happens when you've been in space for a year? Is it possible to survive a bailout at 17,000 miles per hour? From the space shuttle training...

Poisons, Venoms and Pills: Toxicology 101
Original Air Date: 10/8/10 | Season 1, Episode 31
Date Added: 10/15/10
From pills in your medicine chest to a viper in the wilderness, join California Poison Control System MD Patil Armenian for this lecture on all the...

Robert Sapolsky: Are Humans Just Another Primate?
Original Air Date: 3/11/11 | Season 1, Episode 35
Date Added: 3/14/11
Just how much separates homo sapiens from our closest relatives in the animal kingdom? Not all that much, as it turns out. In this entertaining...

Science and Skepticism
Original Air Date: 9/2/10 | Season 1, Episode 29
Date Added: 9/3/10
How are science and skepticism related? Is skepticism a part of science, or is science a tool of skepticism? Science educator Dr. Eugenie Scott...

Science or Spin? The Politics of Global Warming
Original Air Date: 10/6/10 | Season 1, Episode 22
Date Added: 5/4/11
Climatologist Stephen Schneider tries to clarify the science behind the spin on global warming. Schneider explains why many scientists are frustrated...

The Genius in All of Us
Original Air Date: 4/29/10 | Season 1, Episode 21
Date Added: 4/30/10
Are genes just "blueprints" that doom some and bless others? Integrating cutting-edge research from a wide swath of disciplines, David Shenk explains...

The Male Brain: Understanding How Men and Boys Think
Original Air Date: 6/8/10 | Season 1, Episode 24
Date Added: 6/10/10
Neurobiologist Louann Brizendine follows up her bestselling The Female Brain with a discussion on her latest book, The Male Brain: A Breakthrough...

The World's Oldest Living Organisms
Original Air Date: 1/14/11 | Season 1, Episode 33
Date Added: 1/17/11
While we may aspire to live a century, Rachel Sussman documents creatures who don't bat an eye at a millennium or two. In this presentation, Sussman...

Tropical Plant Collecting Expeditions with Botanist Darin Penneys
Original Air Date: 3/18/10 | Season 1, Episode 19
Date Added: 3/23/10
Botanist Darin Penneys has braved dangerous beasts and explored exotic locales in his quest for unusual pant specimens from the Americas and China. In...

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