Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers
(1990)Streaming Episode Guide
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Season 15
Robot Pals
Episode 10 - 4-13-2005
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Cybersenses
Episode 9 - 4-06-2005
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The Secret Canyon
Episode 8 - 3-30-2005
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6/10Hydrogen Hopes
Episode 6 - 2-23-2005
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Hot Planet - Cold Comfort
Episode 5 - 2-16-2005
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Going Deep
Episode 3 - 2-02-2005
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Cars That Think
Episode 2 - 1-26-2005
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Surgical Slimmers
Episode 1 - 1-19-2005
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Season 14
Coming Into America
Episode 6 - 7-20-2004
“Coming into America” explores how prehistoric immigrants (host Alan Alda calls them “the true American pioneers”) might have arrived here---up to 20,000 years ago. Conventional wisdom has been that the “Clovis people” made their way down from Siberia about 13,000 years ago and spread out. But archaeologists interviewed point to artifacts in various places around the U.S. that are far older---and there's evidence that the ice sheets remained in place longer than previously thought---casting doubt on that theory.
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Hot Times in Alaska
Episode 4 - 6-15-2004
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Future Car
Episode 3 - 5-19-2004
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Don't Forget
Episode 2 - 5-11-2004
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Losing It
Episode 1 - 1-20-2004
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Season 13
Worried Sick
Episode 10 - 6-03-2003
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You Can Make it On Your Own
Episode 9 - 4-08-2003
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Calls of the Wild
Episode 8 - 4-01-2003
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The Wonder Pill
Episode 7 - 2-18-2003
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Deep Crisis
Episode 6 - 1-28-2003
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Mysteries of the Deep
Episode 5 - 11-26-2002
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Forever Wild
Episode 4 - 11-05-2002
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The Intimate Machine
Episode 3 - 10-22-2002
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Make Up Your Mind
Episode 2 - 10-15-2002
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Unearthing Secret America
Episode 1 - 10-08-2002
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Season 12
A Different Way to Heal?
Episode 10 - 6-04-2002
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Body Building
Episode 9 - 5-28-2002
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Games Machines Play
Episode 8 - 5-21-2002
Science and engineering students participate in a design contest, an aerial robot contest, a human powered submarine race and robot soccer games.
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Beneath the Sea
Episode 7 - 5-14-2002
New technologies and research techniques, some from the work of pioneer oceanographer Robert Ballard, open up the oceans' depths to humans.
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On the Ball
Episode 6 - 3-19-2002
Science and technology improves on sports.
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Growing Up Different
Episode 5 - 11-13-2001
Medical treatments for children with physical disabilities.
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Alien Invasion
Episode 4 - 11-06-2001
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Dead Men's Tales
Episode 3 - 10-30-2001
Scientists reconstruct past events from evidence of excavated remains.
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The Gene Hunters
Episode 2 - 10-23-2001
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Pet Tech
Episode 1 - 10-16-2001
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Season 11
Fat and Happy?
Episode 10 - 5-01-2001
Alan Alda explores the real science behind fad foods, eating habits and lifestyles.
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Flying Free
Episode 9 - 4-10-2001
Join aviation engineer Paul MacCready and Alan Alda as they test fly a variety of unconventional planes.
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Chimps R Us
Episode 8 - 4-03-2001
Get to know chimpanzees, how they socialize with each other, new dangers they face, and just how similar our species truly are.
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The Bionic Body
Episode 7 - 3-27-2001
Researchers are uniting biology and technology to give hope to the paralyzed.
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Wild Places
Episode 6 - 2-06-2001
Alan Alda learns that sometimes saving endangered species requires restoring whole ecosystems.
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Life's Little Questions II
Episode 5 - 1-30-2001
Why can't you tickle yourself? Is laughter uniquely human? These little questions might have some big answers.
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Affairs of the Heart
Episode 4 - 1-23-2001
Learn about advances in the repair and replacement of the hard-working heart.
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Life's Really Big Questions
Episode 3 - 12-19-2000
How did life arise on Earth? What separates humans from apes? Will machines one day invent themselves? Learn more here.
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SuperPeople
Episode 2 - 11-28-2000
Discover the science behind people who push themselves to the limits of human performance.
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Changing Your Mind
Episode 1 - 11-21-2000
Some of the nations top neuroscientists uncover new evidence of our brain's ability to change.
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Season 6
21st Century Medicine
Episode 5 - 4-03-1996
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Creatures of the Deep
Episode 4 - 2-07-1996
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Flying High
Episode 3 - 1-17-1996
In the episode entitled, "Flying High" (Robo Flyers segment), Alan Alda travels to the Georgia Institute of Technology to film the International Aerial Robotics Competition and to interview its creator, Prof. Robert C. Michelson.
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Dragon Science
Episode 2 - 11-08-1995
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Wild West
Episode 1 - 10-04-1995
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Season 2
Episode 10
Episode 5 - 2-12-1992
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Special from France
Episode 4 - 1-15-1992
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Episode 08
Episode 3 - 12-18-1991
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Episode 02
Episode 2 - 11-20-1991
In the episode entitled, "Sci-Fly", Scientific American Frontiers comes to the Georgia Institute of Technology to film the International Aerial Robotics Competition and its creator, Prof. Robert C. Michelson during its inaugural year. The competition involved fully autonomous aerial robots attempting to complete a complex task without human intervention.
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Episode 06
Episode 1 - 10-23-1991
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