Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers: Robot Pals DVD

To be really useful, robots need to behave as a cooperative partners rather than mindless machines. We'll meet three robots � including a future member of an astronaut team � that are trying to better understand us.

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Length: 30 minutes on 1 Disc
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Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers: Cybersenses DVD

Replacement synthetic senses for people are now a reality. Children as young as 12 months are already getting artificial hearing - while the first trials of electronic retinas for the blind are just beginning.

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Production Year: 2005
Length: 30 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Subtitles: No
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers: The Secret Canyon DVD

The best kept secret of American archeology is now revealed - an entire canyon of perfectly preserved 1,000-year-old remains. Who were these people - and where did they come from?

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Production Year: 2005
Length: 30 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Subtitles: No
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers: Hidden Motives DVD

If you think you know why you do things, you're probably wrong. Exploring how our unconscious determines our behavior - including why we buy things that are "cool."

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Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2005
Length: 30 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Subtitles: No
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers: Going Deep DVD

A look back at the decades of effort that culminated in the deep sub Alvin reaching the ocean floor, and a look forward to what's next now Alvin's retiring.

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Production Year: 2005
Length: 30 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Subtitles: No
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers: Hydrogen Hopes DVD

We've all heard of hydrogen as the fuel of the future, but what will it take to get there from here? How can we create hydrogen from renewable sources like the sun - and how do we store it safely once we've got it?

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Production Year: 2005
Length: 30 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Subtitles: No
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers: Hot Planet - Cold Comfort DVD

So you think global warming won't affect you? Wait until the great Atlantic Conveyor shuts down. And find out what's already happening in Alaska.

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Production Year: 2005
Length: 30 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Subtitles: No
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers: Chimp Minds DVD

A visit with an engaging if unruly bunch of cousins that we formally broke up with about 6 or 7 million years ago - with whom we share almost all of our genes but not a lot of our lifestyle. Why the difference? Maybe it's in how we learn.

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Production Year: 2005
Length: 30 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Subtitles: No
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers: Cars that Think DVD

The fully automatic car may be down the road a ways, but cars that do your thinking for you are just around the corner -- they watch out for hazards, they listen to you, they read your lips, they even know when you're distracted.

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Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2005
Length: 30 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Subtitles: No
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers: Surgical Slimmers DVD

In spite of the risks, people are lining up to solve their weight problems in the operating room. And if the latest device -- an implantable stomach "pacer" -- works out, millions more will be taking the surgical way out.

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Production Year: 2005
Length: 30 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Subtitles: No
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers: Coming into America DVD

Who were the first Americans? Did they get here by land or sea? Did a single group populate the continent, or did many? Experts used to agree that the first Americans walked across the Bering land bridge from Asia about 12,000 years ago, eventually colonizing all of North and South America. But exciting recent finds at sites on both continents have triggered new theories. Alan Alda tries to find out who's saying what, and why.

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Production Year: 2004
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Subtitles: No
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers: Mysteries of the Deep DVD

"Into the Deep" watches scientists unlock secrets from the last frontier on Earth--the ocean's depths, where explorer Bob Ballard is changing science, history, and the future. "The Uncivilized Engine of War" traces the world's first submarine attack--on the Union warship Housatonic, in February 1864. In 1995, after a lengthy search, shipwreck hunter Clive Cussler's team located the Confederate sub Hunley, now in dry dock in South Carolina.

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Color: Yes
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Production Year: 2002
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Subtitles: No
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers: The Dark Side of the Universe DVD

Alan Alda joins some of the world's leading astronomers as they wrestle with the startling implications of their latest discoveries: that everything we can see, from the world around us to the most distant galaxies, is only a tiny fraction of the entire cosmos. Most of what's out there is dark -- either dark matter or dark energy. And our universe is perhaps only one in an infinity of universes.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2004
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Subtitles: No
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers: Hot Times in Alaska DVD

Alaska is warming up. It's now a few degrees warmer than it was a century and a half ago, and the trend seems to be accelerating. Already the landscape is changing dramatically -- permafrost is thawing, glaciers are melting, forests are succumbing to drought and insect attack. Alan Alda meets Alaskan scientists who are working to find out if these are the first signs of global warming and what the future may hold.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2004
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Subtitles: No
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers: Future Car DVD

Alan Alda visits the research labs and test tracks of the Big Three auto makers to find out what people will be driving in the future. Alda test-drives several hydrogen-fueled cars still in development. The search for a fast, safe, exciting and non-polluting fuel-cell car takes Alda from Germany to California to Iceland, which is attempting to become the first nation to entirely replace imported petroleum with domestically produced hydrogen.

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Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2004
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Subtitles: No
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers: Don't Forget! DVD

Alan Alda investigates how people create memories and how as they age, memories become slippery and elusive, sometimes vanishing forever. He visits two men who live entirely in the present or the distant past, unable to recall events that happened even a few minutes ago. He also meets a volunteer in an experimental treatment for Alzheimer's disease and gets the latest on the search for an Alzheimer's vaccine.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2004
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Subtitles: No
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers: Losing It DVD

This sequel to a popular FRONTIERS episode, "Fat and Happy--," tackles the basic problem that confronts those who are overweight -- how to lose weight and keep it off over the long term. In a FRONTIERS-sponsored experiment, the cameras follow a dozen subjects for several months as they adopt different strategies for weight loss, ranging from online diet systems to gastric bypass surgery.

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2004
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Subtitles: No
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : United States

Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers: Worried Sick DVD

Stress is the curse of modern living -- but is it actually so new? Does it only affect people? Can you really get sick from stress? Can relaxation make you better?

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Color: Yes
Stereo: Yes
Production Year: 2003
Length: 60 minutes on 1 Disc
Closed Captioned: Yes
Subtitles: No
Number of Programs: 1
Country Of Origin : China

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