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Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers Season 1 Episodes

  • 1990-2005
  • 15 Seasons
  • Documentary
  • TV-PG
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A TV version of Scientific American magazine hosted by Alan Alda. This show presents viewers with explorations and developments from the cutting edge of medicine, mechanical and chemical engineering, computer design, environmental science and theoretical physics.

Season 1 Episode Guide

Season 1

5 Episodes 1990 - 1991

Episode 1

Episode #1.1

Mon, Oct 1, 1990

The World's Scariest Roller-coaster; New Hearts for Newborns; Endangered Woodpecker Housing Crunch; Facing Feelings; Super-cool Arctic Squirrels.

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Episode 2

Episode #1.2

Wed, Nov 14, 1990

MIT's annual Engineering challenge Tennis-ball robots; Cultured Truffles; Deep Divers; Safer Firefighting.

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Episode 3

Episode #1.3

Wed, Dec 12, 1990

Killer Whale Language Study; Pinpoint Cancer Radiation Therapy; Invasion of the Pupae Snatchers - Parasite Ants; Just Add Water - Scientific American High School Science/Engineering challenge; Frozen Assets - Swiss Hydroelectricity and Glaciers.

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Episode 4

Special from the Soviet Union

Wed, Jan 9, 1991

Russian Technology - Russian Angioplasty using U.S. Stent materials; Preserving the endangered Great Bustard; High Stakes Math - Tetris Game inventor and Earthquake Prediction; Klutzy Kosmonauts - the effects of long term space travel; Digging Up the Past - Archeology in Turkmenistan ; Tricky Trapeze - development of a new Moscow Circus act.

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Episode 5

Episode #1.5

Wed, Feb 27, 1991

Tokyo finals of MIT's annual engineering challenge Tennis-ball robots, Bringing up Monkey nature vs nurture, Smithsonian model ecosystems basement biomes, reduced sleep schedules, pizza-bot.

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