Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers

Seasons

1990

USA

8.6

TV-PG

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.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Episode #1.1

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

S1 • E2

Episode #1.2

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

S1 • E3

Episode #1.3

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.

S1 • E4

Special from the Soviet Union

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.

S1 • E5

Episode #1.5

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.