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| 1 :01x01 - Technology: World War 2.0 (Oct/03/2007) | | The first-season opener of the technology-science magazine examines the Internet botnet attack that targeted Estonia in April and May of 2007. Also: heart surgery performed by a robot; why home-chemistry sets have disappeared; technology that helps children with Asperger's syndrome. | |
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| 2 :01x02 - Earth: Flotsam Found (Oct/10/2007) | | Trash that has accumulated in the North Pacific Gyre; using water, wind and technology to fight fires; the impact of global warming on plant growth; new technology for detecting lies. | |
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| 3 :01x03 - Physics & Chemistry: Ball Busters (Oct/17/2007) | | The mechanical engineers who ensure that Major League baseballs have the requisite hardness and bounce; redesigning wheelchairs; cloned animal meat and milk; Hawaii Institute of Geophysics & Planetology associate researcher Milton Garces' studies of infrasonic waves. | |
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| 4 :01x04 - Health: Body Builders (Oct/24/2007) | | Dr. Anthony Atala (Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine) discusses growing organs in laboratories. Also: underground neutrino labs; searching for outer-space rocks in Kansas wheat fields; unmanned aerial vehicles. | |
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| 5 :01x05 - Health: Blood Simple (Oct/31/2007) | | Analog vs. digital sound; the tongue as a surrogate eye; the X PRIZE Foundation's competitions, which offer $10 million prizes to people who can solve major challenges; the solar power of the future. | |
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| 6 :01x06 - Health: Bio Banking (Nov/07/2007) | | The peak-water crisis faced by Southwestern desert communities; analog vs. digital sound; using a disposable camera for high-speed photography; the X PRIZE Foundation's competitions, which offer $10 million prizes to people who can solve big challenges; a biobank, which houses body parts, organs and tissue. | |
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| 8 :01x08 - Technology: Geek Dad: Japanese Robots (Nov/21/2007) | | Competitive robot building; Linda Avey and Anne Wojcicki, cofounders of 23andMe, on their goal of providing people information about their genomes; using electricity to fight the symptoms of various diseases; making hot ice; the International Rocketbelt Convention in Niagara Falls, N.Y.; using lasers to preserve ancient sites. | |
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| 9 :01x09 - Space & Flight: Space Junkyard (Dec/19/2007) | | Building spaceships by reverse-engineering 40-year-old technology; Carnegie Mellon computer scientist Louis von Ahn on digitizing books; a device that helps blind patients “see” with their tongues; geneticist J. Craig Venter; the role of science in making good wines. | |
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| 10 :01x10 - Earth: Icy Depths (Dec/26/2007) | | Searching for new life forms in the Arctic Ocean; creating smokeless gunpowder from cotton balls; the Wired LivingHome, an ecofriendly, technologically advanced home in L.A.; West Virginia's "quiet zone," where radio astronomers search for life on other planets; creating "perfect water" for movies; how a cold medicine relieves symptoms. | |
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