Alan Alda in Scientific American... (1992-2008)

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New age techniques for dating have led archeologists to rethink who the first Americans were.

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The response to stress, ``fight or flight,'' has long term effects, causing ill health.

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Using technological advancements in creative ways, converting digital to tangible.

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Animal communication; flirting, eavesdropping and giving directions.

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The power of the placebo and its effects on feeling better and the brain.

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Salmon are at risk of becoming extinct; the future of long-distance ocean travelers.

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A forest in Alaska is in the process of becoming a marsh.

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The cars of tomorrow may be very different from the cars driven today.

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How people make memories and where they come from.

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Scientists try to figure out the body's complex weight-control systems.

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Scientists try to determine the cause for the decline in salmon and giant bluefin tuna.

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The brain's frontal lobes shape the personality.

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New techniques in dating cause paradigm shifts for archaeologists.

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Dark matter and dark energy.

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People apply pressure to some wild places to see what happens.

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The impersonal computer could become the ``intimate machine.''

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The brain's frontal lobes shape personality.

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Delving into the secrets of America's past; archaeology reveals information about the lives of...

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Scientists explore the depths of the ocean.

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Alternative and complementary therapies.

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Medical advances repair and replace human body parts.

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Science and engineering students participate in a design contest, an aerial robot contest, a human...

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New technologies and research techniques, some from the work of pioneer oceanographer Robert...

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Science and technology improves on sports.

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Medical treatments for children with physical disabilities.

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The impact of invasive species and viruses on environment and health.

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Scientists reconstruct past events from evidence of excavated remains.

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Geneticists Jim Watson, Eric Lander and Nancy Hopkins; growing heart blood-vessels.

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The convergence of technology with the family pet; parrot's cognitive abilities.

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The obesity epidemic in America; fad diets; activity and weight relationship.

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Engineer Paul MacCready; airplanes.

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Chimpanzees' thinking abilities, self-awareness and social lives; Jane Goodall.

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Re-engineering the human body; nerve regeneration; spinal-cord injuries; Christopher Reeve.

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Extinction; preserving or restoring wildlife habitats; conservation efforts.

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Alan Alda asks questions on topics like yawning and tickling.

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High-tech surgery and artificial implants try to fix heart problems; host Alan Alda.

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Scientists attempt to answer questions about life.

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People compete in a national memory contest.

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Researchers prove adults can grow new brain cells.

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A 10th-anniversary show includes 18-foot sharks, roaming robots, radioactive deer and rat soup.

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A voracious sea slug combats killer algae threatening the Mediterranean Sea; reconstructing an...

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The possibility of eternal life; understanding the aging process; doubling the lifespan of nematodes...

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Engineers use humans as models for designing robots.

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Alan Alda travels to the Galapagos Islands.

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Colonies of spiders inhabit the Amazonian rain forest; host Alan Alda.

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Alan Alda discovers surprising answers to trivial questions.

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Experiments show animals think like humans; host Alan Alda.

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Astronauts endure training for a mission to Mars.

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Caribbean; hawksbill; coral reefs; oceanic disaster; Trinidad; steel drum; active volcano.

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Zoos attempt to improve the lives of their animals and restore wild populations.

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Technology brings back art from the past and creates new works for the future.

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Viking longboats; genealogical tracking of Icelanders; life forms develop on a volcanic island;...

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Science facts and fictions.

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The rain forest of Panama; host Alan Alda.

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Dreaming, memory and language; differences in male and female brains.

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Game preserves in South Africa; progress against malaria; a 100,000-year-old humanoid.

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Host Alan Alda visits the state-of-the-art Media Lab at MIT; inanimate objects acquire intelligence...

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Using virtual reality to treat phobias; human gene manipulation; robotic surgeon.

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Oceanographic expedition; deep-sea creatures; shark-tracking in Hawaii.

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Examination of birds in flight; solar-powered aircraft; evolution of insects; flight decks become...

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Alan Alda goes to China; mummies; Chinese medicine; Southern Chinese rice paddy; site of the Three...

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Rattlesnakes of the Sonoran Desert; searching for gold in the Sierra Nevada; forensics; scorpions;...

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The process by which children develop; research shows how babies achieve the coordination needed to...

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Alan Alda visits a Caribbean island inhabited by only monkeys; Yerkes Primate Center in Atlanta.

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Host Alan Alda; Leaning Tower of Pisa; Mount Vesuvius; octopus shows learning skills; underground...

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An examination of foods includes consumption, cultures and cultivation.

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Host Alan Alda; the universe; evolution of life; extraterrestrial studies; robots.

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Baseball tips; rock-climbing; altitude sickness; sail-power.

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Police in psychiatric training; jungle ants; fire research; tree DNA; car-crash testing.

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Solar-car race; human submarine race; human computers.

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Advanced automobile; dragonflies; bird navigation; epilepsy treatments.

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Host Alan Alda explores the world of bionics which includes functional electric stimulation.

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Endangered ferret; heart transplant substitute; sailing therapy; reconstructing an ancient ocean...

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In the Middle East: coral reefs; Egyptian flutes; athlete training; saving storks; Sphinx...

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The fox of California's Channel Islands; dyslexic children learn to read; spider webs.

A robot with an advanced mind; an intelligent robot contest.

Speedy cheetahs; desert and arctic creatures; an enormous gun; a remarkably light metal.