Scientific American Frontiers

  • Premiered: Oct 1990
  • Episodes: 96
  • Followers: 1
  • Ended
  • PBS
  • Unknown
  • Documentary

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Season 11
11x1
Changing Your Mind
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Air date
Nov 21, 2000
Some of the nations top neuroscientists uncover new evidence of our brain's ability to change.
11x2
SuperPeople
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Air date
Nov 28, 2000
Discover the science behind people who push themselves to the limits of human performance.
11x3
Life's Really Big Questions
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Air date
Dec 19, 2000
How did life arise on Earth? What separates humans from apes? Will machines one day invent themselves? Learn more here.
11x4
Affairs of the Heart
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Air date
Jan 23, 2001
Learn about advances in the repair and replacement of the hard-working heart.
11x5
Life's Little Questions II
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Air date
Jan 30, 2001
Why can't you tickle yourself? Is laughter uniquely human? These little questions might have some big answers.
11x6
Wild Places
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Air date
Feb 06, 2001
Alan Alda learns that sometimes saving endangered species requires restoring whole ecosystems.
11x7
The Bionic Body
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Air date
Mar 27, 2001
Researchers are uniting biology and technology to give hope to the paralyzed.
11x8
Chimps R Us
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Air date
Apr 03, 2001
Get to know chimpanzees, how they socialize with each other, new dangers they face, and just how similar our species truly are.
11x9
Flying Free
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Air date
Apr 10, 2001
Join aviation engineer Paul MacCready and Alan Alda as they test fly a variety of unconventional planes.
11x10 Season finale
Fat and Happy?
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Air date
May 01, 2001
Alan Alda explores the real science behind fad foods, eating habits and lifestyles.

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