Parasites that harm, parasites that help
This program contrasts pernicious and benign parasites through four case studies: a flesh-eating organism that nearly causes the facial disfigurement of a young woman; a mysterious malaria attack contracted by an American man who has never traveled ...
History's turning points: the marriage of Pocahontas
On the land of the Algonquins, 150 English settlers had built a trading post called James Town. And though Captain John Smith promised the Indians the colony was temporary, they saw it as a lie. He was captured and about to be stoned, when 13 year o...
History's turning points II: the shot that started the Great War
This program explains how the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand triggered the start of a world war. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire, arrived with his wife Sophie in the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo, on J...
History's turning points II: the Spanish Armada
In this program, the planned Spanish invasion of England fails and England dominates the waves. It is 1588 and the conflict between the Catholic Philip II of Spain and the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I of England is at a breaking point. In May, Phil...
History's turning points II: search for Troy
Heinrich Schliemann was a German grocer's boy who had made a fortune in the gold fields of California and became an archaeologist. He dug for three years at Hissarlik in modern Turkey, determined to prove that it was the site of the Troy of the anci...
Beauty: Survival of the Prettiest
Poetry leaves beauty to the eye of the beholder. Science, on the other hand, seems to have discovered its parameters—suggesting that the same array of facial components sparks attraction in every culture and country. Without fully surrendering to ...
How they sell
From the Turkish bazaar to the Mall of America, this program reveals the strategies being used to ensure that wallets and purses remain open for business. Retail anthropologist Paco Underhill, shopping center architect Eric Kuhne, retail analyst Cla...