Fracking: America's Energy Revolution - Program 1: The Science
About this title: Details the extraordinary science and technology involved in the process of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Explains that the process developed in America, where land owners also own the mineral rights to their properties. Focus...
Fracking: America's Energy Revolution - Program 2: The Economics
About this title: This episode focuses on the geopolitics and economic issues associated with further development of America's energy resources. It traces the history of America's oil industry, the geopolitics of oil production during the 70's, the ...
Neuroscience - Program 1: Brain Basics
About this title: This episode provides an historical perspective on the development of neuroscience, the cross-disciplinary study of brain functionality. The "Grand Discoveries" of Neuroscience occured when microscopes enabled scientists to view ne...
Neuroscience - Program 4: The Thinking and Social Brain
About this title: Bill explains that the central focus of 21st century cognitive neuroscience is the relationships between perception, learning, memory, language, and selective attention--in other words, the relationship between neuroscience and psy...
Neuroscience - Program 3: The Developing Brain
About this title: The opening section address the question, "Why study the brain?" It offers a number of behavioral and mental health issues that may benefit from the study of neuroscience. Neuroscientists have tackled studies of the evolution of th...
Neuroscience - Program 2: Mapping the Brain
About this title: With the help of computer modeling, the second episode highlights brain functions and brain organization. A human brain is dissected to reveal the anatomy of cerebellum, cerebrum, the cerebral cortex, white matter, the corpus callo...
Neuroscience - Program 5: The Brain, Computers and Technology
About this title: This episode considers how the neuroscience revolution is affecting our understanding of what it is to be human. For example, neuro-biological devices developed in this century enable repairs to the brain after injury or stroke. Th...