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With gas prices rising, parking a headache, and a desire to reduce their carbon footprint, more and more San Franciscans are cycling. What are cities like San Francisco doing to help people who want to peddle rather than drive?
Listen to this Radio Report Air Date: May 9 2008
Watch a interview with Dr. Tyrone Hayes, Professor of Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley about his research into the effects of the pesticide Atrazine on frogs.
Watch this TV Story Air Date: May 6 2008
Think you know about frogs? Test your knowledge with our QUEST Quiz.
Watch this TV Story Air Date: May 5 2008
Around the world, frogs are declining at an alarming rate due to threats like pollution, disease and climate change. Frogs bridge the gap between water and land habitats, making them the first indicators of ecosystem changes. Meet the Bay Area researchers working to protect frogs across the state and across the world.
Watch this TV Story Air Date: May 5 2008
Do other planets like Earth exist? To find out, a team of astronomers from the University of California is building a new telescope in the hills east of San Jose. QUEST finds out what the chances are that there are others like ours somewhere in the cosmos.
Watch this TV Story Air Date: May 5 2008
For the past three years, the California Academy of Sciences, the oldest natural history museum in the West, has been housed in a temporary building in downtown San Francisco. Now the Academy is moving into a new, 400,000-square foot green building in Golden Gate Park. But when the residents are fish, penguins and millions of scientific specimens, moving in is no simple task.
Watch this TV Story Air Date: May 2 2008
What does our use of bottled water say about us? Take a look from the perspective of an anthropologist from the distant future.
Watch this TV Story Air Date: Apr 28 2008
Some of the most passionate astronomers don't even need to leave their own backyards. QUEST meets the amateur stargazers in the Bay Area who are making important observations about the cosmos and inventing tools at home to do it.
Watch this TV Story Air Date: Apr 28 2008
Is your face giving you away? Meet renowned psychologist Paul Ekman, who has spent his life studying how our facial muscles involuntarily reveal emotions like sadness and anger. His comprehensive catalog of human facial expressions has become an important tool for everyone from law enforcement agents to animators.
Watch this TV Story Air Date: Apr 28 2008
Dr Jane Hightower was one of the first Bay Area doctors to start diagnosing mercury poisoning in her patients. In this audio clip, she explains how to know if you might be getting too much mercury from the fish you eat. And, she tells us what she feeds her 10-year old twin boys. (Hint: No tuna fish sandwiches in the Hightower home.)
Listen to this Radio Report Air Date: Apr 24 2008
Disappearing Frogs/ Planet Hunters
- Tue, May 13 at 12:30PM, on KQED HD
- Tue, May 13 at 7:00PM, on KQED HD
Nature-Deficit Disorder/ Ugo Conti's Spider Boat
- Tue, May 13 at 7:30PM, on KQED Channel 9
- Tue, May 13 at 7:30PM, on KQED HD
- Thu, May 15 at 2:30AM, on KQED Channel 9
- Thu, May 15 at 2:30AM, on KQED HD
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