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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
Last week, we took a look at how mercury enters the San Francisco Bay. This week: Now that it's here, how is it affecting us? Quest talks to local fisherman, a physician, and a Bay ecologist to find out how we're contending with the Bay's worst toxin.
Listen to this Radio Report Air Date: Apr 24 2008
Journey back in time to the birth of the Bay Area's environmental movement. Meet the everyday people who rescued the Bay Area from environmental disaster and continue to inspire a new generation.
Watch this TV Story Air Date: Apr 21 2008
You might not know it from the textbooks, but California's gold rush was also a mercury rush. Quicksilver mines near San Jose provided gold miners with the mercury they needed to separate gold from ore. 150 years later, we're still facing the consequences of gold-rush era mercury.
Watch this TV Story Air Date: Apr 18 2008
It's the largest laser beam in the world and it's being built in the Bay Area. The National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will shoot tremendous bursts of energy at an area the size of a pencil eraser. The goal? To create fusion ignition, a potential clean energy source for the 21st century.
Watch this TV Story Air Date: Apr 15 2008
In the early 1900's, researchers from UC Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology traveled around California and created detailed records of the wildlife they found. A century later, scientists are revisiting the same sites – they've found that global warming is already having an impact.
Watch this TV Story Air Date: Apr 15 2008
QUEST teams up with Make Magazine to construct the latest must have, do-it-yourself device hacks, whiz-bang gizmos and techno do-dads.
Watch this TV Story Air Date: Apr 15 2008
It's often said dogs and their owners resemble each other. Now, researchers at UC-San Francisco are looking for those connections on a whole new level. They're searching for the genes that cause common psychiatric problems in humans - by looking at the DNA of dogs.
Listen to this Radio Report Air Date: Apr 11 2008
Nature-Deficit Disorder/ Ugo Conti's Spider Boat
- Fri, May 16 at 2:00PM, on KQED Channel 9
- Fri, May 16 at 2:00PM, on KQED HD
- Fri, May 16 at 8:00PM, on KQED HD
- Fri, May 16 at 11:00PM, on KQED HD
- Sat, May 17 at 6:30AM, on KQED Channel 9
- Sat, May 17 at 6:30AM, on KQED HD
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