KQED TV World Channel Daily Schedule

07:00 AM: Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:00:00 PDT

Tentatively scheduled: "Aravind Eye Hospital" - Fred de Sam Lazaro visits the Aravind Eye Hospital in Madurai for a look at its growing social mission to provide eye treatment and care to many of the world's poorest patients.

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07:30 AM: Bill Moyers Journal

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:30:00 PDT

This week, BMJ gets insight from 3 leading public thinkers who taught a unique course - "Christianity and the US Crisis" - at Union Theological Seminary, the oldest nondenominational seminary in the country. Renowned scholars Cornel West, Serene Jones, and Gary Dorrien offer a fresh take what our religious traditions and our core ethics and values as a nation say about America's politics, policy, and the challenges of balancing capitalism and democracy. "This is a society that has stoked and celebrated greed virtually to the point of self-destruction. We can't just go on saying, 'Well if we can just patch this thing up and get back to where we were, things will be all right.' And none of us believe that, so we also have to talk about what was wrong with the system to begin with that had outcomes that you can't really justify morally," says Dorrien.

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08:30 AM: Inside Washington

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:30:00 PDT

1. June unemployment figures rock the stock market as California begins issuing I.O.U.'s to pay its bills. Some wonder, "Where's the stimulus?"
2. Al Franken prepares to take his seat in the US Senate. Will the Democrats put an end to filibusters?
3. The US Supreme Court rules in favor of New Haven firefighters. How will the decision change the way employers hire and promote their workers?
4. US Marines launch a new initiative in Afghanistan while Iraqis celebrate the withdrawal of US forces from their cities.
5. Governor Sanford says he won't resign, even as he keeps giving his opponents more ammunition.

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09:00 AM: Washington Week

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:00:00 PDT

* US combat troops began pulling out of towns and cities in Iraq this week and transferring security duties to Iraqi forces. It's the first step in a plan to withdraw all US troops from the country by the end of 2011. Martha Raddatz of ABC News, who has been to Iraq 20 times since the war began 6 years ago, reports on the status of the troop withdrawal, whether Iraq's government and security forces are prepared to protect its country and whether US forces will really be able to step back. Plus, she'll have the latest on reports that an American soldier has been captured in eastern Afghanistan.
* In his first 5 months in office President Barack Obama has been able to push through a stimulus plan, take government control of automaker GM, and get climate control legislation passed in the House. An impressive record but can he also enact one of his top priorities, health care reform? Dan Balz of The Washington Post will have analysis of President Barack Obama's legislative strategy.
* This week the Minnesota Supreme Court confirmed that former comedian Al Franken won last November's Senate race against incumbent Republican Norm Coleman. Naftali Bendavid of The Wall Street Journal will examine the 8 month process to certify election results and how the decision means Democrats will now have crucial control of the US Senate to overcome a Republican filibuster.
* The US Supreme Court wrapped up its term overturning a ruling endorsed by Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's nominee to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Justice David Souter. The employment discrimination ruling could have broad implications on how companies use job-tests when considering hiring applicants and awarding promotions. Joan Biskupic of USA Today will explain the significance of the decision and look back on the career of retiring Justice Souter.

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09:30 AM: QUEST

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:30:00 PDT

When it comes to curve balls and line drives, it all comes down to a physics lesson. And check out the world's most powerful microscope in Berkeley, which is seeking out images of individual atoms.

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10:00 AM: Now on PBS

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:00:00 PDT

While they're putting the finishing touches on the controversial fence along the southern border between the US and Mexico, the outrage is far from over. The multi-billion dollar plan to build some 700 miles of fencing has been billed as the way to stem the flow of undocumented immigrants and provide security from potential terrorism. Maria Hinojosa travels to Texas to meet border families who fear losing their property, their safety, and their way of life. Many question if the fence can keep people from sneaking in at all. An even greater worry may be the virtual fence the Obama administration is planning for the remaining 1300 miles of border, at an estimated cost of nearly $7 billion. The problem? The new technology to complete the virtual fence has not been proven to work in the field.
Also this week, global warming is front and center in Washington with the passage of the climate bill in the House. We look below the surface at a growing body of evidence that suggests climate change is affecting the chemistry of the seas, which could have potentially catastrophic results on the way we live. Now travels deep into our oceans with a scientist from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and help from other researchers for a first hand look at this stunning sea change, and what we can do about it.

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10:30 AM: To The Contrary with Bonnie Erbe

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:30:00 PDT

REVERSING DISCRIMINATION: Judge Sonia Sotomayor's judicial record in question after the Supreme Court overturns her earlier ruling in the reverse discrimination case brought by a group of white New Haven firefighters.
BARRIERS OF WOMEN WORKING LONGER: How tax codes, bias, and legal barriers stand in the way of women who want to work past the traditional retirement age.
Panelists: Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD); Former EEOC Chair Cari Dominguez; Global Summit of Women President Irene Natividad; Former Labor Dept. Official Karen Czarnecki; and Wider Opportunities for Women's Joan Kuriansky.

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11:00 AM: McLaughlin Group

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:00:00 PDT

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11:30 AM: Inside Washington

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:30:00 PDT

12:00 PM: Bill Moyers Journal

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:00:00 PDT

01:00 PM: Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:00:00 PDT

01:30 PM: QUEST

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:30:00 PDT

02:00 PM: Make:

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:00:00 PDT

* Kinetic Wave Sculptures - We meet Reuben Margolin, a visionary maker who creates elegant and hypnotic techno-kinetic wave sculptures.
* Shopping Cart Chair - John Park shows us how to upcycle this no-longer-usable shopping cart into an easy chair.
* 1950 Studebaker - In this 'Hidden Treasures' segment, Mister Jalopy describes the unsung wonders of his old Studebaker.
* RoboStool - Steve Norris's remote-controlled robotic foot stool comes to him wherever he wishes to sit.
* Treadmill Bike - Brent Curry crosses a two-wheeled bike with a treadmill to allow the 'rider' to get a real walking workout outside.
* Foundry - 14 year olds, Oliver Ramin and A.J Brackovitc, make their own foundry for molding aluminum swords.
* Death Ray - Richard Whitney uses sunlight and the Fresnel lens from a rear projection television set to melt a steel security lock.

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02:30 PM: Natural Heroes

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:30:00 PDT

Meet six extraordinary young people who are recognized for their outstanding activism and achievements in the fields of environmental and social justice advocacy. Earth Island Institute established the Brower Youth Awards to honor founder and legendary environmental activist, David R. Brower and to call forth a new generation of leaders. "My secret," Dave Brower has said, "is to surround myself with bright, young people, stand back, then wallow in their accomplishments."

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03:00 PM: Great Conversations

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:00:00 PDT

Author Michael Kinsley discusses his book Creative Capitalism: A Conversation with Bill Gates, Warren Buffett And Other Economic Leaders, with James Surowiecki, staff writer of "The Financial Page" at The New Yorker. Michael Kinsley is a columnist for Time magazine. He was the founding editor of Slate, the nation's first online magazine. For many years he was the editor of The New Republic. He was host of CNN's "Crossfire" and served as the editorial page editor for The Los Angeles Times, and American Survey editor of The Economist. James Surowiecki's writings have appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Motley Fool, Foreign Affairs and Slate. Before joining the staff of The New Yorker he was a contributing editor at Fortune.
Creative Capitalism grew out of a blog set up purposely to produce a book that would take up the challenge delivered by Bill Gates at the 2008 World Economic Forum: how might fellow entrepreneurs, non-profit pioneers, economists, and other scholars pursue the idea of "creative capitalism" to address the growing gap between the rich and the poor in the global economy. The result is a provocative and absorbing response from over 40 of the most influential thinkers in the world of business, including three Nobel laureates and two former US cabinet secretaries.

04:00 PM: Innovate: Engineering Change

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:00:00 PDT

Hosted by Emmy-Award winning Helene Lerner, this program takes viewers under New York City's East River for a tricky installation that could provide a green energy alternative to New York as well as to other locales around America-and beyond.

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04:30 PM: PBS Previews: The National Parks: America's Best Idea

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:30:00 PDT

A sneak peek at Ken Burns' latest project, "The National Parks: America's Best Idea," premiering September 27th. The 6-part series tells the story of some of the most special places in the nation that have been preserved for everyone not just royalty and the rich. This is the story of America's National Parks.

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05:00 PM: History Detectives

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:00:00 PDT

* Manhattan Project - A contributor is certain that his father worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. His father refused to talk about his war assignment, except to say that he sold his patent to the U.S. government for a single dollar. Along with the patent, the contributor has a letter from the Atomic Energy Commission stating that his father's patent had been declassified. Was this invention used to build the atomic bomb? To find out, Wes Cowan travels to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and discovers a plan to hide atomic secrets in plain sight.
* Galleon Shipwreck - A woman in Portland, Oregon, has a large chunk of what she believes is very old beeswax. This 23-pound block, dug up on the northern Oregon coast in the late 1930s, seems to have been deliberately carved with strange markings. For centuries, ships carried beeswax on trade routes from the Far East to the American Pacific Coast. Could this beeswax have been cargo on a legendary ship that foundered more then 300 years ago? And what do those odd markings mean? Elyse Luray goes to the Bee Lab at Oregon State University to decipher where the beeswax came from and visits an archaeologist in Olympia, Washington, to track which ship may have brought it to the Oregon coast.
* Creole Poems -A fan from Chicago recently unearthed a French manuscript rolled in a cardboard tube. "Duplessis," his great-grandmother's mother-in-laws surname, is jotted in a margin, and "Rouzan," his grandmother's maiden name, appears at the bottom of another page. No one in the family knows anything about it, but the contributor, who reads a little French, thinks he has a collection of love poems, possibly written to one of his relatives. What is this? And why has his family kept it for 160 years? The questions lead Gwendolyn Wright to New Orleans and to a piece of family history the contributor had never known.

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06:00 PM: McLaughlin Group

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:00:00 PDT

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06:30 PM: Now on PBS

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:30:00 PDT

07:00 PM: QUEST

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:00:00 PDT

07:30 PM: Wild Chronicles

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:30:00 PDT

* News from Nature - In Gombe, Tanzania, experts from U.S. based Sustainable Harvest help farmers create a viable coffee crop that benefits both the local economy and a famed chimp population. By improving production processes and utilizing shade-grown coffee trees, farmers produce a more consistent and more profitable bean. In turn, the better bean results in less pressure to clear-cut the forest canopy, increasing protection for the chimp's habitat.
* Stories from the Wild - Levees built by farmers in rural Illinois nearly a century ago cut the Emiquon Preserve from the Illinois River, reducing wetlands to cornfields. Recent restoration work has refilled the wetlands with water and provided a home to birds, waterfowl, aquatic plants and fish. But with the levees still in place, a team of scientists examines the potential impact of reconnecting the wetlands to its lifeblood, a river now changed by invasive species and floodwater from urban development.
* Field Reports - WC follows Nat Geo grantee Laura Ruykys over rocky cliffs in search of South Australia's most endangered mammal, the black-footed rock wallaby. Fewer than 100 of the wallabies remain in the wild due to hunting, introduced predators and changes in land management. Ruykys and a team of conservationists hope an accelerated breeding program that employs a more common wallaby relative as foster mom will increase black-footed wallaby populations and save the species from extinction in South Australia.
* Adventure and Exploration - Scientists from the Genographic Project, a landmark study seeking to trace the genetic lineage and migratory history of the human species, travel to Miami to launch the Genographic Spanish Language Kit. The results obtained from Miami's inhabitants, over half of whom are originally from Spanish-speaking countries, will help paint an increasingly detailed picture of how humans migrated across the globe over tens of thousands of years.

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08:00 PM: Globe Trekker

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:00:00 PDT

Alex Riley explores the glorious Spanish Islands, visiting the Balearics off the coast of Spain and the Canary Islands near Africa. He begins on the millionaires' playground that is Mallorca and hops over to Ibiza, where he goes clubbing with the beautiful people and then winds down at a yoga resort. Alex next travels to Formentera, a sparsely populated island famous for mud baths and massive boats. He then visits the Canary Islands, starting with Gran Canaria where he revels at the festival of the Virgen del Rosario and explores the island's ancient caves. On Tenerife, Alex hikes up the Tiede volcano, Spain's highest peak, and later swims alongside a mother whale and her calves. He tries kite surfing in Fuerteventura and later tests his corralling skills at a goat rodeo.

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09:00 PM: Nature

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:00:00 PDT

Filmed in the mountains of western Montana, this poignant, engrossing story focuses on an extraordinary wild stallion whose life has been recorded since his moment of birth in the wild by Emmy-winning filmmaker Ginger Kathrens. Ms. Kathrens' exceptional footage follows the striking white horse she names Cloud through a series of harrowing struggles and adventures, including expulsion from his own horse family, the rites of passage as he develops into a dominating stallion, his capture in a government roundup and subsequent release, the struggle to survive harsh winters and frequent summer lightning strikes, and the dangers posed by illegal horse shooters. As an illuminating visual record of the emergence of a natural leader, this is an unprecedented film about wild horses.

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10:00 PM: Nova

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:00:00 PDT

Explore the fascinating connection between music and the brain. Neurologist Oliver Sacks lends his expertise to examine how music influences us from the womb and may also help to combat diseases.

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11:00 PM: Nova scienceNOW

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:00:00 PDT

Breakthroughs in the engineering of artificial diamonds; the science that went into solving the deadly post-9/11 anthrax attacks and the ingenious technique researchers developed to pinpoint the source; "AutoTune," the controversial computer pitch-correction software that turns sour notes into sweet ones; and a profile of computer scientist Luis von Ahn.

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