KQED DTV Channels
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KQED 9HD
Comcast 9 and 709
Digital 9.1, 54.2 or 25.1All widescreen and HD programs
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KTEH 54
Comcast 10
Digital 9.2, 54.1 or 25.2KTEH TV from San Jose in Silicon Valley
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KQED Life
Comcast 189
Digital 54.3Arts, food, how-to, gardening, travel
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KQED World
Comcast 190
Digital 9.3History, world events, news, science, nature
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V-Me
Comcast 191 & 621
Digital 54.5 or 25.324-hour national Spanish-language network
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KQED Kids
Comcast 192
Digital 54.4Quality children's programming parents love too
More from KQED
Human Senses
This sensory romp around the globe goes in search of the biological roots of our senses to uncover the reasons why particular sights, sounds, smells and tastes have such powerful effects on us. How do we manage to block out intense pain? How does our sense of balance keep working under the most extreme conditions? Live action combined with special effects creates incredible imagery to convey the 'feeling' of how our senses work. As an alarm bell goes off, we 'see' the noise, slowed down thousands of times. Ripples of sound roll towards us; we spin around and follow a sound wave as it travels into the dark outer ear canal.
Upcoming Broadcasts:
Hearing/Balance (#102)
Duration:
49:55 CC Stereo
Sound can have a very powerful effect on how we feel about the world. Nigel Marven is on a quest to track down the sounds which have the most powerful emotional effects on us. Balance is our true sixth sense - it enables us to sense how our bodies are moving around in the world and keep us upright. There are only two kinds of animal that spend their whole lives performing the tricky balancing act of walking on two legs - humans and some flightless birds, like ostriches.
Channels and Airdates:
Sun, Nov 22, 2009 -- 5:00 am
Touch/Vision (#103)
Duration:
50:52 CC Stereo
Humans are very sensitive to touch, but different parts of our body have different sensitivities. Nigel demonstrates that when it comes to our sense of touch, humans are similar to elephants. Nigel Marven sets out to discover why we are excellent at seeing some things, but sometimes miss what's right in front of our eyes.
Channels and Airdates:
Wed, Nov 25, 2009 -- 9:00 am email reminder
Wed, Nov 25, 2009 -- 12:00 pm email reminder
Sat, Nov 28, 2009 -- 11:00 pm email reminder
Sun, Nov 29, 2009 -- 5:00 am email reminder
