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
Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers
This series continues to investigate a spectrum of absorbing scientific topics.
Upcoming Broadcasts:
Make Up Your Mind (#1302)
Duration:
56:46 CC Stereo DVI TVG
SAF discovers the "you" inside your head - the part of your mind, sitting right behind your forehead, that decides what you do every waking second of the day. The program reconstructs a 150-year-old accident that caused a railroad worker named Phineas Gage to lose his sense of self; sees children's reasoning powers gradually come online; and scans Alan Alda's brain as he struggles to make decisions while feeling cheated.
Channels and Airdates:
Mysteries of the Deep (#1305)
Duration:
56:46 CC Stereo DVI TVG
Scientists relay the stories of famous submarines and their pioneering crews - from the ill-fated Confederate secret weapon, Hunley, which carried out the world's first successful submarine attack, to the deep-diving Alvin, which found the Titanic and discovered life in the deep ocean.
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The Intimate Machine (#1303)
Duration:
56:46 CC Stereo DVI TVG
They're called personal computers, but human interactions with them are utterly impersonal, via keyboard and mouse. Alan Alda gets to communicate with computers that know who he is, where he is, what he' s doing and even how he's feeling. The ultimate such computer -actually a cute and cuddly robot - is being developed in a unique collaboration between Hollywood and MIT.
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Deep Crisis (#1306)
Duration:
56:46 CC Stereo DVI TVG
It's no accident that the ocean inhabitants we humans like to eat are the ones with the most uncertain futures. We follow efforts by biologists to figure out what's going on with salmon, once abundant on both East and West coasts of North America and now in catastrophic decline; and with the ocean-ranging giant bluefin tuna, which scientists have recently succeeded in tracking on its epic journeys between Europe and America.
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The Wonder Pill (#1307)
Duration:
56:46 CC Stereo DVI TVG
The placebo effect - for years sneered at as a distraction from "real" medical treatment - now turns out to be a true phenomenon and a potential addition to modern medicine.
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Calls of the Wild (#1308)
Duration:
56:46 CC Stereo DVI TVG
Eavesdrop on creatures as diverse as elephants and spiders, warblers and bees, crickets and bats. What are they saying - and why?
