Schedules
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04/03/2023 4:00 pm |
Space Probes! |
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| Voyager 1 and 2 were launched almost 40 years ago and continue to stun the world. | |||||
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04/03/2023 4:30 pm |
Space Probes! |
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| Cassini-Huygens has provided a detailed account of Saturn. | |||||
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04/03/2023 5:00 pm |
The Lightbulb Moment |
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| When first presented with the like button Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg worried that a quick thumbs up or down would discourage more meaningful online interaction but eventually his team changed his mind and transformed the world. | |||||
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04/03/2023 5:30 pm |
The Lightbulb Moment |
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| The Cubicle was originally designed to set workers free; a futuristic designer named Robert Propst dreamed up the cubicle as a groovy 1960s workplace utopia that would unleash the modern knowledge worker's vast untapped potential. | |||||
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04/03/2023 6:00 pm |
The Lightbulb Moment |
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| Barcodes have radically changed global commerce, helping fuel the rise of everything from massive companies like Walmart to world powers like China and it all started with a man daydreaming on a beach in 1949. | |||||
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04/03/2023 6:30 pm |
The Lightbulb Moment |
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| Florida wasn't always the Sunshine State; in the 1920s, an army of real estate boosters set out to redefine Florida from an economic backwater to a ritzy vacation destination, sparking a land boom the likes of which America had never seen before. | |||||
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04/03/2023 7:00 pm |
The Lightbulb Moment |
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| In 1856, a chemistry student accidentally created a strange substance with a rich purple hue; Mauve takes over the fashion industry, make food look more appetizing, and enable stunning advances in medicine. | |||||
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04/03/2023 7:30 pm |
The Lightbulb Moment |
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| In 1841 on the small island of Réunion, a 12-year-old slave did something no one had done before; the vanilla bean takes the world by storm, sparking the artificial flavor revolution and forever changing how we eat. | |||||
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04/03/2023 8:00 pm |
The Lightbulb Moment |
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| During WWII, Actress Hedy Lamarr, deemed the world's most beautiful woman, invented a technology that laid the groundwork for the wireless internet of today. | |||||
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04/03/2023 8:30 pm |
The Lightbulb Moment |
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| The early days of online video were plagued by low resolution, stamp-sized video, and unbearable buffering times but that changed when a breakthrough technology revolutionized streaming video and set the foundation for the era of Netflix. | |||||
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04/03/2023 9:00 pm |
The Lightbulb Moment |
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| Dwight Eisenhower's interstate highway system was the biggest infrastructure project of its time, a bold plan to connect all corners of America and boost the post-war economy but it also ended up deepening the divide between rich and poor. | |||||
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04/03/2023 9:30 pm |
The Lightbulb Moment |
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| Edison pioneered the world's first research and development center in Menlo Park and worked with a group of experimenters to methodically zero in on the holy grail of electric light. | |||||
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04/03/2023 10:00 pm |
Space Probes! |
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| Voyager 1 and 2 were launched almost 40 years ago and continue to stun the world. | |||||
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04/03/2023 10:30 pm |
Space Probes! |
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| Cassini-Huygens has provided a detailed account of Saturn. | |||||
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04/03/2023 11:00 pm |
The Lightbulb Moment |
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| When first presented with the like button Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg worried that a quick thumbs up or down would discourage more meaningful online interaction but eventually his team changed his mind and transformed the world. | |||||
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04/03/2023 11:30 pm |
The Lightbulb Moment |
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| The Cubicle was originally designed to set workers free; a futuristic designer named Robert Propst dreamed up the cubicle as a groovy 1960s workplace utopia that would unleash the modern knowledge worker's vast untapped potential. | |||||
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04/04/2023 12:00 am |
The Lightbulb Moment |
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| Barcodes have radically changed global commerce, helping fuel the rise of everything from massive companies like Walmart to world powers like China and it all started with a man daydreaming on a beach in 1949. | |||||
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04/04/2023 12:30 am |
The Lightbulb Moment |
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| Florida wasn't always the Sunshine State; in the 1920s, an army of real estate boosters set out to redefine Florida from an economic backwater to a ritzy vacation destination, sparking a land boom the likes of which America had never seen before. | |||||
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04/04/2023 1:00 am |
The Lightbulb Moment |
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| In 1856, a chemistry student accidentally created a strange substance with a rich purple hue; Mauve takes over the fashion industry, make food look more appetizing, and enable stunning advances in medicine. | |||||
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04/04/2023 1:30 am |
The Lightbulb Moment |
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| In 1841 on the small island of Réunion, a 12-year-old slave did something no one had done before; the vanilla bean takes the world by storm, sparking the artificial flavor revolution and forever changing how we eat. | |||||
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04/04/2023 2:00 am |
The Lightbulb Moment |
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| During WWII, Actress Hedy Lamarr, deemed the world's most beautiful woman, invented a technology that laid the groundwork for the wireless internet of today. | |||||
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04/04/2023 2:30 am |
The Lightbulb Moment |
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| The early days of online video were plagued by low resolution, stamp-sized video, and unbearable buffering times but that changed when a breakthrough technology revolutionized streaming video and set the foundation for the era of Netflix. | |||||
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04/04/2023 3:00 am |
The Lightbulb Moment |
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| Dwight Eisenhower's interstate highway system was the biggest infrastructure project of its time, a bold plan to connect all corners of America and boost the post-war economy but it also ended up deepening the divide between rich and poor. | |||||
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04/04/2023 3:30 am |
The Lightbulb Moment |
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| Edison pioneered the world's first research and development center in Menlo Park and worked with a group of experimenters to methodically zero in on the holy grail of electric light. | |||||
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04/04/2023 4:00 am |
Space Probes! |
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| Voyager 1 and 2 were launched almost 40 years ago and continue to stun the world. | |||||
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04/04/2023 4:30 am |
Space Probes! |
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| Cassini-Huygens has provided a detailed account of Saturn. | |||||
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04/04/2023 5:00 am |
The Lightbulb Moment |
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| When first presented with the like button Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg worried that a quick thumbs up or down would discourage more meaningful online interaction but eventually his team changed his mind and transformed the world. | |||||
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04/04/2023 5:30 am |
The Lightbulb Moment |
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| The Cubicle was originally designed to set workers free; a futuristic designer named Robert Propst dreamed up the cubicle as a groovy 1960s workplace utopia that would unleash the modern knowledge worker's vast untapped potential. | |||||
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04/04/2023 6:00 am |
The Lightbulb Moment |
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| Barcodes have radically changed global commerce, helping fuel the rise of everything from massive companies like Walmart to world powers like China and it all started with a man daydreaming on a beach in 1949. | |||||
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04/04/2023 6:30 am |
The Lightbulb Moment |
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| Florida wasn't always the Sunshine State; in the 1920s, an army of real estate boosters set out to redefine Florida from an economic backwater to a ritzy vacation destination, sparking a land boom the likes of which America had never seen before. | |||||
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04/04/2023 7:00 am |
The Lightbulb Moment |
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| In 1856, a chemistry student accidentally created a strange substance with a rich purple hue; Mauve takes over the fashion industry, make food look more appetizing, and enable stunning advances in medicine. | |||||
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04/04/2023 7:30 am |
The Lightbulb Moment |
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| In 1841 on the small island of Réunion, a 12-year-old slave did something no one had done before; the vanilla bean takes the world by storm, sparking the artificial flavor revolution and forever changing how we eat. | |||||
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04/04/2023 8:00 am |
The Lightbulb Moment |
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| During WWII, Actress Hedy Lamarr, deemed the world's most beautiful woman, invented a technology that laid the groundwork for the wireless internet of today. | |||||
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04/04/2023 8:30 am |
The Lightbulb Moment |
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| The early days of online video were plagued by low resolution, stamp-sized video, and unbearable buffering times but that changed when a breakthrough technology revolutionized streaming video and set the foundation for the era of Netflix. | |||||
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04/04/2023 9:00 am |
The Lightbulb Moment |
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| Dwight Eisenhower's interstate highway system was the biggest infrastructure project of its time, a bold plan to connect all corners of America and boost the post-war economy but it also ended up deepening the divide between rich and poor. | |||||
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04/04/2023 9:30 am |
The Lightbulb Moment |
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| Edison pioneered the world's first research and development center in Menlo Park and worked with a group of experimenters to methodically zero in on the holy grail of electric light. | |||||
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04/04/2023 10:00 am |
Breakthrough |
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| Scientists dig through fossil clues in Norway's Svalbard archipelago to uncover revelations about life rebounding after a major mass extinction. | |||||
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04/04/2023 10:15 am |
Breakthrough |
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| After Tasmanian tigers were almost wiped off the face of the earth by humans nearly a century ago, geneticists are now working on resurrecting them. | |||||
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04/04/2023 10:31 am |
Breakthrough |
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| Genetics have advanced to gene editing, a technique which promises to pave the way to cure genetically carried illnesses, such as certain forms of cancer. | |||||
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04/04/2023 10:42 am |
Breakthrough |
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| A U.K. team might have cracked a method to reverse Alzheimer's disease. | |||||
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04/04/2023 11:00 am |
The Virus Within |
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| They're everywhere. And there are a lot of them. And yes, they can be dangerous. Viruses are ingenious survivors, as old as life itself. They have played a key role in evolution - including the evolution of human beings. | |||||
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04/04/2023 12:00 pm |
Extraordinary Humans |
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| Thom Hunt heads to Las Vegas to meet Tim Cridland, a sideshow performer who claims to be pain-proof. | |||||
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04/04/2023 12:30 pm |
Extraordinary Humans |
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| Thom Hunt travels to the U.S. to track down Ron White, a man whose mind-blowing memory powers defy belief. | |||||
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04/04/2023 1:00 pm |
Engineering the Future |
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| A new era of space is dawning, where small satellites no bigger than a shoe box will be deployed in their thousands, referred to as satellite swarms. | |||||
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04/04/2023 2:00 pm |
Secrets of the Brain |
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| David Rose uses a new technology that doesn't work with his paralyzed body, but actually taps directly into his mind. | |||||
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04/04/2023 3:00 pm |
Breakthrough |
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| Fossils are shining a light on the violent lives of saber-tooth cats; a team of scientists unlock dinosaur DNA; exploring whether hidden Planet X and Planet 9 exist. | |||||