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QUEST: INVESTIGATING OUR WORLD profiles the dynamic scientists unveiling new and exciting innovations throughout northern New England. The Emmy-winning series highlights intriguing and entertaining stories about environmental and scientific issues, their solutions and their impact on daily life. Topics ranging from survival in extreme elements to the concerns surrounding the Avian flu help viewers better understand the natural world around them. Episodes feature scientists from a variety of disciplines, including archeology, marine biology and nanotechnology. Linda Greenlaw, a veteran fisherman and best-selling author of The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey and The Lobster Chronicles: Life On A Very Small Island, hosts the six-part series
http://www.mpbn.net/quest/in...
Mon, Nov 23rd, 2009 @ 9:00 pm
Sun, Nov 29th, 2009 @ 12:00 am
Why do archaeologists travel in packs? How can finding just a thin flake from a prehistoric spear point be so exciting? Sorting out the hidden pasts of people who haven't been around for thousands of years can take a lifetime for an archeologist. For every hour or two in the field, archaeologists spend another 10 to 12 hours working in the laboratory toiling over their discoveries, trying to make sense of them. And yet it's also a team sport. We'll follow several teams of professional and amateur archaeologists as they carefully unearth pieces of northern New England's past. We'll see the latest techniques and technologies they're using to detect, excavate and preserve their interesting finds.
Length: 56 minutes, 8 seconds.
English, Letterbox
Mon, Nov 30th, 2009 @ 9:00 pm
Sun, Dec 6th, 2009 @ 12:00 am
What's it really like to be a modern scientist? From the atoms and molecules of nanoscience at the University of New Hampshire to field biologists at Allied Whale in Bar Harbor, Maine, who study the largest animals on earth, the classic picture of men in white lab coats is dispelled with this indepth look at two groups of scientists at work. Allied Whale's cataloging work has been a key to assessing the health of whale stocks in the North Atlantic. When humpback whales come up into the Gulf of Maine they're literally starving. They're there exclusively to feed and biologists want to know how they're faring during such a critical period for them. So what's nanoscience? Instead of measuring with an inch or a centimeter, nanoscientists use a nanometer, or a billionth of a meter. On this scale, a flea is about a million nanometers. Even a single red blood cell is about seven thousand nanometers across! As the latest, greatest buzzword making science news, we'll see why nanotechnology is the new darling.
Length: 56 minutes, 8 seconds.
English, Letterbox