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KQED This Week: November 20, 2009
KQED This Week: November 20, 2009
Stories: Reporter Roundup for Nov 20, 2009 and Filipino Fighter Phenomenon Manny Pacquiao.
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Chasing Beetles, Finding Darwin - KQED QUEST (HD)
Chasing Beetles, Finding Darwin - KQED QUEST (HD)
It's been 150 years since Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species. Yet his ideas remain as central to scientific exploration as ever. QUEST follows entomologist David Kavanaugh, who predicted that a new [...]
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Artificial Intelligence: Thinking Big - KQED QUEST
Artificial Intelligence: Thinking Big - KQED QUEST
Though computers have gotten faster, smaller and more versatile, it's still a big challenge to get them to demonstrate intelligent behaviors. Will machines like robots ever match -- or perhaps even exceed -- the capabilities [...]
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Super Laser at the National Ignition Facility - KQED QUEST
Super Laser at the National Ignition Facility - KQED QUEST
It's the largest laser beam in the world and it's being built in the Bay Area. The National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will shoot tremendous bursts of energy at [...]
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QUEST Lab: Aerogel - KQED QUEST
QUEST Lab: Aerogel - KQED QUEST
It looks like frozen smoke. And it's the lightest solid material on the planet. Aerogel insulates space suits, makes tennis rackets stronger and could be used one day to clean up oil spills. Lawrence Livermore National [...]
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The Fierce Humboldt Squid - KQED QUEST
The Fierce Humboldt Squid - KQED QUEST
A mysterious sea creature up to 7 feet long, with 10 arms, a sharp beak and a ravenous appetite, has invaded ocean waters off Northern California. Packs of fierce Humboldt Squid attack nearly everything they [...]
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Nanotechnology Takes Off - KQED QUEST
Nanotechnology Takes Off - KQED QUEST
From Lawrence Berkeley National Labs to Silicon Valley, researchers are manipulating particles at the atomic level, ushering in potential cures for cancer, clothes that don't stain, and solar panels as thick as a sheet of paper. [...]
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Green Building Revolution - KQED QUEST
Green Building Revolution - KQED QUEST
An explosion in green building is underway, with cleverly engineered libraries, office buildings, even public housing projects popping up across the Bay Area, and championed as much by landlords trying to cut energy and water costs [...]
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California's High Speed Rail - KQED QUEST
California's High Speed Rail - KQED QUEST
State transportation planners have nearly finished designing a high-tech bullet train system that would take passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles in two hours at 220 mph -- faster than a Ferrari. But will [...]
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Green Burial - KQED QUEST
Green Burial - KQED QUEST
Tired of toxic embalming fluid, rainforest wood caskets and other ecologically unfriendly practices, a new generation of undertakers is attempting to green up the funeral industry with burials that go easy on the land.
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