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KQED's The Writers' Block: Alison Bechdel: Are You My Mother?

Complete description: Alison Bechdel reads a selection from her latest graphic memoir, Are You My Mother? Find more readings from your favorites at www.kqed.org
Thematic Section: Entertainment
Duration: 00:05:34.500
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Nanotechnology Takes Off - KQED QUEST

Complete description: 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 a
Thematic Section: Science & Technology
Duration: 00:07:51
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QUEST Lab: Aerogel - KQED QUEST

Complete description: 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
Thematic Section: Science & Technology
Duration: 00:01:41.250
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Artificial Intelligence: Thinking Big - KQED QUEST

Complete description: 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 ex
Thematic Section: Science & Technology
Duration: 00:07:37.500
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Green Building Revolution - KQED QUEST

Complete description: 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 tryin
Thematic Section: Science & Technology
Duration: 00:08:42
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The Fierce Humboldt Squid - KQED QUEST

Complete description: 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 everythi
Thematic Section: Science & Technology
Duration: 00:07:32.250
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The World's Most Powerful Microscope - KQED QUEST

Complete description: Lawrence Berkeley National Labs just turned on a $27 million electron microscope. Its ability to make images to a resolution of half the width of a hydrogen atom makes it the most powerful microscope
Thematic Section: Science & Technology
Duration: 00:06:39.750
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KQED Spark - Henry Wessel

Complete description: See how Henry Wessel's work has become an important part of photographic history. Original air date: July 2007. For more information, go to: www.kqed.org
Thematic Section: Entertainment
Duration: 00:06:09
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Fatal Attraction: Birds and Wind Turbines - KQED QUEST

Complete description: With California's ambitious renewable energy goal, the state needs wind power. But California's largest wind farm cluster at Altamont Pass unintentionally kills golden eagles, burrowing owls and other
Thematic Section: Science & Technology
Duration: 00:08:52.500
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Emotions Revealed - KQED QUEST

Complete description: Is your face giving you away? Meet renowned psychologist Paul Ekman, who has spent his life studying how our facial muscles involuntarily reveal emotions like sadness and anger. His comprehensive cata
Thematic Section: Science & Technology
Duration: 00:08:33
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Nature Deficit Disorder - KQED QUEST

Complete description: A growing number of children's advocates and political leaders are worried that our culture's disconnection from nature is harming kids. Concerns about the long-term consequences on children's physica
Thematic Section: Science & Technology
Duration: 00:09:05.250
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Green Burial - KQED QUEST

Complete description: 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
Thematic Section: Science & Technology
Duration: 00:07:54
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KQED Spark - Anna Halprin

Complete description: Get words of wisdom from modern dancer Anna Halprin, who is in her eighties and still working. Original air date: March 2006. For more information, go to: www.kqed.org
Thematic Section: Entertainment
Duration: 00:08:18.750
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KQED Spark - Ron Nagle

Complete description: Visit with the multi-talented Ron Nagle, first in his ceramic studio and then in a recording session. Original air date: March 2009. For more information, go to: www.kqed.org
Thematic Section: Entertainment
Duration: 00:06:39.750
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KQED Spark - Ruth Asawa

Complete description: See how renowned sculptor Ruth Asawa has passed along her love of art to her family. Original air date: May 2005. For more information, go to: www.kqed.org
Thematic Section: Entertainment
Duration: 00:07:30
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Journey Into The Sun - KQED QUEST

Complete description: Scientists at Stanford University and Lockheed Martin are playing pivotal roles in a nearly billion-dollar NASA mission to explore the sun. A spacecraft launched in early 2010 is obtaining IMAX-like i
Thematic Section: Science & Technology
Duration: 00:09:18.750
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The Physics of Sailing - KQED QUEST

Complete description: Northern California has a storied, 500-year history of sailing. But despite this rich heritage, scientists and boat designers continue to learn more each day about what makes a sail boat move. Contrar
Thematic Section: Science & Technology
Duration: 00:07:09
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Science of Big Waves - KQED QUEST

Complete description: A monster lurks just off the coast of Northern California. Known as "Mavericks," this surf break north of Half Moon Bay generates some of the biggest waves in the world, and draws the big wave surfers
Thematic Section: Science & Technology
Duration: 00:07:42
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KQED Spark - Halau 'o Keikiali'i

Complete description: Catch the aloha spirit as it spreads across the mainland through the work of groups like Halau 'o Keikiali'i. Original airdate: May 2003. For more information, go to: www.kqed.org
Thematic Section: Entertainment
Duration: 00:07:50.250
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KQED Spark - Jim Denevan

Complete description: Watch Jim Denevan tranforms the beaches of Northern California into an expansive but ephemeral works of land art. Original air date: May 2005. For more information, go to: www.kqed.org
Thematic Section: Entertainment
Duration: 00:07:12
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Super Laser at the National Ignition Facility - KQED QUEST

Complete description: 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 an are
Thematic Section: Science & Technology
Duration: 00:07:23.250
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KQED Spark - Hung Liu

Complete description: See the process behind Hung Liu's series of figurative works that uses images from vintage photographs. Original air date: February 2005. For more information, go to: www.kqed.org
Thematic Section: Entertainment
Duration: 00:06:54.750
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Cool Critters: Fruit Bats - KQED QUEST

Complete description: Flying Foxes are a type of fruit bat - they subsist mainly off fruit juice which they obtain by squeezing pieces of the fruit pulp in their mouths. Quest visits the Oakland Zoo to meet their Malayan &
Thematic Section: Science & Technology
Duration: 00:01:43.500
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KQED/PBS Documentary - Amateur Rocketry & Mavericks Explorers STEM Education Program

Complete description: KQED Quest features Maverick's Tom Atchison and Steve Jurvetson, in an exciting documentary about amateur rocketry and civilian space exploration as a platform to engage the next generation in STEM ed
Thematic Section: Education
Duration: 00:08:37.500
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Bio-Inspiration: Nature as Muse - KQED QUEST

Complete description: For hundreds of years, scientists have been poaching design ideas from structures in nature. Now, biologists and engineers at UC Berkeley are working together to design a broad range of new products,
Thematic Section: Science & Technology
Duration: 00:08:30.750
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KQED Spark - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Complete description: Meet the Lawrence Ferlinghetti you didn't know -- you might already know him as a poet, but did you also know that he's a painter, too? Original air date: March 2007. For more information, go to: www.
Thematic Section: Entertainment
Duration: 00:05:57
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KQED This Week: April 6, 2012

Complete description: News Panel: Oikos University Shooting, Yahoo Layoffs, Chevron's Tax Surprise, Baseball Season In the wake of the devastating shooting at Oikos University in Oakland, hundreds of community members atte
Thematic Section: News & Politics
Duration: 00:20:05.250
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The Science & Art of Cheese - KQED QUEST

Complete description: Cheese. It comes in more than 2000 varieties -- hard, soft, fresh and aged - and it's been with us for thousands of years. Take a journey to Cowgirl Creamery in west Marin to learn how artisan cheese
Thematic Section: Science & Technology
Duration: 00:07:50.250
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Amazing Jellies - KQED QUEST

Complete description: They are otherworldly creatures who glow in the dark, without brains or bones, some reaching 100 feet long. And they live just off California's coast. Join two top marine biologists who have devoted t
Thematic Section: Science & Technology
Duration: 00:08:21
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