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Scientific American Frontiers (inactive)

Link

http://www.pbs.org/saf/

Category

Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences

Subject

Archaeology, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computing, Engineering, Environmental Studies, General Science, Mathematics, Medicine, Nature, Physics, Psychology, Technology

Medium

Film/Video

Type of resource

Information Sources, Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download

Scientific American Frontiers is an American television series hosted by Alan Alda and broadcast on PBS. Its site gives the current TV schedule, teaching materials, and a very impressive video archive of past programmes, searchable by topic or keyword. This offers either complete programmes or segments using Real or Windows Media Player, for low or high-band connections, with most having an accompanying transcript where users can click on a particular point in the transcript to access that point in the video. Topics covered include archaeology, astronomy, biology/nature, chemistry/physics, computers/technology, earth science, engineering/mathematics, medicine/health, and psychology/cognitive science. Some have links to PBS web features, teaching guides etc.

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