Week of April 5
Monday, April 5
12:00pm Big Pacific “Part 1: Mysterious” (Click here for Supplemental Materials)
Plunge into the Pacific with researchers and cinematographers and see the ocean's rare and dazzling creatures in a way never before seen on television. Filmed in cinematic 4K, the program examines an ocean that covers a third of the Earth's surface.
In part 1: Explore the mysterious Pacific-whose depths we are just beginning to explore. There are many unanswered questions we yearn to unravel, but the ocean doesn't give up its secrets willingly.
Watch the show here:
https://www.pbs.org/video/mysterious-tzvgt2/ (Passport Required)
1:00pm Big Pacific “Part 2: Violent” (Click here for Supplemental Materials)
Plunge into the Pacific with researchers and cinematographers and see the ocean's rare and dazzling creatures in a way never before seen on television. Filmed in cinematic 4K, the program examines an ocean that covers a third of the Earth's surface.
In part 2: Understand how the Pacific, surrounded by the Ring of Fire, is the epicenter of natural mayhem. Violence is part of life in the great ocean, and creatures that live there must choose whether to avoid conflict-or rise to meet it.
Watch the show here:
https://www.pbs.org/video/violent-svizpx/ (Passport Required)
Tuesday, April 6
12:00pm Big Pacific “Part 3: Voracious” (Click here for Supplemental Materials)
Plunge into the Pacific with researchers and cinematographers and see the ocean's rare and dazzling creatures in a way never before seen on television. Filmed in cinematic 4K, the program examines an ocean that covers a third of the Earth's surface.
In part 3: See how the challenge of finding food drives all life in the Pacific. Meet a destructive army of mouths, a killer with a hundred mouths and the biggest mouth in the ocean. For creatures large and small, every mouthful counts.
Watch the show here:
https://www.pbs.org/video/voracious-kohgws/ (Passport Required)
1:00pm Big Pacific “Part 4: Passionate” (Click here for Supplemental Materials)
Plunge into the Pacific with researchers and cinematographers and see the ocean's rare and dazzling creatures in a way never before seen on television. Filmed in cinematic 4K, the program examines an ocean that covers a third of the Earth's surface.
In part 4: See how the quest to multiply has spawned a stunning array of unusual behaviors and adaptations. View forest penguins with a tenuous marriage and the secret rendezvous of great white sharks, and hear the tale of male pregnancy.
Watch the show here:
https://www.pbs.org/video/passionate-k4ypd1/ (Passport Required)
Wednesday, April 7
12:00pm H2O: The Molecule that Made Us “Part 1: Pulse”
Discover how water underpins every aspect of our existence. Find out how our success is intimately connected to our control of the molecule, but that the growth of our civilizations has also created a dangerous dependence on this precious resource.
In part 1: How did water arrive on Earth? How did it come to underpin every aspect of existence from dragonflies to deserts in bloom to human life? Dive in!
Show is not available online, but you can watch a preview here:
https://www.pbs.org/video/h2o-molecule-made-us-101-rr8pc5/
1:00pm H2O: The Molecule that Made Us “Part 2: Civilizations”
Discover how water underpins every aspect of our existence. Find out how our success is intimately connected to our control of the molecule, but that the growth of our civilizations has also created a dangerous dependence on this precious resource.
In part 2: Travel into the past to see how water may have driven our own evolution -- and created civilizations. But can the Earth's water supplies guarantee our future?
Show is not available online, but you can watch a preview here:
Thursday, April 8
12:00pm H2O: The Molecule that Made Us “Part 3: Crisis”
Discover how water underpins every aspect of our existence. Find out how our success is intimately connected to our control of the molecule, but that the growth of our civilizations has also created a dangerous dependence on this precious resource.
In part 3: Earth's changing water cycle -- and a globalized movement towards water for profit -- is forcing changes in humans' reliance on water. Can a geopolitical crisis be averted?
Show is not available online, but you can watch a preview here:
https://www.pbs.org/video/h2o-molecule-made-us-103-8dkgdv/
1:00pm Nova “Saving the Dead Sea” (Click here for Supplemental Materials)
There's no place on Earth like it. Cleopatra attributed her beauty to its secrets. King Herod built one of the world's first health spas on its shores. And as the biblical story goes, "rocks and fire falling from the sky" buried Sodom and Gomorrah and the sea became "the sea of salt" -- The Dead Sea. Now this wonder of the world is dying. Since 1976, its level has declined by more than sixty-five feet. Its coastline is pockmarked with thousands of sinkholes. Can the Dead Sea be saved? After more than a decade of research and debate, scientists, engineers and political leaders have come up with a daring plan, one that could not only save the sea but help bring stability to a region rife with conflict. NOVA follows this unprecedented endeavor - perhaps the world's largest water chemistry experiment ever - as scientists and engineers race to save the Dead Sea and help bring water to one of the driest regions on Earth.
Watch the show here:
https://www.pbs.org/video/saving-the-dead-sea-wcff98/ (Passport Required)
Friday, April 9
12:00pm Nova “Polar Extremes” (Click here for Supplemental Materials)
Following a trail of fossils found in all the wrong places -- beech trees in Antarctica, redwoods and hippo-like mammals in the Arctic -- uncover the bizarre history of the poles, from miles-thick ice sheets to warm polar forests teeming with life.
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