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PBS Programming: Science and Technology
posted Thursday, 3 January 2008
Nature: The Desert Lions
On-Air & Online | Sunday, January 6, 2008
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
The world's most extraordinary population of lions lives in the Namib Desert on Africa's wild and forbidding Skeleton Coast. Philip Stander, a Namibian carnivore specialist, first spotted these desert lions in the mid-1980s, watching in disbelief as a lioness killed a fur seal in the waves and dragged it five miles inland to feed her cubs. Twenty years later, the lions reappeared, giving him a second chance to unravel their secrets. (CC, Stereo, HD, 1 year)
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/desertlions/
NOVA: Absolute Zero: The Conquest of Cold
On-Air & Online | Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
This two-part special presents the epic story of humanity's struggle to master extreme cold. This NOVA special re-creates groundbreaking discoveries across four centuries that expanded our knowledge of low temperatures and led ultimately to today's cutting-edge "cold technologies." Its memorable characters range from a 17th-century court magician who rigged a primitive form of air conditioning in Westminster Abbey to the original Captain Birdseye, who invented frozen food. Part one of two. (CC, Stereo, HD, 1 year)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/zero/
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