Wired Science combines Wired magazine’s award-winning journalism, groundbreaking design and irreverent attitude with the power of public television in a new weekly TV series. We’ve taken the DNA of Wired magazine — the first word on how science and technology are changing the world — and added the impact of PBS. What do you get? Wired Science.
Tune in Wednesday, Nov. 21 on PBS at 8 p.m. / 7 p.m. Central for a look at deep brain stimulation, rocketbelts, laser archeology and the 23andMe co-founders.
Deep Brain Stimulation We’ll go under the knife with a Cardington, Ohio, farmer who’s getting electrodes implanted in his brain to alleviate the debilitating physical effects of a rare neurological disorder.
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Where’s My Rocketbelt? It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s … somebody wearing a rocketbelt. Wired Science travels to the Rocketbelt Convention in Niagara Falls to meet the first rocketeer and rocketbelt legends past and present.
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Laser Archeology Host Ziya Tong takes a trip to Colorado’s Mesa Verde National Park to see how technology is changing the way archaeologists map the ancient ruins of the Pueblo Indians.
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Chat: Linda Avey and Anne Wojcicki The co-founders of 23andMe are helping people make sense of their genetic information. Anne Wojcicki and Linda Avey sit down with special correspondent Adam Rogers to chat about just how they’re doing that.
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