The Search for Solutions(1980)
Documentary
First Air Date: 1980-06-10
Average Runtime: N/A
Rating: 8.5
Votes: 2
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 9
A nine part television series, produced by J.C. Crimmins for PBS. Music composed, arranged and performed by Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays. The stated purpose of “The Search for Solutions” is to stimulate interest in science and technology, primarily among the young. The film comprises nine 18-minute sections touching on various aspects of scientific inquiry that its makers say can be shown as a whole, as it is in this engagement, or in any combination of its parts.
Keywords
physicschemistryengineeringeducational
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 9E01
Evidence
Air Date: 1980-06-10
An astronomer discusses his method of collecting photographic evidence; a giant hole in Arizona was learned to be the...
E02
Patterns
Air Date: 1980-06-10
An interview with Dr. Geerat Vermeij, a blind University of Maryland malacologist who collects mollusks and examines ...
E03
Investigation
Air Date: 1980-06-10
How a television camera was used to investigate life below the South Pole ice shelf; the use of a one-million-volt el...
E04
Trial and Error
Air Date: 1980-06-17
An interview with David Gordon Wilson of M.I.T. who talks of trial and error as a focused learning process; an interv...
E05
Context
Air Date: 1980-06-17
An interview with a scientist who studies the songs of the humpback whale; an interview with an archaeologist who col...
E06
Adaptation
Air Date: 1980-06-17
A scientist brings solar energy equipment to address the needs of a small Egyptian village; an ingenious solution to ...
E07
Modeling
Air Date: 1980-06-24
Sculptor Henry Moore discusses the small-scale working models he creates for his massive bronze sculptures; a designe...
E08
Theory
Air Date: 1980-06-24
A scientist whose intuitive theory about ancient Native American monuments in the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming turne...
E09
Prediction
Air Date: 1980-06-24
Some predictions of sixteenth-century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe were found to be incredibly accurate; a scientist...
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