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The Search for Solutions - Season 1 Episode 2
An interview with Dr. Geerat Vermeij, a blind University of Maryland malacologist who collects mollusks and examines their shell patterns to determine vulnerability to predators; a look at the shorthand pattern of words, symbols, and gestures used by merchants in the Tokyo fish market; a discussion of Thomas Jefferson's coded correspondence with John Adams; New York Yankees third base coach Dick Howser explains baseball hand signs; an examination of how a meteorologist decodes weather information from tropical cloud formations in order to predict weather; the complex word symbols of the Japanese language; how heat-sensitive photography allows the turbulent patterns of gases and fluids to be analyzed; a look at Spain's Alhambra Palace; an interview with Bernhardt Weunsch of M.I.T., who discusses man's fascination with crystals; and how the Greek translation of Egyptian hieroglyphics on the Rosetta stone allowed linguists to decipher the lost Egyptian language.
Genre: Documentary
First Air Date: Jun 10, 1980
Last Air date: Jun 24, 1980
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 9 Episode
Crew: James C. Crimmins (Writer), Ken Werner (Editor), L.L Larison Cudmore (Writer), Carl Kriegeskotte (Cinematography), Arnold Friedman (Editor), Arnold Friedman (Editor)
Cast: Stacy Keach
Country: United States of America
Studio: PBS
Keyword: physics, chemistry, engineering, educational
Subtitle:
ETC.
ETC.
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