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NOVA: Making Stuff Series

Watch two episodes: Making Stuff Stronger & Making Stuff Smaller beginning at 8pm, Wednesday, September 19, 2012.

Hosted by The New York Times technology columnist David Pogue, this groundbreaking series, Making Stuff, focuses on the personal qualities that underlie the process of invention — the visionary talent, sheer luck and dogged determination that turn a wild idea into a cutting-edge material.

Making Stuff Stronger – 8pm
What is the world’s strongest material? From steel to Kevlar and spider silk to carbon nanotubes, host David Pogue looks at the ways in which science and nature work to make strong stuff.

Making Stuff Smaller – 9pm
Here in the information age, smaller is better: transistors, microchips and the laptops and cell phone that they power are triumphs of tiny. Now, host David Pogue takes us to an even smaller world, as he profiles the latest in high-powered nano-circuits and micro-robots that may one day hold the key to saving lives and building materials from the ground up.

Watch the first two episodes Wednesday, September 19, 2012 at 8pm and 9pm.

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Board Member Highlight: Charles Romero

Meet Charles Romero, Diversity Officer and Director of Training, Human Resources, The University of Kansas Medical Center.

What is your favorite PBS or KCPT program and why?
NOVA is my favorite program because I get to see remarkable science programs. I work at an academic medical center and find the NOVA programming fascinating.

What do you enjoy most about being involved with KCPT?
KCPT allows me the opportunity to learn things about the greater Kansas City community that I would have never known otherwise.

Why should people support KCPT?
It  is critical for folks to support KCPT because they’re a premier educational resource.

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Fabric of the Cosmos: What is Space?

Reveals space as a dynamic fabric that can stretch, twist, warp, and ripple. Watch an encore presentation of NOVA Wednesday, July 11, 2012 at 8pm.

Accompany physicist and acclaimed author Brian Greene on a mind-bending reality check and journey to the frontiers of physics to see how scientists are piecing together the most complete picture yet of space, time and the universe. With each step, discover that just beneath the surface of our everyday experience lies a world we’d hardly recognize — a startling world far stranger and more wondrous than anyone expected.

Episode One – What is Space?
From the passenger seat of a New York cab driving near the speed of light to a pool hall where billiard tables do fantastical things, Brian Greene reveals space as a dynamic fabric that can stretch, twist, warp, and ripple under the influence of gravity. Space, far from being empty, is filled with some of the deepest mysteries of our times.

Watch an encore presentation of NOVA Wednesday, July 11, 2012 at 8pm.

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NOVA: Deadliest Tornadoes

The science behind the last year’s outbreak. Watch Wednesday, May 9, 2012 at 8pm.

In April 2011, the worst tornado outbreak in decades left a trail of destruction across the U.S., killing more than 360 people. Why was there such an extreme outbreak? How do such outbreaks form? With modern warning systems, why did so many die? Is our weather getting more extreme — and if so, how bad will it get? In this NOVA special, get a look at the science behind the last year’s outbreak, meeting those affected and the scientists striving to understand the forces behind the outbreak. Could their work improve tornado prediction in the future? Learn how we all can protect ourselves and our communities in the future.

Watch the encore of NOVA: Deadliest Tornadoes Wednesday, May 9, 2012 at 8pm.

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