NOVA - Season 11
Run Time: 55 mins
Air Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1984
Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (133 votes)
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The Case of ESP
Season 11 - Episode 1
In the past decade, a number of researchers have begun systematic laboratory research into extrasensory perception—ESP. NOVA considers the c...
Antarctica: Earth's Last Frontier
Season 11 - Episode 2
An astronaut once observed a great white light shining out from the bottom of our world: Antarctica, the ice-covered continent we are only j...
China's Only Child
Season 11 - Episode 3
Efforts to control the population explosion are among the burning controversies of our time. NOVA looks at the one-child policy of the Peopl...
Will I Walk Again?
Season 11 - Episode 4
Is there a cure for paralyzing spinal injuries? Most neurosurgeons are doubtful, pointing to the central nervous system's most apparent inab...
Visions of the Deep: The Underwater World of Al Giddings
Season 11 - Episode 5
Al Giddings is one of the greatest underwater photographers in the world. In a riveting look at the unearthly beauties and terrors of the se...
Down on the Farm
Season 11 - Episode 6
Agriculture is America's biggest industry. This productivity, envied around the world, is also depleting the most essential ingredients in f...
Make My People Live: The Crisis in Indian Health Care
Season 11 - Episode 7
What are America's obligations to its native population? As an important Indian health act comes up for renewal in Congress this Spring (198...
The World According to Weisskopf
Season 11 - Episode 8
Victor Weisskopf: physicist, lover of music and citizen of the world. NOVA profiles the international statesman of science and learns that o...
Space Bridge to Moscow
Season 11 - Episode 9
At a time when scientific exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union is at its lowest since the 1950s, a special hookup will al...
The National Science Test I
Season 11 - Episode 10
NOVA departs from tradition with the first National Science Test. Viewers can match wits with celebrity panelists Jane Alexander, Jules Berg...
Fountains of Paradise
Season 11 - Episode 11
NOVA explores the billion-dollar-plus Mahaweli Irrigation Project in Sri Lanka. Will this high-risk project prove to be a great leap forward...
The Mystery of Yellow Rain
Season 11 - Episode 12
NOVA explores whether "yellow rain," described by members of the Hmong tribe of Laos, is a form of chemical warfare—or a naturally occurring...
The Nomads of the Rain Forest
Season 11 - Episode 13
NOVA visits a tribe of Ecuadoran Indians who still maintain traditions that date back to the Stone Age—thirty years after their first contac...
Farmers of the Sea
Season 11 - Episode 14
NOVA looks at the "blue revolution"—modern advances in the ancient art of raising aquatic animals and plants—in the United States, Japan, Sc...
Frontiers of Plastic Surgery
Season 11 - Episode 15
NOVA's sequel to "A Normal Face" examines the merging of technology and art in modern reconstruction and cosmetic surgical techniques.
Space Women
Season 11 - Episode 16
They have been part of the United States' space program for more than 20 years. Who are these talented, courageous women? NOVA looks at astr...
Jaws: The True Story
Season 11 - Episode 17
Acclaimed underwater cameraman Al Giddings takes NOVA viewers beneath the waves to explore the fact and fiction surrounding the great white ...
Acid Rain: New Bad News
Season 11 - Episode 18
The debate over acid rain continues to grow. NOVA travels to West Germany, the mid-Atlantic states and New England to examine the controvers...
Stephen Jay Gould: This View of Life
Season 11 - Episode 19
What do dinosaurs, a panda's thumb and a peacock's tail have in common? Dr. Stephen Jay Gould, the internationally renowned paleontologist a...
The Garden of Inheritance
Season 11 - Episode 20
In this docudrama presentation, NOVA looks at the life, times and work of Gregor Mendel, the 19th century Augustinian friar whose revolution...