For this week’s Passport Pick, get swept away by All Creatures Great and Small! James Herriot’s adventures as a veterinarian...
Predictions underlie nearly every aspect of our lives, from sports, politics, and medical decisions to the morning commute. With the explosion of digital technology, the internet, and “big data,” the science of forecasting is flourishing.
American Masters — Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page presents an unvarnished look at the unlikely author whose autobiographical fiction helped shape American ideas of the frontier and self-reliance. A Midwestern farm woman who published her first novel at age 65, Laura Ingalls Wilder transformed her frontier childhood into the best-selling “Little House” series.
Did you know the word trivia can be traced back to the modern Latin word trivium, which means “place where three...
On this week’s Passport Pick we meet the Brass Sisters a.k.a. the Food Flirts. Two passionate food explorers of a...
In September of 1990, just 13 years after WCFE-TV began broadcasting as our region’s PBS television station, Tom Rogers accepted...
On March 9, 2015, Solar Impulse II took off from Abu Dhabi on one of the greatest aviation adventures of our time: the first solar-powered flight around the world. Together with a team of brilliant engineers, two visionary pilots—Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg—designed and built Solar Impulse from scratch, even though top airplane manufacturers told them it would be “impossible to control.” NOVA captures an insider’s view of the Solar Impulse pilots and ground team as they experience moments of hair-raising crisis, remarkable endurance, and ingenious problem-solving.