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Catching Up on Sleep Science
Everyone can appreciate the value of a good night's sleep. But did you know that a lack of sleep can have real consequences for your health? QUEST investigates how sleep affects our minds and bodies and uncovers why some people are genetically programmed to need less sleep than others.
Video on Apr 13, 2010 by Sheraz Sadiq from QUEST Northern California
Producer's Notes: In Search of a Better Night's Sleep
Nearly all of us have had the experience of waking up and feeling as though the restorative, rejuvenating effects of a good night's sleep had passed us by.
Post on Apr 13, 2010 by Sheraz Sadiq
New original science video series from QUEST: Science on the SPOT
QUEST is pleased to announce a new original science video series, Science on the SPOT. Science on the SPOT goes behind the scenes at local San Francisco Bay Area labs, follows breaking discoveries, and gets you special access to obscure science locations and collections.
Post on Apr 07, 2010 by Craig Rosa
Web Extra: Great White Sharks in Captivity
Over the years The Monterey Bay Aquarium has had success holding a handful of great white sharks in their enormous outer bay exhibit tank. In the process scientists have learned much about these animals and millions of visitors have gotten a chance to meet a live white shark up close and personal.
Video on Apr 06, 2010 by Chris Bauer from QUEST Northern California
QUEST Lab: Speed of Sound
Along with cable cars and seagulls, the Golden Gate Bridge foghorn is one of San Francisco's most iconic sounds. But did you know that if you hear that foghorn off in the distance, you can calculate how many miles you are from the bridge? Using the Speed of Sound exhibit at the Outdoor Exploratorium at Fort Mason, Shawn Lani shows us how sound perception is affected by distance.
Video on Apr 06, 2010 by Amy Miller from QUEST Northern California
The New Bay Bridge: Earthquake Makeover
The new self-anchored suspension bridge being built to replace the vulnerable eastern span of the Bay Bridge is scheduled to open in 2013 and will be seismically and aesthetically revolutionary in its design. QUEST explores the engineering features that will give the new bridge the strength and flexibility to withstand the next "big one."
Video on Apr 06, 2010 by Jon Fromer from QUEST Northern California
The Great White Shark: Meet the Man in the Gray Suit
Worldwide sharks are now threatened due to extreme overfishing to satisfy the shark fin trade. QUEST ventures to The Farallon Islands and discovers that the creature of our imaginations may not be the monster we think it is. See why scientists are now tracking the movements of great white sharks in hopes of protecting them.
Video on Apr 06, 2010 by Chris Bauer from QUEST Northern California
Producer's Notes: The Great White Shark: Meet the Man in the Gray Suit
Like many people, I'm fascinated with sharks. I can't remember a time when they did not interest me.
Post on Apr 06, 2010 by Chris Bauer
Lunar Ice Smack-down a Success!
NASA's LCROSS mission found water on the Moon, no bones about it. Though NASA is still analyzing all the data they reaped from the LCROSS impact event on October 9th, and will be for a long time to come, they seem confident enough about the preliminary findings to make this a definite declaration of discovery!
Post on Nov 20, 2009 by Ben Burress
The Farallon Islands – "California's Galapagos"
Lying 28 miles off the coast of San Francisco, the Farallon Islands sit amid one of the most productive marine food webs on the planet and host the largest seabird breeding colony in the continental United States. QUEST ventures out for a rare visit to learn what life is like on the islands and meet the scientists who call this incredibly wild place home.
Video on Oct 13, 2009 by Chris Bauer from QUEST Northern California
Maya Skies
Armed with laser technology, Bay Area engineers are helping create detailed virtual records of the world's great monuments. Their realistic recreation of the Mexican ruins of Chichén Itzá is the basis for "Tales of Maya Skies," a new half-hour film about Maya astronomy designed especially for a planetarium. The film opens at Oakland's Chabot Space & Science Center on November 21. QUEST takes you behind the scenes.
Video on Oct 13, 2009 by Gabriela Quirós from QUEST Northern California
Your Photos on QUEST: Doug Nomura
San José photographer Doug Nomura has learned just how to track his subjects to create arresting photos of birds in flight. He focuses his work on the Bay Trail, a 300-mile trail around the Bay. QUEST joins Nomura on the bayfront in Sunnyvale as he works to photograph the many bird species that call the South Bay's mudflats home, or stop here as part of their migration.
Video on Oct 13, 2009 by Gabriela Quirós from QUEST Northern California
Producer's Notes: Your Photos on QUEST—Doug Nomura
San José photographer Doug Nomura has learned just how to track his subjects to create arresting photos of birds in flight. He focuses his work on the Bay Trail, a 300-mile trail around the Bay. QUEST joins Nomura on the bayfront in Sunnyvale as he works to photograph the many bird species that call the South Bay’s mudflats home, or stop here as part of their migration.
Post on Oct 13, 2009 by Gabriela Quirós
Producer's Notes: Maya Skies
Go behind the scenes of Tales of Maya Skies, the new film produced by Oakland's Chabot Space and Science Center. The half-hour film about Maya astronomy opens at the center's planetarium on November 21.
Post on Oct 13, 2009 by Gabriela Quirós
Why I Do Science: Drew Endy
Stanford University's Drew Endy is a synthetic biologist, or as he puts it, someone who makes biology easier to engineer. He's one of the leading lights of this relatively new scientific field which builds on disciplines like computer science, electrical engineering and genetics. Find out why Endy is passionate about the cutting edge of biology.
Video on Oct 06, 2009 by Sheraz Sadiq from QUEST Northern California
Mercury in San Francisco Bay
There's a hidden danger in San Francisco bay: mercury. A potent neurotoxin that can cause serious illness, mercury has been flowing into the bay since the mining days of the Gold Rush Era. It has settled in the bay's mud and made its way up the food chain, endangering wildlife and making many fish unsafe to eat. Now a multi-billion-dollar plan aims to clean it up. But will it work?
Video on Oct 06, 2009 by Sarah Kass from QUEST Northern California
Producer's Notes: Mercury in San Francisco Bay
Because there wasn't time in the QUEST TV segment on mercury in the bay to include information on safe fish eating practices, below are the guidelines, along with web links, to help you get plenty of Omega 3s and still keep your mercury levels low.
Post on Oct 06, 2009 by Sarah Kass
QUEST – National Parks Special: Bringing the Parks to the People
QUEST examines how the Golden Gate National Recreation Area was saved from development, the rise of not-for-profit land trusts in protecting and restoring Northern California's open spaces, and how these vital places are used and maintained by the communities served by them.
Video on Sep 29, 2009 by Chris Bauer from QUEST Northern California
National Park Service – Soundscapes
In 2003, following a year-long nature sounds study in Sequoia National Park, Craig Miller, then founder of Vox Terra (now Senior Producer of Climate Watch) and Bernie Krause, founder of Wild Sanctuary, co-produced this four-and-a-half minute "journey." It takes you from the familiar cacophony of the urban soundscape to a serene spot in Sequoia Park. Take the journey and see how desensitized to urban noise you've become.
Video on Sep 29, 2009 by Craig Miller from QUEST Northern California
Youth Speaks Green: Simone Crew
Simone Crew of Youth Speaks, a San Francisco literary arts organization, recites "Yasmeena," one of her "green inspired" poems.
Video on Sep 22, 2009 by Gabriela Quirós from QUEST Northern California
