Our favorite BK program of all time -
These are publicity pictures for The New Explorers so there is no formal
credit to be given, but we believe they were distributed by
WTTW/Chicago. |
(1993) Bill Kurtis and The New
Explorers team traveled to Cali, Colombia to learn about the
biotechnology used to produce stronger crops and ways in which
farmers learn new agricultural techniques in "Super Seeds." |
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(1993) Plastic surgeon Dr. Rafael
Lee of the University of Chicago discussed his discovery of a new
use for a common drug to treat high blood pressure in "Don't
Judge a Book." |
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(1993) Dr. Mae Jamison, the first
African-American woman in space, demonstated scientific experiments
in the weightlessness of space in "Endeavour." |
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(1993) BK talked with the
veterinarians in Zimbabwe who de-horn white and black rhinos in an
effort to discourage poachers from killing them in "The Fragile
Fossil." |
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(1993) BK visited with Laurie and
Dan Krauss in Namibia and discussed the ways to help save the
endangered cheetah from extinction in "Running Out of Time." |
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(1993) The New Explorers visited
the Miami Seaquarium to solve the mystery of the mysterious deaths
of manatees in "Manatees: Red Alert." Tom Pitchford of the
Florida Marine Research Institute put an update in our
2000 guestbook on the manatee
featured in that episode. |
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