PLUS (MT)

3:00 pm 

Dialogue for Kids  "Nutrition"  Nutrition is the science of food and how it impacts your body. Joan Cartan-Hansen and her guest scientists Ruth Schneider, Associate Professor Of Nutrition, Idaho State University, and Colleen Fillmore, Director, Child Nutrition Program, Idaho State Department Of Education, answer students' questions about nutrition.G

3:30 pm 

Piano Guy   This viewers' favorite compilation show filled with wonderful performances from past episodes. These include Bobby Floyd playing "Unforgettable," five-time Grammy nominee, David Benoit, performing "Your Song," David Tolley entertaining us with "Classical Gas".plus many, many more. D

4:00 pm 

Make Me  "Smart"  Medically trained television producer and presenter Mike Mosley tries techniques to boost his brain, including a groundbreaking neurofeedback procedure. He also participates in an alternative intelligence test; competes in the world memory championships in Bahrain; meets America's "most intelligent man"; and attends an institute claiming to teach babies to read.G

5:00 pm 

PBS NewsHour   Senior Correspondent Jeffrey Brown reports on the ongoing debate about the connections-or lack of connections-between violent video games and violent behavior. D

6:00 pm 

NOVA  "Earth from Space"  This special reveals a new space-based vision of Earth. Produced in consultation with NASA scientists, the film takes data from Earth-observing satellites and transforms them into dazzling visual sequences, each one exposing the intricate web of forces that sustain life on Earth. The techniques reveal how dust blown from the Sahara fertilizes the Amazon; how a submarine "waterfall" off Antarctica helps drive ocean currents; and how the sun's heating of the southern Atlantic gives birth to a powerful hurricane.G

8:00 pm 

History of Science  "Who Are We?"  Michael Mosley explores how the twin sciences of brain anatomy and psychology have offered different visions of who humans are. Serious study of the brain did not begin until the 17th century.G

9:01 pm 

Make Me  "Smart"  Medically trained television producer and presenter Mike Mosley tries techniques to boost his brain, including a groundbreaking neurofeedback procedure. He also participates in an alternative intelligence test; competes in the world memory championships in Bahrain; meets America's "most intelligent man"; and attends an institute claiming to teach babies to read.G

10:00 pm 

NOVA  "Earth from Space"  This special reveals a new space-based vision of Earth. Produced in consultation with NASA scientists, the film takes data from Earth-observing satellites and transforms them into dazzling visual sequences, each one exposing the intricate web of forces that sustain life on Earth. The techniques reveal how dust blown from the Sahara fertilizes the Amazon; how a submarine "waterfall" off Antarctica helps drive ocean currents; and how the sun's heating of the southern Atlantic gives birth to a powerful hurricane.G