WGBH’s New One-Week Series Thinking Big Looks at the World of Science and Technology Monday, October 3 through Friday, October 7 at 7:30pm on WGBH 2

The program is hosted by Lisa Mullins, anchor and senior producer of the international news radio program The World. Joseph Tovares is managing producer, and Patricia Alvarado is producer.
Below are descriptions of the episodes of the program, airing throughout the week of October 3rd. For more information visit www.wgbh.org/thinkingbig.

Peter Frumhoff: Global Warming
Friday, October 3 at 7:30pm on WGBH 2
According to Peter Frumhoff of the Union of Concerned Scientists, the world is growing dangerously warmer—and just a few degrees can make a catastrophic difference. Frumhoff began his career as an ecologist working in the tropical forest of Latin America, but eventually left the world of traditional science behind and embraced the role of the scientist/advocate that has defined his life for the past ten years. He sees his work as a race against time, with the window of opportunity to avoid disaster growing narrower with every passing day.

Rebecca MacKinnon: News in the Digital Age
Tuesday, October 4 at 7:30pm on WGBH 2
Rebecca MacKinnon, former CNN Asia correspondent and Research Fellow at the Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, explores how new forms of interactive media such as weblogs affect the way people absorb, react to, and act upon news and information.

James McLurkin: Robotics in the 21st Century
Wednesday, October 5 at 7:30pm on WGBH 2
James McLurkin, a robotics engineer at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, imagines a world filled with robots, where man-made intelligent machines do the work deemed too dangerous for people—searching for survivors in the rubble of collapsed buildings, or exploring the farthest reaches of space.
Rosalind Williams: Technology, Science and the Humanities
Thursday, October 6 at 7:30pm on WGBH 2
Rosalind Williams is a bridge between two worlds that many deem at odds with one another—science and the humanities. Williams is just as comfortable discussing the power of language as she is defining modern-day technology. Currently the director of MIT’s program in Science, Technology and Society, Williams is a firm believer that scientists and engineers need to know the arts, humanities and the social sciences if they are to achieve greatness.

Marc Abrahams: The Lighter Side of Science
Friday, October 7 at 7:30pm on WGBH 2
Marc Abrahams was once a respected computer programmer working with corporate clients until he decided to try his hand at humor. Fifteen years later he is the man behind the Ig Nobel awards and the Annals of Improbable Research, riding a wave of humor—most of it science and technology based.

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