PBS has created this site as a companion to its recent five-part TV series
of the same name, which covered scientific advances in the last hundred
years in the fields of medicine & health, physics & astronomy, human
behavior, technology, and earth & life sciences. Highlights of the site
are the People & Discoveries database (a searchable and browsable
annotated listing of over 50 people and over 60 scientific discoveries),
and You Try It, a Shockwave-based interactive activities center,
demonstrating concepts like human evolution, the history of home
technology, and medical advances over time. An interactive
"game show" and selected comic book stories help to explain the abundant
content in an entertaining, easy-to-digest format. [JS]
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/
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