Media Menu for October 18, 2012

Here are home viewing suggestions for the week, selected from online advanced TV program listings and aligned with the state and national K-12 academic standards available online. Please consult local listings also, since actual broadcast times may vary.   The Websites cited in the “Log on“  box  below the TV listing provide further details about the show’s  topic and may contain links to video clips from the show or a complete streaming video version of the show.

Thursday, October 18, 2012
7-8 p.m. E/P
PBS
Science and Geography
 Middle and High School

NOVA: Kilauea - Mountain of Fire

Kilauea, an active volcano on Hawaii's Big Island that's believed to be about 100,000 years old, is examined in this documentary airing on  KLCS. It's been spewing lava continuously since 1983, creating 500-plus acres of new land and destroying more than 200 homes.
Log on  http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/kilauea-mountain-of-fire/video-full-episode/4825/

Friday, October 19, 2012
7-8 p.m. E/P
Science Channel
Math and Science
Middle and High School

Everything and Nothing

Prepare for a ride through the most exhilarating scientific and philosophical ideas we have ever conceived. This documentary  peers into the center of a Black Hole, find out that some infinities are bigger than others and reveal what happens in sheer nothingness.  Along the way it charts the remarkable stories of the men and women who discovered the truth about the cosmos and investigates how our understanding of space has been shaped by both mathematics and astronomy.TV-G
Log on http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00yb59m

Saturday, October  20, 2012
6-6:30 p.m. E/P
PBS
World History and Geography
 Elementary, Middle and High School

Rick Steves' Europe: Rome: Baroque Brilliance

Airing on KLCS, this documentary introduces viewers to Bernini’s  statues; St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican; Roman cooking.
Log on http://www.ricksteves.com/tvr/season7/episode-info/rome-baroque.htm

Sunday, October  21, 2012
8-9 p.m. E/P
CNN
Economics and Geography
 Middle and High School

Fareed Zakaria Special: Global Lessons: The Road Map for Powering America

What can America learn from the countries leading the Green Revolution. From manufacturing practices to energy resources, this documentary reports on what we should do to help reduce our dependencies on foreign oil
Log on http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/?iref=allsearch

Monday , October  22, 2012
7-8 p.m. E/P
PBS
Science
High School

My Future Baby: Breakthroughs in Modern Fertility

Airing on KLCS, this documentary in which fertility options and procedures are examined through the real-life stories of couples and women undergoing fertility treatments at Santa Monica Fertility in Santa Monica, Cal.; and comments from experts in the field of reproductive medicine.
Log on  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1633227/

Tuesday , October  23, 2012
7-8 p.m. E/P
PBS
Science and Technology
Elementary, Middle and High School

NOVA- Making Stuff: Cleaner

Airing on KLCS, this documentary. examines the science and business of clean energy. Included: a scientist who uses chicken feathers to make hydrogen-powered cars safer; whether lithium batteries create a dependence on South America.
Log on  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/making-stuff.html#making-stuff-cleaner

Wednesday , October  24, 2012
8-9 p.m. E/P
National Geographic Channel
World History and Geography
 Middle and High School

The Hunt for the Lost Ark

It's one of the most coveted artifacts of the Bible: a gold-encrusted chest containing the Ten Commandments. This documentary asks whether modern scholarship explain the awful powers of the Ark of the Covenant and tell us how it vanished and where it is today?
Log on http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/the-truth-behind/episodes/the-hunt-for-the-lost-ark/





Book TV Schedule

Saturday, October 20th

8am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
"Golden: How Rod Blagojevich Talked Himself Out of the Governor's Office and Into Prison"
John Chase; Jeff Coen

9am (ET)
Approx. 51 min.
"The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era"
Michael Grunwald

10am (ET)
Approx. 42 min.
"Into the Fire: A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War"
Dakota Meyer

11am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 27 min.
"Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power"
Seth Rosenfeld

12:30pm (ET)
Approx. 41 min.
"Exceptional America: A Message of Hope from a Modern-Day de Tocqueville"
Nick Adams

1:15pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 19 min.
"Joseph Anton: A Memoir"
Salman Rushdie

2:45pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
"Divider-in-Chief: The Fraud of Hope and Change"
Kate Obenshain

4pm (ET)
Approx. 48 min.
"Terrible Swift Sword: The Life of General Philip H. Sheridan"
Joseph Wheelan

5pm (ET)
Approx. 47 min.
"Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat"
Dan Hampton

6pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
Encore Booknotes: "Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It"
Gina Kolata

7pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"Bill and Hillary: The Politics of the Personal"
William Chafe

8pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 27 min.
"Science Left Behind: Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Scientific Left"
Alex Berezow

9:30pm (ET)
Approx. 20 min.
"The Color Purple" 30 Years Later
Alice Walker

10pm (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
After Words: Hanna Rosin, "The End of Men - and the Rise of Women," hosted by Tucker Carlson, The Daily Caller

11pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 5 min.
"1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism"
Nicole Eustace

Sunday, October 21st

12:15am (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
"Syria: The Fall of the House of Assad"
David Lesch

1:15am (ET)
Approx. 32 min.
"America, But Better: The Canada Party Manifesto"
Brian Calvert; Chris Cannon

2am (ET)
Approx. 43 min.
"I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had: My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High"
Tony Danza

3am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 14 min.
"Escape from North Korea: The Untold Story of Asia's Underground Railroad"
Melanie Kirkpatrick

4:15am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 5 min.
"Gender and the American Presidency: Nine Presidential Women and the Barriers They Faced"
Diana Carlin; Nichola Gutgold; Theodore Sheckels

5:30am (ET)
Approx. 42 min.
2012 National Book Festival: John Lewis Gaddis, "George F. Kennan: An American Life"
John Lewis Gaddis

6:15am (ET)
Approx. 31 min.
2012 National Book Festival: Interview and Call-in with John Lewis Gaddis, "George F. Kennan: An American Life"
John Lewis Gaddis

7am (ET)
Approx. 30 min.
“The Distance Between Us: A Memoir”
Reyna Grande

7:30am (ET)
Approx. 48 min.
"Terrible Swift Sword: The Life of General Philip H. Sheridan"
Joseph Wheelan

8:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 18 min.
"The Seventeen Solutions: Bold Ideas For Our American Future"
Ralph Nader

10am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 27 min.
"Science Left Behind: Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Scientific Left"
Alex Berezow

11:30am (ET)
Approx. 24 min.
"The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age"
Janet Wallach

12pm (ET)
Approx. 38 min.
After Words: Marguerite Guzman Bouvard, "The Invisible Wounds of War: Coming Home from Iraq and Afghanistan," hosted by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!

1pm (ET)
Approx. 14 min.
Book TV at the United States Naval Academy: Stephen Frantzich, "O.O.P.S.: Observing Our Politicians Stumble"
Stephen Frantzich

1:15pm (ET)
Approx. 17 min.
Book TV at the United States Naval Academy: Aaron O'Connell, "Underdogs: The Making of the Modern Marine Corps"
Aaron O'Connell

1:40pm (ET)
Approx. 18 min.
Book TV at the United States Naval Academy: Wayne Hsieh, "West Pointers and the Civil War"
Wayne Hsieh

2pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 5 min.
"1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism"
Nicole Eustace

3:15pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 27 min.
"Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power"
Seth Rosenfeld

5pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"Bill and Hillary: The Politics of the Personal"
William Chafe

6pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America"
Don Lattin

7pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
"Divider-in-Chief: The Fraud of Hope and Change"
Kate Obenshain

8pm (ET)
Approx. 20 min.
2012 National Book Festival: Interview and Call-in with Rajiv Chandrasekaran, "Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan"
Rajiv Chandrasekeran

8:30pm (ET)
Approx. 28 min.
"The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy"
Philip Auerswald

9pm (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
After Words: Hanna Rosin, "The End of Men - and the Rise of Women," hosted by Tucker Carlson, The Daily Caller

10pm (ET)
Approx. 17 min.
Book TV at the United States Naval Academy: Aaron O'Connell, "Underdogs: The Making of the Modern Marine Corps"
Aaron O'Connell

10:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 19 min.
"Joseph Anton: A Memoir"
Salman Rushdie

Monday, October 22nd

12am (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
After Words: Hanna Rosin, "The End of Men - and the Rise of Women," hosted by Tucker Carlson, The Daily Caller

1am (ET)
Approx. 14 min.
Book TV at the United States Naval Academy: Stephen Frantzich, "O.O.P.S.: Observing Our Politicians Stumble"
Stephen Frantzich

1:15am (ET)
Approx. 17 min.
Book TV at the United States Naval Academy: Aaron O'Connell, "Underdogs: The Making of the Modern Marine Corps"
Aaron O'Connell

1:30am (ET)
Approx. 18 min.
Book TV at the United States Naval Academy: Wayne Hsieh, "West Pointers and the Civil War"
Wayne Hsieh

2am (ET)
Approx. 47 min.
"Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat"
Dan Hampton

3am (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
After Words: Hanna Rosin, "The End of Men - and the Rise of Women," hosted by Tucker Carlson, The Daily Caller

4am (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Crisis of Liberalism"
Charles Kesler

5am (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
"Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America"
Jonathan Kozol

6am (ET)
Approx. 37 min.
2012 National Book Festival: John Farrell, "Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned"
John Farrell

6:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 6 min.
"Desert Reckoning: A Town Sheriff, a Mojave Hermit, and the Biggest Manhunt in Modern California History"
Deanne Stillman