1990
Episodes • 1990

1. Oil Spill
60 minAfter the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989, Horizon looks at tanker design and the technology used for dealing with major oil slicks.
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2. Medicine 2000
60 minHorizon reports on medical developments in Britain which could mean by the year 2000, health care will be very different.
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3. Food Irradiation: Would You Buy It?
60 minHorizon examines the history of research into irradiated food.
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4. From Earth to Miranda
60 minIn this Horizon documentary, we look at how NASA launched the Voyager space probes to explore the planets of the outer solar system.
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5. Encounter With Neptune
60 minThis report by Horizon presents the Voyager space probe close up encounter with the planet Neptune.
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6. Guess What's Coming to Dinner?
60 minHorizon looks at the potential implications of genetically engineering plants.
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7. The First 14 Days
60 minHorizon brings you a documentary on embryology - the branch of biology that studies the formation and early development of living organisms from the moment of conception.
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8. The 10,000 Year Test
60 minHorizon reports on how America has chosen to bury all of its most lethal radioactive waste under Yucca mountain in the state of Nevada.
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9. Hurricane!
60 minHorizon explores the inside of Hurricane Gilbert as it neared Jamaica on a direct course for the United States.
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10. The Britannic Greenhouse
60 minHorizon investigates how British scientists have begun to experiment to predict the effects of a changing climate from Greenhouse gases.
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12. The Quake of '89 - The Final Warning?
60 minHorizon presents the real story of seismic neglect and the failure of the San Francisco city government to protect its citizens.
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13. The Sharpest Shot of the Universe
60 minIn this episode, Horizon looks at the Hubble space telescope, hailed as the greatest advance in astronomy since Galileo.
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14. The Company of Ants and Bees
60 minWhat can we learn from insects? Professor James Gould explains on Horizon that the human society may be able to predict their own future based on the society structure of ants and bees.
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15. The Intelligent Island
60 minThis Horizon documentary looks at the radical transformations in the Singapore society as its technology extends into monitoring, logging, and linking up all businesses, information, and aspects of life on computer systems. The country's ultimate plan is to link the entire population electronically through the world's most advanced videotext system called Teleview. The report raises the question of what type of society this may create and also the political implications of such a system.
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16. Legacy of a Volcano
60 minHorizon looks at the area around Mt. St. Helens 10 years after the volcanic eruption that devastated more 500 square kilometres of forest land in just minutes.
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17. Do Cows Make You Mad?
60 minThis episode of Horizon is about BSE transmitted in cattle feed and causing the fatal Creutzfeldt-Jakob syndrome in humans.
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18. The Child Mothers
60 minHorizon investigates how teenage pregnancy is now posing massive health and social problems in many societies.
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19. Signs of Life
60 minHorizon examines the possibility of scientists, either intentionally or unintentionally, creating living forms which could enjoy an independent existence, initially confined to computers and telephone networks, and in the form of computer viruses.
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20. AIDS: A Quest for a Cure
60 minHorizon investigates new breakthroughs in the scientific study, analysis, and reproduction of cells and their compounds, which may lead to the development of a cure for the AIDS virus.
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