PLUS (MT)

9:00 pm 

History of Science  "Can We Have Unlimited Power?"  It took centuries for science to explain what power is, rather than simply what it does. Host Michael Mosley explores how the most power-hungry generation that has ever lived has now harnessed that energy - from wind, steam and from inside the atom. Part 4 of 6G

10:00 pm 

Nova  "Japan's Killer Quake"  In its worst crisis since World War II, Japan faces disaster on an epic scale: a rising death toll in the tens of thousands, massive destruction of homes and businesses, shortages of water and power, and the specter of nuclear reactor meltdowns. The facts and figures are astonishing. The March 11 earthquake was the world's fourth-largest since record keeping began in 1900 and the worst ever to shake Japan.G

11:00 pm 

Designing Healthy Communities  "Social Policy In Concrete"  Dr. Jackson believes it is every citizen's right to live in a clean, healthy environment. This isn't the case for many low-income neighborhoods, built near big transportation hubs and former industrial cities like Oakland, CA and Detroit, Michigan. We meet a morbidly obese grandmother struggling to raise 7 grand children, all of whom have asthma from living near the Port of Oakland. D