The BEST episodes written by Sarah Holt
#1 - Can Alzheimer's Be Stopped?
NOVA - Season 43 - Episode 10
Alzheimer's ravages the minds of over 40 million victims worldwide. Join scientists as they untangle the cause of this tragic illness and go behind the scenes of major drug trials to discover the therapies that may slow and even prevent the disease.
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#2 - World In The Balance: The People Paradox (1)
NOVA - Season 31 - Episode 8
Nova investigates the impact of forces that are radically changing populations in both rich and poor nations.
#3 - Alien From Earth
NOVA - Season 35 - Episode 15
The 2004 discovery of tiny human fossil bones on the island of Flores, Indonesia, raised new—and controversial—speculation about the history of the human race. Ever since, scientists have been scrambling to find more information about these "hobbits."
#4 - Cracking Your Genetic Code
NOVA - Season 39 - Episode 7
What will it mean when most of us can afford to have the information in our DNA—all three billion chemical letters of it—read, stored, and available for analysis? In "Cracking Your Genetic Code," NOVA reveals that we stand on the verge of a revolution. We meet cancer patients returned to robust health and a cystic fibrosis sufferer breathing easily because scientists have been able to pinpoint and neutralize the genetic abnormalities underlying their conditions. What are the moral dilemmas raised by the new technology? Will it help or hurt us to know our genetic destiny? What if such information falls into the hands of insurance companies, employers, and prospective mates? One thing is for certain: The new era of personalized, gene-based medicine is relevant to everyone. Soon, all of us may be deciding whether to join the ranks of the DNA generation.
#5 - 18 Ways To Make A Baby
NOVA - Season 28 - Episode 12
The program investigates the brave new world of assisted reproduction.
#6 - The Orchid Hunter
NOVA - Season 29 - Episode 15
For nine months in 2000, Tom Hart Dyke was a captive of guerrillas who seized him while he was collecting wild orchids in the Colombian rain forest. Now Hart Dyke is at it again in the most orchid-rich and one of the most politically unstable parts of Irian Jaya, the western half of the island of New Guinea.
#7 - Electric Heart
NOVA - Season 26 - Episode 16
The program tells the story of a handful of brilliant, obsessed surgeons and researchers who have pursued the target of a practical artificial heart for decades.
#8 - Mysterious Life Of Caves
NOVA - Season 29 - Episode 10
Toxic caverns teaming with strange life-forms spark a brand new theory about how caves form.