Quèquicom
All “Quèquicom” TV programs with Pere Renom.
Marine pharmacy against cancer
A terminally ill patient because of a very advanced esophageal cancer experienced complete tumor remission thanks to a new drug extracted from a marine animal, which is given by the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO). This antitumor molecule has been isolated by the company PharmaMar after thirty years looking into the sea for active principles […]
Brain training
Intelligence has double origin, innate and acquired. The program is dedicated to intelligence acquired or trained in one of its most obvious manifestations: language
Living with parrots
The reporter Pere Renom witness how work and how are trained the parrots in PortAventura. He also discovers what is the disease called “lungs of the fowler” and knows a case associated with the lovebirds. And takes a prospect for Barcelona after a newly arrived: the monk parakeets.
Overturned by the wind
Quèquicom dedicates a special program to the great windstorm that swept Catalonia on 24 January 2009, killed four children and caused many destructions.
The natural history of horses
The horse was domesticated 6000 years ago or more. Initially, it seems destined for consumption, but was soon used also as a driving force and riding. Today, the horse is mainly used for riding, and despite the time elapsed still needs to be tamed. The reporter Pere Renom observes the natural horsemanship, less aggressive than […]
Against the glass
We test the fragility of glass using mallets and Magnum revolver shots with the help of the police. We also show and explain about living organisms protected by glass skeletons: diatoms.
The Ports Mounts: land of goats and vultures
The reporter Pere Renom attends a spectacle of a safari: hundreds of vultures feast in one of the most extensive and wild mountainous areas of the Iberian Peninsula: the Ports. Also try to “catch” the emblematic animal of the natural park: the Hispanic goat.
Science at the beach
We will sail on beach catamaran, the only sailboat that is governed rudderless. We will discover the composition of the sand on the Maresme region and how the beach disappears. And we will meet some of the inhabitants of the wave breaking zone and we will see that they are not always what they seem.
The cord that gives life
The program Quèquicom follows the case of Joel a 5 year old boy who needs a donor blood stem cells to overcome leukemia. Neither his sister nor any of his family are compatible, so that his life depends on someone has given cord blood with its features.
Seeing is believing
The reporter Pere Renom and program staff examine the tricks of the magician Lari, both near and in a stage performance, but run into the artist’s ability to manipulate the human visual perception. Alejandro Maiche, UAB psychologist, also tests the visual perception of Renom. But what deceives us, the view or the brain? The presenter […]
