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| 617 :33x08 - Storm That Drowned a City (Nov/22/2005) | | An exploration of the devastation wrought on New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina details failures of levees and disaster-relief planning; why the city was unprepared; and what made Katrina so powerful. Also examined are the challenges involved in rebuilding the city. | |
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| 618 :33x09 - The Mummy Who Would Be King (Jan/03/2006) | This episode unravels the history of a mummy that was part of a Niagara Falls Museum display, with evidence pointing toward it being the body of a pharaoh: Rameses I.
The first hint (its crossed arms) to its origins was spotted in the 1960s, but it wasn't until 1998, when Emory University purchased the display, that the mummy was a serious study topic, including CT scans. | |
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| 620 :33x11 - Deadly Ascent (Jan/17/2006) | | A team of experts seeks to determine what causes the deaths of mountain climbers at extreme altitudes. Filmed on Alaska's Mount McKinley. Included: the dangers of hyperthermia and hypothermia; scenes of daring rescues and emergency treatments during the climbing season. | |
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| 621 :33x12 - The Perfect Corpse (Feb/07/2006) | | Two murder cases that date to the Iron Age (more than 2000 years ago) are investigated upon the discovery of two well-preserved bodies in Irish peat bogs. The 18-month investigation uses CAT scans and hair and radiocarbon analysis in an attempt to learn how the men lived and why they died. | |
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| 622 :33x13 - Jewel of the Earth (Feb/14/2006) | | David Attenborough hosts this fascinating examination of the prehistoric creatures found inside amber, a fossilized tree resin that often holds perfectly preserved insects. Using an amber specimen given to him as a youth, he uncovers information about what the Baltic region of northern Europe was like 40 million years ago. He also investigates amber found in the Dominican Republic, including one piece that holds a honeypot ant from 150 million years ago. | |
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| 623 :33x14 - The Ghost Particle (Feb/21/2006) | | Scientists' efforts to identify and understand neutrinos, unseen building blocks of the universe, are chronicled, beginning in 1930 with Austrian physicist Wolfgang Pauli's observations about a decaying radioactive atomic nucleus. Included are comments from astrophysicist John Bahcall, who calculated the sun's theoretical neutrino output during the 1960s; and Nobel Prize winner Raymond Davis Jr., who built a neutrino trap in a South Dakota gold mine. | |
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| 624 :33x15 - Arctic Passage (Feb/28/2006) | | An intriguing look back at two attempts to discover a route from Europe to the Pacific through the maze of islands in Arctic Canada, one that led to tragedy and one that was a success. In 1845 British explorer John Franklin led a 129-man expedition using two retrofitted warships. The men were never heard from again. In 1903, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen set sail using a much-lighter ship and a seven-man crew. Two years later he came out the other side, proving the voyage was possible. | |
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| 626 :33x17 - Voyage to the Mystery Moon (Apr/04/2006) | | A chronicle of the cooperative effort by NASA and the European Space Agency to send two probes, Cassini and Huygens, to study Saturn and its moon Titan. The project involves the orbit of Cassini around the sixth planet from the sun; and Huygens' landing on Titan, which is one of four astral bodies in the solar system that has an atmosphere. | |
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| 627 :33x18 - Dimming the Sun (Apr/18/2006) | | The discovery that the sunlight reaching Earth is dimming and the implications that has for global climate change, is examined. Included: how researchers used the days after 9/11, when aircraft were grounded in the U.S., to study how plane vapor trails affect the atmosphere; and how less pollution in the atmosphere may have the unintended consequence of accelerating global warming. | |
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