Season 36 |
| 666 :36x01 - Arctic Dinosaurs (Oct/07/2008) | | An investigative look in Alaska where the scientists delve 60 feet into the permafrost, to examine how dinosaurs handled the Arctic climate over 65 million years earlier. Included is a look at the dinosaur's diet, and reasons on why they may have become extinct. | |
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| 667 :36x02 - Space Shuttle Disaster (Oct/14/2008) | | An exploration in the 2003 space shuttle Columbia tragedy, with interviews from NASA engineer Rodney Rocha, flight director Leroy Cain, astronauts and the Columbia Accident Investigation Board members. Also, a detailed look at the history of the space shuttle program and the design changes made which may have played a role in both the Challenger and Columbia explosions and a look at what lays ahead for the program. | |
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| 668 :36x03 - Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives (Oct/21/2008) | | Mark Oliver Everett, lead singer of the Eels investigates the father he hardly knows: quantum physicist Hugh Everett III (1930-82), who formulated Many Worlds Theory (which postulated the existence of parallel worlds) back in 1957. Hardly noticed back in his time, the theory is now embraced by science fiction and scientists. His son discovers that this rejection caused Hugh Everett III to turn his back on quantum physics. | |
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| 669 :36x04 - Hunting The Hidden Dimension (Oct/28/2008) | | An exploration of a field of mathematics which is based on the intricate patterns found in nature, art, science and even the beating of a human heart, known as fractal geometry. | |
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| 670 :36x05 - Alien From Earth (Nov/11/2008) | | An investigation of the discovered remains of a hobbit-sized people on the Indonesian island of Flores, which is believed to be around 18,000 years old. Scientists will check to see if these remains are from an previously unknown branch of human species, or that of a malformed person. | |
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| 671 :36x06 - The Bible's Buried Secrets (Nov/18/2008) | | A look at the early beginnings of Judaism and Old Testament which uses archeological evidence and literary research to learn of the monotheism and ancient Israelites, which includes where they came from and who they were. With the use of digital animation sequences and reenactments accenting this work along with interviews with biblical archeologists, as do the finds, which includes a carving of the Hebrew alphabet and evidence of the existence of the "House of David." | |
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| 672 :36x07 - Ocean Animal Emergency (Nov/25/2008) | | A trip to Sausalito, CA. and the Marine Mammal Center, to view the work of the veterinarians who treat injured ocean animals. Includes: how Dr. Frances Gulland, the clinic director of veterinary science, discovered a new neurological illness affecting the seas lions in California and harbor seal pups. Then, Gulland travels to Oahu, Hawaii, to work on Hawaiian monk seals, an endangered species. Also, a look how humans impacty the sea life. | |
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| 673 :36x08 - Is There Life On Mars? (Dec/30/2008) | | NASA has been sending up Mars rovers on missions for years now, with earthbound scientists controlling their paths where they have found subsurface ice and discuss whether the evidence points to past or present life on the Red Planet. Includes theories which may explain why Mars has become such an inhospitable planet, and why the North and South hemispheres are so different. | |
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| 674 :36x09 - The Big Energy Gamble (Jan/20/2009) | | An examination of California's alternative-energy efforts which eco-celebrities Ed Begley Jr. and Bill Nye helped bring forth. Includes Luscious Garage in San Francisco, which makes custom made hybrid cars; and the wind turbines of Tehachapi Valley. Also, whether their efforts can be sustained during the economic downturn. | |
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| 675 :36x10 - The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies (Jan/27/2009) | | A look at the annual journey made by the monarch butterflies to the remote mountain areas in central Mexico. Included is a look at their inborn GPS system which directs them to their destination each year. Plus, interviews and insights from butterfly experts Lincoln Brower, Bill Calvert and Orley "Chip" Taylor. | |
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| 676 :36x11 - The Spy Factory (Feb/03/2009) | | A look inside our National Security Agency, the security organization which intercepts our communications, including its supposed failures before 9/11 and its new eavesdropping system since. It also examines whether their practices are too broad and its load of unusable information just may drown out the critical information. Also featured are interviews with former FBI, CIA and NSA officials. | |
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| 677 :36x12 - Rat Attack (Feb/24/2009) | Scientists explore the precise cyclical way in which the rat population explodes every half-century in a remote bamboo forest of India.
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| 678 :36x13 - Extreme Ice (Mar/24/2009) | | Along with National Geographic, NOVA examines the exploits of acclaimed photojournalist James Balog and a team of scientists as they place time-lapse cameras in risky, remote locations in the Alps and Arctic, including Alaska and Greenland. With blizzards, fickle technology and steep climbs up craggy precipices, the team must find a stable area where they can plant cameras which can handle subzero temperatures and winds up to 170 miles per hour. All of this is to the unlock the mystery of the mighty ice sheets, whose still-unknown behavior will affect the fate of coastlines around the world. | |
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| 679 :36x14 - Last Extinction (Mar/31/2009) | | An examination over whether a comet struck the Great Lakes region 12,900 years ago, and whether it caused the extinction of such mega-creatures as the woolly mammoth and the saber-toothed cat in North America. Also included is the discovery of nano-diamonds which are created by heat and objects from space. | |
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| 680 :36x15 - Doctors' Diaries Pt.1 (Apr/07/2009) | | Nova has spent years tracking seven Harvard Medical students since 1987. All but one are still practicing medicine, although they each chose different specialties, and the one who didn't, Cheryl Dorsey, is now president of Echoing Green, a nonprofit organization which gives support to people and organizations which help improve society. | |
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| 681 :36x16 - Doctors' Diaries Pt.2 (Apr/14/2009) | | The story of seven Harvard Medical students which NOVA has been tracking since 1987. Only one has chosen another direction other than being a doctor, and she became the president of Echoing Green, a non-profit group which lends support to people and groups which work to improve society. | |
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| 682 :36x17 - Musical Minds (Jun/30/2009) | | An exploration of the effect of music on the brain via four case studies from neurologist Oliver Sacks book "Musicopia" and the MRI visualizations from Sacks' own brain as classical music is played, including Bach's "Mass in B Minor." Study subjects include a man with Tourettes syndrome who has found relief while playing the drums; an autistic savant who is simply dazzling on the piano; a woman who suffers the inability to process music, known as amusia; and a surgeon whose life changed after being struck by lightning. | |
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