Weird Connections

Weird Connections is a fast-paced and entertaining glimpse at the strangest experiments being performed in the name of science today. On the surface these experiments seem so "out there" that it's hard to believe they're more than late-night lab pranks. researchers put a roach in the driver's seat of an electric powered vehicle; or use gravity-defying frogs to help mankind colonize Mars; or force locusts to watch Star Wars in order to help develop safer automobiles. Each episode takes the viewer on an unlikely and unexpected journey, plotting the connections between one amazing experiment and the next and ending with the real scientific advances they have inspired. (Source: The Science Channel)

Episode Info

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In this episode we meet a scientist who makes people throw up for a living. Psychologist Frederick Bonato puts people into a psychedelic spinning drum. Observing their reactions to an optical illusion, Dr Bonato discovers the power of confusing the senses, and reveals why it makes us vomit.
This strange experiment takes us to sound illusions, bizarre vibrating contraptions, and NASA, where a new cure for space sickness could allow astronauts to travel to Mars.