Season 2 (2000)

Why Do Divers Get The Bends?
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September 10, 2000 • 30m

The explanation of why we can't breathe underwater and how a regulator helps scuba divers. The hosts reveal the dangers of ""the b...Read more

Why Do Bears Hibernate, And Not Humans?
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September 17, 2000 • 30m

Why humans must endure winter, while bears and chipmunks can avoid it by hibernating. We explore the structure and function of liv...Read more

Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?
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September 24, 2000 • 30m

The team explain what a stick and a piece of crystal have to do with telling time, and how the clock was invented. They also discu...Read more

What Causes Allergies?
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October 1, 2000 • 30m

Why some people have allergic reactions, and others don't. How your immune system works - or doesn't work is discussed. A look at ...Read more

What Causes The Northern Lights?
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October 8, 2000 • 30m

The group focuses on how the earth resembles a giant magnet, and its relation to the natural light show known as the aurora boreal...Read more

Why Do Golf Balls Have Dimples?
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October 15, 2000 • 30m

The group discusses the evolution of the golf ball, and its advantages. Why a rough ball travels further than a smooth one, the im...Read more

Why Is It So Difficult To Stop Smoking?
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October 22, 2000 • 30m

Explanations of why smoking is a powerful addiction, how it affects the chemistry of the brain and the ""reward centre,"" the caus...Read more

How Do Microwave Ovens Cook Food?
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October 29, 2000 • 30m

The exploration of heat transfer through conduction, convection, and radiation, the electromagnetic spectrum and wavelengths. Chan...Read more

Can Voices Really Shatter Glass?
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November 5, 2000 • 30m

What resonance means and the natural frequency of structures and objects, such as glass. A look at the effects of resonance, and s...Read more

Why Does Food Rot?
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November 12, 2000 • 30m

A look at micro organisms, where the team talks about how they work, their need for water, the role of the freezer and refrigerato...Read more

Why Does Getting Sick Always Give You The Same Symptoms?
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November 19, 2000 • 30m

How a cold or flu virus works, and its effects on your body. The functions of congestion, a sore throat, sneezing, and coughing. T...Read more

Why Don't Sky Scrapers Fall Over?
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November 26, 2000 • 30m

The evolution of the skyscraper and a look at how high buildings can become. The role that steel is described, and how steel frame...Read more

How Do Body Builders Get Their Muscles So Big?
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December 3, 2000 • 30m

How your muscles function everyday, how your body builds muscles using muscle fibres and protein strands, and getting your body into shape.

How Do They Keep The Ice Frozen in a Hockey Arena?
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December 10, 2000 • 30m

What antifreeze has to do with hockey rinks, why they paint the ice, and how thick the ice surface is. The hosts also explain abou...Read more

How Do Helicopters Fly Without Wings?
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December 17, 2000 • 30m

What the wings of a plane and the rotor of a helicopter have in common, how the rotor lifts the helicopter off the ground from a s...Read more

Why Do Animals See The World Differently Than We Do?
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December 24, 2000 • 30m

What animals need to see in order to stay alive, why some animals' eyes are on the sides of their head, and which species have more than two eyes.

Why Is Laser Light So Powerful?
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December 31, 2000 • 30m

How to produce a single wavelength, what neon signs and lasers have in common, what makes a laser powerful enough to cut through s...Read more

How Does Soap Make You Clean?
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January 7, 2001 • 30m

Where soap gets its cleaning power from, why water alone can't get you clean, and where soap scum comes from. Behind the reason wh...Read more

Why Is There No Cure for the Common Cold?
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January 14, 2001 • 30m

What happens when a virus invades your body, what a vaccine is, and why we can't create a vaccine to protect us from the common cold.

How Do Surgeons Transplant An Organ?
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January 21, 2001 • 30m

An experiment on how the immune system reacts to a foreign organ, how T-cells know what belongs in your body and what doesn't, and...Read more

How Does Nuclear Power Work?
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January 28, 2001 • 30m

How we get electricity from uranium, how a nuclear chain reaction is created, and why nuclear power generation has hazardous side effects.

What Is The Science Behind Keeping Warm?
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February 4, 2001 • 30m

A demonstration on what happens when your body is unable to produce heat as fast as it is being lost, how your body defends agains...Read more