Bill Nye hosts a look at the history of discovery in chemistry, discussing the effects of electricty on chemicals, chemical combinations, the periodic table of elements, fullerenes, synthetic hardened plastic, and other topics.
Bill Nye hosts a discussion of genetics, explaining how scientists came to understand the rules of inheritance, discussing subsequent discoveries in the field including those related to DNA, and looking at how DNA sequences are used in forensic investigations.
Looks at how the lack of access to technology is affecting developing nations, discusses the promises of genetically modified foods, and examines the debate over how to provide the world's poor with much-needed medications.
Mary Anning, considered the world's greatest fossilist, discovered her first big find at the age of twelve. This novel is an imaginative recreation of her childhood in early nineteenth-century Lyme Regis.
"[Argues that] modern science involves the idiosyncratic, often bumbling search for understanding in uncharted territories, full of wrong turns, false findings, and the occasional remarkable success ... [Also shows] that the scientific enterprise is riddled with mistakes and errors--and that this is a good thing!"--Provided by publisher.
