Safety Smart Science with Bill Nye the Science Guy explores the science of safety by going behind the scenes at Underwriters Laboratories and discovering how products that use electricity are fire-tested to ensure they meet safety standards. By explaining the science of fire, including the roles heat, fuel, and oxygen play, Bill demonstrates how fire can be helpful as well as destructive.
Submitted by khenkes on Fri, 03/21/2025 - 11:03
Bill Nye explores the properties of light and presents a variety of examples to illustrate how light behaves. The science guy features experiments demonstrating reflection, refraction, light absorption, and how light waves bounce from one place to another. Also examines how light travels, bends, and changes direction, and defines infrared light. Features a segment on fiber optics and how this technology is used in medicine. Also shows how lenses, mirrors, and water can be used to create optical illusions with light.
Submitted by khenkes on Fri, 03/21/2025 - 11:03
Examines the "stuff" that people use every day and looks at the effects that these everyday objects and actions have on Earth's environment.
Submitted by khenkes on Fri, 03/21/2025 - 11:03
Explains what fossils are, how they are created and offers related experiments.
Submitted by khenkes on Fri, 03/21/2025 - 11:03
Explains what fossils are, how they are created and offers related experiments.
Submitted by khenkes on Mon, 01/13/2025 - 15:43
Meet Jack and his foster siblings, Ava and Matt, who are orphans. But they're not your typical kind of orphans -- they're geniuses. Well, Ava and Matt are, which sometimes makes life difficult for twelve-year-old Jack. Ava speaks multiple languages and builds robots for fun, and Matt is into astronomy and a whiz at math. As for Jack, it's hard to stand out when he's surrounded by geniuses all the time. When the kids try to spy on Dr. Hank Witherspoon, one of the world's leading scientists, they end up working for him in his incredible laboratory.
Submitted by khenkes on Mon, 09/18/2023 - 09:39
"When Jack and his genius foster siblings, Ava and Matt, discover inventor Hank Witherspoon is missing, they travel deep into the Amazon jungle, overcoming strange creatures, a raging river, and some very clever foes to find their friend and protect his big idea"--Provided by publisher.
Submitted by khenkes on Fri, 05/19/2023 - 15:21
Bill Nye explores the physiology and psychology of drug addiction, examining whether it is a disease, a chosen behavior, or a genetic disorder. Nye talks with scientists who are using diagnostic imaging to study the effect of drugs on the brain. Features an interview with psychologists who discuss the social factors associated with substance abuse and support their theory by conducting an experiment using non-alcoholic beer. Also speaks with a group of people who are struggling with drug addictions.
Submitted by khenkes on Tue, 12/28/2021 - 17:07
Examines the "stuff" that people use every day and looks at the effects that these everyday objects and actions have on Earth's environment.
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