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NTV Top 11 countdown

This episode features eleven music video parodies from the science guy's television series. The music videos cover different areas of science and are interspersed with facts and experiments presented by Bill Nye. Topics include velocity, friction, the water cycle, weather, brain function, methods of communication, oceanography, and recycling.

Understanding models

An illustrated overview of models that describes how they help test new designs and discusses different types, such as scale, graphical, conceptual, mathematical, and computer models, as well as how they help us understand living things and things that are too small to see.

Enterprise STEM

Describes Enterprise STEM which is a field consisting of people who work in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics.

Bacteria

Mythbusters Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman test various myths related to bacteria, including whether or not a wet toothbrush will pick up bacteria from a nearby toilet if the brush is left in the bathroom.

Botanical growth

Mythbusters Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman conduct experiments to determine if there is any truth or scientific basis to the myth that plants grow better when people talk to them.

Careers for the 21st century video library

Explores eight scientific jobs and lists typical job duties and identifies where and how to receive the necessary education and training.

Buoyancy

Mythbusters Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman investigate urban legends, including if a child be lifted off the ground by helium balloons and if ping pong balls can be used to raise a sunken ship.

Light reflection

Features a series of science experiments illustrating light reflection. Includes experiments in illusions, fiber optics, mirrors, and more.

You wouldn't want to be Sir Isaac Newton!

a lonely life you'd rather not lead
Brief text, sidebars, labeled illustrations, and humorous cartoons depict the life of seventeenth-century scientist Sir Isaac Newton.

Old science

Presents an episode of the "Daily Planet" science magazine which uses interviews, field pieces, and experiments to investigate what is going on in the world, discussing the hidden message in a painting in a Nova Scotia cathedral, an ancient skull found in a Toronto neighborhood, NASA's plans to return to the moon, tennis technology, cornstarch, the "Spirit" Mars rover, and submarine fires.

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