Odcinki
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Noisy/Quiet: Production & Processing of Sound
A sixty-second tease introduces the cast and previews some of their scientific adventures. This is followed by a four-m…
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Noisy/Quiet: The Ear
Same 60-second tease as in first episode precedes an invasion of noises into Marc's world. Knowing that "noise annoys,"…
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Noisy/Quiet: How People & Animals Use Sound
Lisa goes to Hawaii to see how dolphins use sonar. Another segment sees sonar of bats. Trini sees an ultrasound appara…
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Noisy/Quiet: Music
Dizzy Gillespie shows off his jazz talents. Trini checks out the behind-the-scenes work at a Kiss concert. The Bloodho…
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Noisy/Quiet: Range of Vibration
Lisa, Marc, and Trini are given a puzzle. They hear a bell ring and, as instructed, put the bell in a closed jar and ta…
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Forces and Motion
Trini becomes concerned when and where a hurricane is projected to strike. Marc visits Six Flags Great America to learn…
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Forces and Fields
Hurricane Rufus is turning inland, heading toward the workshop. This prompts Trini to give a brief description of a hur…
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Forces: Buoyancy and Gravity
Hurricane Rufus is now abutting the workshop. Trini prepares herself with a lifeboat. She proves to Marc and Lisa that…
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Forces and Machines
Hurricane Rufus strikes the workshop. Calmer discussion of the Earth's forces are seen at a circus, in the paths of sat…
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Forces: A Spectacle of Forces
REHASHED FROM THE PREVIOUS FOUR EPISODES: Roller coaster design; stuntman; orbiting satellites. Also: what forces prope…
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Growth/Decay: Sex and Seeds
Marc learns about the growth of corn and pigs at the Bakers Akers farm. Trini sits in on an expectant mother's ultrasou…
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Growth/Decay: Human Growth
Lisa arrives at a hospital to see treatment for a premature baby. Trini and others at Staten Island discuss adolescent …
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Growth/Decay: Decay
Lisa ventures into a sewage treatment plant in Chicago.Film inserts: Msima Spring in Kenya houses a massive food chain, …
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Growth/Decay: Human Cultures/Land Forms
Lisa sees a volcano that is almost ready to erupt. Marc demonstrates a model volcano. Trini joins a group of young arc…
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Growth/Decay: Cycles Upon Cycles
REHASHED FROM THE PREVIOUS FOUR EPISODES: Lisa sees a volcano that is almost ready to erupt. Marc learns about the growt…
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Fast/Slow: Speed Up, Slow Down
Trini and Lisa stage a surprise birthday party for Marc. It revolves around a tape recording which Marc must play at va…
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Fast/Slow: Rhythms of Nature
Lisa gets some instructions on rhythms from a professional drummer and witnesses the wicked tides at the Bay of Fundy. …
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Fast/Slow: Lifetimes
Recycled from Episode 12: Lisa arrives at a hospital to see treatment for a premature baby. A make-up artist transforms…
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Fast/Slow: Speed and Racing
Marc and Lisa give Trini a psychological boost prior to Field Day. Lisa checks out a professional motorcycle racer (fil…
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Fast/Slow: Time and Time Again
REHASHED FROM THE PREVIOUS FOUR EPISODES: Lisa checks out a professional motorcycle racer (filmed Oct. 1979) and witness…
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Communication: Human Communication
Marc and Lisa discover too late that Trini is stranded in the desert with an empty gas tank, setting the stage for three…
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Communication: Animal Communication
Trini is still lost in the desert, despite several attempts to get messages across. Marc illustrates his expertise on b…
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Communication: Machinery of Communication
After two days and contact, Marc sends out the Goodyear Blimp for Trini. Marc visits Bell Laboratories to see a compute…
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Communication with Other Species
Trini returns from the desert. She gets in her first segment of the week, visiting the University of Tennessee, where a…
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Communication: Feedback
Trini recounts her attempts to send distress signals from the desert. Lisa and Marc remind her that her messages had to…
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Food/Fuel: Animal Food
Trini decides to bring a pet to the workshop, but she didn't count on a friend bringing a wolf. At the Bronx Zoo, Lisa g…
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Food/Fuel: Human Food
Marc illustrates the truth about calories while baking a pizza. A group of school kids at Staten Island learn about nut…
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Food/Fuel: Growing and Processing Food
Lisa, Marc, and Trini have been invited to a canoe trek in Maine. They have difficulty at first trying to decide what f…
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Food/Fuel: Fueling Machines
True fuel is discussed in this episode, first with the 1980 phenomenon "gasohol" and with real gasoline at a motorcycle …
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Food/Fuel: The Sun Makes Everything Go
RECYCLED FROM THE PREVIOUS FOUR EPISODES: Gasohol, Baker's Akers, baking bread. Another sequence believed to be in this…
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Hot/Cold: People's Temperatures
Trini has been standing in the freezing cold, threatening to become almost as sick as Marc. Lisa gives a demonstration …
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Hot/Cold: Animal and Plant Adaptations
The desert and polar regions demonstrate how plants and animals react to extreme heat or cold. The Bloodhound Gang unlo…
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Hot/Cold: How Hot or Cold Can It Get?
Marc and Trini relate temperature to each other as they make ice cream and candied apples respectively. Lisa demonstrat…
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Hot/Cold: Heat and Work
Lisa is bitter over her cold. As Marc and Trini try to warm her spirits, Lisa thinks back to her visits with the motorcy…
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Hot/Cold: Temperatures on Earth/In Space
A solar astronomer explains how the sun produces the seasons. He tells Marc that the sun is closer to Earth in winter t…
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Light/Dark: The Sun
Marc wants to set up a model solar system. To simulate the sun, he and the others get the largest light bulb they can b…
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Light/Dark: Adaptation of Plants/Animals
Lisa, Marc, and Trini all wonder what can be done to recover a plant that had been kept from windows. The Bloodhound Ga…
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Light/Dark: Electromagnetic Spectrum
Trini follows the crew that sets up the lighting on a Kiss concert (recorded during their 1979 tour). At the workshop, …
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Light/Dark: The Eye
Everyone celebrates Trini's birthday with a piñata. Marc visits a visually-impaired boy navigating around his school and…
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Light/Dark: Light Sources
Marc proposes to burn a hole through a piece of cardboard using a magnifying glass and the sun. It doesn't harm the car…
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Near/Far: Seeing Isn't Always Believing
Lisa and Trini enter an Eames Room to play tricks on Marc. Marc gets an up-close look at things through a scanning elec…
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Near/Far: Mapping and Navigating Near Home
Marc visits a researcher determining how bees communicate. Then, in a segment previously used in Light/Dark: The Eye, Ma…
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Near/Far: Mapping and Navigating Over Earth
For the bulk of the show, a guest at the workshop is Willis Brown, a transcontinental pilot who discusses air travel. Tr…
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Near/Far: Space Travel
This program goes to Houston to observe the space shuttle. The Bloodhound Gang has to stop a swindle in "The Case of th…
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Near/Far: Knowing Where You Are
RECYCLED FROM THE PREVIOUS FOUR EPISODES: Marc sees a sailing ship chart its return course and observes how a blind boy…
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Order/Disorder: Regular Patterns
Lisa is looking for a quilt design, which she can't quite place. Trini suggests that Lisa use a computer to create a ne…
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Order/Disorder: The Body – An Ordered System
A student of neuropharmacology visits the workshop to discuss the order of the human body and all its systems. Marc obs…
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Order/Disorder: Social Order
Animals keep a semblance of order, whether they are bees in a hive or people in the Kalahari Desert searching for melons…
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Order/Disorder: Disordered
Marc, Lisa, and Trini become helter-skelter at the beginning, but they calm down and devise plans. In the process, Lisa…
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Order/Disorder: Sum of Its Parts
A composer visits the workshop to discuss writing music. Marc sees the specialized work of honey bees. Trini gets the …
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Surfaces: Protection
Clothes are humans' number-one source of protecting the skin. Trini finds out what clothing works best when climbing a …
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Surfaces: Shapes and Functions at the Surface
Field locations include cacti in the Arizona desert, a Zamboni, and a scanning electron microscope. The Bloodhound Gang…
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Surfaces: Surface Tension and Bubbles
Lisa rides a hot-air balloon and gets tips from a glassblower on making goblets. A film insert discusses bubbles and ho…
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Surfaces: Surface of the Earth
A geologist appears in the workshop for a discussion on the three types of Earth rock. In Hawaii, Lisa sees a volcano a…
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Surfaces: The Atmosphere – Skin of the Earth
ANIMATION: What does permeable mean?
REHASHED FROM PREVIOUS FOUR EPISODES: Trini learns about protecting the human bod…
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Big/Small: Animal Sizes/Scaling
At the Bronx Zoo, Lisa goes on the rounds with a young veterinarian feeding baby animals. Marc visits Miami Seaquarium …
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Big/Small: Animal Habitats
Everyone is perplexed when they find bugs living on just about everything. Trini examines a salt marsh. (Continues in …
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Big/Small: Dinoaurs
Trini is convinced she has discovered a dinosaur bone. A visit to a American Museum of Natural History shows that she a…
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Big/Small: Volume & Efficiency
At an aquarium, Lisa and Trini learn about volume. Marc and Lisa head out to see a supertanker. Trini stakes her case …
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Big/Small: How Big is Big?
REHASHED FROM THE PREVIOUS FOUR EPISODES: Trini is convinced she has discovered a dinosaur bone. A visit to a American…
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Crowded/Uncrowded: Human Crowding
The workshop welcomes a guest to discuss the human psyche of crowding. Film inserts: Building a skyscraper; the Gui peo…
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Crowded/Uncrowded: Optimum Populations in Nature
A wildlife expert visits the workshop to extoll on the impact humans have had on animals such as the wolf.
FILM INSERT:…
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Crowded/Uncrowded: Contrasts in Densities of Materials
Trini pilots around New York City in the Goodyear blimp. Lisa gets to ride a hot-air balloon. The Bloodhound Gang gets…
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Crowded/Uncrowded: Down Among the Atoms (Liquids & Solids)
Marc adds too much food coloring to the frosting on a birthday cake for his sister, starting a discussion of molecular d…
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Crowded/Uncrowded: Human Survival/Controlling Densities
REHASHED FROM PREVIOUS FOUR EPISODES: Lisa rides a hot-air balloon.
FILM INSERT: The elephant struggles for survival …