Hunting the Elements by
Where do nature's building blocks, called the elements, come from? They're the hidden ingredients of everything in our world, from the carbon in our bodies to the metals in our smartphones. To unlock their secrets, David Pogue, the lively host of NOVA's popular "Making Stuff" series and technology correspondent of The New York Times, spins viewers through the world of weird, extreme chemistry: the strongest acids, the deadliest poisons, the universe's most abundant elements, and the rarest of the rare--substances cooked up in atom smashers that flicker into existence for only fractions of a second.
Mythbusters, season 4 by
Jamie, Adam and associates investigate 19th century rocket science to test the stories of the Confederate Army launching a two-stage rocket during the Civil War, test vodka as a cure for foot odor and as a mouthwash, determine if, in a high-speed, head-on collision of two semi-trailer trucks, a small car caught between them would be smashed flat. They test the idea that steel-toe boots can lead to toe amputation and investigate a plastic bottle jet-pack using pressurized water as fuel, non-pharmaceutical treatments for sea-sickness, the effects of plugging up a gun barrel. They compare the fuel efficiency of pickup trucks with the tailgate up or down, construct and test paper crossbows, and evaluate the effectiveness of vodka as a smoke remover, a bee killer, and a bathroom cleaning agent.
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