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S5 E22: Emergency Room

3 Min Left • Original Air Date: Oct 25, 1999

Emergency room medicine has only been a recognized specialty since 1989; episode examines advances that led to the modern emergency room - from the Byzantine's establishment of the first hospitals around 1050 A.D. to today's telemedicine.

7:45-8:39AM

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54 Min

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1999

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S14 E36: Night

Original Air Date: Dec 26, 2008

Some activities occur only when the world is dark; fishermen use lights to lure squid to their nets; finding night crawlers in Toronto; military night-vision gear; police helicopter's Spectrolab spotlight; baseball stadium.

Apr 25

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8:19PM

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49 Min

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TV-PG

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S14 E35: Measure It

Original Air Date: Dec 23, 2008

How distance, time, speed, weight and temperature are measured; weighing a whale; how a speedometer works; the National Institute of Standards and Technology; measuring tapes made by Stanley Tools.

2:27-3:19AM

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52 Min

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TV-PG

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S14 E33: Retro Tech

Original Air Date: Dec 19, 2008

The evolution of technology; how things now considered obsolete worked such as the typewriter, VCR, analog TV, vinyl record, film camera and brick-sized mobile phone, as well as products that superseded them.

Apr 25

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7:28PM

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51 Min

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TV-PG

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S14 E32: Car Wash

Original Air Date: Dec 8, 2008

Americans visit car washes two million times per day at an annual cost of $25 billion; how car washes are built to clean, ranging from tunnel systems to in-bay automatics; visiting the biggest car wash facility in the United States.

Apr 25

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4:03PM

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51 Min

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TV-PG

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S14 E28: Halloween Tech

Original Air Date: Oct 27, 2008

The celebration of Halloween has become a $6 billion economic powerhouse; the annual Halloween Haunt at Knott's Berry Farm; the production of monster makeup, masks and costumes; carving pumpkins; making fake blood; haunted house.

Apr 25

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9:08PM

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52 Min

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TV-PG

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S14 E26: Corrosion & Decomposition

Original Air Date: Oct 13, 2008

America's aging infrastructure is in danger of collapse due to corrosion, according to engineers; technology for battling corrosion; harnessing the destructive power of decomposition.

Apr 27

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2:19PM

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50 Min

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TV-PG

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S14 E21: Iron

Original Air Date: Aug 14, 2008

How iron mined in Minnesota is made into steel; iron weapons revolutionize warfare; military metallurgists customize weapons and demonstrate their firepower; iron magnets.

Apr 26

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5:09PM

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52 Min

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TV-PG

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S14 E6: Whiskey

Original Air Date: Mar 17, 2008

Tours of some of the world's finest whiskey distilleries demonstrate how different countries put their unique stamps on an ancient drink called the "water of life"; Jack Daniels; Jim Beam; Canadian Club; Jameson's; Glenlivet.

Apr 27

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9:08PM

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52 Min

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S14 E2: Carbon

Original Air Date: Jan 14, 2008

All life-forms and modern technology are built on a foundation of carbon; the steel industry; coal-fired power plants; graphite pencils; a charcoal water filter; diamonds.

Apr 25

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2:22PM

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52 Min

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TV-PG

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Available with Freestream