Bill Nye: The Science Guy

  • Premiered: Sep 1993
  • Episodes: 100
  • Followers: 36
  • Ended
  • PBS
  • Unknown
  • Children Comedy Documentary Family

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Season 5
5x1
Forensics
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 19, 1997
Forensic scientists try to find out the who, what, when, where, and why of events in the past – crimes. Most forensic scientists work in police labs. They collect evidence from the scene .. show full overview
5x2
Space Exploration
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Air date
Sep 26, 1997
Space is hard to explore, because it’s really, really big. Most things in space are so far away that people we build special equipment just to see them. We use telescopes to magnify .. show full overview
5x3
Genes
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Air date
Oct 17, 1997
The color of your eyes, the shape of your nose, and the straightness (or curliness) of your hair depend on your genes. Not jeans the pants, but genes, the long strands of chemicals in .. show full overview
5x4
Architecture
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Air date
Oct 24, 1997
Towers, teepees, castles, and condominiums – some kind of planning goes into all buildings, no matter how big or small. Architects are people who design buildings, and the areas around .. show full overview
5x5
Farming
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Air date
Oct 31, 1997
Before food gets into your kitchen, before it even gets to the store, it’s on a farm. Almost everything we eat is grown on a farm, an area of land used to raise animals and plants. .. show full overview
5x6
Life Cycles
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Air date
Nov 14, 1997
My, how you’ve grown! The popular exclamation from your Auntie may be no great revelation, but growing bigger is a part of life. In fact, it’s part of the whole cycle, or pattern, of .. show full overview
5x7
Do-It-Yourself Science
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Air date
Nov 21, 1997
Do-it-yourself science involves a question, observations, a hypothesis, and experimentation. You have probably come up with questions after you noticed something unusual. For instance, .. show full overview
5x8
Atoms & Molecules
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Air date
Nov 28, 1997
Atoms are reeeeally small. They are so small that you can’t see them with just your eye. It takes as many as 10 million of them side-by-side to measure a single millimeter. In fact, .. show full overview
5x9
Ocean Exploration
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Air date
Dec 05, 1997
Ocean exploration is a tricky, risky business since humans can’t naturally survive under the ocean. Ocean explorers are constantly inventing new tools to help them dive deep into the .. show full overview
5x10
Lakes & Ponds
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Air date
Feb 21, 1998
What do you get when you have a big hole in the ground and some water? Lakes and ponds. All lakes and ponds have one thing in common – they happen when a basin, or hole, forms, and then .. show full overview
5x11
Smell
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Air date
Feb 28, 1998
How do noses work? Objects give off tiny amounts of tiny molecules into the air. When just a few of these molecules get up your nose, they dissolve in the mucus up there. Some molecules .. show full overview
5x12
Caves
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Air date
Apr 25, 1998
Caves come in all different shapes and sizes depending on how they were formed. Spelunkers (people who explore caves) have plenty of descriptive names for caves and the natural rocky .. show full overview
5x13
Fluids
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Air date
May 02, 1998
Fluids are cool; they ooze and swoosh. Whatever container you put a fluid in, that fluid will take the same shape. Milk poured into a pitcher forms to the shape of the pitcher. If you .. show full overview
5x14
Erosion
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Air date
May 09, 1998
Dirt, sand, and rock from the Earth’s surface gets blown, sliced, torn, swallowed and distributed all over the world. What was yesterday’s hill is tomorrow’s flat plain. The planet looks .. show full overview
5x15
Comets & Meteors
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Air date
May 16, 1998
Outer space is full of stuff. We’re not just talking about planets and moons. There are some bits and pieces, too small to be noticed most of the time that float around and occasionally .. show full overview
5x16
Storms
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Air date
May 23, 1998
Storms are big, loud, and often accompanied by rain, snow, sleet, or hail. Where do these wild, dangerous, and necessary tornadoes, hurricanes, and thunderstorms come from? Storms happen .. show full overview
5x17
Measurement
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Air date
May 30, 1998
Did you know that the Concorde moves 300,000 times faster than a land snail? Or that a giant redwood can be as tall as a 35-story apartment building? The only reason we can make these .. show full overview
5x18
Patterns
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Air date
Jun 06, 1998
Every time you look at something, hear something, touch something, smell something, or taste something, your brain collects a little information about the world around you. You may even .. show full overview
5x19
Science of Music
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Air date
Jun 13, 1998
Music is the art and science of expressing ideas and feelings through sound. A sad song can say more about how someone feels than most words, and a familiar song can make crowds clap .. show full overview
5x20 Show finale
Motion
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Air date
Jun 20, 1998
Things can appear to be moving, when they really aren’t. Sometimes an object might seem to be at rest, even when it is in motion. It’s all relative. Relative motion, that is. How things .. show full overview

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