NOVA - Season 2

NOVA - Season 2

Season 2

Network
Datesnov. 3, 1974 - avr. 6, 1975
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Episodes

Why Do Birds Sing?
Season 2Episode 160 min

Why Do Birds Sing?

NOVA travels to forests and marshes to discover why birds sing and finds surprising parallels with the acquisition of speech in humans.

nov. 3, 1974
How Much Do You Smell?
Season 2Episode 260 min

How Much Do You Smell?

Many insects and some mammals use smell as a primary means of communication. NOVA explains how, for example, the entire economy of an ant's nest is organized by smell, and how some moths use smell for population control—an ability we is now beginning to understand.

nov. 10, 1974
The Hunting of the Quark
Season 2Episode 360 min

The Hunting of the Quark

Smashing matter into ever smaller pieces in an attempt to find its fundamental building blocks has produced a confused nightmare of particles. NOVA looks at this on-again, off-again story—one of sciences's most mysterious—and, one of the most expensive, involving some of the biggest machines in the world.

nov. 17, 1974
The Secrets of Sleep
Season 2Episode 460 min

The Secrets of Sleep

Most of us spend one-third of our lives in a state of which we understand remarkably little—some people sleep for only a few minutes a night, and function perfectly well, while others declare that eight hours isn't enough. NOVA explores traditional notions about how much sleep we need; looks at effects of the sleeping pill, and, perhaps the most baffling of all aspects of sleep—dreaming.

nov. 24, 1974
Inside the Golden Gate
Season 2Episode 560 min

Inside the Golden Gate

NOVA joins a team of U.S. Geological Survey scientists on a mission to find out just how San Francisco Bay works: its physics, its chemistry and its biology.

déc. 1, 1974
The Men Who Painted Caves
Season 2Episode 660 min

The Men Who Painted Caves

Just why did Cro-Magnon man living in France's Dordogne Valley some 15,000 years ago take time out from the desperate business of survival to paint pictures in inaccessible corners of his cave dwellings? NOVA joins French and American archeologists as they piece together the lifestyle of these hunters of the last great Ice Age, and try to interpret the meaning of their cave art.

déc. 8, 1974
Red Sea Coral
Season 2Episode 760 min

Red Sea Coral

NOVA joins a group of English biologists living literally on a platform in the middle of the Red Sea, who for several years have been studying the crown-of-thorns starfish, notorious for the devastation it has wrought on the coral reefs of Australia and the Pacific.

déc. 15, 1974
War from the Air
Season 2Episode 860 min

War from the Air

NOVA explores how science and technology play a major role in the design of weapons of war and the development of strategies for their use.

janv. 5, 1975
What Time Is Your Body?
Season 2Episode 960 min

What Time Is Your Body?

Have you ever sensed that your body reacts differently at different times of the day? NOVA examines the best and worse times for work, good times for sex drives and your body's most reactive time of day for alcohol consumption.

janv. 12, 1975
The Rise and Fall of DDT
Season 2Episode 1060 min

The Rise and Fall of DDT

Has the case against DDT been proven? A strange question, perhaps, to be asking one year after the US has banned the insecticide, but NOVA dares to ask. Tracing the history of DDT from its discovery through its banning in the States, NOVA asks whether America overreacted with its total ban of this once acclaimed "wonder" chemical.

janv. 19, 1975
Take the World from Another Point of View
Season 2Episode 1160 min

Take the World from Another Point of View

NOVA profiles two very different scientists: Richard Feynman, a theoretical physicist, at the pinnacle of his career—a Nobel prizewinner; and Richard Lewontin, a biologist and highly regarded population geneticist from Harvard University.

févr. 2, 1975
The Lysenko Affair
Season 2Episode 1260 min

The Lysenko Affair

NOVA explores T.D. Lynsenko's rise to power in the Soviet Union in the early 20th century, and how it affected plant genetic research in the USSR.

févr. 9, 1975
The Tuaregs
Season 2Episode 1360 min

The Tuaregs

High in the Hoggar Mountains, in the exact center of the Sahara desert, lives Sidi Mohammed and his family: children, grandchildren, cousins and a few former slave women. Their environment, one of the most ungenerous on earth, provides them with almost nothing. NOVA examines the changing lifestyle of Sidi Mohammed.

févr. 16, 1975
The Plutonium Connection
Season 2Episode 1460 min

The Plutonium Connection

How likely is it that a terrorist group will steal plutonium intended for nuclear reactor fuel and put together a blackmail weapon of unprecedented power in the shape of a homemade atom bomb? That question is posed by Theodore Taylor, former A and H bomb designer at Los Alamos, in a recent book, The Curve of Binding Energy. NOVA investigates just how easy it would be to design a bomb using unclassified information.

mars 9, 1975
The Other Way
Season 2Episode 1560 min

The Other Way

Since the Industrial Revolution, bigger has been better. NOVA profiles E.F. Schumacher, the author of Small is Beautiful, who thinks that enough is enough; that the time has come for technology to return to a human scale, where the ability to create is returned from the machine to people.

mars 16, 1975
The Lost World of the Maya
Season 2Episode 1660 min

The Lost World of the Maya

Since the Industrial Revolution, bigger has been better. NOVA profiles E.F. Schumacher, the author of Small is Beautiful, who thinks that enough is enough; that the time has come for technology to return to a human scale, where the ability to create is returned from the machine to people.

mars 30, 1975
Will the Fishing Have to Stop?
Season 2Episode 1760 min

Will the Fishing Have to Stop?

Fish is an excellent source of protein; it could help ease the growing international food shortage. But in 1972 the total world fish catch dropped. NOVA explores the possible reasons for this decline.

avr. 6, 1975

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