Science and Engineering

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Build it Bigger

Discovery Channel Science Channel

 

PROGRAM PROFILE


Episode:

FAULT ZONE TUNNEL

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Build it Bigger

Discovery Channel Science Channel

 

PROGRAM PROFILE


Episode:

ROLLER COASTER

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Dynamite Family

Discovery

When your family's business is blowing up buildings, life gets a bit, eh, explosive.

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Engineering The Impossible

Discovery

Imagining the world's biggest structures.

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Evolution: The Great Transformation

PBS/NOVA

How do we get from single celled blobs to modern-day couch potatoes? This show covers a billion years of evolution at a breakneck pace.

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How Stuff Works

Pilot for Discovery

How does our sense of smell affect our mating behavior?

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Man-Made: LA Sewers

National Geographic

Treated LA sewage fertilizes farms in California. Who says Hollywood produces nothing of value?

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Man-Made: Super Sewer

National Geographic

Los Angeles has one of the largest, most sophisticated sewer systems in the world, but its pipes are old and the system is in constant danger of breaking down.

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Mega Engineering

Discovery Channel

 

PROGRAM PROFILE


Episode:

HOUSTON DOME

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Megastructures: Canadian Oil Sands

National Geographic

There's more oil trapped in Canadian mud than in the entire middle east. Can we get it out?

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Megastructures: North Sea Crude

National Geographic

Rough conditions on a North Atlantic oil platform.

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Megastructures: World's Largest Plane

National Geographic

The Airbus A-380. Very big plane.

Series

Build It Bigger thumb

Discovery Channel, Science Channel
(24x:60)

Our intrepid host Danny Forster signs on to work construction at the world's biggest, most dramatic construction projects, giving us a backstage pass to these incredible structures as they're being built.

PROGRAM PROFILE

Extreme Engineering

Discovery Channel
(20x:60)

The series that defined a genre. Stories from the designers and builders of the most awe-inspiring engineering projects in the future and how they might confront disaster. Could the Transatlantic Tunnel survive a direct hit by a nuclear sub? Could the Bering Straight Bridge survive an iceberg the size of Manhattan? How could Sky City evacuate in a massive emergency?

Mega Engineering thumb

Discovery Channel
(6x:60)

Is it possible to engineer massive solutions to the ecological problems currently facing the planet? Incredible animation, brilliant storytelling and imaginative speculation makes the future come alive in these thought-provoking programs. PROGRAM PROFILE

The Works thumb

History Channel
(10x:60)

Author and robotics expert Daniel Wilson explores everything from skydiving to power tools to beer and sneakers. Its everything you ever wanted to know about, well, everything!

Specials


Discover Magazine: Bonesthumb

Discovery Channel

A tiny mark on a femur solves a thirty year old disappearance.


Engineering The Impossible

Discovery

Imagining the world's biggest structures.


Evolution: The Great Transformations thumb

PBS, NOVA

How do we get from single celled blobs to modern-day couch potatoes? This show covers a billion years of evolution at a breakneck pace.


How Stuff Works thumb

Pilot for Discovery

How does our sense of smell affect our mating behavior?


Megastructures: Berlin's Big Dig thumb

National Geographic

The world's most spectacular rail station reconnects Europe.


Megastrutures: Canadian Oil Sands thumb

National Geographic

There's more oil trapped in Canadian mud than in the entire middle east. Can we get it out?


Megastructures: Interstate Highways thumb

National Geographic

Originally built to evacuate cities in a nuclear attack, the US highway system led to strip malls and fast food culture. Hmmm. Should we have bothered?


Megastructures: North Sea Crude thumb

National Geographic

Rough conditions on a North Atlantic oil platform


Megastructures: The Sewers of L.A. thumb

National Geographic

Treated LA sewage fertilizes farms in California. Who says Hollywood produces nothing of value?


Megastructures: World's Largest Plane thumb

National Geographic

The Airbus A-380. Very big plane.


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