Episode guide
NOVA: Season 2
17 episodes · premiered Nov 3, 1974
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- Episode 1: Why Do Birds Sing? Nov 3, 1974 · 55m NOVA travels to forests and marshes to discover why birds sing and finds surprising parallels with the acquisition of speech in humans.
- Episode 2: How Much Do You Smell? Nov 10, 1974 · 55m 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…
- Episode 3: The Hunting Of The Quark Nov 17, 1974 · 55m 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…
- Episode 4: The Secrets Of Sleep Nov 24, 1974 · 55m 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…
- Episode 5: Inside the Golden Gate Dec 1, 1974 · 55m 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.
- Episode 6: The Men Who Painted Caves Dec 8, 1974 · 55m 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…
- Episode 7: Red Sea Coral Dec 15, 1974 · 55m 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…
- Episode 8: War From the Air Jan 5, 1975 · 55m
- Episode 9: What Time is Your Body? Jan 12, 1975 · 55m Have you ever sensed that your body reacts differently at different times of the day? NOVA examines the best and worsetimes for work, good times for sex drives and your body's most…
- Episode 10: The Rise And Fall Of DDT Jan 19, 1975 · 55m 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…
- Episode 11: Take the World From Another Point of View Feb 2, 1975 · 55m 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…
- Episode 12: The Lysenko Affair Feb 9, 1975 · 55m 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.
- Episode 13: The Tuaregs Feb 16, 1975 · 55m 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…
- Episode 14: The Plutonium Connection Mar 9, 1975 · 55m 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…
- Episode 15: The Other Way Mar 16, 1975 · 55m 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…
- Episode 16: The Lost World Of The Maya Mar 30, 1975 · 55m For over a thousand years the Mayan civilization grew and flourished in the rain forests of Central America. Discovered and finally destroyed by the Spanish Conquistadors, it was lost…
- Episode 17: Will The Fishing Have to Stop? Apr 6, 1975 · 55m 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…