Modern Marvels
A history of car-culture commerce.
2026-07-15 08:06:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-15 08:58:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
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In less than a century, the world went from dirt tracks to highways, from propeller planes to space travel, from sailboats to supertankers in the process, a glut of traffic was created on roadways, railways, airways, and seaways.
2026-07-15 13:19:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-15 14:13:00 +0000 UTC(54m)
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Fairgrounds fried classics such as funnel cakes and churros frog legs Twinkies and Coke forging a cast iron frying pan Kentucky's World Chicken Festival.
2026-07-15 12:28:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-15 13:19:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
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What does it take to rate as "the world's strongest"? Watch as life-saving boron carbide body armor, strong enough to stop 9mm machine gun bullets at point-blank range, is put to the test.
2026-07-15 11:36:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-15 12:28:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
Glass serves as one of the most versatile materials, sheathing skyscrapers, containing liquids, aiding vision, enabling high-speed communication, and providing artistic expression heating certain rocks and minerals creates this transparent material.
2026-07-15 10:43:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-15 11:36:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
Modern Marvels
Technologies of the 1990s: the information superhighway DVDs TiVo GPS Google Amazon distribution center virtual pets George Foreman's grill.
2026-07-15 09:52:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-15 10:43:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
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Since the turn of the 20th century, designers have competed to build them faster, taller, and steeper as technology pushes the envelope with flips, weightlessness, and more g-force than a jet, they have to calculate how much can the human body take.
2026-07-15 08:58:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-15 09:52:00 +0000 UTC(54m)
Modern Marvels
A history of car-culture commerce.
2026-07-15 08:06:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-15 08:58:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
Adam Richman visits a central Pennsylvanian cheese maker with an award-winning mozzarella inside grocery giant Kroger as they slice, shred and package over 2.5-million lbs. of cheese per week.
2026-07-15 07:17:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-15 08:06:00 +0000 UTC(49m)
Modern Marvels
The assembly and surprising history behind the airboat a wild ride on a big-tired swamp buggy local delicacies that bring new meaning to acquired taste a massive engineering project to divert the mighty Mississippi River pythons and alligators.
2026-07-15 00:37:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-15 01:27:00 +0000 UTC(50m)
Modern Marvels
Water exists in three forms at same temperature as nature's powerful landscape carver and life supporter explore its multidimensional character from bottled water industry to nuclear reactors, irrigation systems, and artistic fountain displays.
2026-07-14 23:45:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-15 00:37:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
In the world of surveillance, Big Brother is not only watching, he's also listening, analyzing, recording, scanning, and tracking every aspect of our lives with advanced surveillance technology, there's virtually no place to hide.
2026-07-14 22:53:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-14 23:45:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
More than 100 pyramids built as tombs for pharaohs still stand in Egypt, but many things about the ancient monuments remain obscure.
2026-07-14 22:01:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-14 22:53:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
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Close to 40% of Earth is classified as desert, but these environments offer hope through Middle East desalination, Las Vegas communities, Hoover Dam power, irrigation agriculture, solar energy, and technology enabling future Mars colonization.
2026-07-14 21:09:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-14 22:01:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
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Corn is the largest agricultural crop in the world, and it is used in more than 3,000 diverse items, ranging from food to the plastic wrap for packaging it.
2026-07-14 20:18:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-14 21:09:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
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Spinning your wheels isn't just going around in circles, in fact, it's revolutionary - literally the history of civilization has turned on the wheel, and we have traveled as far as we have because of it.
2026-07-14 19:25:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-14 20:18:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
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Satellites and the Global Positioning System spark a revolution in cartography.
2026-07-14 18:30:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-14 19:25:00 +0000 UTC(55m)
Modern Marvels
The assembly and surprising history behind the airboat a wild ride on a big-tired swamp buggy local delicacies that bring new meaning to acquired taste a massive engineering project to divert the mighty Mississippi River pythons and alligators.
2026-07-14 12:37:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-14 13:27:00 +0000 UTC(50m)
Modern Marvels
Water exists in three forms at same temperature as nature's powerful landscape carver and life supporter explore its multidimensional character from bottled water industry to nuclear reactors, irrigation systems, and artistic fountain displays.
2026-07-14 11:45:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-14 12:37:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
In the world of surveillance, Big Brother is not only watching, he's also listening, analyzing, recording, scanning, and tracking every aspect of our lives with advanced surveillance technology, there's virtually no place to hide.
2026-07-14 10:53:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-14 11:45:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
Modern Marvels
More than 100 pyramids built as tombs for pharaohs still stand in Egypt, but many things about the ancient monuments remain obscure.
2026-07-14 10:01:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-14 10:53:00 +0000 UTC(52m)
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