Examine tragedies including 1999 Milwaukee ironworkers' 200-foot fall, China's Sunjiwan coal mine explosion, fluoroscope x-ray radiation exposure in shoe stores, California's Salton Sea drainage issues, and Soviet Aral Sea irrigation disaster.
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A survey of torture devices employed throughout history, ranging from the ancient Greeks' Brazen Bull to the Spanish Inquisition's elaborate mechanisms.
More than two million people die in the U.S. annually, creating 5,500 daily burials with 80 percent choosing caskets and 20 percent cremation explore dealing with death throughout centuries and today's $20-billion funeral industry.
From Sherlock Holmes' examination of the physical evidence at a crime scene to today's DNA technology, a review of the history of crime detection through the use of forensic science.
Emergency room medicine has only been a recognized specialty since 1989 episode examines advances that led to the modern emergency room - from the Byzantine's establishment of the first hospitals around 1050 A.D. to today's telemedicine.
Examine tragedies including 1999 Milwaukee ironworkers' 200-foot fall, China's Sunjiwan coal mine explosion, fluoroscope x-ray radiation exposure in shoe stores, California's Salton Sea drainage issues, and Soviet Aral Sea irrigation disaster.
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.
A 2000 Ford Taurus gets dissected to demonstrate the evolution of the automobile's major systems automotive historians and experts describe how cars have evolved and explain major advances.
Get behind the wheel and take control of some of the largest, fastest, most powerful machines on the planet these aren't the average vehicles and handling one of these rides is unlike anything else.
Explore the world of extreme horsepower from the fastest accelerating cars to massive hydroplane racing boats discover horsepower's steam engine marketing origins, container ship diesel power, Hoover Dam water harnessing, and more.
Gas--it makes a balloon go up, cooks our food, and fills our lungs this invisible state of matter does far more, and has a very visible impact on the world.
Beans converting soybeans into vegetable oils, flour and soy meal Nebraska's Kelley Bean Co. cleans 80,000 pounds of dry beans daily New England baked beans made by B&M Italian chef Cesare Casella uses heirloom beans hummus.
From the prairies of Saskatchewan to a Manhattan skyscraper we'll see the 21st Century's cutting-edge "green" technologies in action.
Renewable energy technologies fight petroleum dependence and global warming by transforming air, water, earth, and fire into clean sources explore solar, wind, geothermal, biofuels, and tidal power from experimental to massive scale solutions.
The world's best extreme athletes, designers, manufacturers, and engineers explain and demonstrate why the gadgets, gear, and technology of these sports have captured the public's imagination and revolutionized the sporting industry.
Rising from a stretch of desert with nothing but remoteness to recommend it, Las Vegas became a glittering wonderland for dreamers a look at the forces that made Las Vegas a place unlike any on earth.
Get behind the wheel and take control of some of the largest, fastest, most powerful machines on the planet these aren't the average vehicles and handling one of these rides is unlike anything else.
Explore the world of extreme horsepower from the fastest accelerating cars to massive hydroplane racing boats discover horsepower's steam engine marketing origins, container ship diesel power, Hoover Dam water harnessing, and more.
Gas--it makes a balloon go up, cooks our food, and fills our lungs this invisible state of matter does far more, and has a very visible impact on the world.
Beans converting soybeans into vegetable oils, flour and soy meal Nebraska's Kelley Bean Co. cleans 80,000 pounds of dry beans daily New England baked beans made by B&M Italian chef Cesare Casella uses heirloom beans hummus.
From the prairies of Saskatchewan to a Manhattan skyscraper we'll see the 21st Century's cutting-edge "green" technologies in action.
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