In a world where nothing is what it seems, we explore tricks using sleight of hand. Play games with a water bottle, take a look at the Dunning Kruger effect and answer the question Is a telescope a time machine?
In a world where nothing is what it seems, take a look at the shades of colour, explore the Body transfer illusion, Liars paradox and video. Is moving pictures an illusion?
In a world where nothing is what it seems, the lights are off and the spotlight is on the art of shadowgraphy. Next up we'll explore some card tricks and more optical illusions. Then feature rethinker performer Félicien Treway.
In a world where nothing is what it seems, we'll take a look at magician's trade secrets, the contradictions of Zeno's paradox, and the UV - A Blacklight. We'll take another look at the levitation illusion, and illusionist David Blaine.
Lets take a look at the art movement photorealism and another test for your ears in the McGurk Effect phenomenon. We'll take you back in time to introduce you to Peppers ghost and highlight famous forward thinker Leonardo Da Vinci.
MOSE is one of the largest and highest-profile civil-engineering works. But will it be able to save Venice? Venice has grappled with inundation for centuries.
The modern supertrains of Mainland China.
Host/adventurer George Kourounis tracks twisters through the Tornado Alley of Oklahoma and Texas, descends into the Erte Ale Volcano in the Danakil Depression of Ethiopia, and then witnesses Hurricane Katrina destroying the town of Gulfport.
The autumn of 2006 brings hurricanes to the North Atlantic and hot dry winds fan forest fires across Northern Ontario. Host/adventurer George Kourounis has traveled to some awesome hurricanes, including Rita and Katrina, with his pal Mark Robinson.
Host/adventurer George Kourounis follows the fabled route of the Klondike Gold Rush sourdoughs through the bawdy town of Skagway, Alaska, paddling the white water rivers and the White Horse Rapids into the Yukon.
Host/adventurer George Kourounis explores the bubbling lake of molten lava and investigates the risk the dangerous volcano poses to both the people of city of Goma and the Mountain Gorillas who live on the nearby jungle slopes.
Host/adventurer George Kourounis ups the danger factor by traveling with wild atheist shock-jock R.J. Evans to track massive lightning storms which can produce bolts of up to one hundred million volts.
George tracks a building storm that threatens that tough mid-western city, chases a hail storm, fights to get in the middle of a vicious dust-devil and the funky roadside Americana of the American Midwest
Throughout history, our ancestors have always strived to go higher, bigger, deeper, further - and this is reflected in the buildings and structures around our globe. But what secrets can these ancient structures reveal?
From living in caves to grand mansions, shelter has always been high on the list of our priorities. Bur form and function varies wildly throughout civilizations.
Delve into the history of technology from a simple rock to the invention of modern computing.
This episode dives into the pioneering breakthroughs from across the globe that have shaped our ability to travel.
It is a deadly war in the desert, one we know barely anything about. Once the heart of the golden Mali Empire, home to the richest man of the 14th century, the northern town of Timbuktu has become the victim of political instability and terror.
In the 1980s, El Salvador and Nicaragua were fighting vicious civil wars that claimed killed at least 100,000, saw 8000 people disappear, and left hundreds of thousands displaced. Still spearheading a global fight against communism, the US engaged.
In efforts to remove the Communists, the US conducted a devastating military operation, making Laos the most bombed country per capita - ever. The Laos Civil War has often been called America's “secret war.”