NOVA
Season 29

s29e01 / Search For A Safe Cigarette

3rd Oct '01 - 1:00am
Search For A Safe Cigarette Summary

The program chronicles the tobacco industry's decades long effort to create a "safer" cigarette.

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s29e02 / 18 Ways To Make A Baby

10th Oct '01 - 1:00am
18 Ways To Make A Baby Summary

The program investigates the brave new world of assisted reproduction.

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s29e03 / Secrets Of The Mind (aka Phantoms in the Brain)

24th Oct '01 - 1:00am
Secrets Of The Mind (aka Phantoms in the Brain) Summary

Dr. Vilayanur Ramachandran, an eloquent neuroscientist, is fascinated by patients who have unusual abilities or defects in the way they perceive the world. These include such puzzling phenomena as the phantom pain experienced in a missing, amputated limb, or the inability to recognize a familiar face following a stroke. From these strange cases, Ramachandran is building a novel vision of how the brain works. In "Secrets of the Mind", NOVA dramatizes the intimate stories of Ramachandran's encounters with his extraordinary patients.

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s29e04 / Sex: Unknown

31st Oct '01 - 2:00am
Sex: Unknown Summary

The film investigates the complicated world of gender identity.

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s29e05 / Russia's Nuclear Warriors

7th Nov '01 - 2:00am
Russia's Nuclear Warriors Summary

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s29e06 / Bioterror

14th Nov '01 - 2:00am
Bioterror Summary

The film follows three New York Times reporters as they delve into the murky past of bioweapons research and grapple with the current threat of anthrax and other attacks.

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s29e07 / Life's Greatest Miracle

21st Nov '01 - 2:00am
Life's Greatest Miracle Summary

A sequel to the most popular NOVA of all time, "Miracle of Life", the program once again uses the extraordinary microimagery of Swedish photographer Lennart Nilsson to track human development from embryo to newborn.

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s29e08 / Methuselah Tree

12th Dec '01 - 2:00am
Methuselah Tree Summary

Marked by striking imagery and a poetic style, the film dramatizes the life cycle of the world's oldest living thing, the bristlecone pine of California's White Mountains.

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s29e09 / Flying Casanovas

26th Dec '01 - 2:00am
Flying Casanovas Summary

The program, with Sir David Attenborough narrating, celebrates the extraordinary antics male bowerbirds get up to when courting a female.

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s29e10 / Death Star

9th Jan '02 - 2:00am
Death Star Summary

The program probes the deep mysteries of gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful celestial explosions since the big bang.

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s29e11 / Neanderthals On Trial

23rd Jan '02 - 2:00am
Neanderthals On Trial Summary

The film probes the enigma of our Neanderthal cousins and the roots of our own ancestry.

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s29e12 / Fireworks!

30th Jan '02 - 2:00am
Fireworks! Summary

This explosive NOVA presents the colorful history of pyrotechnics and reveals how hi-tech firing systems are transforming public displays into a dazzling, split-second science.

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s29e13 / Secrets, Lies And Atomic Spies

6th Feb '02 - 2:00am
Secrets, Lies And Atomic Spies Summary

The program chronicles the lives and covert activities of the so-called "atom spies" in the 1940's, including the big one that got away, Theodore Alvin Hall.

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s29e14 / The Missing Link

27th Feb '02 - 2:00am
The Missing Link Summary

A paleontological tour-de-force and suspenseful scientific detective story, the program documents the search for the ancestor of all four-limbed animals, including humans.

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s29e15 / Shackleton's Voyage Of Endurance

27th Mar '02 - 2:00am
Shackleton's Voyage Of Endurance Summary

In October and November 1999, NOVA journeyed into ice-choked Antarctic waters and onto the shores of rugged Elephant and South Georgia Islands as we followed in the footsteps of Sir Ernest Shackleton. This legendary explorer's 1914-1916 Endurance expedition is one of the greatest survival stories of all time. Then, in April 2000, we returned to document Shackleton's final trial - the crossing of South Georgia - by three of the world's most distinguished mountaineers, Reinhold Messner, Conrad Anker and Stephen Venables. Follow the expeditions as they unfolded in real-time on this Web site, and also watch for a NOVA Giant Screen Film Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure, as well as a NOVA program, "Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance", which originally aired on March 26, 2002.

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s29e16 / Why The Towers Fell

1st May '02 - 1:00am
Why The Towers Fell Summary

Can lessons learned from the Twin Towers' collapse make new buildings safer?

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s29e17 / Fire Wars

8th May '02 - 1:00am
Fire Wars Summary

In the program, NOVA accompanies the men and women of a wildland firefighting crew known as the Arrowhead Hotshots as they battle one of the most destructive wildfire seasons ever, the summer of 2000.

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