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- This educational short examines the chemical makeup of film and the process in which it's developed.
- About the little things that make the big things in the world-both good and bad-possible. Hosts Sam Jones and Deboki Chakravarti as they answer questions like, 'what is a memory?', 'is sugar actually addictive?
- Infection can take over the entire human body, and up until the early 20th century the only medical defenses against it were more medieval than modern. Harnessing the power of microbes in the battle against infection led to what some consider humanity's greatest achievement the eradication of smallpox.
- 2014–TV EpisodeJerry Fairbank's 1948 Standard Oil (Indiana) film "Inside Story of Modern Gasoline" is the subject of this installment of "Jon Boschen's Classic Industrial Film Showcase". This classic industrial film explores Standards Red and White crown brands that were being marketed during the post World War 2 era. The film makes great use of cinematography, cartoon animation, and a terrific musical score to discuss and sell the brand. The "Inside Story of Modern Gasoline" was one of two versions of the film that was made simultaneously; this version being produced for internal exhibition amongst Standard Oil employees. The second version "Gasoline's Amazing Molecules" (currently missing) was prepared for public exhibition, and interestingly has the same running time as "Inside Story Of Modern Gasoline". Boschen's intro to the film gives background information on t the Standard Oil Company of Indiaan and also the Jerry Fairbanks studio.
- 201554mTV-PG9.0 (21)TV EpisodeOne of science's great odd couples--British minister Joseph Priestley and French tax administrator Antoine Lavoisier--together discover a fantastic new gas called oxygen, overturning the reigning theory of chemistry and triggering a worldwide search for new elements. Soon caught up in the hunt is science's first great showman, a precocious British chemist named Humphry Davy, who dazzles London audiences with his lectures, introduces them to laughing gas, and turns the battery into a powerful tool in the search for new elements.
- 201554mTV-PG9.1 (17)TV EpisodeOver a single weekend in 1869, a young Russian chemistry professor named Dmitri Mendeleev invents the Periodic Table, bringing order to the growing gaggle of elements. But this sense of order is shattered when a Polish graduate student named Marie Sklodowska Curie discovers radioactivity, revealing that elements can change identities - and that atoms must have undiscovered parts inside them.
- 201555mTV-PG8.9 (17)TV EpisodeCaught up in the race to discover the atom's internal parts - and learn how they fit together - a young British physicist, Harry Moseley, uses newly discovered X-rays to put the Periodic Table in a whole new light. And a young American chemist named Glenn Seaborg creates a new element - plutonium - that changes the world forever, unleashing a force of unimaginable destructive power: the atomic bomb
- Michael McKean investigate whether donuts helped bring about the end of World War I and if the secret to New York bagels lies in the city's water; how bundt cakes went from headlining brunch to saving lives.