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Season 2, 22 episodes

Episode 1: Why Do Divers Get The Bends?
- Now playing
- 30m
- Sep 10, 2000
The explanation of why we can't breathe underwater and how a regulator helps scuba divers. The hosts reveal the dangers of ""the bends"" where nitrogen builds up in the blood, the treatment, and the prevention. The regulation, structure, and function of living systems are also presented. Organisms and their environment, calculation of variables such as temperature, pressure, density, and elevation/depth, and the hosts also explain about the effects of differences in density and energy transfer on the activities of and in the ocean.
Episode 2: Why Do Bears Hibernate, And Not Humans?
- 30m
- Sep 17, 2000
Why humans must endure winter, while bears and chipmunks can avoid it by hibernating. We explore the structure and function of living systems, regulation of life processes and behaviour that influences them, and the diversity of adaptations.
Episode 3: Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?
- 30m
- Sep 24, 2000
The team explain what a stick and a piece of crystal have to do with telling time, and how the clock was invented. They also discuss Newton's law of gravitation, scientific principles and technological design. Force and motion - the mechanical advantage provided by gears, and the relationships among various bodies in the solar system.
Episode 4: What Causes Allergies?
- 30m
- Oct 1, 2000
Why some people have allergic reactions, and others don't. How your immune system works - or doesn't work is discussed. A look at auto-immune disease is discovered. The team focuses on the structure and function of living systems, the immune system, including auto-immune response, and regulation and behaviour of living systems.
Episode 5: What Causes The Northern Lights?
- 30m
- Oct 8, 2000
The group focuses on how the earth resembles a giant magnet, and its relation to the natural light show known as the aurora borealis. A discussion of properties of gas, transfer, properties, and characteristics of energy, along with the structure of the earth, earth in the solar system, and earth as a magnet. An explanation of the electromagnetic spectrum and the fundamentals of reflection and refraction.
Episode 6: Why Do Golf Balls Have Dimples?
- 30m
- Oct 15, 2000
The group discusses the evolution of the golf ball, and its advantages. Why a rough ball travels further than a smooth one, the impact of air, and how to make an object more aerodynamic are also explored. Force and motion, technological design, and the process of flight.
Episode 7: Why Is It So Difficult To Stop Smoking?
- 30m
- Oct 22, 2000
Explanations of why smoking is a powerful addiction, how it affects the chemistry of the brain and the ""reward centre,"" the causes of withdrawal symptoms, and attempts to escape addiction.
Episode 8: How Do Microwave Ovens Cook Food?
- 30m
- Oct 29, 2000
The exploration of heat transfer through conduction, convection, and radiation, the electromagnetic spectrum and wavelengths. Changes in matter, and technological design.
Episode 9: Can Voices Really Shatter Glass?
- 30m
- Nov 5, 2000
What resonance means and the natural frequency of structures and objects, such as glass. A look at the effects of resonance, and some examples - why resonance is like swinging someone on a swing, attempts to shatter glass, using a professional resonator - a trained singer. The characteristics of sound, states of energy such as heat, light, sound are explained, along with technological application of sound waves, amplitude, wavelength, and frequency. Force, motion, and energy concepts such as resonance and vibrations and the ability of substances to transmit sound, and earthquakes and wave frequencies
Episode 10: Why Does Food Rot?
- 30m
- Nov 12, 2000
A look at micro organisms, where the team talks about how they work, their need for water, the role of the freezer and refrigerator, different kinds of bacteria - good and bad, and the inevitability of food rotting - nature's way. Living systems dependence on other systems are described, while reproduction and heredity, populations and ecosystems, nature of chemical processes are explored. Chemical change, nitrogen cycle, producers, consumers and decomposers, technological design, science in personal health, and science and technology in society.
Episode 11: Why Does Getting Sick Always Give You The Same Symptoms?
- 30m
- Nov 19, 2000
How a cold or flu virus works, and its effects on your body. The functions of congestion, a sore throat, sneezing, and coughing. The hosts explain why we get sick more often in the winter, washing hands for prevention, a comparison of a cold and flu virus, and the role of a fever, whether medications help. We take a look at the structure and function of living systems, particularly cells, and also the diversity and adaptations of organisms, regulation and behaviour of organisms, and immune response.
Episode 12: Why Don't Sky Scrapers Fall Over?
- 30m
- Nov 26, 2000
The evolution of the skyscraper and a look at how high buildings can become. The role that steel is described, and how steel frames have played a part, the elevator's role in the ""face for the sky"", the challenge that wind presents, making a building flexible, and what stops us from building skyscrapers that exceed today's tallest ones. The physical properties of earth materials are shown. Mass, energy, and momentum, elastic and inelastic collisions, force and motion, and technological design.
Episode 13: How Do Body Builders Get Their Muscles So Big?
- 30m
- Dec 3, 2000
How your muscles function everyday, how your body builds muscles using muscle fibres and protein strands, and getting your body into shape.
Episode 14: How Do They Keep The Ice Frozen in a Hockey Arena?
- 30m
- Dec 10, 2000
What antifreeze has to do with hockey rinks, why they paint the ice, and how thick the ice surface is. The hosts also explain about what happens to the ice when another event is held in the arena.
Episode 15: How Do Helicopters Fly Without Wings?
- 30m
- Dec 17, 2000
What the wings of a plane and the rotor of a helicopter have in common, how the rotor lifts the helicopter off the ground from a standing position, how a helicopter changes direction, and what a helicopter is more difficult to control than an airplane.
Episode 16: Why Do Animals See The World Differently Than We Do?
- 30m
- Dec 24, 2000
What animals need to see in order to stay alive, why some animals' eyes are on the sides of their head, and which species have more than two eyes.
Episode 17: Why Is Laser Light So Powerful?
- 30m
- Dec 31, 2000
How to produce a single wavelength, what neon signs and lasers have in common, what makes a laser powerful enough to cut through steel, and why some lasers are more powerful than others.
Episode 18: How Does Soap Make You Clean?
- 30m
- Jan 7, 2001
Where soap gets its cleaning power from, why water alone can't get you clean, and where soap scum comes from. Behind the reason why people don't use soap to wash their hair.
Episode 19: Why Is There No Cure for the Common Cold?
- 30m
- Jan 14, 2001
What happens when a virus invades your body, what a vaccine is, and why we can't create a vaccine to protect us from the common cold.
Episode 20: How Do Surgeons Transplant An Organ?
- 30m
- Jan 21, 2001
An experiment on how the immune system reacts to a foreign organ, how T-cells know what belongs in your body and what doesn't, and especially how doctors find a match between patients and organ donors.
Episode 21: How Does Nuclear Power Work?
- 30m
- Jan 28, 2001
How we get electricity from uranium, how a nuclear chain reaction is created, and why nuclear power generation has hazardous side effects.
Episode 22: What Is The Science Behind Keeping Warm?
- 30m
- Feb 4, 2001
A demonstration on what happens when your body is unable to produce heat as fast as it is being lost, how your body defends against heat loss, and the trick to layering.

Inquiring Minds

1999 to 2001
Rated TV-Y7
2 seasons
30m per episode

Overview

An exploration into the answers of obscure questions.

Fun facts

Episodes
Ran for 2 seasons and 44 episodes (1999 to 2001)
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Details

Status: Ended
Seasons: 2
Episodes: 44
First aired: September 12, 1999
Last aired: February 4, 2001
Original language: English
Countries: Canada, United States of America

Network

Cast

Episodes

Season 2, 22 episodes

Episode 1: Why Do Divers Get The Bends?
- Now playing
- 30m
- Sep 10, 2000
The explanation of why we can't breathe underwater and how a regulator helps scuba divers. The hosts reveal the dangers of ""the bends"" where nitrogen builds up in the blood, the treatment, and the prevention. The regulation, structure, and function of living systems are also presented. Organisms and their environment, calculation of variables such as temperature, pressure, density, and elevation/depth, and the hosts also explain about the effects of differences in density and energy transfer on the activities of and in the ocean.
Episode 2: Why Do Bears Hibernate, And Not Humans?
- 30m
- Sep 17, 2000
Why humans must endure winter, while bears and chipmunks can avoid it by hibernating. We explore the structure and function of living systems, regulation of life processes and behaviour that influences them, and the diversity of adaptations.
Episode 3: Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?
- 30m
- Sep 24, 2000
The team explain what a stick and a piece of crystal have to do with telling time, and how the clock was invented. They also discuss Newton's law of gravitation, scientific principles and technological design. Force and motion - the mechanical advantage provided by gears, and the relationships among various bodies in the solar system.
Episode 4: What Causes Allergies?
- 30m
- Oct 1, 2000
Why some people have allergic reactions, and others don't. How your immune system works - or doesn't work is discussed. A look at auto-immune disease is discovered. The team focuses on the structure and function of living systems, the immune system, including auto-immune response, and regulation and behaviour of living systems.
Episode 5: What Causes The Northern Lights?
- 30m
- Oct 8, 2000
The group focuses on how the earth resembles a giant magnet, and its relation to the natural light show known as the aurora borealis. A discussion of properties of gas, transfer, properties, and characteristics of energy, along with the structure of the earth, earth in the solar system, and earth as a magnet. An explanation of the electromagnetic spectrum and the fundamentals of reflection and refraction.
Episode 6: Why Do Golf Balls Have Dimples?
- 30m
- Oct 15, 2000
The group discusses the evolution of the golf ball, and its advantages. Why a rough ball travels further than a smooth one, the impact of air, and how to make an object more aerodynamic are also explored. Force and motion, technological design, and the process of flight.
Episode 7: Why Is It So Difficult To Stop Smoking?
- 30m
- Oct 22, 2000
Explanations of why smoking is a powerful addiction, how it affects the chemistry of the brain and the ""reward centre,"" the causes of withdrawal symptoms, and attempts to escape addiction.
Episode 8: How Do Microwave Ovens Cook Food?
- 30m
- Oct 29, 2000
The exploration of heat transfer through conduction, convection, and radiation, the electromagnetic spectrum and wavelengths. Changes in matter, and technological design.
Episode 9: Can Voices Really Shatter Glass?
- 30m
- Nov 5, 2000
What resonance means and the natural frequency of structures and objects, such as glass. A look at the effects of resonance, and some examples - why resonance is like swinging someone on a swing, attempts to shatter glass, using a professional resonator - a trained singer. The characteristics of sound, states of energy such as heat, light, sound are explained, along with technological application of sound waves, amplitude, wavelength, and frequency. Force, motion, and energy concepts such as resonance and vibrations and the ability of substances to transmit sound, and earthquakes and wave frequencies
Episode 10: Why Does Food Rot?
- 30m
- Nov 12, 2000
A look at micro organisms, where the team talks about how they work, their need for water, the role of the freezer and refrigerator, different kinds of bacteria - good and bad, and the inevitability of food rotting - nature's way. Living systems dependence on other systems are described, while reproduction and heredity, populations and ecosystems, nature of chemical processes are explored. Chemical change, nitrogen cycle, producers, consumers and decomposers, technological design, science in personal health, and science and technology in society.
Episode 11: Why Does Getting Sick Always Give You The Same Symptoms?
- 30m
- Nov 19, 2000
How a cold or flu virus works, and its effects on your body. The functions of congestion, a sore throat, sneezing, and coughing. The hosts explain why we get sick more often in the winter, washing hands for prevention, a comparison of a cold and flu virus, and the role of a fever, whether medications help. We take a look at the structure and function of living systems, particularly cells, and also the diversity and adaptations of organisms, regulation and behaviour of organisms, and immune response.
Episode 12: Why Don't Sky Scrapers Fall Over?
- 30m
- Nov 26, 2000
The evolution of the skyscraper and a look at how high buildings can become. The role that steel is described, and how steel frames have played a part, the elevator's role in the ""face for the sky"", the challenge that wind presents, making a building flexible, and what stops us from building skyscrapers that exceed today's tallest ones. The physical properties of earth materials are shown. Mass, energy, and momentum, elastic and inelastic collisions, force and motion, and technological design.
Episode 13: How Do Body Builders Get Their Muscles So Big?
- 30m
- Dec 3, 2000
How your muscles function everyday, how your body builds muscles using muscle fibres and protein strands, and getting your body into shape.
Episode 14: How Do They Keep The Ice Frozen in a Hockey Arena?
- 30m
- Dec 10, 2000
What antifreeze has to do with hockey rinks, why they paint the ice, and how thick the ice surface is. The hosts also explain about what happens to the ice when another event is held in the arena.
Episode 15: How Do Helicopters Fly Without Wings?
- 30m
- Dec 17, 2000
What the wings of a plane and the rotor of a helicopter have in common, how the rotor lifts the helicopter off the ground from a standing position, how a helicopter changes direction, and what a helicopter is more difficult to control than an airplane.
Episode 16: Why Do Animals See The World Differently Than We Do?
- 30m
- Dec 24, 2000
What animals need to see in order to stay alive, why some animals' eyes are on the sides of their head, and which species have more than two eyes.
Episode 17: Why Is Laser Light So Powerful?
- 30m
- Dec 31, 2000
How to produce a single wavelength, what neon signs and lasers have in common, what makes a laser powerful enough to cut through steel, and why some lasers are more powerful than others.
Episode 18: How Does Soap Make You Clean?
- 30m
- Jan 7, 2001
Where soap gets its cleaning power from, why water alone can't get you clean, and where soap scum comes from. Behind the reason why people don't use soap to wash their hair.
Episode 19: Why Is There No Cure for the Common Cold?
- 30m
- Jan 14, 2001
What happens when a virus invades your body, what a vaccine is, and why we can't create a vaccine to protect us from the common cold.
Episode 20: How Do Surgeons Transplant An Organ?
- 30m
- Jan 21, 2001
An experiment on how the immune system reacts to a foreign organ, how T-cells know what belongs in your body and what doesn't, and especially how doctors find a match between patients and organ donors.
Episode 21: How Does Nuclear Power Work?
- 30m
- Jan 28, 2001
How we get electricity from uranium, how a nuclear chain reaction is created, and why nuclear power generation has hazardous side effects.
Episode 22: What Is The Science Behind Keeping Warm?
- 30m
- Feb 4, 2001
A demonstration on what happens when your body is unable to produce heat as fast as it is being lost, how your body defends against heat loss, and the trick to layering.

Episodes

E1 Episode 1: Why Do Divers Get The Bends?

E2 Episode 2: Why Do Bears Hibernate, And Not Humans?

E3 Episode 3: Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?

E4 Episode 4: What Causes Allergies?

E5 Episode 5: What Causes The Northern Lights?

E6 Episode 6: Why Do Golf Balls Have Dimples?

E7 Episode 7: Why Is It So Difficult To Stop Smoking?

E8 Episode 8: How Do Microwave Ovens Cook Food?

E9 Episode 9: Can Voices Really Shatter Glass?

E10 Episode 10: Why Does Food Rot?

E11 Episode 11: Why Does Getting Sick Always Give You The Same Symptoms?

E12 Episode 12: Why Don't Sky Scrapers Fall Over?

E13 Episode 13: How Do Body Builders Get Their Muscles So Big?

E14 Episode 14: How Do They Keep The Ice Frozen in a Hockey Arena?

E15 Episode 15: How Do Helicopters Fly Without Wings?

E16 Episode 16: Why Do Animals See The World Differently Than We Do?

E17 Episode 17: Why Is Laser Light So Powerful?

E18 Episode 18: How Does Soap Make You Clean?

E19 Episode 19: Why Is There No Cure for the Common Cold?

E20 Episode 20: How Do Surgeons Transplant An Organ?

E21 Episode 21: How Does Nuclear Power Work?

E22 Episode 22: What Is The Science Behind Keeping Warm?

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Episodes

E1 Episode 1: Why Do Divers Get The Bends?

E2 Episode 2: Why Do Bears Hibernate, And Not Humans?

E3 Episode 3: Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?

E4 Episode 4: What Causes Allergies?

E5 Episode 5: What Causes The Northern Lights?

E6 Episode 6: Why Do Golf Balls Have Dimples?

E7 Episode 7: Why Is It So Difficult To Stop Smoking?

E8 Episode 8: How Do Microwave Ovens Cook Food?

E9 Episode 9: Can Voices Really Shatter Glass?

E10 Episode 10: Why Does Food Rot?

E11 Episode 11: Why Does Getting Sick Always Give You The Same Symptoms?

E12 Episode 12: Why Don't Sky Scrapers Fall Over?

E13 Episode 13: How Do Body Builders Get Their Muscles So Big?

E14 Episode 14: How Do They Keep The Ice Frozen in a Hockey Arena?

E15 Episode 15: How Do Helicopters Fly Without Wings?

E16 Episode 16: Why Do Animals See The World Differently Than We Do?

E17 Episode 17: Why Is Laser Light So Powerful?

E18 Episode 18: How Does Soap Make You Clean?

E19 Episode 19: Why Is There No Cure for the Common Cold?

E20 Episode 20: How Do Surgeons Transplant An Organ?

E21 Episode 21: How Does Nuclear Power Work?

E22 Episode 22: What Is The Science Behind Keeping Warm?

Episode 1: Why Do Divers Get The Bends?

Episode 2: Why Do Bears Hibernate, And Not Humans?

Episode 3: Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?

Episode 4: What Causes Allergies?

Episode 5: What Causes The Northern Lights?

Episode 6: Why Do Golf Balls Have Dimples?

Episode 7: Why Is It So Difficult To Stop Smoking?

Episode 8: How Do Microwave Ovens Cook Food?

Episode 9: Can Voices Really Shatter Glass?

Episode 10: Why Does Food Rot?

Episode 11: Why Does Getting Sick Always Give You The Same Symptoms?

Episode 12: Why Don't Sky Scrapers Fall Over?

Episode 13: How Do Body Builders Get Their Muscles So Big?

Episode 14: How Do They Keep The Ice Frozen in a Hockey Arena?

Episode 15: How Do Helicopters Fly Without Wings?

Episode 16: Why Do Animals See The World Differently Than We Do?

Episode 17: Why Is Laser Light So Powerful?

Episode 18: How Does Soap Make You Clean?

Episode 19: Why Is There No Cure for the Common Cold?

Episode 20: How Do Surgeons Transplant An Organ?

Episode 21: How Does Nuclear Power Work?

Episode 22: What Is The Science Behind Keeping Warm?

Episode 1: Why Do Divers Get The Bends?

Episode 2: Why Do Bears Hibernate, And Not Humans?

Episode 3: Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?

Episode 4: What Causes Allergies?

Episode 5: What Causes The Northern Lights?

Episode 6: Why Do Golf Balls Have Dimples?

Episode 7: Why Is It So Difficult To Stop Smoking?

Episode 8: How Do Microwave Ovens Cook Food?

Episode 9: Can Voices Really Shatter Glass?

Episode 10: Why Does Food Rot?

Episode 11: Why Does Getting Sick Always Give You The Same Symptoms?

Episode 12: Why Don't Sky Scrapers Fall Over?

Episode 13: How Do Body Builders Get Their Muscles So Big?

Episode 14: How Do They Keep The Ice Frozen in a Hockey Arena?

Episode 15: How Do Helicopters Fly Without Wings?

Episode 16: Why Do Animals See The World Differently Than We Do?

Episode 17: Why Is Laser Light So Powerful?

Episode 18: How Does Soap Make You Clean?

Episode 19: Why Is There No Cure for the Common Cold?

Episode 20: How Do Surgeons Transplant An Organ?

Episode 21: How Does Nuclear Power Work?

Episode 22: What Is The Science Behind Keeping Warm?