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3) Motion
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"In Motion, Bill Nye shows how everything needs a push or pull--a force--to make it move or stop. Sometimes an object might seem to be at rest even when it is actually in motion. Confused? It's all relative--relative motion, that is."--Container.
4) Heart
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Bill Nye checks out this important muscular pump and its function in the body by pulling nine "Gs" with the United States Navy's Blue Angels and chatting with Seattle Mariner Edgar Martinez.
5) Digestion
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In DIGESTION, Bill Nye explains how the body's digestive system is like a fine-tuned machine that turns food into energy. Bill demonstrates the process with a steam engine that runs on corn flakes.
9) Water cycle
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Did you know that most of the water on the planet is the same water that's been here since the Earth formed? In WATER CYCLE, Bill uses a whimsical model to demonstrate the phases of the water cycle: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection.
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"Discover the relationship between dinosaurs and birds, and find out that rhinoceroses once lived in Nebraska. Bill also tracks down dinosaur footprints with paleontologist Grace Irby and travels to the La Brea Tar Pits to see what's underneath all that tar"--Container.
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"In Spiders, the Science Guy demystifies that misunderstood creature, the spider. He'll cure the most intense case of arachnophobia by showing how cool spiders really are, and how these eight-legged predators balance our ecosystem by preying on pesky insects"--Container.
17) Storms
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"In Storms, see what happens when huge masses of air collide. Destructive or not, storms benefit us. The tropical regions of the Earth would be too hot to inhabit -- and the subpolar regions too cold -- if we didn't have hurricanes and typhoons to distribute the Earth's heat so efficiently"--Container.
18) Food web
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Bill Nye becomes tangled in a complex food web in his quest to demonstrate that all living things depend on other living things to survive.
19) Light optics
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"You won't believe your eyes when Bill Nye the Science Guy reflects, refracts, bends, bounces, absorbs, and pulls light waves to show how things can be seen in different ways. In Light optics Bill uses lenses, mirrors, and water to create optical illusions that are sights to behold.."--Container cover insert.
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