NOVA - Season 6
Run Time: 55 mins
Air Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1979
Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (133 votes)
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Black Tide
Season 6 - Episode 1
On the morning of March 16, 1978, the US owned, Liberian registered supertanker, the Amoco Cadiz, went aground off the coast of Brittany. Ov...
Long Walk Of Fred Young
Season 6 - Episode 2
As a child, Fred Young hunted birds and wild animals with primitive weapons, spoke only the Indian languages Ute and Navajo, went to a medic...
A World Of Difference
Season 6 - Episode 3
In 1945, B.F. Skinner shocked the world by putting his 13 month-old daughter, Deborah, into a "box." The box was actually a climate-controll...
Cashing In On The Ocean
Season 6 - Episode 4
The bed of the northeast Pacific Ocean is covered with a "carpet" estimated to be worth a staggering ten million dollars. These manganese no...
Patterns From The Past
Season 6 - Episode 5
Below the snow-capped peaks of the Peruvian Andes, the Q'eros Indians live a life patterned on that of their ancestors thousands of years ag...
The Invisible Flame
Season 6 - Episode 6
Some day hydrogen may replace the gasoline that we are now using up so rapidly. NOVA looks at the potential of hydrogen as a zero-pollution ...
The End Of The Rainbow
Season 6 - Episode 7
Is nuclear fusion the solution to the energy crisis? NOVA examines the promise—and problems—of fusion as a future energy source.
The Beersheva Experiment
Season 6 - Episode 8
Health care is the third largest industry in the US. As a result of billions of dollars spent for medical education in the 1960s, there are ...
Einstein
Season 6 - Episode 9
One hundred years after his birth, Albert Einstein remains an enigma to most Americans. NOVA presents an insightful portrait of the man and ...
The Keys Of Paradise
Season 6 - Episode 10
Some powerful and complex painkilling drugs have just been discovered—in a place where you would least expect to find them. Endorphins and t...
A Plague on our Children
Season 6 - Episode 11
Is the chemical industry a boom to modern civilization, or a major threat to our health and that of future generations? NOVA examines how to...
Life on a Silken Thread
Season 6 - Episode 12
Sinister, sometimes even deadly, spiders have little popular appeal; yet their silken webs are among nature's loveliest creations. NOVA take...
Sweet Solutions
Season 6 - Episode 13
NOVA views the history of sugar—from its scientific, religious and political history to its medical controversy.
Race for the Gold
Season 6 - Episode 14
At the 1976 Olympics, East German athletes walked off with 40 of the coveted gold medals, though their country is only the size of New Jerse...
All Part of the Game
Season 6 - Episode 15
Thousands of amateur athletes are hurt every year, and many professional athletes suffer injuries that may mean the end of a career. NOVA lo...
India: Machinery of Hope
Season 6 - Episode 16
Most of India lives by the same rhythm, the same tools, as in centuries past. But there is another India—with thriving commercial centers, s...
The Bridge that Spanned the World
Season 6 - Episode 17
The Iron Bridge across the River Severn in Telford, England is two centuries old this year. It remains a monument to the Shropshire iron mas...
Termites to Telescopes
Season 6 - Episode 18
Dr. Philip Morrison, Institute Professor and professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, presents this thoughtful and pro...
Blindness: Five Points of Views
Season 6 - Episode 19
For many people the idea of life without vision is as fearful as death. NOVA looks at five people struggling to save their threatened vision...