Bill Nye: The Science Guy
Disney Channel (ended 1997)
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Motion
Full Episode (23:11)
S 5 : Ep 20 - 1/1/96
In this episode, Bill talks about Motion and how it works. -
Lakes and Ponds
Full Episode (23:06)
S 5 : Ep 10 -
What is the difference between a lake and a pond? Where does the water in a lake or pond come from? What happens when a lake overflows? How do lakes and ponds support a myriad of lifeforms? Bill Nye the Science Guy answers these questions and many more.moreless -
Heart
Full Episode (23:15)
S 4 : Ep 16 - 1/1/06
Topics include arteries, chambers and the importance of keeping heart healthy. We even get to see a sonogram of Bill's heart. -
Respiration
Full Episode (23:14)
S 2 : Ep 20 - 1/1/07
How breathing supplies the body with the oxygen it needs -
Atmosphere
Full Episode (23:13)
S 2 : Ep 19 - 1/1/07
Bill Nye explains the atmosphere and the layers that compose it. -
Food Web
Full Episode (22:35)
S 1 : Ep 26 - 1/1/07
Feeling a little hungry? Then grab a snack and watch Bill Nye the Science Guy's episode on the Food Web. When it comes to eating, all living things depend on other living things. Take a chicken sandwich, for example. The bread came from plants. So did the lettuce and tomatoes. The cheese was made from milk, which came from a cow. To make milk, the cow had to stay alive by eating grass. The meat came from a chicken who once ate seed, and maybe the occasional bug. The animals that helped to make your sandwich depended on other living things to survive. The lettuce, grain (for the bread), and tomato got by fine on their own. Then some animal came along (you). Plants are the only big living things that don't need other living things to survive. All they need are sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to make their own food. But it doesn't stop them from being eaten -- no way. In fact, plants are great things to eat. All animals need them in some way for food by the way, don't forget that, without plants, there would be no oxygen to breathe. The lives of living things are intertwined -- that's why we scientists call it a food web. Mice are eaten by bats, snakes, birds, and foxes, to name a few. Insects are eaten by other insects, birds, snakes, cats, rats, raccoons, and even humans. All living things on the Earth's surface need plants. The cool part about the food web is that living things are made of other living things. It's a cycle -- you're either eating or being eaten. Bill Nye the Science Guy will get you all tangled up in the food web.moreless -
Chemical Reactions
Full Episode (23:12)
S 1 : Ep 24 - 1/1/07
Bill is practically exploding with excitement about the "Chemical Reactions" show. Every single thing around you is made of chemicals. Plants, rocks, computers, food, and you are bunches of chemicals. All chemicals are built with elements, the 109 different symbols on the Periodic Table. Different combinations of elements make different chemicals. Lots of times, chemicals just sit around, but sometimes, when certain chemicals get together, they react. Chemical reactions take the starting chemicals and end up with new chemicals. Sometimes chemical reactions are hard to miss. Explosions, burning, color changes, and gas are all good signs that a reaction is going on. Some chemical reactions are less obvious - changes in temperature, a different smell, or differences in taste are clues that a chemical reaction is happening. The key is to figure out if you could get back the same chemicals you put in. If the answer is no, you've got a chemical reaction on your hands. Just be sure to wash it off! With Bill Nye the Science Guy, chemical reactions are a blast.moreless -
Magnetism
Full Episode (20:58)
S 1 : Ep 21 - 1/1/07
They're on your refrigerator, they're inside your computer, and you're even standing on one right now. They're magnets, and forget about being repulsed. Bill Nye the Science Guy's "Magnetism" episode is totally attractive. All magnets have certain things in common. All magnets have two poles - north and south. You could take a magnet and break it into pieces and all of the pieces would have north and south poles. Ever play with two magnets? If you hold them with one magnet's north pole facing the other's south pole, they will stick together. If you put two of the same poles together, the magnets will push apart. With magnets, opposite poles attract, and "like" poles repel. Ever wonder why the Earth has a North and South Pole? The Earth's hot, churning, iron core is like a giant magnet. The magnetic force of the Earth stops a lot of harmful radiation from reaching us. Charged particles streaming from the Sun get pulled down by the Earth's magnetic field, creating the Northern and Southern Lights. Near the Arctic and Antarctic the sky often glows with beautiful colors. Magnets are used to make electricity. Video and audio cassette tapes are made with plastic that is magnetized. Computer disks store data with magnetized coatings. Television screens control beams of electrons with magnets. All compasses have a magnet inside that lines up with the Earth's magnet. Don't forget to watch the "Magnetism" show - Bill Nye's science can really stick with you.moreless -
Digestion
Full Episode (23:05)
S 1 : Ep 7 - 1/1/07
Take time to digest this show. They say that your food is no more inside you than a pencil is inside a donut, when it's poked through the hole. Instead of the food going in you, food goes through you. But, all the energy you get to live and grow comes from your food. All the chemicals that become your body and brain as you get bigger, come from your food. You get these vital chemicals through a process called "digestion." Your body breaks food down and grabs all the nutrients you need from it. Then, your body gets rid of what's left over. Digestion starts in your mouth. You begin breaking food down by breaking it into pieces with your teeth and jaw muscles. Your saliva (your spit) is full of chemicals that react with the chemicals in food and make them break apart. Then you swallow. Your food goes down a tube (your esophagus) to your stomach, where powerful hydrochloric acid breaks it down further into a mushy mash we call chime (kime). From there, the chime goes into your intestines, and that's where your body starts to absorb the nutrients you need. Eating is complicated. For your body to have energy to do work, your digestive system has to do some work. So take care of it. Then, you'll have energy to play. Chew it up; soak it in acid; use those chemicals to watch Bill.moreless -
Gravity
Full Episode (23:04)
S 1 : Ep 6 - 1/1/07
Next time you throw a ball in the air, and it doesn't fly off into outer space, thank gravity. Right now, you and everything in the room where you are, is getting pulled down by gravity. If you don't believe it, push a book of your desk. It will go plummeting toward the center of the Earth. It's gravity. The Earth's mass, the stuff it's made of, creates gravity. It's pulling down on you and every other object you can see; it's even pulling down on the air and the ocean. Not only that, you and every atom of every thing around you has gravity. So, the objects and atoms are all, ever so slightly, pulling up on the Earth! Without gravity, there would be no weight. When you step on a bathroom scale, the scale is getting squeezed between you and the Earth. The scale measures how strong this mutual attraction is. Gravity makes a force that pulls objects together. Not only is gravity pulling on every atom and molecule of everything around us, it pulls over huge, gigantic distances. The planets are held in the orbits around the Sun by gravity. The Sun's mass and the mass of the Earth create enough gravity to hold us in orbit, even though we're 150 million kilometers away. The gravity for the Earth, all the other planets in our Solar System, and all the stars and galaxies in the Universe has been pulling steadily for billions of years. Since gravity only pulls, and since gravity pulls on every speck of matter, when there's enough matter in one place like a planet or moon, gravity makes them form into a ball or sphere. The reason the Earth, the Moon, the Sun, Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto are all round is that their own gravity pulls evenly in all directions at once. Bill Nye pulls you into this show with Gravity!moreless - Load More
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