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Head Rush

Head Rush

Bill Nye and Mr. Wizard, move over. Kari Byron of the popular show "MythBusters" brings her bubbly enthusiasm to this series designed to excite middle-school students about things other than video games, cell phones and the opposite sex. Each episode, Byron presents a wide-ranging selection of scientific experiments, games, and question-and-answer segments that entertain as well as educate. The main goal: getting teenagers interested enough to consider a future career in science, technology, engineering or mathematics. And although Byron isn't a scientist herself, bona fide eggheads do drop in to share their knowledge.
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Season 130 of 30 Episodes

  • How far can the human stomach stretch; how much do clouds weigh; egg in vinegar; dimples on golf balls.

  • Why sparklers don't burn one's hand; solve crime with hair dye; flaming craters; laws of physics.

  • The perfect smoke ring; termites; hurling watermelon; how to dry your cell phone.

  • Cornstarch moving to rock music; boomerangs fly in space; shrimps on treadmills; whips crack; fall from an airplane; pencils in water.

  • Kari tests the laws of physics; detect fake diamonds; a color-crazy-crab; dusting for fingerprints; hitting a hockey puck.

  • Bending water with static electricity; solve a crime with a single hair; the hot sun; germs in a sneeze.

  • Spooking Tennessee Meat Goats; balloons in liquid nitrogen; stretching DNA to the limit; super slow water.

  • Powering a digital clock; the science of sound with Metallica; chopped liver and hydrogen peroxide; rust; hummingbird hover; mummies.

  • Experimenting with light and color; leaches and how they help; new camera technology.

  • A flame to a water balloon; how do elephants hear; what happens to entire countries during tectonic plate movement.

  • Kari makes glass disappear before your eyes; twins and their fingerprints; wave machines.

  • The strength of salt; the Archer fish is a dead shot; methane; survive a thousand degree flame.

  • Blowing bubbles inside a bubble; termite skyscrapers; tarantula-attacking hawk wasp; a quarter in a block of dry ice.

  • Two stemmed glasses sing; maggots can save your life; a potato chip bag in the microwave.

  • How big is a prairie dog colony; where you can find meteorites; what happens to molten glass in a microwave; your own antigravity device.

  • An ammonia-powered fountain; how hot are skater's blades; your veins can become a security devise; a skunk hits its target.

  • Kari makes monster toothpaste; revealing fingerprints; how an octopus mates; bizarre nutrients in your cereal.

  • Putting a test tube in a test tube and turning it upside down; raisins floating in club soda; slithering snakes; wood frogs surviving an Alaskan winter.

  • Kari pushes a weighted balloon onto a bed of nails; surviving a Martian atmosphere; what is dark matter.

  • Kari becomes a human electricity conductor; destroyed trash can; wool pad in the microwave; repelling sharks; world's slimiest fish.

  • Kari makes water disappear; origami that folds by itself; vortex in a soda bottle; kangaroos short legs; fossil fuels.

  • Kari discovers a gravity defying liquid; dragonflies resist high G-forces; skateboarders mess with gravity; the age of a fish; superglue made from water.

  • What turns fire into a flaming tornado; make a motor with a battery and wire; a bubble in zero gravity; an elephant nose fish finds lunch.

  • Kari makes a magnet powered boat; punching a drinking straw into a potato; how hydrofoils work; what gives silk its sheen.

  • Kari makes a fire sandwich; instant snow; how long a star burns; how spiders engineer their webs; trick shots.

  • Kari makes Jello optics; the wavelength of chocolate; vacuuming a marshmallow; robot butterflies; surviving a falling elevator.

  • Why helium give one a chipmunk voice; sticking spoons to one's nose; chopping wood in karate; why flamingos stand on one leg.

  • One of nature's engineering marvels, the eggshell; a dog kennel shaped satellite; the speed of escaped velocity.

  • Windbags inflate with a single puff; boats that appear to float on air; walking on hot coals; spiders walk on water; solar towers.

  • Kari creates a cloud in a bottle; a snake that bites when it's dead; phantom traffic jams; surviving in space; a robot fish with a working bladder.
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Bill Nye and Mr. Wizard, move over. Kari Byron of the popular show "MythBusters" brings her bubbly enthusiasm to this series designed to excite middle-school students about things other than video games, cell phones and the opposite sex. Each episode, Byron presents a wide-ranging selection of scientific experiments, games, and question-and-answer segments that entertain as well as educate. The main goal: getting teenagers interested enough to consider a future career in science, technology, engineering or mathematics. And although Byron isn't a scientist herself, bona fide eggheads do drop in to share their knowledge.

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