Inquiring Minds
Season 2
TV-Y7
An exploration into the answers of obscure questions.
Where to Watch Inquiring Minds • Season 2
22 Episodes
- Why Do Divers Get The Bends?E1
Why Do Divers Get The Bends?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. - Why Do Bears Hibernate, And Not Humans?E2
Why Do Bears Hibernate, And Not Humans?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. - Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?E3
Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?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. - What Causes Allergies?E4
What Causes Allergies?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. - What Causes The Northern Lights?E5
What Causes The Northern Lights?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. - Why Do Golf Balls Have Dimples?E6
Why Do Golf Balls Have Dimples?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. - Can Voices Really Shatter Glass?E9
Can Voices Really Shatter Glass?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 - Why Does Food Rot?E10
Why Does Food Rot?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. - Why Does Getting Sick Always Give You The Same Symptoms?E11
Why Does Getting Sick Always Give You The Same Symptoms?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. - Why Don't Sky Scrapers Fall Over?E12
Why Don't Sky Scrapers Fall Over?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. - How Do Helicopters Fly Without Wings?E15
How Do Helicopters Fly Without Wings?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.
