Prototype This! takes viewers into the world of high tech, fast track invention. In each thrilling episode we follow the host team; five scientists and engineers, each one bringing to the table their own particular area of expertise, from animatronics and electronics to mechanical engineering and design, as they dream up, design and construct gadgets from the future.
Prototype This! is science entertainment as you've never seen it before. Each build is a new journey into the unknown. Each problem is a new challenge to be overcome. And every step of the way is lit up by an irrepressible spirit of invention. Viewers will be immersed in the hands-on business of invention and manufacture, as the hosts pool their wits and skills to build working fast-track prototypes. If you can dream it, the chances are they can build it. No idea is too ambitious, no project too off-the-wall. What was an impossible dream is now a mechanical reality that will blow you away.
An exciting and quirky series of science related programmes with diverse topics that sit on the edge of the scientific frontier. Episodes include: Tsunami Chasers, Mysteries of El Nińo, The Science of Sin, The Sixth Sense, Great Balls of Fire and Ancient Autopsies. For more information, please see the individual entries for these episodes on the website.
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Running Time: 6 x 60 minutes
Year of Production: 2000
Produced by: Beyond Productions
Avarice, lust, sloth, envy, pride, gluttony and wrath—each of us is guilty of at least some of these ‘seven deadly sins', but is it possible that we may be genetically predisposed to them?
The Science of Sin looks at the biology behind human temptation. We meet people struggling to master their intrinsic natures and the scientists who are discovering that many of our tendencies and personality traits are in our genes. How much control do we really have over ourselves?
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Running time: 1 x 60 minutes
Year of Production: 2000
Produced by: Beyond Productions
We’ve all read stories of people getting off planes because they had a ‘hunch—then, moments after take off—the plane crashes. But is there a scientific explanation to these examples of intuition?
Neuroscientists and psychologists are probing the darkest recesses of the human mind and discovering that most of what we sense and feel about the world is happening through our unconscious self. What probably began in evolutionary terms as an essential survival mechanism actually controls much of our lives. In this amazing documentary, we meet people who have used their own sixth sense to save themselves and those around them from danger.
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Running time: 1 x 60 minutes
Year of Production: 2000
Produced by: Beyond Productions
Tsunamis are the world’s most powerful and destructive wave and often strike with very little warning. In this special we learn how a tsunami is created, with a particular focus on the Pacific Ocean’s volatile ‘Ring of Fire’. Utilizing news footage, three dimensional mapping and spectacular underwater footage, we come face-to-face with the killer tsunamis of the 1990s, and look at evidence of ancient tsunamis on the American coast—all of them born in this turbulent Ring of Fire.
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Running time: 1 x 60 minutes
Year of Production: 2000
Produced by: Beyond Productions
