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The Eyes of Nye

Season 1 Episode 2: Pseudoscience

Apr 10, 2005NR1h7.3

Bill shows that astrologers and tarot card readers are doing nothing other than making vague guesses, and that walking on fire without burning your feet is scientifically possible and does not require any sort of spirituality.

Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 1 Astrobiology

1. Astrobiology

Aired: Apr 2, 2005

Bill Nye explores the concept of life on other planets by taking us everywher...

Episode 2 Pseudoscience

2. Pseudoscience

Aired: Apr 10, 2005

Bill shows that astrologers and tarot card readers are doing nothing other th...

Episode 3 Addiction

3. Addiction

Aired: Apr 17, 2005

Bill argues that addiction is a disease by using scientific instruments to sh...

Episode 4 Cloning

4. Cloning

Aired: Nov 29, -1

The possibilities of cloning reach far beyond creating genetically exact dupl...

Episode 5 Nuclear Energy

5. Nuclear Energy

Aired: Apr 24, 2005

With evidence of global warming mounting, Americans are revisiting the idea o...

Episode 6 Sports

6. Sports

Aired: May 1, 2005

Bill explores the physics of a variety of sports, from the 100-meter sprint o...

Episode 7 Population

7. Population

Aired: May 8, 2005

Bill explains what birth and death rates mean and looks at population issues ...

Episode 8 Race

8. Race

Aired: May 15, 2005

Bill explores why people of different skin colors look so different on the ou...

Episode 9 Antibiotics

9. Antibiotics

Aired: May 29, 2005

The battle between microbes and humans is far from over. In fact, deaths from...

Episode 11 Transportation

11. Transportation

Aired: Jun 12, 2005

Bill examines the problem of pollution from transportation—which has outstrip...

Episode 13 Evolution of Sex

13. Evolution of Sex

Aired: Jun 26, 2005

Why sex? For one thing, with sex we're trying to stay ahead of the germs that...

Info about The Eyes of Nye

Current Status: Ended

Network: PBS

Genres:Documentary