Season 4 poster

Season 4

(1995)

Cast

Bill Nye as Self - Host
Bill Nye

as Self - Host

Rachel Glenn as Nancy
Rachel Glenn

as Nancy

Toby Lawless as Family Magician
Toby Lawless

as Family Magician

Episodes

Rivers & Streams poster

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November 3, 1995

Water is massive; rivers are powerful. As rivers flow downhill, they wear away rock and soil to form canyons or winding…

Nutrition poster

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November 10, 1995

All food, whether it’s protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins, or minerals, is made of chemicals. When your body gets a …

Marine Mammals poster

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November 17, 1995

Whales, dolphins, otters, walruses, and orcas are just like us, they’re mammals. Well, they’re not just like us. They l…

Earthquakes poster

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November 24, 1995

Earthquakes happen when pieces of land in the Earth’s crust scrape together. The crust of the Earth is made of big slab…

NTV Top 11 Video Countdown poster

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December 1, 1995

Join Bill Nye as he counts down the hits from the Soundtracks of Science. Along with the music, Bill does a few new exp…

Spiders poster

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January 5, 1996

Be sure to get this straight: spiders are not insects, they’re arachnids. Spiders have eight legs, and insects have onl…

Pollution Solutions poster

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January 12, 1996

Dirty water, land, and air are a result of pollution. People are the only animals on Earth that make pollution. Garbage…

Probability poster

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January 19, 1996

Probability is a way to measure how likely it is that something will happen. Probabilities are predictions. They’re oft…

Pseudoscience poster

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January 26, 1996

People once thought that world was flat or nearly flat. It was considered a bit crazy to think of it as a big ball. But…

Flowers poster

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January 27, 1996

Flowers are an important part of many plants. Plants use flowers to make other plants – to reproduce. Flowers have spec…

Archaeology poster

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January 28, 1996

Archaeologists are kind of like detectives. They’re scientists who snoop through old or ancient people’s things to find…

Deserts poster

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January 29, 1996

About 20% of the Earth is a desert. Deserts are places that get very little precipitation (rain or snow) each year, and…

Amphibians poster

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January 30, 1996

Frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians (worm-like animals that have backbones) are all amphibians, animals th…

Volcanoes poster

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January 31, 1996

Volcanoes are mountains made from molten rock. The Earth’s crust is divided into big slabs, called plates, which are sl…

Invertebrates poster

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February 7, 1996

Worms, squid, clams, and flies are spineless creatures. They’re not afraid, they’re invertebrates – animals that don’t …

Heart poster

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February 14, 1996

Your heart pumps your blood around your body, all hours, every day of the week, to keep you alive. Your heart is about …

Inventions poster

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February 21, 1996

Almost everything around you, from paper clips to computers, was thought of, designed, and built by humans. An inventio…

Computers poster

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April 25, 1996

With special guest, Mick H. Computers are used throughout the world all the time. Computers are in cars, calculators, t…

Fossils poster

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September 5, 1997

Most dead animals and plants break up, get decomposed, and become part of the soil, but some turn into fossils. A fossi…

Time poster

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September 12, 1997

Time affects every living thing on Earth. Trees shed their leaves. Some animals only come out at night. There are even …