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Reptiles
Snake Underworld with Henry Rollins: Antivenom and the Black Market
Henry Rollins fronting a snake documentary sounds, on paper, like a programming pitch that shouldn’t work. Punk-rock musician turned spoken-word…
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Everything Else
World’s Weirdest: Strangest Species Documentaries
The natural world is stranger than any fiction. World’s Weirdest ran on Nat Geo Wild from 2010 to 2013, four…
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Everything Else
Blue Whale Communication: Songs Across Entire Oceans
Blue whale communication is one of the more astonishing phenomena in the natural world. The animals produce calls in the…
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Everything Else
Seconds From Disaster: The Best Disaster Investigation Series
Some of the worst engineering disasters of the past century unfolded in seconds. The Hindenburg burned and fell in 32…
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Everything Else
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey Episode Guide All 13 Episodes
The full episode guide for Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey is one of those reference pages that gets bookmarked once and…
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Everything Else
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey Series Review by Geography Scout
Carl Sagan’s original Cosmos: A Personal Voyage aired in 1980 and reshaped what science television could be — discursive, philosophical,…
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Everything Else
How to Build a Beating Heart: Tissue Engineering Today
Twenty years ago the idea that a human heart could be grown from a patient’s own cells in a laboratory…
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Everything Else
Earth: Making of a Planet — Reviewing the 4.5 Billion Year Doc
Four and a half billion years compressed into ninety minutes of television is an ambitious assignment. Earth: Making Of A…
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Nature
How to Survive on a Deserted Island: Real Wilderness Survival
The fantasy is one thing. Walk barefoot down a soft white beach, sleep in a palm-roofed hut, eat coconuts off…
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Africa
Maneater Manhunt: Why Some Predators Become Human Killers
One charismatic Scot, several animals that have killed humans, and a small film crew willing to follow the Scot well…
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