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TIME WARP SEASON 1:
Do you know how your dog uses its tongue to drink? In what exact way a face contorts when punched by a UFC contender? What happens when an egg falls into the pinwheeling blades of a fan? Or an apple is hit with a bullet?
Likely, with nothing but your naked eye to guide you, you haven't got a clue. In fact, there are countless events the world has to offer that our limited senses can't fully appreciate ... until now, anyway.
Welcome to Discovery Channel's series Time Warp, in which MIT scientist and teacher Jeff Lieberman -- along with digital-imaging expert Matt Kearney -- uses new technologies to bring truly never-before-seen wonders into a form that your body can actually process.
Using the latest in high-speed photography, the Time Warp team takes some natural events (a cat licking its paw, a champagne bottle being opened) — and some not-so-natural (a water balloon to the face, a raw piece of chicken exploding) — and turns them into a thing of both beauty and learning.
Episode 1: Stone Breaking
Breaking stone slabs, Diet Coke and Mentos geysers, Frisbee dog |
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Episode 11: Break-dancing
The destructive force of power tools, the seemingly physics-bending motions of break-dancing, and why a bullet fired underwater goes askew. |
Episode 2: Will It Blend?
Juggling balls to chainsaws, blending things you shouldn't, breaking a beer bottle bare-handed |
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Episode 12: Paintball
Storm-blown glass, a mess with paintballs, serve up a flaming cocktail with some trick bartenders, and spring into action with the Yo Yo Pros.
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Episode 3: Dry Ice Bomb
Throwing water on a grease fire, the power of dry ice, the wonders of soap bubbles, a tablecloth pull trick. |
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Episode 13: Cheerleading
Olympian skeet shooter, the airborne acrobatics of Boston College cheerleaders, and how a baseball can break a hard baseball bat. |
Episode 4: Fuel Girls
The Fuel Girls' fiery breath, skateboard champion Greg Lutzka's killer kick flips, and Russ Byars' world record winning stone-skipping technique. |
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Episode 14: Trial Bikes
The stunts of two urban bike riders, the precision of an ice skater, and a cardthrower whose 90-mph toss can chop vegetables and put out candles. |
Episode 5: Taser
Being hit by a taser gun, how a pole vaulter defies gravity for a record-making jump, and how a jack hammer pounds the pavement...and the body. |
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Episode 15: Sharpshooter
An Old West Champion Sharpshooter, cooking with the Feasty Boys, look at things with a Schlieren camera, and a 3-bladed boomerang. |
Episode 6: Human Crash Dummy
Human Crash Test Dummy, Rusty Haight helps the state police by intentionally crashing his car for science. Archers take a shot William Tell style. |
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Episode 16: Barefooter
A world-class "barefooter" twists and turns across the water without skis, razor-sharp cutting with a Samurai martial arts expert, a drummer with a world speed record, and Jeff's electrifying new art project. |
Episode 7: Samurai Sword Master
Behind a samurai swordsman's lethal blow, a pool pro's award-winning moves, the inner workings of a hummingbird and an accident with tempered glass. |
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Episode 17: Stuntmen
What really happens in a movie fight scene, the secret behind bowling a strike, and the noisemakers behind a cicada and a rattlesnake. |
Episode 8: Free Runner
The art and the science behind a gravity-defying free runner, the strange solid liquid non-Newtonian fluid, and the beauty of water droplets. |
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Episode 18:Body Modification
The pain of body modification, the energy flow of a Wushu master, quick-stepping tap dancers, and what happens to a firecracker in a wine glass. |
Episode 9: Bull Whip
The sonic boom of a bull whip, no two wet dogs shake exactly alike, and a Boston Bruin's star puts two hockey sticks to the test. |
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Episode19: MouseTrap
Trap-testing with Rev. Tommy Gunn, high-flying Cirque du Soleil, exploring their inner stuntmen, the simplicity of making music and weed-whacking.
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Episode 10: Liquid Nitrogen
The freezing power of liquid nitrogen, stopping bullets with "Dragon Skin", and lighting up fireworks. |
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