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Delves into the little-known, hugely important, multi-billion-dollar industry of product testing, where wrinkles get ironed out and goods are stripped of marketing and hype to see if they work; meet product testers who serve as truth squads.
Delves into the little-known, hugely important, multi-billion-dollar industry of product testing, where wrinkles get ironed out and goods are stripped of marketing and hype to see if they work; meet product testers who serve as truth squads.
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S3, EP7 "The Search for the Polio Vaccine"When poliomyelitis swept the nation, thousands died or became disabled before American ingenuity and desperation led to one of history's greatest scientific breakthroughs; witness how polio shaped FDR's vision and made Jonas Salk famous.
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S4, EP8 "Antibiotics: The Wonder Drugs"In 1941, penicillin was first used to save human life; now, bacteria has emerged resistant to every known antibiotic and scientists have begun to fear that the era of the wonder drugs is near to its end.
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S5, EP4 "Battlefield Medicine"In this history of medicine under fire, a small army of medics, nurses, surgeons, stretcher-bearers, and ambulance drivers races to keep pace with the deadly advances of war.
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S4, EP12 "Prosthetics"From the earliest recorded account of an amputation and subsequent prosthesis in ancient Hindu writings, to today's use of plastics and space-age materials, we chronicle the long history of prosthetic devices.
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S14, EP17 "Crashes"World-shaking crashes; efforts to make auto racing safer; the latest in motorcycle crash survival equipment; a skydiver survives falling 11,000 feet without a parachute; NASA's asteroid-tracking team; colliding subatomic particles.
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