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Christmas observance by world's population incorporates trees, ornaments, lights, and treats made cheaper and safer through technology; explore Rockefeller Center preparations, Macy's holiday windows, UNICEF snowflake installation, and more.

Modern Marvels

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Celebrate the ingenuity and imagination found in the world around us. 24/7 episodes of Modern Marvels, television's most innovative series.

Tea ranks as world's second most popular drink with ancient origins; explore Lipton's Suffolk plant producing teabags, Charleston Plantation's cultivation, Boston Tea Party history, Clipper Ships bringing Chinese tea, and modern herbal varieties.

Snow forms through nucleation in storm clouds but faces pollution threats; explore Storm Peak Laboratory cloud research, Colorado ski resort snowmaking technology, avalanche rescue innovations, and Buffalo blizzard forecasting.

Snow

Examine industrial disasters including BP Refinery Texas City explosions killing workers, American Airlines flight crash circumstances, Times Beach Missouri dioxin contamination, NASA Skylab problems, and Praxair gas company fire.

Engineering Disasters 20

America's orchards and farms balance hand labor with mechanization through efficient harvesting methods; explore orchard management, California's largest fruit packing house, Nebraska corn fields, Wisconsin cranberry marshes, and more.

Harvesting 2

Wine remains culturally integral as Napoleon drowned sorrows and Jefferson became obsessed; modern consumption peaks with wines from Australia, Chile, South Africa using NASA aerial imaging technology for soil analysis and vine vigor assessment.

Wine

Breakfast technology slices, squeezes, sorts, and cooks to keep orange juice fresh and cereals flaked; explore USS Stennis meal preparation for sailors, Tyson bacon processing, Sunkist orange squeezing, and McDonald's McGriddle pancake production.

Breakfast Tech

The supermarket has become one of the great success stories of modern retailing; bar coding and other technological advancements; the psychology of the supermarket, including the store layout, lighting, music and aromas.

The Supermarket

Tobacco's ancient discovery and Andes cultivation leads to modern North Carolina farming and Dominican Republic Fuente cigar plantation; explore harvesting techniques, public health concerns with Surgeon General, and nicotine replacement therapies.

Tobacco

Strength measurement explores why some things are stronger than others; examine rope, tractor, diamond, tugboat, and plastic strength from Spectra fiber to Lexan, discovering where, how, and why strength matters in daily life applications.

World's Strongest

Distillation of spirits represents art, science, and vapor-water marriage in a billion-dollar business; visit brandy, liqueur, moonshine, and absinthe distilleries including Christian Brothers, Deep South moonshine, and French Courvoisier Cognac.

Distilleries 2

Ink, invented by Chinese around 3000BC, spread religious and war messages while setting people free and spelling out rights; from squid to soybeans, ancient texts to tattoos, ink tells stories, sells products, and solves crimes everywhere.

Stories of those who believed in dreams and defied the commonplace with their extraordinary creations; covering some of the world's architectural and engineering structures, scientific inventions, and social wonders.

S12 E30 | Tobacco

E38 | Christmas Tech

E37 | Tea

E36 | Snow

E35 | Engineering Disasters 20

E34 | Harvesting 2

E33 | Wine

E32 | Breakfast Tech

E31 | The Supermarket

E30 | Tobacco

E28 | World's Strongest

E27 | Distilleries 2

E26 | Ink