A curious creature some say is as smart as a three-year-old human, but our primary goal is to eat him. We'll visit the massive Tyson bacon plant and at Burger's Smokehouse in Missouri, we'll watch the pig transform into ham.

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Added: Mon Sep 21 00:10:19 UTC 2009
Air date: Tue Nov 27 00:00:00 UTC 2007
Duration: 44:22
Rating: 3.9 / 5.0

Corn is a chameleon that has found its way into over 3,000 different items. Discover how hundreds of tons of sweet corn make it from the field to a sealed can within mere hours at Lakeside Foods in Wisconsin.

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Added: Wed Aug 26 21:01:11 UTC 2009
Air date: Mon Nov 19 00:00:00 UTC 2007
Duration: 45:02
Rating: 3.9 / 5.0

Driven by the need for deep sea rescue and salvage capabilities, the US Navy Diving and Salvage Programs have gathered together a highly skilled team of divers, innovative scientists and engineers.

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Added: Tue Sep 08 02:50:06 UTC 2009
Air date: Wed Mar 14 00:00:00 UTC 2007
Duration: 44:24
Rating: 3.9 / 5.0

The bow that nearly brought down Rome, and the suspension system that revolutionized the chariot. It is the ingenuity of an outcast culture that transformed Europe.

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Added: Tue Sep 08 02:50:06 UTC 2009
Air date: Sun Mar 04 00:00:00 UTC 2007
Duration: 44:19
Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

The Modern Marvel episode about Tea features a visit to one of the largest tea-bagging factories in the world, the Lipton's plant in Suffolk, VA. Here, an astonishing million teabags an hour - 24 million a day since the operation is 24/7.

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Added: Fri Sep 04 23:50:03 UTC 2009
Air date: Wed Dec 13 00:00:00 UTC 2006
Duration: 44:28
Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

Take a close look at one of nature's most delicate and fascinating creations... The Snowflake. And yes, it's safe to say that no two snow flakes are the same.

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Added: Fri Sep 11 09:10:04 UTC 2009
Air date: Sun Dec 10 00:00:00 UTC 2006
Duration: 44:24
Rating: 3.8 / 5.0

Copper brings music to our ears and beauty to our eyes. From the Stone Age to the Information Age this versatile red metal has enabled man to thrive.

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Added: Tue Sep 08 02:50:05 UTC 2009
Air date: Wed Sep 13 00:00:00 UTC 2006
Duration: 44:44
Rating: 4.1 / 5.0

They can be as small as a pea or as large as a bowling ball. Nutritional, durable, and versatile, Nuts have been a staple of our diet since the dawn of time, and archaeological evidence places them among our earliest foods.

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Added: Mon Sep 21 00:10:19 UTC 2009
Air date: Wed Aug 02 00:00:00 UTC 2006
Duration: 45:02
Rating: 3.9 / 5.0

Heavy Metals are elements that occupy a select portion of the periodic table. They're so essential to America's economic and military might that they are stored in the National Defense Stockpile in case of all-out war.

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Added: Wed Aug 26 21:01:11 UTC 2009
Air date: Wed Jun 14 00:00:00 UTC 2006
Duration: 45:24
Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

You may know him as man of great wit and wisdom, who reminded us that a penny saved is a penny earned. But on Modern Marvels: Ben Franklin Tech, you will get to know Dr. Franklin as the late 18th Century's foremost scientist and inventor.

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Added: Wed Sep 02 00:20:08 UTC 2009
Air date: Thu May 25 00:00:00 UTC 2006
Duration: 44:45
Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

At the center of the American Dream is the home -- and at the center of its creation or renovation - is the Lumberyard. During America's earliest history, it was little more than a bustling warehouse by the docks or the railway center.

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Added: Sun Sep 20 06:30:06 UTC 2009
Air date: Wed Nov 30 00:00:00 UTC 2005
Duration: 44:38
Rating: 3.9 / 5.0

They dig, scoop, suck and spew an ocean of silt and sediment. Dredgers are the mechanical beasts that fuel the world's economic engine by clearing and deepening ports for the world's mega-container ships.

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Added: Fri Sep 11 09:10:04 UTC 2009
Air date: Wed Aug 03 00:00:00 UTC 2005
Duration: 44:48
Rating: 4.2 / 5.0

Modern Marvels examines some of the most cutting-edge aircraft ever developed, from the X-1 that first broke the sound barrier, to the X-43 Scramjet that recently flew at Mach 7, faster than any jet has ever flown.

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Added: Wed Aug 26 21:01:09 UTC 2009
Air date: Wed Aug 25 00:00:00 UTC 2004
Duration: 45:36
Rating: 4.2 / 5.0

A gun that fires rocket-powered projectiles underwater and in outer space, a television system that is nothing more sophisticated than spinning wheels and flashing light bulbs. These and more failed inventions will be showcased on Modern Marvels.

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Added: Tue Sep 08 02:50:05 UTC 2009
Air date: Wed Dec 10 00:00:00 UTC 2003
Duration: 44:34
Rating: 4.1 / 5.0

Imagine a super-highway designed for speed, thousands of miles of roadway unhindered by limits of any kind where drivers can go as fast as their Porsches will carry them.

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Added: Wed Aug 26 21:01:11 UTC 2009
Air date: Tue Sep 17 00:00:00 UTC 2002
Duration: 45:55
Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

At 5:30 A.M., July 16, 1945, Scientists And Dignitaries Awaited The Detonation Of The First Atomic Bomb In A Desolate Area Of The New Mexico Desert Known Aptly As Jornada Del Muerto %u2014 Journey Of Death.

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Added: Wed Aug 26 21:01:11 UTC 2009
Air date: Tue Jun 04 00:00:00 UTC 2002
Duration: 45:54
Rating: 4.1 / 5.0

Welcome to superlative central, the show with the biggest, baddest, heaviest, tallest, longest , loudest, meanest machines on the planet. The scale of these monsters is beyond belief, but we'll put it in perspective.

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Added: Tue Sep 08 02:50:06 UTC 2009
Air date: Tue May 14 00:00:00 UTC 2002
Duration: 44:42
Rating: 4.1 / 5.0