Nature
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The natural world of plants, animals, weather, the Earth and much more is full of curiosities. Some of the most commonplace parts of nature are fascinating when you get to know them better.
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Nematocysts - deadly jellyfish stinging cells
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Cat's eye reflections
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Relative Sizes - from sand grains to stars
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Coral Reef Islands - How They Form
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Nautilus Shell
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Bird vision
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Pet water dispenser
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Humming Noises with Mouth and Nose
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Humming Noises with Mouth and Nose
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Finding North without a Compass
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How Australia's Great Barrier Reef was formed
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How many leaves on a tree & stars in the sky?
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Speaking about Helium Balloons
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How to swallow a fish
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Bobbing Bird Behaviour
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Chicken or Egg
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The "funnybone"
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Strong arm challenge
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Fishing Owl
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The Story of Opal
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Meet the tapir
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Handy illusions
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A nose for termites
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Pecking Bird Model
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Matchstick Archery
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Healthy hair test
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Bearded Dragon
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Curiosity Show Bloopers
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Human Body Composition
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Chasm and Gap
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Sand Dunes
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Sea Water and Tap Water
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Bone - Nature's fibreglass.
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Finding Outback Water
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Nut Birthday Candles
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What is Life?
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Nut Birthday Candles
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Folding Arms and Clasping Hands
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Cicadas
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Cup-Moth Caterpillar
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How far away is the storm?
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Queensland Cane Toad
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The birth of the Jenolan Caves
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Stargazing Spectacles
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Boxing Kangaroos
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Self-opening Water Lilies
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth
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How Animals See The World - Slit Pupils
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Fangs go Walkabout - The Mouse Spider
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Bloodwood Apples and an Insect Diet
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Measuring the Wind
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Carrot Animals
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Australia's Thorny Devil
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Potato Chip Problem
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Potato Elephant
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Matchstick Pulse
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Make a Flying Bird Mobile
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How to form your own gumleaf band.
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The odd life story of the Fire Ant.
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Who is this Oceanographer?
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Fibonacci Plant Rules
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Secret Life of the Longicorn Beetle
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Wriggling Model Snake
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Handy Skin Test
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Electricity from Solar Ponds
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Drilling for Water
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Where In The Universe Are We?
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Eggshell Flip Puzzle
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Survival skills - make a bushman's haversack
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Camels in Australia
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Australia's Pygmy Possum
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The Coldest Place on Earth - but Why?
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Todd River Preparing for Floods
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The Fruit Bat's Wonderful Hands
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Stalactites and Stalagmites
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The Wonderful Red Panda
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Beware the Crocodile's Jaws
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Hand-rearing a Baby Possum
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Camels in Australian Outback
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Giant Walking Ant
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The Secret, Mysterious Life of the Scarab Beetle
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A Magpie by any other name.....
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Coober Pedy Opals
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Stretching Your Little Finger
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Longicorns - The Whistling Beetles
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Moths and Butterflies
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Rare as Magpie Teeth
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Standley Chasm & Simpsons Gap
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Making Oxygen
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The Mystery of the Earwig's Name
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Bone - Nature's Fibreglass
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How To Make an Egg Bounce
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Getting Your Blood Moving Heartlessly
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Finding Your Blind Spot
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Tasmanian Quiz
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A few dinosaur facts
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Meet Australia's Deadly Redback Spider
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Australia's Beautiful Little Sugar Glider
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Which came first, the Chicken or the Egg?
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Hot and Cold Hands
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Picture Puzzles from the Garden
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Ultra Violet, Infra Red and a strange thing - What are they all?
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Mason Wasp
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Hygrometer
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A carnivorous plant that you may not know.
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How to Hypnotize a Chook
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Puppy Love
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Jumping Frogs
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Petrified Wood
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Eggs I Have Known.
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Snowstorm Paperweight - Aussie Style
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Use Your Watch As A Compass
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Mysterious Scales and a Microscope to Make
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Meet Australia's Tasmanian Devil
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Oil on Troubled Water Birds
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Discovering "Mother of Pearl."
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The Secret of Singing Sand
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Walking Hair Pin
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What is a Curie?
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Burke and Wills' Survival Kit
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Sir Edmund Hillary
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Tessellations
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Petroglyphs At Your Peril
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Night Vision Preserver
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Calling All Birds - Three Simple Ways
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Have a Spare Brain.
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Australia's Deepest Waterhole
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Even Older than the Dinosaurs!
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The Flying Doctor's Outback Companion
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Waltzing Matilda's Coolibah Tree
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Chemical Gardens
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Forest Regrowth
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Measuring the width of a human hair
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More Secret Sounds
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Sturt's Inland Australian Sea
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A Look At Topiary Beasts
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Arch, Blowhole and Chasm
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Stories of a Pioneer Graveyard
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A close look at a Coolamon
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Oil on troubled waters test
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A little dragon in your own backyard
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What is cellulose?
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Food that falls from the sky
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Snail Race
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Looking at an opthalmoscope
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How Do You Hear?
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ICE Melting & Re-freezing
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Meet the Axolotl
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Don't be fooled by fool's gold.
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Meet Australia's Snake-necked Tortoise
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Weight of Air
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Stand on Your Head for Dinner
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When a Hawkeye is Delicious
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The animal mystery of counter-shading
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Grow Your Name
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Potato Stamps
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How Long till Sunset?
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Model Volcano
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When a snake is a caterpillar
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Cutting onions without tears
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Meet Australia's Huon Pine
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Your remarkable hinge-and-pivot arm.
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Meet Australia's Leaf-curling Spider
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How to Crack Coconuts
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The Mystery of Rattlebacks
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A bamboo whistle with a difference
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How to brachiate with your cousins
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Turning gypsum into plaster
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A curious little maze-runner
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A look at the world's biggest animals
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How you manage to breathe
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Make Your Own Earthquake
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Constellations - Star Groups
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Red and Blue Celery
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Horns and Antlers - What's the Difference?
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How do you smell?
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The many-legged creatures that share our world
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How opals are cut and prepared
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What causes motion sickness?
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Curious old basket - what is it?
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What is your taste like?
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A call of nature - whistling in the grass
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Why the sea is greeny blue
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Steve Sprints around the World
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Steve Sprints around the World
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Meet the burrowing balloon
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Green-shelled Mussels
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Colour Blindness
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Bioluminescence & Glow Worms
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Why does your voice break?
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Meet the humble planaria - humble but tricky!
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Who is it? Famous Scientist
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The mathematical Sea Urchin and what it hides inside.
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Meet the shapeshifting Needlebug
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How to preserve crunchy flowers
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Losing Your Roof
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Ski Plane, Tasman Glacier, New Zealand
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Lifting an Ice Cube Magically
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Glaciers and Sandpaper
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Fire-spitting caterpillars of the Australian bush.
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How to Make a Square Egg !
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Beauty and Beast in the insect world
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How tall is a tree?
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Australia's famous canine criminals
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Birds, bees and butterflies: nature mobiles to make
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A nose for termites
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When your feet point backwards: sealions explained
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What makes the sky blue and sunsets red?
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Magic Balanced Eggs
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How do we recognize faces?
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How to pull water to pieces
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Ultraviolet insect vision and art fraud
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Meet New Zealand's unusual birds
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How to cook a volcanic meal
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Life in boiling water
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Drink a toast to a tiger hunt in a famous hotel
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A breakfast chat with a distant cousin
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Making Clouds in a Jar
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How much blood does your heart pump?
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Malachite and a pioneer smithy
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What Henry VIII taught the lobsters
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Where Manna from Heaven really exists
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The Singapore bird concert
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Life comes to a volcano
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Explosive Model Volcano
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How to wiggle your ears.
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A Famous Kiwi
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Geyser: Nature's Espresso Coffee Machine
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Not all spiders spin webs
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Logos in New Zealand
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Meet the king and queen of fruits in a historic setting.
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Watch Your Own Heartbeat
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Watch Your Own Heartbeat
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Make your own chameleon
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How to build a rainforest
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Skiing the Tasman Glacier
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Blind Spot
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How Hot is the Sun?
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Water Drops on Coin
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Seeing with your brain illusion
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New Zealand's greatest disaster - the Te Wairoa story
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Go back in time - make a reed pen
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Make an 'eco' flower pot with a difference
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Gertrude the Giraffe
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Meet a living fossil - New Zealand's amazing Tuatara
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How sharks and rays work
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How to draw natural history specimens
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Curious dirt containers - what are they?
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Curious dirt containers - what are they?
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Make a simple light meter
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Make a simple light meter
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The most dangerous golf course in the world?
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The most dangerous golf course in the world?
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Secret Sounds
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Secret Sounds
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Put a panda in a snowstorm
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Put a panda in a snowstorm
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Put a panda in a snowstorm
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Some tongue gymnastics to try
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Some tongue gymnastics to try
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Rapid rafting and jet boating
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Rapid rafting and jet boating
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height of a human
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height of a human
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Global warming - a glacier's hidden secrets
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Global warming - a glacier's hidden secrets
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Bush tucker - the 3-course insect diet
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Bush tucker - the 3-course insect diet
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Bush tucker - the 3-course insect diet
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Bush tucker - the 3-course insect diet
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Bush tucker - the 3-course insect diet
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Bush tucker - the 3-course insect diet
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Bush tucker - the 3-course insect diet
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Bush tucker - the 3-course insect diet
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Bush tucker - the 3-course insect diet
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Bush tucker - the 3-course insect diet
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Opal cutting and mineral marvels
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Opal cutting and mineral marvels
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Plant survival, Aussie style.
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Bush babies of Australia
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How rare are hens' teeth?
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Where does rubber come from?
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Carving emu eggs
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The lost village of Pulau Seking
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Imprinting - the marvellous skill of baby birds
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The kiwi fruit alias
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Sand Dunes
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Living underground with your treasure
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Making a cup of tea - from the ground up.
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The banana split - an unusual approach
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Scrimshaw for landlubbers
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The fabulous lost gold reef
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Carving gemstones in Singapore
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The colours of opal - what causes them?
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Staking a claim in an opal field
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Cane juice - where sugar comes from
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How tall are you - morning and night?
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Seeing stars - the brain and senses
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How big is a light year?
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