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on Nova science now we're on a quest to
answer some big questions like what are
animals thinking ever wonder what's
behind some of their amazing abilities
I'm David POG and I've got an
appointment with one of the top experts
in the field but first I have to go
through security no phones no GPS no
computer there's no seats in this van
there's no windows that's right
wait a
minute this is the expert hey there's
there's a bird in here
hey we're here you're going to race this
homing pigeon roughly 60 Mi now we're
going to give you a compass and a set of
keys Ready set go whate turns out
pigeons have some awesome and extremely
mysterious skills they can navigate
practically anywhere I know what to do
with this thing how do they they do it
well that's one of the Mysteries I'm
going to tackle on a new season of Nova
science
now from the built-in GPS in a bird's
brain to the inner workings of our own
we investigate some of the burning
questions people really want to know the
right half is emotion and creativity and
the left half is analysis and numbers
it's not that simple so I have reshaped
my brain through piano lessons what
about Einstein could his brain reveal
the secret of his genius we have 125
grains there's not one hemisphere that
has the same Anatomy as Einstein new
discoveries challenge our understanding
of who we are how we live and what the
future holds our scientific detective
work leads us to some unlikely places oh
come on is aggression born or breed what
is the warrior Gene and what is its
relationship to
aggression from Dangerous Minds to cyber
crimes could hackers take over our
Electronics or our kids toys what about
our cars and we'll be applying your
brakes shortly right about
now yeah and what sets us apart from
other animals is it
laughter is it
dexterity or is it something primitive
deep down in our DNA could Neanderthal
still be among us um not only do you
have a neanderthal Gene you have many
neander all jeans our Hunt For answers
uncovers the strange all 10 or 12,000
bees are going to launch into flight the
shocking we're going to plug you
in the unexpected this individual 3 days
ago was fully fleshed how could that be
there's nothing left that's what we're
going to try to find out Nova science
now investigates the big questions
this fall on PBS