Finding Stuff Out

Harrison investigates the stuff that holds us in: skin. With help from a special-effects make-up artist, he finds out the science behind scabs and bruises, and even learns how to make cool fish-monster scales.

Harrison is on a quest to break a karate board with his bare hand, but first he’ll need some expert help – from a materials engineer and a karate master -- to understand the science behind why things break. Hiii-yaaa!

Hold on to your nose! Harrison decides to do a show about, well, you know. He’s visited by a paleontologist who brings million-year-old fossils of dinosaur poop.

Harrison finds out how a car works when a teenage race car driver brings her mini Formula 1 to Harrison’s house.

Harrison starts a pet-sitting service, but he’s soon overwhelmed by how much work it is -- especially when one of the pets turns out to be surprisingly wild. Fortunately, a zoo-owner friend helps him out.

Someone took a bite out of Harrison’s cheese sandwich! Who was this nefarious nabber? To find out, Harrison brings in a detective and a forensics expert to collect fingerprints, DNA evidence, and other clues.

Harrison wants to find out if he can really make gems from charcoal or gold from lead. A geologist guest shows him that other kinds of rocks are cool too, especially meteorites. Rocks rock!

Harrison’s computer says that people do have tails. How is that possible?! To find out more about tails, Harrison invites animal experts who bring over a live kangaroo, skunk, marten, and snapping turtle. Turns out, different animals use their tails for different purposes.

Harrison and a cheeky humanoid robot named Nao 1337 compete to see whether humans are better than robots. Along the way, Harrison discovers robots that’ll do everything from vacuum your room to play chess against grandmasters.

Harrison’s water is shut off today because of a water main break, so he’s extra interested in how water is formed, and how we can conserve it.

To find out where dragon legends could have come from, Harrison goes on a quest to find the biggest, dragon-iest reptiles in the world.

Harrison wants to go to space, but first he’ll have to learn how to float in zero gravity, sleep “standing up,” and figure out how a rocket works. Fortunately, he knows some real astronauts who can help him out.

Harrison’s little sister decided to “improve” Harrison’s show by mixing up all the clips – and adding sparkly dancing unicorns. Now Harrison has to put his show clips back in order. As he goes through them, he notices that his sister picked clips that show how weird and surprising science is. Maybe she arranged them well after all (except for the sparkly unicorns, of course!).