NOVA Making Stuff: Wilder at 8 pm
In this mini-series, New York Times’ technology correspondent and best-selling author David Pogue takes a wild ride through the cutting-edge science that is powering a next wave of technological innovation. With his humor and zest for discovery, Pogue meets the scientists and engineers who are plunging to the bottom of the temperature scale, finding design inspiration in nature, and breaking every speed limit to make tomorrow’s “stuff” colder, faster, wilder and safer.
Raw To Ready Bentley at 9 pm
It’s a century-old obsession to find the right raw materials to build a car that is fit for both king and race car driver – perfectly luxurious and perfectly fast. The Bentley Motor Company has built common raw ingredients into their signature Mulsanne, an engineering achievement made possible by aluminum, leather, iron, wood and pigment.