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NATURE, NOVA, SECRETS OF THE DEAD. It’s your Wednesday night line-up on WOUB! – October 29 beginning at 8 pm


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Wednesday, October 29 on WOUB!

Beginning at 8:00 pm

 

8:00 pm – NATURE “Willow: Diary of a Mountain Lion”

A mountain lion family group navigates risky encounters as they search for a kill.
The mountain lion family group navigates risky encounters and interactions as they share a kill. Florence, Montana. Credit: Colin Ruggiero

A unique, non-invasive, mountain lion study uses a giant network of trail cameras scattered throughout Montana’s Sapphire Mountains over a decade to piece together the life story of a female mountain lion. This film weaves clips of mountain lions and their complex interactions with each other and the rest of the forest world into a story about life and death that contains never-before-captured events and behaviors at every turn.

 

 

 

 

 

9:00 pm – NOVA “Superfloods”

Four cars and a box truck are stranded on a road during a flash flood. A man clings to the hood of his car.
A flooded road near Boone, NC during Tropical Storm Helene, September 27, 2024 Credit: Photo by Jonathan Drake

The deadly flash floods in Texas over the 2025 Fourth of July weekend were just the latest reminder of an alarming new reality: Once-rare “superfloods” are striking with unprecedented ferocity, devastating communities around the globe. Join investigators as they piece together a moment-by-moment account of the Asheville, North Carolina disaster in 2024, when Hurricane Helene triggered flash floods and mudslides in a city 2,000 feet above sea level and more than 250 miles inland. Discover how hidden atmospheric phenomena, combined with a warming planet, are creating a new era of risk. Can science offer a lifeline to communities facing an increasingly dangerous future?

 

10:00 pm – SECRETS OF THE DEAD “Chasing the Plague”

14th-century street view of Siena, Italy at night. Brick buildings and a paved road running through them are pictured.
14th-century street view of Siena, Italy at night. Credit: Impossible Factual

Scientists track down the earliest known bubonic plague victims and study the virus in hopes of preventing future outbreaks while the societal impact of the plague is also considered.