Nova Sciencenow

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. It is not unusual for the show to explain topics as arcane as RNA interference using cartoons, or a solution to a two-thousand-year-old math problem related in song. Whereas the parent program Nova covered a single subject in each hour-long episode, NOVA scienceNOW covers between 4 and 6 diverse topics in the course of each program. The show features animated interstitial shorts between each story segment, ostensibly taking the place and pace of commercials in an otherwise uninterrupted program flow. The show's humor turns on cultural references aimed at viewers from a broad spectrum of age groups. These references, for example, come from movies, TV, music, history, literature, and of course, science. The show's animators often place subtle jokes or sight gags into the show's background via humorous or incongruous bits of text in signs, newspapers, and elsewhere. The audience may often not notice the visual jokes in a single viewing. Some are so fleeting that they become apparent only by pausing a video recording of the show.