Bill Nye The Science Guy 2 7 -1 -1 251019 0.0 0.0 0 They're on your refrigerator, they're inside your computer, and you're even standing on one right now. They're magnets, and forget about being repulsed. Bill Nye the Science Guy's ""Magnetism"" episode is totally attractive. All magnets have certain things in common. All magnets have two poles - north and south. You could take a magnet and break it into pieces and all of the pieces would have north and south poles. Ever play with two magnets? If you hold them with one magnet's north pole facing the other's south pole, they will stick together. If you put two of the same poles together, the magnets will push apart. With magnets, opposite poles attract, and ""like"" poles repel. Ever wonder why the Earth has a North and South Pole? The Earth's hot, churning, iron core is like a giant magnet. The magnetic force of the Earth stops a lot of harmful radiation from reaching us. Charged particles streaming from the Sun get pulled down by the Earth's magnetic field, creating the 26 http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/28TyqRpbzdGgPE98HQzbXcm7LGH.jpg 1994-09-10 1994-09-10 false Rabbit Ears Productions Public Broadcasting Service KCTS Television James McKenna Bill Nye Michael Gross Kit Boss Erren Gottlieb Ian G. Saunders Adam Gross Seth Gross Simon Griffith Scott Schaefer Darrel Suto Michael Palleschi Lynn Brunelle 2020-08-23 13:00:58 UNKNOWN BNTSG S02E07 Light Optics, Bending & Bouncing.avi