Truly Strange

2017 • Smithsonian Channel
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Season 1 episodes (3)

1 From Here to Paternity
12/2/14
Season-only
Infidelity. Is it a salacious act driven by uncontrollable passions or are there genetic and evolutionary forces driving us to seek sex on the side? For decades, tabloids and talk shows have fed the belief that one in three children may be illegitimate. It's a shocking number, one that we put to the test, thanks to modern science and one historic survey. Witness the surprising findings as we conduct the world's first specially designed paternity poll, and follow three people who put fatherhood to the test to find peace.
2 Hidden in the Hand
12/9/14
Season-only
Our hands have stories to tell, but can they actually inform us about our health, our personality, or how long we may live? Some claim that by studying the features in our hands, we can diagnose attributes or conditions such as cancer, schizophrenia, and even bad teeth. Does that mean there's actually merit to palm reading's predictive powers? To find out, we put palmistry – as well as an array of experts in the fields of science, medicine, and fortune-telling – to the ultimate test.
3 Secret Life of Breasts
12/16/14
Season-only
They are potent symbols of sex, fertility, and nurturing. They are also changing. Human breasts are growing bigger and appearing earlier, with higher rates of cancer than ever before. Why? Is it a product of evolution? Obesity? The chemicals around us? Follow doctors and scientists, who are using new ways of analyzing breast tissue, and revealing startling and disturbing truths. Then witness the surprising discoveries made when modern science puts breast tissue and breast milk under the microscope.

About this show

Can the length of our fingers predict our sexual preference? Do our genes make us commit adultery? Should breast milk come with a warning label? Thanks to modern medicine and science, we're not just finding out new answers about the human body and condition, we're coming up with brand new questions. Join us as we reopen provocative, and sometimes scandalous subjects once considered closed. We'll separate medicine from myth and science from snake oil to reveal new truths about who we are, what we're made of, and where we may be headed.

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