Look Kool

All Episodes 2015 - 2016
TV-G

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  • 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z
  • 20m
  • 40m (2 episodes)
  • Canada
  • Children, Documentary
Is about geometry, jam-packed with skits, songs, cartoons, and 3D special effects. Our host, Hamza, and his mischievous robot cat show viewers how math is in everything around us, from broccoli, to music, to beaver dams. In every episode real kids help Hamza solve a mathematical mystery: How come triangle shapes are so strong? What does music have in common with pizza? How do you fit really big objects in really small spaces? Kids build stuff, and break stuff, and even get soaked by water balloons to help Hamza find the answers.

29 episodes

Series Premiere

2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

1x01 Spheres

Series Premiere

1x01 Spheres

  • 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z20m

Bubbles, bubbles everywhere! Hamza wonders why bubbles are always round. Is there something special about a spherical shape? To find out, we make a bubble explosion and throw water into outer space.

1x02 Mapping

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Hamza thinks finding his way around is easu...until his smart phone breaks. Uh oh. Now he needs to use maps to get where he's going. Along the way, Hamza forms a marching band and gets travel tips from a gargoyle.

1x03 Arches

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Hamza literally bends over backwards in this episode to find out why arches are so strong. To find out how it works, we'll meet a medieval mason, build an arch out of cheese, and sing the praises of buttresses.

1x04 Musical Cylinders

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Hamza is determined to find out why so many instruments like flutes and organs are cylinders. To find out, we'll play music with water glasses, and meet "Bubba" Bach, the inventor of flatulent-sounding novelty horns.

1x05 Pyramids

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Hamza notices a pyramid of oranges at the grocery store and makes one in the studio. To find out why pyramids are so strong, we arm-wrestle with a crocodile and put a cheerleading stunt to the test.

1x06 Cones

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It's Hamza's birthday, and cones are the life of the party! Hamza realizes that a cone is like a spinning right triangle and sends the Investigators out on a quest to find things that are cone-shaped.

1x07 Tiling

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It's cold today, so Hamza snuggles by the window with his quilt. Hamza likes to do crafts on "indoor" days like this, and decides to replicate the patterns in his quilt with geometric shapes.

1x08 Aerodynamics

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To find out why some shapes go through air better than others, the gang is going to make a rocket with an astronaut, put bicycle "test pilots" to the test, and meet a rocket scientist who swims better than he walks.

1x09 Spirals

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Koolkatt tries to hypnotize Hamza with spirals. Why are spirals so captivating? To find out, Hamza meets a rebellious snail, shakes his crazy helix hair, and finds the biggest spiral around, The Milky Way galaxy.

1x10 Lenses

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Hamza is looking at and through lenses today on his quest for a perfect pair of glasses. He wants glasses that will let him see all the way to Mars as well as see microscopic stuff.

1x11 Domes

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Hamza has a very special guest host today... Benny, the Egg. Why is an egg so strong when Hamza squeezes it, but so smashable if he drops it? Because it's a dome on both the top and bottom!

1x12 Cubes

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A cube is sort of like a square but has a bigger personality...just like Hamza! In this episode, we'll meet cubist Pablo Picasso, find out why ice cubes make an awful necklace, and face the legendary Hound of Doom.

1x13 Wedges

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Our Look Kool gang finds out why wedges are one of the most important tools ever invented, the split logs like lumberjacks, meet a legendary cheese-cutter, and channel their inner cave man.

1x14 Sports Projectiles

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Hamza tries to juggle a football, a baseball, and a hockey puck but quickly loses control. Each one of these sports projectiles has a different size and shape.

1x15 Symmetry

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To find out about symmetry and why we love it so much, we'll draw giant mystery pictures, get crazy with snowflakes and meet the famous Mona Lisa herself! Even Koolkatt gets in on the act by demonstrating rotational symmetry.

1x16 Trusses

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Hamza wonders why so many structures, like bridges, are made of interlocking triangles. To find out why, Hamza interviews a bridge troll and the Investigators test the strength of a spaghetti bridge.

Season Premiere

2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

2x01 123D

Season Premiere

2x01 123D

  • 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z20m

Have you ever wanted to take a vacation in the first or second dimension? Hamza discovers the world of height, width and depth in this multi-dimensional episode of Look Kool.

2x02 Origami

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Hamza is packing for a vacation, but he can't fit all of his stuff in his suitcase. Origami to the rescue - he takes a nod from the art of Japanese paper folding to make things with a lot of surface area take up less space.

2x03 Frame, Shell, Solid

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What is a structure and how do you make it sturdy? Hamza wants a new bookcase. He enlists help to build it and learns that there are three forms that make the basis of all structures, frames, shells, and solids.

2x04 Probability

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Hamza can't figure out why Koolkatt always wins when they play Flip-the-coin. Can you use probability to predict the future? Hamza interviews a real-life playing card and find out what's so 'lucky' about the number seven.

2x05 Programming

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When Hamza can't get his beloved robot cat to behave, he discovers that his pet is made of all kinds of cool parts, including a computer. To fix Koolkatt, Hamza must learn how to speak to computers. But how?

2x06 What's Your Angle?

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Today we're getting the angle on angles. Hamza is really excited about his birthday present for Koolkatt - but all of the right angles in his brand-new Kitty Kastle are, well, wrong.

2x07 Power Of Ten

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Hamza wonders how people do math with numbers so big they take 95 years just to say out loud. And how do you measure something too small to even see? To find out the investigators will make their own solar system.

2x08 Make That a Double

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Two, four, six, eight - how can you make numbers great? Hamza learns just how quickly doubling can make numbers grow from tiny to astronomical.

2x09 Measurement

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Hamza wants to measure everything about Koolkatt that has changed since he was a teeny-weeny little robot-kitten - but how? Hamza finds out there are a lot of different ways to measure the world around us.

2x10 Zero

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Do you ever like to just think about nothing? Hamza does - he's been thinking about the number zero. For a number with absolutely nothing to it, it's awfully important and Hamza investigates why...

2x11 Math In Music

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How come some sound combinations are pleasant and others sound like a cat with a screw loose? To find out, we'll make guitars out of shoeboxes, cut up a pizza, give Koolkatt a tune-up, and meet the original Otto Tune.

Have you ever wondered what video game graphics have in common with broccoli? Fractals, of course. Hamza learns that we can understand the shapes and patterns of nature using math.

2x13 Weird Shapes

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Hexa-flexa-WHAT-agon? Today we get to play with the world's kookiest, craziest 3D shapes. We'll find out how some bumpy-looking shapes can deliver a smooth ride and Hamza will invent his very own shape: the bloopezoid.

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