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In a response to the overfishing of Blue Fin Tuna, Japan began captive fish breeding programs. The University of Tokyo is trying to take these programs a step further. They have started a program to genetically alter mackerel to give birth to blue fin tuna.
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Learn about the wealth of British history on display in the backyard of Buckingham Palace in this segment. From mementos of the Napoleonic Wars to a species of flower marking the birth of a duke, the Rose Garden is one of the most discretely historic areas in downtown London. Part of "The Queen's Garden" series.
North America is continually reinventing itself. Experts discuss the various geographic landforms of the continent. They also touch on the active tectonic forces of the San Andreas Fault and the potentially hazardous dormant volcano in Yellowstone National Park. Part of the "Voyage of the Continents" series.
The white beluga whale lives only in the gulf of the St. Lawrence River in Canada. After years of deliberate destruction and exposure to heavy industrial waste, the belugas are an endangered species. Describes the whale's characteristics, behaviors, and unique features. Excellent photography of whales, including a live birth. One man's commitment to changing their environment is making a difference.
Across the animal kingdom, some of the most essential lessons-and the most extreme challenges-occur in the first moments of life. From ostrich to orangutan, egg sac to live birth, infanticide to matricide, the diversity of behaviors between parent and progeny is as great as the diversity of life on our planet. Academy Award-winner F. Murray Abraham narrates.
Host Emily Graslie explores myths surrounding the discovery of fossils. Did the discovery of Protoceratops fossils give birth to the stories about griffins? Another mythical creature, the Cyclops, also has potential ties to the fossil record. Is an extinct species of ammonite actually serpents turned into stone? Part of "The Brain Scoop" series.
Sea turtles, salmon, and sharks sometimes travel the width of the ocean to return to their "breeding ground" to reproduce. With funding from the National Science Foundation, Biologist Ken Lohmann at the University of North Carolina -Chapel Hill studies the role magnetic fields play in these long distance migrations. In his lab he's done behavioral studies, manipulating environmental cues to see how young turtles respond to even small changes in magnetic fields.
Over the many billions of years of the Earth's history, the planet has never stopped changing shape. Massive tectonic forces have sculpted and resculpted the world in a never-ending process. This episode chronicles the Himalayas, investigates how Siberia joined other land masses, and discusses tectonic activity that impacts Japan and Indonesia. Part of the "Voyage of the Continents" series.
I think what your eyesight does is confirm other senses, says James Robertshaw, a world champion kite flyer and for two years personal assistant to Rory Heap. Heap has been blind from birth, but with Robertshaw's assistance pursues his ambition for kite flying--particularly of complicated figure eight patterns. Using all of his senses except for sight, Heap learns how to fly a kite with the same dexterity that Robertshaw uses to guide him through busy city streets.
It is a fireball in the sky, a bubbling, boiling, kinetic sphere of white hot plasma, exploding and erupting. Its size is almost unimaginable--one million Earths would fit within its boundaries. In this violence is born almost all the energy that makes existence on Earth possible. Yet, its full mysteries are only now beginning to be understood. From sunspots to solar eclipses, solar flares to solar storms, the birth of the sun to its potential death, discover the science and history behind this celestial object that makes life on Earth exist.
Powerful forces have forged the conditions on Earth that have made life possible. The millennia have been witnesses to the formation of the planet: its singular position in relation to the sun, the evolution of the continents, and the birth of entire mountain chains. All of these elements combine to create Earth’s constantly changing climate. Homo sapiens emerge into this unpredictable and violent world, fighting for survival from the start. It is these early humans’ ability to adapt that allows them to triumph even in the face of incredible adversity and sets the path for modern man. Part of the "How Climate Made History" series.
An energy source unrivaled in efficiency and power, oil is the driving force behind today's industries and economies. It touches nearly every aspect of our daily lives, from our food and our clothing to our cars, yet most of us know very little about it. Traces the story of oil through the centuries, from its birth deep in the dinosaur-inhabited past to its ascendancy as an indispensable ingredient of modern life. Yet many experts predict that we have already passed peak production of this vital natural resource, with the latest scientific evidence suggesting that our headlong rush to exploit the remaining reserves may have profound--and perilous--impacts on our future.
As shown on the History Channel. Gold dates from the time of the supernova explosion that gave birth to the building blocks of our solar system. When it was created, the Earth included a tiny percentage of gold atoms, and over the aeons geologic processes have concentrated it into various nooks and crannies around the globe. The best of it is in the ancient Precambrian rocks in South Africa, where the deepest mines in the world extract it. In other regions of the world, gold can be gathered from younger sedimentary rocks that have been eroded off older Precambrian rocks. The American gold rush was this type of deposit. Now in Nevada, sedimentary rocks are leached on a truly vast scale to extract the gold.
This episode celebrates the 229th birthday of John James Audubon. Host Emily Graslie spends time discussing "The Birds of America" written by Audubon. Part of "The Brain Scoop" series.
The Magic School Bus is an award winning animated children’s television series based on the book series of the same title by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen. It is notable for its use of celebrity talent and being both highly entertaining and educational. A field trip to the bakery is in order to celebrate Ms. Frizzle's birthday. But how can the class get her the cake she deserves when the bus shrinks them, and they end up baked inside the cake?
The Magic School Bus is an award winning animated children’s television series based on the book series of the same title by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen. It is notable for its use of celebrity talent and being both highly entertaining and educational. When the kids see Horace Scope on the Star Shopping Network, they decide to buy Dorothy Ann a real twinkling star for her birthday. Before buying it, the kids blast off in the Bus to inspect the merchandise. They visit a young star, and then a middle-aged star, and then an old star. They decide to buy the old star. But when they give Horace their money, the star explodes. Have they lost D.A.'s star forever?
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