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A few years ago, the city of Seattle faced an overwhelming garbage crisis. City planners and engineers describe how they created a recycling program that has become a model for the nation. Shows from beginning to end how the recycling process gets done.
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Tarrie Hood has faced several stumbling blocks while trying to reach her career goals at NASA. She became a participant in the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Cooperative Education Program and graduated from community college. These steps helped launch her career at NASA. Part of the "Women@NASA" series.
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.
Consider the following: humans live twice as long as their ancient ancestors did even though their bodies contain different types of synthetic and sometimes toxic substances. This is an unpleasant part of life in the modern age. Explores the health impact, wide variety, and alarming ubiquity of manufactured chemicals. Shows how communities around the world, including Inuit seal hunters, Asian and African farmers, and residents of an industrial town in the United States address the pervasiveness of molecular compounds found in pesticides, plastics, and other products. The benefits of these chemicals are weighed against their dangers.
The parakeet starts with a monologue about games and sports. The first guest, the turtle is very concerned that the tradition of the annual race of the turtle and the hare, or hare relatives, may be lost if the race is not done this year. The rabbit doesn't want to race because last year he lost, and the turtle rubbed on his face the whole year. The fleas present a documentary about how important it is for humans to win. The celebrity guest, a tropical pop singer who likes flowers, tells us how he felt every time he was nominated for an award winning musical but didn't win.
First in a three-part series exploring the history of race perceptions and behaviors towards races in the United States. Explores how recent scientific discoveries have toppled the concept of biological race. Follows a dozen high school students who sequence and compare their own mitochondrial DNA looking for a "race marker," with surprising results. Also looks at the history of racism in the United States, the advent of stereotypes based on physical attributes attributed to races, and somatotypes, with particular reference to African Americans.
The 14th-18th centuries are notable periods in history that radically transformed scientific thought. Traditional understandings and worldviews faced major changes as new scientific discoveries challenged long held beliefs in science, philosophy, and society. This was a revolutionary time for scholars, artists, scientists, and philosophers. Part of the “Civilizations and Ideas” series.
Explores the strange and relatively unknown world of sleep-a world in which we spend approximately one-third of our lives. Shows how the discovery of REM (Rapid Eye Movement) during our dream period in the early 1950s by Dr. Nathaniel Kleitman at the University of Chicago brought about an understanding of the mechanism of sleep. Before his discovery, it was believed that during sleep the brain was in a state of rest. Also, overviews the nature and frequency of dreams and nightmares, and sleep disorders such as insomnia, apnea, and narcolepsy that affect millions of Americans.
Team members at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory share the challenges faced during the final minutes before “Curiosity” landed on the surface of Mars. “Curiosity” is a car-sized robotic rover exploring Gale Crater on Mars as part of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission (MSL).
From the noise of an urban landscape to the musical cocoons created by high-tech devices, sound may be humanity's most lively and versatile interface with the world. Takes viewers on a sonic odyssey that assesses the frequently overlooked impact of what humans hear. Takes a CGI tour through the human ear and its vibration-decoding systems, defining the concept of sound. Also demonstrates the importance of sound in human spiritual and religious lives, while musical research at Edinburgh University highlights the link between sound patterns and human movement. Several experts, from physicists to sound engineers to audio artists, contribute to this exploration of humanity's sonic world.
Dr. Chris races against the clock after a policeman’s pet is deliberately poisoned. Also, the clinic takes in a malnourished penguin after severe storms wash it ashore, and a seven month old puppy faces a scary operation after a run in with a car.
Part of a series that features a wide variety of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated graphics and labels. Begins with a simple definition of the term and concludes with a critical thinking question. For this particular video, students will focus on the terms day and night. Part of the Science Video Vocab Series.
Rendered in woodcut-inspired 2-D, this short animation serves as a comic warning about the devastating effects of clear-cutting rain forests. The story unfolds in a lush jungle inhabited with exotic creatures. Suddenly, a chain saw can be heard in the distance, followed by the sound of trees crashing to the ground.
A Category 5 hurricane is a monster of a storm that most people would want to avoid. But, Civil Engineer Arindam Chowdhury actually recreates those monster hurricane force winds in hopes of helping people better prepare for the real thing. With support from the National Science Foundation, Chowdhury and his team at Florida International University and the International Hurricane Research Center designed a 15 foot tall Wall of Wind (WOW). The goal is to see if low rise structures and building materials can withstand the same wind forces they would face in a full-blown hurricane. Part of the National Science Foundation Series “Science Nation.”
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. Ralphie wants to catch salmon to serve at the annual school picnic, but he can't find any at his favorite fishing spot. Where could all the salmon have gone? The kids are soon "Frizzled" inside a salmon bus that has an uncontrollable urge to head upriver. Using its sense of taste and smell, it swims the long journey to a shallow freshwater stream mile away. Why has the bus, which thinks it's a salmon, gone to all this trouble?
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 Phoebe tries to grow a big vine for her school's production of Jack and the Beanstalk, all she ends up with is a stunted little sprout. To help out, Ms. Frizzle turns her into a real vine. But to grow tall, Phoebe needs to figure out how plants eat. To unearth the amazing ways plants make their own food, Ms. Frizzle and the kids shrink down and dig deep in a quest to root out the facts.
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. As Tim delivers the last of the season's honey to his grandfather's customers, the jars get broken. Tim's solution is simple: get more honey from some bees. But Ms. Frizzle sweetens the idea by turning her class into bees and showing them a beehive up close and personal.
The Grizzly Bear, America's largest, most spectacular predator, was on the brink of extinction in Yellowstone National Park until the 1975 Endangered Species Act made its recovery the biggest success story in conservation history. All wild carnivores need large ecosystems to survive, but when human economic interests, food, or small children encroach into their territory, conflicts between bears and people are inevitable. As we witness the impacts of environmental degradations and human encroachment on the last grizzly habitat in the lower 48 states, we ponder whether this American wilderness icon still faces extinction or if we will be able to co-exist with it.
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. Ms. Frizzle's class is visiting the zoo, which is, according to Tim, the only place in the city where wild animals can survive. To test this idea, Ms. Frizzle turns the class into possums, foxes, and falcons. The kids explore the city as animals and see how wildlife can live in the city.
Provides important steps you can take and become self-reliant to prepare for various emergency situations topics include: Weather-related disasters, hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, floods, wildland fires, earthquakes, power outages, terrorism, bio terrorism, pandemics, avian and swine influenza, radiation emergencies, effects of climate change, and other disruptions including civil unrest. Knowing what you and your family can do to prepare for any type of disaster will help reduce stress if a natural or man-made disaster occurs. Having the proper supplies and knowing how to use them can make a difference between life and death in time of an emergency. Explains how to store food and water and you can have hot, tasty meals without electric power.
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