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This University of Miami residence hall may look typical, but students in one of the apartments are participating in research involving one of the planet’s most precious commodities--water. With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), environmental engineer James Englehardt and his team created a net zero water system, which serves most of the residents’ daily needs, including dish washing, showering and laundry. All of the water is treated just outside the building, and reused in a sustainable loop. Part of the National Science Foundation Series “Science Nation.”
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Vitamins and minerals are essential nutrients because they perform hundreds of roles in the body. There is a fine line between getting enough of these nutrients and getting too much. Eating a healthy diet remains the best way to get sufficient amounts of vitamins and minerals. In addition to vitamins and minerals, water is also essential for the optimal performance and regulation of the human body. Part of the "Human Nutrition" series.
What happens to storm water once it reaches the ground? It gets deposited in the oceans through storm drains. In this episode, Joel and crew learn how storm drains work and realizes that water is not the only thing that flows through them. Part of the Curiosity Quest Series.
The Curiosity Quest crew undertakes a stinky adventure at a water treatment facility. Find out what happens after flushing the toilet. Part of the Curiosity Quest Series.
Architect Maria Paz Gutierrez is a woman on a mission to end water scarcity. Together with environmental engineer Slav Hermanowicz and bioengineer Luke Lee, she is hoping to take the recycling of wastewater from sinks, baths, and laundry to a completely new level. With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the multidisciplinary team is engineering solar panel technology that makes greywater reusable while creating thermal energy in the process. Part of the "Science Nation" series.
Nourish is an educational initiative designed to open a meaningful conversation about food and sustainability, particularly in schools and communities. In this clip, Edible Schoolyard founder Alice Waters discusses the benefits of creating a school garden. Part of the Nourish Short Films Series.
Features a wide variety of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated graphics and labels. Begins with a simple definition, and this helps clarify pronunciation and provides opportunities to transfer words from working to long-term memory. Also concludes with a critical thinking question. For this particular clip, students will focus on water cycle.
Documentary records Project Puffin, the successful effort to repopulate Seal Island, Maine, with Atlantic puffins and terns. Notes their life, behaviors, and mating during the summer before fall migration. Also remarks on the interdependence of terns and puffins. Biologists comment.
Chemist Paul Edmiston’s search for a new way to detect explosives at airports led to the creation Osorb. A swellable, organically-modified silica, or glass, capable of absorbing oil and other contaminants from water. Osorb has become the principal product of a company called ABSMaterials, where Edmiston is now chief scientist. With support from the National Science Foundation, Edmiston and his colleagues at ABSMaterials are developing water remediation technologies for cities and industries. ABSMaterials is creating formulas to address various contaminants, including hydrocarbons, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, herbicides, chlorinated solvents, and endocrine disruptors. Part of the National Science Foundation Series “Science Nation.”
Explore some properties of water with Petunia and Pinky. It's all about those hydrogen bonds. Terms discussed include adhesion, cohesion, surface tension, and specific heat. Part of "The Amoeba Sisters" series.
Many microorganisms thrive in the polluted water that is abundant with their food: bacteria and other protists. One of nine segments in a series, with all nine available on a DVD.
They are sometimes seen as threatening funnel clouds descending from stormy skies. Others can be nearly invisible, like a ghostly spiral of wind skimming the sea surface. These eerie columns of rotating air are known as waterspouts and are commonly defined as tornadoes over water. Waterspouts usually develop over warm tropical ocean waters. Part of the "Danger Zone" series.
Access to safe drinking water is a global problem for nearly a billion people. For approximately 200 million people, many in Africa, high levels of naturally occurring fluoride in the water cause disfiguring and debilitating dental and skeletal disease. University of Oklahoma environmental scientist Laura Brunson is back from Ethiopia where, with support from the National Science Foundation, she’s developing fluoride filtering devices that use inexpensive materials readily available right there in the villages.
The world’s population is projected to increase by 2-3 billion over the next 40 years. Already, more than three quarters of a billion people lack access to clean drinking water and 85 percent live in the driest areas of the planet. Those statistics are inspiring chemist Ben Hsiao and his team at Stony Brook University. With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the team is hard at work designing nanometer-scale water filters that could soon make clean drinking water available and affordable for even the poorest of the poor. Part of the National Science Foundation Series “Science Nation.”
The children learn about the transformation of water. They watch as the droplets change into rain, vapor, and even a tear on Olli's cheek. Part of the "My Little Planet" series.
When Hanna helps herself to some water from the river, she finds it very polluted. The children and Suzie work their way upstream searching for clean water. During their journey, they learn about the effects of pollution on the environment. Part of the "My Little Planet" series.
In this episode, host Emily Graslie interviews Crystal Maier, Collections Manager of Insects at The Field Museum, about her research in New Zealand. She was searching for beetles that spend their entire lives underwater. Part of "The Brain Scoop" series.
It was an email from a colleague that tipped off environmental engineer Detlef Knappe of possible 1,4-dioxane contamination in the Cape Fear River Basin, North Carolina’s largest watershed and a source of drinking water for communities across the state. The Environmental Protection Agency has classified 1,4-dioxane as a probable human carcinogen. With support from a National Science Foundation grant, Knappe and his team at North Carolina State University have begun to identify 1,4-dioxane sources and how 1,4-dioxane impacts drinking water quality. Knappe is also working with managers at water treatment plants and state policymakers in North Carolina to improve testing and treatment standards for 1,4-dioxane. Part of the National Science Foundation Series “Science Nation.”
Climb aboard the Cyclops, a microscopic research vessel, and investigate an amazing hidden world on which all living things depend. The Cyclops houses a team of scientists known as the Micronauts and guides them through their discoveries of biological classification, diversity, and ecology. In this episode, the Cyclops is swept over a waterfall and becomes trapped inside a plastic bottle, which turns out to be the ideal place to observe aquatic insects inhabiting the white water of the rapids. Part 8 of the Microscopic Monsters Series.
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