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1) Evolve: Size
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Life has evolved into a multitude of sizes. This program will help viewers understand the amazing processes that have given the planet vertebrates smaller than a thumbnail (the Cuban frog) and longer than a locomotive (the blue whale).
2) Size Matters
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In this episode of Dara O'Briain's Science Club, the team and guests focus on size. They explore big data, dark matter, bacteria, stock market trading, and more. Dara O'Briain's Science Club combines lively studio discussions featuring some of the world's most eminent scientists, with exciting experiments, studio demonstrations and film reports of cutting-edge science stories. Each loosely themed episode explores the ideas that are transforming our...
3) Size Matters
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In this episode, Prof. Brian Cox travels around Australia to explore the physics of the size of life. He explores the largest flowering plant- the Mountain Ash, takes to the seas to get up-close with a great white shark, tracks the largest living marsupial (a the red kangaroo) in the outback, examines the insects of Queensland's rainforests, scrutinizes trichogramma in the Glass House Mountains, studies thrombolites near Perth, inspects the tiny Southern...
4) Size Matters
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Losing weight is never easy; it takes patience, time, and a lot of effort. With 40% of the global population overweight, is there a solution to this weighty issue?
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The concept of population is a significant aspect of geography. This Miniclip defines and explains what population density is and shows students how to calculate it with simple mathematics. Using China as a case study, students will learn how the physical geography of countries influences where people live and how access to resources dictates the population density of regions.
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Over the past few decades there has been a steady growth in portion sizes we're served. While many Americans have grown accustomed to oversized portions, these super-sized portions have brought rising rates of weight gain and obesity. In Get Wise to Portion Size, viewers learn more about why portion size matters and how to eat the right amount for you.
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Far from being a result of mere chance, the shapes and sizes of living creatures are direct responses to their biological conditions. This can explain why related species can look vastly different from each other. Learn more about the slow but continuous transformation the many legions of creatures that inhabit our planet undergo as a result of the laws of physics and chemistry. Exploring eating habits, habitat climate, and environment can help us...
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Human beings tend to attribute their success exclusively to their intelligence. They usually forget another determining factor: their size. The world of small animals, however, is brimming with fascinating surprises, some of which are precisely related to their small size and the extraordinary variety of their different shapes. These tiny creatures have great athletic capabilities, use impressive camouflage, and are incredibly adaptive, which makes...
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In this video clip, four children, ages one to one-and-a-half years old, explore a large box that was brought into the community space as part of a school wide investigation. Why do the children tag the back of the box? Is this action functional or simply a conspicuous move that could be seen and imitated? Is it to confirm that they have entered into the box as far as they can go?
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The universe is HUGE. But, there is only so much of the universe we can ACTUALLY see, and if we wanted to measure that FINITE space, how would we do it? A gigantic ruler? One really long car ride? Or maybe it's something even more spectacular, something that involves not only the observable universe as it is NOW, but how it was when it was first BORN?
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In response to the widely seen documentary Super Size Me, this video follows two college students as they eat only fast food for a month-losing weight and lowering their cholesterol levels in the process. The trick? Aaron and Ellen stay within portion sizes appropriate for their body types. The experiment was organized and documented by Dr. James Painter of Eastern Illinois University's School of Family and Consumer Sciences and monitored by a physician...
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Fast food is a delicious-but-fattening fact of teenage existence. This video returns to Eastern Illinois University as Ellen and Aaron further explore the concepts and strategies introduced in Portion Size Me. The game plan? After calculating caloric needs based on height, weight, age, gender, and activity level, they order smarter, skip the "little extras," and eat smaller portions. The true "value meal" here is the one with fewer and healthier calories,...
18) Mitigating Risk
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Professional trader Matt Grossman covers key points to help stock traders minimize their risk.
19) Using samples
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This program begins with an explanation of the difference between a Population and a Sample, and the reasons why samples are so important in estimating data relating to populations too large or too impractical to be measured in their entirety. The program emphasizes the need for random samples, explains how several random samples of the same size will vary, and then looks at ways of dealing with this variability, calculating the Standard Error of...