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New York City, 1990. Film fanatic Adam is seventeen and on his first date, quickly falling in love with Callum like the movies always promised. Fashion-obsessed Ben is eighteen and has just left his home upstate after his mother discovers his hidden stash of gay magazines. When Callum disappears, it leaves Adam heartbroken. Ben finds out his new world is more closed-minded than he thought. In a chance meeting near a hospital where Callum is being...
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This program features Dr. Michael Merzenich, the pioneer of the neuroplasticity revolution, as he teaches Todd how to turbocharge his thinking speed, attention and memory. After only a few weeks of brain training Todd attempts an extreme challenge at the World Memory Championships.
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Why does life in a modern city move so fast, how have people adapted to this frantic pace, and what are the pluses and minuses of adaptation? This program studies the high-speed lifestyle of city dwellers, focusing on issues such as the hormonal response to continual sensory stimulation and the automatic filtering mechanism that protects against sensory overload. Addiction to the unavoidable metabolic rush of urban living is also explored, as well...
4) Water Worlds
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This program begins high in the mountains of Iceland and ends at the coral reefs of the Maldives in an exploration of aquatic biomes that includes mountain streams, wetlands and swamps, coral reefs, and deep ocean. Along the way, viewers discover South America's Pantanal, the world's greatest wetland, and the Sundarbans - an immense mangrove swamp at the mouth of the Ganges in Bangladesh. Finally, sailing far out into the deep ocean, the video explains...
5) Nim's island
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Nim loves her island home and the animals she shares it with even while her scientist father is away doing research, but trouble is on the way and a new E-mail friend could be the only one who can help.
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A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the head-on collision between its hell-raising, life-affirming hero Randle Patrick McMurphy and the totalitarian rule of Big Nurse. McMurphy swaggers into the mental ward like a blast of fresh air and turns the place upside down, starting a gambling operation, smuggling in wine and women, and egging on the other patients to join him in open rebellion. But McMurphy's...
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"When 14-year-old William Kamkwamba's Malawi village was hit by a drought in 2001, everyone's crops began to fail. His family didn't have enough money for food, let alone school, so William spent his days in the library. He came across a book on windmills and figured out how to build a windmill that could bring electricity to his village. Everyone thought he was crazy but William persevered and managed to create a functioning windmill out of junkyard...
8) Embargo
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Almost half a century of American economic and commercial sanctions have left Cuba impoverished, but far from being crushed, the Cuban people embrace the opportunity to improvise. "You can't just buy things," a woman explains. "You have to invent them." One entrepreneur fashioned a motorbike from parts of a Chinese bicycle and the front of a Soviet rig; and with no cosmetics available, women concoct homemade alternatives using shoe polish and crayons....
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This program follows the magnificent museum exhibition that travels across 33 centuries of Mexican art, from the 12th- to 10th-century B.C. gigantic Olmec heads to Frida Kahlo's self-portrait. The exhibition is divided into four periods: the pre-columbian, whose artistic purpose was to venerate the gods, commemorate the rulers, and give form to the natural world; the Viceregal, whose art was intended to teach the native population about Christianity...
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Although most corporate managers don't have to wrestle with life-or-death decisions, the key to a company's success lies in the same kind of teamwork and problem-solving that enabled the rescue of 33 trapped Chilean miners in 2010. This video uses that inherently dramatic event to outline and explain several core principles of effective management, communication, and team-building. Viewers learn the importance of clearly defining a common goal and...
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Humans are storytellers, says host Roger Bingham. "Show us the sun, moon, and stars and we'll spin any number of tales about life and death, good and evil. We tell stories to feel at home in the universe." Humans are both mythmakers and scientists. Often, myth and science produce very different stories, different paths to the truth. And yet, they are both products of our brains, trying to make sense of our experience. This program explores the way...
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Part one of this program, presented against a backdrop of Gothic architecture and pre-Raphaelite art, asks whether religion and science can coexist in a post-Darwinian world. Are Creation and Evolution mutually exclusive? Part two focuses on the questions raised by the global movement toward social equality. Must Christianity adapt to survive, and if so, do issues like female priests and homosexuality threaten to rob it of its scriptural authority?...
13) Philippines Now
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The Philippines is always evolving - pushing forward and changing with the times. Not only does this country adapt to change, it thrives off it, creating endless possibilities for growth at home. Filipinos themselves don't have to look far for opportunities that can change their lives. Andrew Stevens introduces us to the people and industries that personify the Philippines Now.
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The world's biggest beasts have always captured the imagination. But whilst being big can have its advantages, it also comes with sizeable challenges. Take the world's largest lizard, the Komodo dragon, whose huge appetite means it must take on prey ten times its weight, or the tallest animal of them all - the giraffe - who, with such a long neck, must control immense blood pressure. Nature's biggest beasts must go to extraordinary lengths to thrive....
15) Mind Over Matter
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Thanks to our brain, we have access to things that we have experienced in the past. It's like having our own personal photo and video album, which we can view and replay whenever we want. From the time we were born, we have been collecting several memories and learning various skills. Over time, all these new things we've absorbed make up who we are-even the dreams we experience when we sleep! The combination of all of these things creates our unique...
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Découvrez comment profiter de Word et Office 365 pour rendre vos documents plus lisibles et accessibles aux personnes qui ont une déficience visuelle.
La majorité de la population mondiale peut profiter d'une vision normale qui lui permet de lire tous les documents qu'elle reçoit. Pour certaines personnes, la simple lecture d'un document devient une tâche difficile en raison d'une déficience visuelle. À l'aide des outils disponibles au sein...
17) Julius Caesar
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Shakespeare's Roman play Julius Caesar, one of his first masterpieces, contains some the most famous speeches in Western literature. This 1970 star-studded film adaption stars John Gielgud as Caesar, Charlton Heston as Mark Antony, Jason Robards as Brutus, and Richard Chamberlain as Octavian.
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With the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, America has vastly changed its methods of defense of its borders. This program, from Defending America, examines how U.S. Customs workers are trained, what weapons they use, and how they responded to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Now on the forefront of homeland security, this agency is prepared to thwart future attacks.
19) Tibet
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Tibet: Worlds Together provides a basic view of this important ancient culture that is struggling to adapt to modern times.
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Sleep has long been regarded as nothing more than a way to charge our batteries. But what if it can control our weight, allow us to make memories, and help us to fight off diseases like Alzheimer’s? We travel the world to investigate how revolutionary new technology has revealed the sleeping brain as an energetic and purposeful machine.