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41) Bad Reputation
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Early reports of a wild, hairy creature in the jungles of Africa gave the gorilla a fearsome reputation and the vampire bat, with its strange face and nocturnal habits, also gave rise to horrific stories and myths. However, the true nature of these animals turned out to be very different.
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In this episode of "Museum Secrets," visit the Smithsonian Institute and learn about WWII Japanese Zero fighter planes, why Japanese squadrons ruled the skies, and how they were defeated. Meet military and civilian amputees who have been made whole by transplantation and learn about a homing pigeon who saved American lives in WWI. Witness the successful test of a rocket that could take humans to Mars, then reconstruct the bad-boy image of the Harley...
43) Time management
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Compared to high school, where the day is structured down to the minute, college is a blank do-it-yourself calendar. Classes, clubs, sports, part-time jobs.assignments, projects, exams.even time to hang out: all must be penciled in! Over the course of this three-section program, viewers will learn to side-step common time-management errors and plan out their semesters so they can take control of their time and enjoy a healthy work/life balance. Correlates...
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Challenging the scholarly establishment in the 11th century with his paper "Doubts on Ptolemy," Ibn Al-Haytham sparked a paradigm shift in the way that learned people regarded the movement of planets and stars. In this program physics professor Jim Al-Khalili visits Italy, Egypt, and Syria to show how the spirit of inquiry among Islamic astronomers helped bring about the Copernican Revolution in Europe. But why was the work that began at the great...
45) The Environment
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In this program, pollution and reclamation both share the spotlight. Compelling footage of ecological damage includes smoking factories and power stations, a tap pouring out brown water, exhaust emissions, a slag heap, a chemical dump, barrels of radioactive waste, acid rain damage, hillside erosion, a forest fire, burning oil wells, black rain, oil-coated waterfowl, littered waterways, melting ice floes, and dead landscapes. Images of hope, such...
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This episode of The Green Interview features Orri Vigfusson, an Icelandic businessman, environmentalist and "green capitalist" with an ambitious goal to save the dwindling North Atlantic salmon. To this end he has sought ownership of every commercial salmon-fishing license in order to retire them, and ultimately to close the entire commercial Atlantic salmon fishery. Over the past 17 years Vigfusson has systematically bought and shut down all but...
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This informative and useful resource will answer questions on a variety of important aspects that students find challenging when studying Psychology. This is the first in the series of the new 'Concepts In Psychology' collection and looks at issues such as What are Ethics? Free will and Determination, Situational Theory, Ethical Issues in Psychology along with a short program introducing psychology as a subject. Presented by Dr Steven Taylor and cauterized...
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The last year of the 20th century saw the impeachment trial of President Clinton, the resignation of Boris Yeltsin, and the funeral of Jordan's King Hussein. This program includes clips from those and other headline-making stories, as well as footage from military hotspots such as Chechnya, East Timor, Kosovo, and Iraq; interviews with scientists involved in deciphering chromosome 22 and experts on genetically modified crops; and coverage of the Air...
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In this program, Hazel Henderson and Dutch IT entrepreneur Steven Lovink examine new communities developing around the world based on values of relationship and ecological sustainability. Lovink describes his current work with a re-development project in Anacostia, Washington, D.C. where acres of obsolete buildings and land are being re-developed to showcase new knowledge and methods of long-term sustainability, reviving local neighborhoods, and providing...
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In this program, Hazel Henderson and Ken LaRoe, CEO of Florida-based First Green Bank, discuss how investments and loans are shifting toward green, energy-efficient LEED Certified real estate development and outpacing traditional real estate and construction. Why? Because energy-efficiency has a huge and swift payback in saving money! This was obscured by faulty economic models and fossil fuel industry lobbying.
55) Fat v Sugar
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What's worst for you: fat or sugar? It's a question that's been generating huge amounts of heat in the world's media, from the outer reaches of the Internet to the front pages of the New York Times. So what's the scientific truth? In the greatest traditions of investigative science, twin doctors Chris and Xand Van Tullekan experimented with their own bodies - with one on a low fat diet and one on a low sugar diet. What do sugar and fat do to our metabolism?...
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1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of art and provides a deeper insight into the masterpieces of painting. This film explores Eduaro Viana's "The Little One," completed in 1916 and housed in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon.
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The Ebola virus. No one knows exactly where it comes from but one thing is certain-it's one of the most virulent infections known to science. This special episode of Horizon meets the scientists and doctors from all around the world looking for the cure and hears first-hand accounts of what it's actually like to catch-and survive-this terrible disease
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The Imperial War Museum in London holds an extraordinary treasure trove of First World War eyewitness testimony. Filmed 50 years ago for the BBC's landmark series The Great War, only a tiny fraction of this footage ever made it to air. This program delves into this vault of powerful, personal interviews with soldiers and civilians, so that their voices can be heard for the first time. This poignant film brings the conflict to vivid and shocking new...
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This episode of The Green Interview features Edmund Metatawabin, a Cree leader and author who has radical lessons for anyone trying to quit an oppressive, wage-based way of life, and for an industrial society that is struggling to become sustainable. This Green Interview covers an enormous range of subjects, providing alternative views of work, the economy, the nature of community, land ownership, and a community's long-term values and its sense of...