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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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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...
64) 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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Remote tribes around the world are struggling to adapt to the intrusions of the Western civilization. Their survival depends on finding a compromise between traditional and modern ways of life. Romanian anthropologist, Sebastian Tirtirau, has dedicated his life to visiting different tribes and pioneering a 'Third Way' of contact. Unlike previous forms of contact-which meant either dominating and conquering them or simply abandoning the tribes to their...
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A Muslim journalist in France can't leave his home without two bodyguards supplied by the government after exposing Islamic terrorist plots in Paris. A devout Muslim doctor in Arizona is vilified in the local Muslim press for insisting that the American Muslim community must speak out against terrorism in the post 9/11 world. Two years before 9/11, a Sufi imam in Michigan warns the State Department about Osama bin Laden and probable Al Qaeda attacks...
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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...
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One day, space travel will be as routine as an airline flight. Crewed expeditions to other planets in search of extraterrestrial life will be science fact, not fiction, and travel to the Moon will be commonplace. Far-fetched? This program introduces viewers to some of the visionaries and risk-takers who have been driving developments in space exploration from Apollo 11 to the dawning of the 21st century. Captivating archival footage and computer graphics...
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Blade implements such as axes, swords, and knives have been a part of civilized man's journey since the Paleolithic age roughly two million years ago. In those days, sharp tools were chipped off of flint or obsidian to create knives for skinning hides, cutting vegetation, and hunting animals. With the discovery of metallurgy, people were able to forge stronger, more versatile blade implements out of bronze, iron, and eventually, steel.
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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.
72) 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...
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This short documentary focuses on Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC), which provides trades training and vocational education on 13 campuses and in six community learning centers. The flagship campus was designed to be a model of sustainability that would lead the whole province. The building was constructed to LEED Gold standards. The building has three living walls (two inside and one outside) plus 8,000 square feet of green roof growing a range...
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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...
77) Buddhism
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In this program, Dennis Wholey has a conversation about Buddhism with Hyon Gak Sunim, guiding teacher of the Seoul International Zen Center at Hwa Gye Sah Temple in Seoul, South Korea. Topics of discussion include the principle of nowness; the meaning of dukkha; the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path; Buddhist resonances with the teachings of Jesus and Socrates; the Buddhist temple experience; how Hyon Gak Sunim, raised a Roman Catholic...
78) Homeostasis
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In order to understand homeostasis in a natural setting, this program observes what happens to the body during a marathon race. By monitoring the various physiological responses of one of the runners, we show the many changes and adjustments being made in the body as the race progresses. The data obtained from the runner are used to explain in detail how the body regulates temperature, blood oxygen, blood glucose, water balance, heart rate, breathing...
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Marcela Serrano's first novel won the Literary Prize in Santiago and her second book won the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz prize, awarded to the best Hispano-American novel written by a woman. In this program, Marcela Serrano-clearly on the upward path to international renown-assesses the diverse concerns that have influenced her life and her work, including the elimination of apartheid and the importance of creating genuine and loving relationships.
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Environmentalists, meteorologists, economists, and people in many other disciplines have always been interested in the dynamics of variables, or quantities that change-for example, the number of polar bears that inhabit a certain region during the summer, or the number of tickets sold during a movie's first weekend in theaters. Functions are indispensible to that kind of sampling since they represent relationships between variable quantities. Hosted...