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We see many wonderful things with our eyes. And we have to take good care of them. Sometimes glasses help us to see better, and binoculars can help us see farther. But what happens when we can't see at all?
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How were our ancestors able to construct the first shelters and homes?
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Johan looks for the largest animal on land that eats both meat and vegetables, omnivores. He also learns the difference between herbivores and carnivores.
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Detecting Carbon and Hydrogen in Hydrocarbons. Properties of Propane-Butane Mixture.
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This city of Mardi Gras sits in low lying bayous where a distinct culture struggles to survive. From its various races and languages and complex cultural history has emerged an eccentric set of traditions and one of the most distinct cuisines in the United States.
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NUCLEAR DECOMMISSIONING - How safe is it to decommission a nuclear reactor? WATER WHEEL - An Egyptian water wheel which hasn't stopped rotating for 300 years. TELECOMMUNICATIONS -Telecommunications engineering has changed the world more in the past 20 years than in the last 200 years.
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Explores the role of measurement in designing and building to scale, and of computers in architecture. Children investigate ideas for their own model playhouse.
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How is a space rendezvous like catching a football? The interdependence of mathematics and science is graphically revealed in this episode as math is applied in launching, orbiting, and landing spacedraft; a class of high school students help the crew of the space shuttle solve math problems before visiting the space station Mir. A new fleet of unmanned planes helps NASA examine our atmosphere in ways never before possible.
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The central question in this episode is whether China's economy derives its strengths from the nation's sheer size or from the character of its people.
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The names and functions of our teeth are discussed. The class also learns all about cavities, dentists, and most importantly, how to take good care of their teeth!
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Earth, moon or the outer space? Johan and his friends will need to explore to find the difference between gravity and density.
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This revealing look at how the Chinese relate to each other on a daily basis evaluates to what extent the Confucian ideal of family life really exists.
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Jamaica's complex background, fusing Spanish and English colonial rule with enslaved West Africans and immigrants from India, China, Germany, Scotland, Ireland and the Middle East, has created unique religious and culinary traditions and helped to forge its contribution to world culture.
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How important is microgravity for the earth? This segment demonstrates how space experiments in microgravity make huge possible advances in scientific studies on earth in fluid physics, biotechnology, materials processing and combustion research.
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Preparation and Properties of Ethyne (Acetylene). Properties of Naphthalene. Preparation and Properties of Ethanol.
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Reveals the changing role of technology in recording sound and the use of computers. Children present a performance utilizing their prerecorded manipulations of voices and musical instruments to create entirely new effects.
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SUEZ CANAL - An amazing engineering feat - but at what human cost? ASTEROID - How do you land on the surface of a fast moving comet. EAR - Cochlear ear transplant.
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Sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing; five ways in which we discover the world around us.
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The scientific conclusion: STS-73 crew and high school students reexamine and evaluate the experiments conducted during the two weeks in earth's orbit; the commander of NASA's zero gravity plane discusses how objects orbit the earth. The Columbia crew demonstrate how space research will benefit all of us.
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Johan must find a way to sink the helium-filled dinghy that floats in the air instead of on water.
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Kyushu is a southern island of Japan with mountains sheltering deep manicured valleys that spills over with stepped fields of waving rice and vegetable crops.
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THE BIG QUESTION - Has engineering really made us better off? ENERGY - How will we power the world in the future? AIRBUS XXX - Double-decker jumbo jet.
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This episode examines the various aspects of traditional morality in China.
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Cows come in all colors, and they give us milk! Lots of good things we eat are made from milk!
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China's long history has provided countless fascinating archeological findings in many facets of this science.
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Occurrence and Properties of Carbohydrates. Occurrence and Properties of Fats. Occurrence and Properties of Proteins.
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Searching for the origin of oil, Johan must navigate through swamps and offshore oil rigs in the ocean before striking a type of liquid black oil called petroleum.
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Travel may broaden our horizons but history, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
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Iris and his students demonstrate team sports like football and basketball, and individual sports like skiing and surfing.
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The vast land of China is home to 55 recognized distinct minority groups. Although approximately 93 percent of the country is Han Chinese, each of these groups is still distinguished by language, culture and religious affiliation.
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