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Naminpua will be giving her first performance and is very nervous. A contortionist combines acrobatic skills with elastic body; animals are a big source of inspiration.
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NASA HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE- The challenge and complexity of operations-taking our vision beyond the atmosphere. AUTOMATION SPACE ROBOTICS- The rapid developement of automation for spce exploration and earthly endeavors.
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This informative series investigates the value of complementary medicine and explores how it can be more fully integrated into conventional treatment. Each episode revolves around one doctor and one patient on a quest to seek a particular alternative source of healing. Represented by expert practitioners in their field, the series focuses on six different therapies: homeopathy, osteopathy, acupuncture, herbalism, hypnotherapy and integrated complementary medicine.
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Wood. We build houses from it, we make paper from it, we burn it to keep warm, we make boats and furniture from it. All wood comes from trees. In this episode, Albert tries to reveal the truth behind a tree. Trees are the great recycling players in the game of life. Did you know that each day a tree produces enough oxygen for twenty people to breathe? That they filter out dirt and pollution from the environment, releasing clean, valuable air? That each tree is a sophisticated ecosystem supporting a variety of different trees are being felled at an alarming rate, and that, if it continues, the health of the planet will suffer?
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AIR - It's everywhere. Without it, we can't smell, talk, hear, or breathe. We can't even live. In fact, we die. But don't get morbid. Join Albert as he travels with a kleptomaniac magpie to find out from where air comes, and what's happening to it. After a break for a barbecue, they deduce that noxious gases are polluting the environment. How can we keep our air clean? Find out how we can keep the earth breathing!
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At one time we hunted animals. Now we buy them in the supermarkets wrapped in plastic. Albert passes through Battery Hen Farms and meat production centers, before catching up with an unhappy boar behind bars. If animals don't graze on the land as their forefathers did, from where does their food come, and where does their waste go?
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Water - one of Natures elements that enables us to inhabit the earth. We drink it, we swim in it and when it freezes, we ski and skate on it. We actually consist of the stuff. Where does it come from, and what happens when were through with it? Albert journeys to the center of the recycling process: the sewage plant. He squeezes through drains, and explores underground canal systems. He meets the bacteria cleaners who clean up the mess and reveals leaks in the system.
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A captivating 13 part series for children that educates as well as entertains. NATURE KNOWS BEST highlights environmental concerns and solutions. Thoroughly researched, these videos approach both local and global ecological problems in a positive way. Albert, the host, is knowledgeable and enthralls children with his ability to tunnel his way into any situation. Filled with high-quality animation, characters and content, this series deals with major modern day issues in a humorous and effective way.
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A search for energy takes Albert to fossil fuel and nuclear power plants to observe the positive and negative aspects of using, producing, and cooling energy. A look at conventional and alternative energy sources. Is coal more than just the suns energy in a prehistoric package? Is energy a breeze? Can solar cells sell? How can you cut down on our energy consumption?
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Or Choose Your Food. Food. We eat it. We need it to stay alive. It provides us with vitamins and energy, and we use it to satisfy some of our social rituals! Albert decides to show a mouse how easy it is to be a consumer. Mangoes and strawberries in the winter? - No problem. Just take a trip to the supermarket. Apples from New Zealand, pears from Chile? And what is the effect on the environment? Albert and his friend visit laboratories with vegetables on drip feeds, share a plane flight full of jet-lagged fruit, and fantasize about the invention of the perfect vegetable.
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In this episode Albert swings through the rain forests enjoying the Tarzan life-style until he's brought back to reality by a boa with an appetite. The fauna and flora have a wealth of secrets from which everyone can benefit, as long as the rain forests are respected. Albert investigates the fragile interdependent structure that enables the jungles to survive and learns that minor damage can have major consequences. What is happening to the rain forests? Why are species of flora and fauna becoming extinct? Are we burning down a treasure without recognizing its full value?
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Albert and a mole follow the trail of rubbish. They tunnel to the depths of a dump and inspect an incinerator to see what happens to our day to day waste. Dealing with rubbish and waste is a multi-million dollar industry; it's not easy to get rid of things. But what can you do? Burn it and release dangerous gases into the atmosphere? Bury it underground and leak poisons into the ground water? How about blasting it into space? How does nature get rid of its waste?
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Ever notice that you can always hear something? Loud music playing. Cars hooting. Trucks crashing through city streets. We can close our eyes, but we can't close our ears. Albert's solar powered car breaks down in Transylvania. There's nobody anywhere to help.
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Albert is impressed by the farmers harnessing of nature. That is, until he comes across a decapitated earth worm with a bone to pick. Join Albert and the earthworm as they journey from monocultural to organic farms, comparing and sharing the different soil cycles. Meet the creatures that aerate the earth. Discover the importance of crop rotation and the dangers of not recycling the system.
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The Oceans: Earth's largest ecosystem; source of the origins of life; the world's central heating system. Albert surfs the waves, talks to whales and rides his dolphin friend in this nautical documentary drama. The dolphin introduces him to the hidden treasures of the ocean. It's a fish eat fish world out there, until they witness the technology used to catch fish-drift nets, sonar systems, underwater vacuum cleaners, and enormous factory ships. Albert decides to stow away and reveals the facts behind the overfishing of the ocean. A third of all fish caught is fed to animals! Some seas are dying, as people dump sewage and chemicals into them!
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Albert proceeds to work out the value of a bird. How much is it worth to prevent the world from being over-run by pests and insects? If there were no birds, how would we deal with the problem? - pesticide? How much is it worth to spread seed over wide areas? Birds are tree planters; they keep the environment green. Would man be able to fly if hed never seen a bird?
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Snow in Florida, floods in California! Hail the size of tennis balls in the summer. Is the earth getting colder, or warmer? Albert checks out the global water cycles - which determine the weather. He also observes how the oceans act as earths central heating system, the importance of impenetrable jungles at the equator and looks at how man is affecting the weather.
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Combining knowledge of Eastern and Western medicine, this six part series hosted by Dr. Serene Lim reveals techniques and therapies for health and harmony. <br><br> To heal a sick person it is essential to treat them holistically; the mind and the body cannot be separated. Personal relationships, attitudes, life-styles, emotions and the subconscious must all be considered in the pursuit of true health.
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Hitler's background is traced. The humiliation and the economic collapse of Germany by the end of World War I. The instability of the Weimar government. The Nazis drew support from the industrialists,the military and the lower middle classes who responded to Hitler's promises of employment.
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NEBULAS AND GALAXIES - PART I AND PART II
Many of the recent discoveries by the Hubble Space Telescope have
been catalogued by letters and numbers. Gone are the poetic, mythical
names like Milky Way or Andromeda or Pegasus. No claim of miracles,
no mystical story connected to the map of stars.
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This extraordinary video traces the evolution of neon from sign medium to artistic expression. Utilizing interviews, photographs, signage, art and architecture it describes the history of neon from its inception in 1892 to its present state as an art form. The film includes artists and craftsman describing their experience in working with the medium, and also a practical demonstration of the sign-making process.
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Evangelized by St. Thomas, the Christians of Mesopotamia and Persia spread as far as India and even China. Cut off from the West, these churches developed separately in seclusion and today seem to be the living testimony of an archaic Christianity
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NEVER TOO THIN is an overview of contemporary Americas obsession with a slender body. No female seems exempt from societal pressure or self scrutiny. From the average woman-on-the-street who wants to lose weight to the beautiful model who wants more slender hips and thighs, women evaluate themselves and are being judged according to their body size and shape.
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The oil-generated wealth of the past twenty years has transformed Kuwait, once a small community of traders, fishermen and pearl divers into a thriving modern city-state. It's a place to which scholars and scientists now come to share in the new technological opportunities.
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What is it about nicotine that makes it so compelling and difficult to give up? Despite all the health warnings, smoking is on the increase, particularly among the young. And as nicotine is one of the most addictive substances on earth, it's one of the hardest to give up. There are sound scientific reasons why smokers believe cigarettes help them cope with everyday life. Smoking might be much maligned, almost socially unacceptable, and on the way out (if the masses have their way), but in the face of all this, there are those who see a positive side to nicotine.
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The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African American pilots who saw combat during the Second World War. <br><br> The 332nd Fighter Group has a history which sets it apart from that of any other air force fighter groups in the Second World War: all personnel, from pilots to ground crew to surgeons, were black.
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