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This documentary examines the ways in which the history of Palestine has been shaped by the governments of other countries. After failing to provide either the homeland promised to the Jews or the independent and unified nation promised to the Arabs during World War 1, Britain in 1948 abandoned its Palestinian mandate and left the United Nations to cope with the seemingly insoluble Arab-Jewish dilemma.
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Artie Ketcham has a good relationship with his parents. His parents are supporting him in his quest to become a singer. In turn, he went back to high school and will graduate soon. On a relationship based on trust, Artie will take you down the road that brought him and his parents down the road to success.
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Paris, a capital playing on the contrast between tiny popular streets unknown to tourists and the beautiful buildings along the Seine.
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The Middle East in 1900 was largely dominated by the Ottoman Empire. When that empire sided with Germany against Britain in World War I the British incited the Arabs to rebel against their Ottoman rulers. To lure the United States into alliance with Britain the Jewish Zionists were promised their historical homeland. But neither promise was honored by Britain after the war, and both Arabs and Jews felt betrayed, coming to conflict with each other and with Britain, which sought to rule the Middle East as its colony. World War II brought the Holocaust and the birth of Israel - and a string of consequent wars and uneasy truces.
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Squares, circles, rectangles, and triangles; what things do you know that are shaped like this?
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We learn about what went into the development of Einstein's theory of relativity, a new direction in science that forever changed the way we see the universe and all that's in it. Through careful explanation, the viewer learns how Einstein's theories shaped what we know today about the nature of light, the Big Bang, the space-time continuum, and how it all shapes the cosmos.
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Examines the argument that nations as well as protest movements should look to Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, two great advocates of non-violence. Costa Rica was the first country in the world to abolish its armed forces. The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and ex-president of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias, makes a passionate plea for countries around the world to take similar measures.
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The domestic daily water use of three families in different geographical locations in the world are shown. Different areas in the world together with the standard of life determine to a great extent how much water is available per household. Water is used from daily necessity to liquid extravagance, from simple chores to full-tilt recreation. Namibia is the only country in the world that purifies sewage water in a way that makes it potable, and then distributes it to consumers. Water is used in a spiritual role in different religious cultures, purification, baptism and cremation.
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Examines different forms of bridges and the reasons for those differences. Children design, create, and test their own model bridges.
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THE PROMETHEUS PRINCIPLE ties the history of the use of fossil fuels to the stories of Greek mythology. Over the past 100 years, worldwide consumption of energy has increased tenfold. Two thirds of this energy is still produced from burning coal, gas and oil, which threatens the global climate, and oil reserves are running low. Scientists and industrial leaders ponder the future of coal, oil and gas.
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Johan sets out to bring a frog back to its own habitat. Going from a snowy mountain to the hot saltwater summer beach, Johan finally found the little green amphibian's natural abode in the pond.
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Geology as a science began with the Industrial Revolution in England. Rock strata were studied and compared and an amazing conclusion was drawn: Our earth is unbelievably old.
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On the southwestern tip of India lies the verdant paradise of Kerala, a land criss-crossed by magical backwater lagoons and rivers, and guarded by the Western Ghat mountain range. It is a land with little or no child mortality and nearly 100% literacy.
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This program explores some of the latest innovations in food packaging, and examines the factors driving these changes. Packaging that extends a food's shelf life without relying on artificial preservatives, containers that can be easily opened, and mechanisms designed to protect certain foods from deliberate tampering are discussed.
The program highlights how some consumer pressure against over-packaging, in favor of recyclable materials, has affected the packaging industry, and considers how creative packaging designs can make a product stand out on supermarket shelves.
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Explore the world of the engineer and find out what it means to be an engineer today. RED R: The work of disaster relief engineers in Rwanda. THEME PARK: How engineers scare you but at the same time keep you perfectly safe. ENVIRONMENT: Engineers working towards solving the environmental problems of the world.
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The crew of the space shuttle on STS-41 consider the science of orbitry, explaining how and why objects orbit a planet and demonstrate the requirements for getting into space, orbiting, and returning safely as well as the major components of the shuttle itself. They also trace the evolution and development of American rocketry from 75 years ago.
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As the Allied armies swarm into the collapsing Third Reich, the disagreements of Roosevelt and Churchill allow Stalin to gain effective control of Eastern Europe. The British military favors a sweep through the north of Germany to take Berlin. But Eisenhower opts instead to leave that region to the Red Army. The Americans effectively yield Poland to the USSR to gain Russian support for the ongoing war against Japan.
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Profiles the origins and early developments of the Cold War, the end of World War II, the development of the atomic bomb, the Russian subjugation of Eastern Europe, the Korean War, the Marshall Plan, containment, and related developments in the Middle East. It also chronicles the creation and development of nuclear weapons and strategies.
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What would we find if a time machine could whisk us back to the very beginning of time?
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Filmed in Turkey, Lebanon and Iran, this episode profiles the origins and history of Islam by analyzing the teachings of the Koran. The most sacred book in Islam, the Koran serves as a guiding principle and dictates a Muslim's daily life. Among other topics profiled: Jihad, architecture of some important Mosques and selected history of Islam's relationship to Christianity.
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Talks about the origins of organic chemistry, the theory of Vitalism and its collapse; the complexity of organic compounds and basic carbon chains; and the concept of valency and Kekule's structural diagrams.
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This episode looks at the factors that have contributed to China's strength and staying power including Confucianism, a secular philosophy of social conduct, not a religion; cultural pride which unifies rather than divides the population, despite its diversity; the importance of education: the country's efficient and modern bureaucracy; and the lack of a dominant religion or passion for religion among the Chinese.
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This film was shot in Africa and the Middle East, and it introduces some of the basic ideas of Islamic civilization. It includes scenes of the enormous annual Pilgrimage to Mecca, probably the most ancient and certainly the most impressive collective human activity in the world. Other sequences show the trading pattern and the great caravan routes, the attitude to warfare, and the need which Muslims feel for a private inner world
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The Chinese developed intricate crossbows far ahead of their time, fleets of paddle boats, curving iron plows, wheelbarrows, folding umbrellas, conveyor belts, restaurants, golf, chess, kites, hot air balloons, and parachutes.
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The earliest history of America - the Native Americans and their sufferings; Columbus and his Viking predecessors; the French, English, and Spanish colonists (and lesser-known ones from Sweden and Holland); the French and Indian Wars; and the first stirrings of the American Revolution
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Testing the Heat Zones in a Flame. Detecting Elements by their Flame Coloration.
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Takes us to the Sumerian archaeological sites in present day Iran, Iraq, Syria, and elsewhere, to see the influence of cuneiform, the oldest known writing system in the world. Its development brought about a cultural renaissance,and Sumer's rise in the Mesopotamian region. The influence of these Sumerian wedge characters did not end with the fall of Sumer, but also provided a literary foundation for civilizations that followed. Cuneiform influenced Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian writing, evolving over time from rudimentary pictures to standardized symbols.
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Why do we wash ourselves? To be clean of course! We use soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes, showers, bathtubs, shampoo; and we feel so good afterwards!
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The Bahia is a region known as the soul of its country. African, Portuguese and indigenous roots have fostered a durable people with unique religious and social habits. Legends, music and a hearty cuisine have taken root in the soil of this vast area. Bahia lies in the northeast of Brazil, blessed with a 540 mile Atlantic coast and a typography composed of rain forests, mountains, massive dry plateaus and huge rivers.
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This program tells the fascinating story of how China made the transition from a medieval empire to a modern state in less than a century.
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Return to space aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia, as they re-fly the tethered satellite. Join the crew as they real out almost 12 miles of cable to show the dynamics of space flight between two objects that are attached. Astronauts will work with this and other experiments to explain the physics and principles required to fly this sort of experiment in space.
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Looks at the role recipes, ingredients, and utensils play in food preparation. Children design pizzas with unusual toppings and explain the steps they take in their pizza production line.
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HYATT REGENCY COLLAPSE - The greatest structural failure in American history. TWIN TOWERS - The world's tallest building in Malaysia. BLIND SCANNER - Helping the blind to read.
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Looking for a perfect way to recharge a fuel cell has Johan traveling to a solar power plant, wind generator power plant and hydropower plant.
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Electrolysis of Copper (fl) Chloride Solution. The Factors Affecting Corrosion.
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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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Where do birds, beavers, monkeys and bears live? Some animals make their own shelter, and some do not.
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This episode examines the seven dialects of the Chinese language - all different from one another but share the same writing systems. Chinese differs from other languages in that it is all monosyllables with multiple meanings depending on pronunciation. This episode follows the evolution of the Chinese dialects.
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All the elements of nature are wonderful and beautiful, and very precious. We learn things we can do to take care of nature.
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This episode covers the origins of the Chinese calendar evolution. It also features the complex system of divination. Initially purely a lunar calendar, it later evolved to contain months with varying durations and included "extra" (intercalary) months to become synchronized with the sun, moon and seasons.
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Home-towns have changed over time. We still have to get along with our neighbors.
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Ms. Principal shares her rock collection with Professor Iris and his students, and they all learn about minerals, what they are, where they come from, and what they're used for.
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Architecture is usually a function of the raw materials available, geology and social standards. Architcture and design have undergone many changes in China, but have always been categorized into four classes: palaces, temples, residential houses and pavilions. This program covers the 7000 year evolution and variances of Chinese architecture throughout time, place and function.
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Some think that clothes make the man, but that idea is no longer fashionable.
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The class decides to form an orchestra to participate in a concert.
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World War II saw the Arabs driven by British colonialism to support the Axis. Lebanon and Syria gained their independence from France during the war, but Britain sought to maintain its dominion over the Holy Land and other areas of the Middle East. The Haganah, Irgun, and Stern organizations sought successfully to drive out the British occupiers, and Israel was born in 1948; war with the neighboring Arab states began immediately. But the birth of Israel also gave birth to a passionate Arab sense of nationalism.
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What do you know that is red? Blue? Green? How do we mix colors to get other colors? When we see all the colors together in the sky, it's called a rainbow!
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This segment covers the origins, events, battles, and effects of the Revolutionary War - the Continental Congresses, the Declaration of Independence, the mercenaries, Valley Forge, heroic figures such as "Molly Pitcher," Yorktown - and the search for national unity under the Articles of Confederation. The new constitution, the first seven presidents, the emergence of western democracy.
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Tells of carbon's place in the periodic table of elements; reveals the logic of the alkane family and alkane isomers; looks at the IUPAC name system and the consolidation of valency; and presents the unique case of benzene.
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COUPLETS OF THE TOREADOR is the prelude to the opera. It opens as a lively work full of vigor before becoming more tranquil. CARMEN TORERO is the celebrated toreador march that portrays the exciting life of a bullfighter.
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In this episode discover the Silk Road, the iconic trading route between Europe and Asia continues its renaissance through the teachings of Allah in Central Asia. Uzbekistan stood at the crossroads of Eastern and Western Civilization and developed into a Muslim Society. Discover the Silk Road's past and follow its majestic history
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China was a world unto itself, cut off from foreign contact by its geography. This program examines China's relationship with its neighbors and with European nations. It reports on how, in the early 20th century, China's ancient glory gave way to a new form of government, as it finally adapted to the outside world.
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Einstein's theories are directly applied to these ominous entities lurking somewhere in the universe. Not only does this installment explore what black holes are and what kind of research is being done today, but it also delves into how Einstein's theories led to their discovery...at least on paper.
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Every year hundreds of new food products make it onto supermarket shelves. This program investigates the process involved in developing one such new food product, a snack sized chocolate cake.
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A fossil is a trace of a living thing left in rock. Fossils offer a three-part challenge: first, to reconstruct the organism itself; then to reconstruct the world it lived in, then to understand its place in time and evolution.
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Explores the lives of farmers across the globe to see how water is managed and/or mismanaged. While irrigation seems to be the key to successful agriculture, it does however have severe drawbacks, such as over exploitation of existing fresh water reservoirs. There are industries that need huge amounts of water in their production process: paper, steel and beer. A Japanese steel company is leading the industry in its water conservation and environmental policies. A modern beer industry in Bangkok, Thailand uses water conservation and wastewater reduction techniques.
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LANDMINES - The work of engineers in locating anti-personnel land mines, ECHIDNA - Automated robots to explode terrorist bombs. SOJOURNER ROBOT - Operating robots on the surface of Mars. STRETCHER BED - Critical care transport.
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Are frogs the cleverest creatures that ever lived, or are they merely following in the footsteps of braver pioneers?
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This segment examines how life in space compares with everyday earthly routine, considering how astronauts eat, sleep, exercise, and work in space. It also focuses on how Sir Isaac Newton's three laws of motion affect space travel and the principles of mass vs. weight; and how physics functions in space travel.
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A compass is more than just a toy to Johan. It's also a magnet with directions, one that will help Johan navigate to a place called the Magnetic North.
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Impressive achievements included a device for indicating the direction and force of an earthquake, odometers, the compass, gimbels, intricate differential gears, double action piston bellows, continuous flamethrowers, and rudders, bulkheads, and fore and aft sails to enable a ship to sail against the wind.
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Dr. Serene demonstrates meditation techniques, focusing on the breath, image, movement and sound, and shows how meditation is an everyday tool for stress management.
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The nomad and the city are the two poles of Islamic civilization, and the tension between them has always been a feature of its life. The nomads bring fresh and unspoiled energies, and the capacity for renewal. The cities provide stability and continuity, and are the home of the arts, crafts and learning. Scenes of nomadic life feature the Berber, Bedouin and Turkoman peoples, and the Bahktiari of Iran. These are contrasted with two cities - Sanas in Yemen, a beautifully preserved example of the early cities of Arabia, and Fez in Morocco, which with its narrow streets, inward-looking houses, and hundreds of busy craftsmen, typifies the more usual type of Islamic city
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Discusses safety, the rationale of moving parts, and speciual design features for special users such as the deaf or blind. Children try out different equipment, and create their own playground equipment models.
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Covers the launching of Sputnik and its impact on America; the U2 flights and the capture of Gary Powers; the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Berlin Wall, and the gradual development of detente; and the origins and early stages of US involvement in the Indo-China conflict.
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Lebanon is a land of stunning beauty and brimming with cultural and historical wealth. Aromas and music waft through the night markets and across the valleys where the Bible's stories unfolded. Near high mountain passes, orchards and walled fortress cities are farmers, fishermen and herdsmen. Baalbec was one of the western world's earliest cities, a bustling port and a testament to the historical importance of this land.
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Focuses on heart-warming scenes of family reunions. It outlines the background for the huge ideological breach which has separated North and South Korea for half a century. Are there indications that the ice is finally beginning to melt between the two?
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The horrors of the death camps are exposed to the world with prisoners' liberation by the Allies; the loss of human lives in the forced marches, and in the flight in the east from the Russian steamroller is enormous. Political maneuvering among the Big Three began in earnest as they sought to segregate Europe's nationalities; the division of Germany into occupied zones is determined, but the fates of other nations are determined by the momentum of the Soviet's drive to the west.
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Of all the renewable energy sources, moving air is the most volatile. Politicians, energy producers, environmentalists and ordinary citizens all have differing views. Huge wind parks have appeared in the United States and around the world. Much depends on the political and social conditions, especially in emerging economies, but wind energy has a great deal of potential.
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The Endless Challenge focuses on ancient Persia, a vast empire that stretched across western Asia into Europe and Africa. The blending of cultures in ancient Persia left a number of artifacts that show how prolific writing systems came to be. The program centers on how the century-long task of deciphering these writing systems produced a greater understanding of ancient Persia and its influences long after, even on Western civilizations.
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Plant is thirsty and there is no water to be found. The gang has to help and learns about water, its sources and uses in the process.
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We keep some animals as pets but eat others. How did this come to be?
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When Skeleton litters the classroom with debris, he finds out why it's so important to dispose of our garbage properly.
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Professor Iris explains which animals are rodents. We learn all about these gnawing creatures.
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Plant and Skeleton go for a rocket ship ride to discover planet earth from afar. It is extrordinary in space, but even nicer to come home.
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For some, winning is all that matters, but it's participation that makes sport fun.
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A journey through the history of painting shows the real value of art.
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Information and knowledge enable the media to make it a small world.
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The post World War II period saw the struggle of Middle Eastern peoples to throw off British hegemony in the area. In Iran, Mossadegh nationalized the Iran oilfields, but was forced out of power by the CIA. In Egypt, Nasser took power from the corrupt King Farouk and became the apostle of a new sense of Arab identity. He sought to modernize Egypt, and with powerful American support drove the British and French from their control of the Suez Canal, a turning point which exhilarated the Arab world.
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Professor Iris and the gang find lots of things in the classroom to count. They learn that there are different ways to count things, like on an abacus, or on their fingers.
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The issues of slavery and states' rights point to a dark and bloody Civil War; 600,000 Americans will die in conflict; Reconstruction, the impeachment of Andrew Johnson; Indian Wars bring the gradual suppression of the Indians, and the end of the western frontier follows.
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A basic introduction to electrons and the octet rule and the formulae of alcohols, ethers, amines. aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, and esters; an explanation of the difference between polar and non-polar bonds and how the attachment of polar groups renders non-polar hydrocarbons non-soluble; and a simple look at how substitute groups create other organic families.
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ABORIGINAL TECHNOLOGY - Engineering 40,000 years ago. BANGKOK SEWERS - Installing the sewage infrastructure in the middle of a densely populated city, MICROSURGERY - The tools and ergonomical design of instruments for surgeons to operate on our internal organs.
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Examines the causes of genocide and ethnic conflict in parts of the world with widely differing cultural traditions. The 20 years of bitter ethnic strife in Sri Lanka have taken the lives of 100,000, but young people from both sides work together for tolerance. In Cambodia the survivors of Pol Pot's genocide struggle to create a democratic state -from a nation that was victim of a murderous radical "social engineering project" which killed 2 million men, women, and children.
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After experiments with sundials, water and candle clocks, the Chinese developed the world's first accurate clock involving an escapement device. Their mathematicians calculated pi; their astronomers recognized the egg yolk shape of the earth and developed an accurate system for measuring the movement of the stars.
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Searching for rainwater's journey to the ocean, Johan takes a field trip traveling from gutters to drains and then to rivers and oceans.
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What sciences are involved as the astronauts go EVA and venture into the hostile environment of space in a smaller spacecraft, performing many tasks for which they have previously trained in a weightless environment?
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Looks at what we wear on our heads, from racing h elmets to commercial kitchen coverings, and why. Hat designers share the process from conception to final product, and children design and model their own sun hats.
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This episode chronicles Chinese trade. In the 15th century, China destroyed its great fleets and began a period of nearly 300 years of isolation. It wasn't until 1760 that trade with Westerners officially was allowed. In the early part of the century, with the rise of communism, the Chinese began to regain control of its international economic relations. China opened up, slowly at first, in the 1950s. Today, China presents an open door to the world, while maintaining full control.
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Preparing Hydrogen, "Popping" Hydrogen. Exploding a Mixture of hydrogen and air. Reacting hydrogen with oxygen and chlorine. Reducing mercury(H) Oxide by Hydrogen.
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This film shows many examples from different parts of the Islamic world of mans cooperation with the forces of nature such as the use of earth as a building material, the large dams built long before anything comparable in Europe, the system of underground canals upon which whole areas depend, the huge water wheels of Syria, counteracting the high temperatures of the Middle East, how ice was supplied right through the summer many centuries ago, and the earliest windmills in the world, still in use.
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This program explores the marketing of the snack-sized chocolate cake in the months before and after its release. The program follows the months of boardroom discussions as the marketing team plans and implements its campaign.
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This episode studies northern Morocco, from Tangiers to Fez to Meknes. The heady presence of a centuries old culture is all-pervasive among some of the finest examples of Islamic architecture. Inhabited by a warm and friendly people, its shores dip into the Mediterranean and its deserts into the Sahara, with a culture embracing European and African influences and a cuisine so refined, it lingers in the memory forever.
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Conditions such as backaches, tennis elbow, arthritis, breathing disorders, pinched nerves, sciatica, swayback and stress-related disorders can all be treated with movement therapies using the Alexander Technique.
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The opening movement of Mozart's beloved A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC is march-like in nature. It is light and charming like the DIVERTIMENTI, pleasant works designed to entertain. The RONDO ALLA TURCA was originally the last movement of a piano sonata; it is an airy tune in the style that Mozart's Vienna liked to refer to as "Turkish." The V SONATA IN C is here performed by flute with string accompaniment. The "Rondo" from A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC repeats its opening phrase on many different steps of the scale, and bounces along to a vibrant conclusion. The EXSULTATE is the finale of Mozart's 1773 cantata, where its bright hue makes it a perfect contrast with all the expressive music that precedes it; it is marked to be played "presto."
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Nuclear fission was discovered in 1938, demonstrating that untold quantities of energy are locked inside the atom. Its potential was first tapped by the military, and then the civilian sector. The new technology inspired high-flying visions as the world's major powers developed nuclear power plants. But the problems of safely disposing of nuclear waste remain unsolved. There are different views of the future of nuclear power.
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The issue of balance between Mother Nature and all living things; and what happens to that balance when man begins to intervene in nature's environments that depend on fresh water. How do species survive in the Nabib Desert in South Africa and at Glen Canyon in the USA.
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Whatever is inside the earth is very hot. The trail of clues leads to the model of a metallic core surrounded by a rocky mantle. Huge, slow convection currents rise up, often resulting in earthquakes and volcanoes.
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Millions died of starvation and other effects of the war. The broken promises and implicit threats between the Big Three created an arena for the confrontation of the two new superpowers as exhausted Britain lost its preeminence. Britain repudiated Churchill's dreams of restored imperial grandeur, and the USSR and the US went in twelve months from being allies to enemies.
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Follows the US struggle to reach a consensus concerning American involvement in Vietnam, the efforts of Kissinger and Nixon, and the presidency of Carter, and the heightened conflict in Third World countries.
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Islamic societies are generally known for their restrictions on women's rights and freedoms; for example, polygamy, honor killings and the enforcement of wearing the Hijab and Chador. Since all cultural traits are created because of social needs in the region, is it right for outsiders to judge this practice? How do people currently living in the region accept these customs? What do today's Islamic women think of these traditions? What is the image of Islamic women in this ever-changing world?
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Describes dramatic change brought about by the evolution of writing from simple letters to entire alphabetic systems. This program both examines the reasons the alphabets were developed, and traces how the use of alphabets spread around the world, changing the cultures they touched. Letters of a sphinx discovered on the Sinai Peninsula in 1905 reveal how the characters found there were in a very different style from earlier forms of writing and suggest the beginning of an alphabet.
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The late 1950s and 1960s saw the Israeli succeeding in annexing large portions of Biblical Israel, and bringing to justice the Nazi murderer Adolf Eichmann. It was a young and vibrant nation-state, which lived in the constant shadow of war. France fought in Algeria to retain its colony there; a bitter and bloody conflict lasted for more than a decade before de Gaulle withdrew French troops and Algeria gained its independence. Oman struggled for 10 years before driving out the British. Nasser died in 1970 and was succeeded by Sadat.
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Spring, summer, autumn, and winter; the characteristics of each season, and some of the fun things we cn do during each one.
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The robber barons, the muckrakers, Teddy Roosevelt, the Spanish-American War; World War I costs America 100,000 lives; Versailles sets the stage for World War II; Ford and Lindbergh emerge as superheroes, and the Roaring Twenties are marked by Prohibition.
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The nature and politics of water transportation affect a growing number of people and enterprises around the world who depend on the reliable delivery of water. In Africa, the ritual of water transportation is at the very core of life for the pastoral people who roam the Rift Valley - the Massai.
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Biology and medical science meet as scientists determine what happens to a human body as it moves from the gravity of the earth to the microgravity of space, as bones, blood and nervous system react to long term spaceflight.
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How do well-designed carrying bags make bearing burdens easier? This episode features a visit to a plastic bag factory, as well as children designing and making their own bags for specific purposes.
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This episode examines how a secular belief system could have been responsible for unifying and stabilizing a vast and ancient nation.
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During the Middle Ages, Fez, once the crown jewel of Moroccan civilization, was the core of Islamic Culture and education. At the Mosquee Qaraouiyne University some of the great scientists, mathematicians and mullahs studied and subsequently awakened Europe out of the darkness of the middle ages with their discoveries and inventions. Today, Fez is a bustling city with roads so narrow that donkeys are the only method of transportation.
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How do you cater for thousands of people at an outdoor event while maintaining high food quality and safety standards?
A catering company prepares to feed a large crowd attending a major sporting event.
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A blackout in Johan's house starts a search to find a natural source of light that is the brightest, and also completely free.
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We look at the discovery and history of homeopathy. <br><br> In France, homeopathy is part of the undergraduate medical curriculum. In the United Kingdom, homeopathic medicine has been available through the National Health Services since 1948.
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This method of energy production can pose a mortal danger to river fauna. Major reservoir projects can mean the devastation of vast stretches of countryside and forced resettlement. But the hydroelectric power is still often seen as the best solution, especially in the emerging countries of Asia, Africa and South America.
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Organic chemistry goes industrial with William Perkin exploring carbon's tetrahedral bonds and the discovery of chirality. This video looks at the concept of atoms as 3D objects and 3D structural diagrams and models. There is also a brief look at various synthetic organic compounds developed from natural ones, both achievements and difficulties.
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LAND WARRIOR - The soldier of the future. SPACE JUNK - Keeping track of the 84,000 pieces of space junk traveling at speeds of up to 11,000 mph. SOLAR HOUSE - An environmentally friendly house deep in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.
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Languedoc in southwestern France is a little known land of spectacularly savage beauty and of jealously guarded traditions and its own language. Mountain streams, forests and glorious fishing villages provide a bountiful and hearty culinary experience.
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Preparing and Testing for Oxygen. Properties of Oxygen, Reacting with Iron. Reacting Carbon with Oxygen. Properties of Hydrogen Peroxide.
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Chinese inventions and discoveries include gunpowder, bombs, shrapnel, underground and sea mines, aerial bombs and muskets (fire lances), rockets, cannon, immunization, paper, printing with movable type, modem books and bookstores, civil service exams and playing cards.
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Volcanoes and earthquakes are only part of a bigger picture. Tectonic forces also push continents around and cause mountains to be uplifted. The crust recycles itself. The lighter rocks of the continents float on the heavier rocks of the mantle.
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The concluding portion presents the Soviet fiasco in Afghanistan, the unprecedented peacetime US armaments build up under Reagan, "Star Wars," the reforms of Gorbachev, the collapse of the Soviet bloc, (and the USSR) and the terrorism which confronts the US today.
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THE FLIGHT OF THE BUMBLEBEE - (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 1844-l9O8) was originally a solo violin piece, but has since been transcribed for all kinds of instruments.
ON THE BEAUTIFUL BLUE DANUBE -(Johann Strauss II 1825-1899) was originally written for chorus and orchestra.
FUR ELISE (Ludwig van Beethoven 1770-1827) is Beethoven's most famous bagatelle; it may have been written for a lady with whom he was in love, but could not marry.
THE CUCKOO - (Claude Daquin 1694-1772) was probably originally a harpsichord piece.
THE SWAN - (Camille Saint Saens 1835-1921) comes from a collection of works for piano and orchestra entitled "Carnival of the Animals"; it was originally a cello solo.
CLAIR DE LUNE - (Claude Debussy 1862-1918) comes from a collection of piano pieces that occupied the composer for 15 years; he used 17th century clavecin music as a model for this and other early works.
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This film concentrates on the arts of architecture and abstract decoration, and shows how, from an Islamic point of view, these are approached and understood. Other sequences show the arts of calligraphy and painting, and the film ends with the art of three great cultures which flourished three centuries ago. Saffavid Iran, Ottoman Turkey, and Mughal India all produced magnificent buildings which in widely differing ways are profoundly Islamic.
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Deals with the legacy of Serbian "ethnic cleansing" in the Balkans, an area where peace seems possible only when imposed by an outside power. There are thousands of scores to settle, atrocities to be avenged, and deep religious divisions between Orthodox, Catholic, and Muslims to overcome. The same savage tribal instinct manifested itself in Rwanda in the 1990s as the Hutu massacred Tutsi and over a million died. Yet amid the ruins of a once hopeful nation tentative steps are being made towards healing and preventing a recurrence of such dark forces.
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The American embargo of supplies led Japan to attack Pearl Harbor. No hesitation marked the decision to utilize the newly-developed atomic bomb on Japan. Experts deemed that it was the quickest way to get the Japanese to surrender. When the war was won in South East Asia and the Pacific, the US was forced to utilize British troops to restore order. They in turn used Japanese forces to quell growing calls for nationalism in the region; this combustible mixture led to the Korean, Vietnam and Cambodian wars.
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Israel gained additional land but multiplied its problems with the addition of a million Palestinian Arabs after the Six Day War of 1967. The Palestinian Liberation Organization under Arafat sought recognition and independence from Israel. Muslim fundamentalists assassinated Egypts Sadat. Iran threw out its hated shah and became an authoritarian fundamentalist Muslim state under the Ayatollah Khomeini. Hussein's Iraq initiated a 10 year war with Iran, and later invaded Kuwait; the Gulf War followed. Hatreds and rivalries continue to darken the Middle East today.
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Professor Iris comes blowing into class to announce the subject of the lesson. We learn that wind can be anything from a breeze to a tornado, and that sometimes it can carry away very important papers!
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In the final segment, the Great Depression marks the 1930s; Pearl Harbor plunges America into the deadliest war in history; the nation's search for stability is threatened by conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, and the Middle East; the Cold War sees the emergence of McCarthy, Khrushchev, Kennedy, and Neil Armstrong lands on the moon. The program concludes by reminding us that America is the land of h opes and opportunities.
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AIRCRAFT SAFETY - Keeping planes up in the air and safe. WORLD TRADE CENTER BOMBING - Why the WTC didn't collapse in 1994 when a terrorist bomb ripped through it. CRASH TEST DUMMIES - They stand in for you and me when testing a vehicle's safety.
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Located in the southwest of Spain, Andalucia is a land of stunning beauty and of unparalleled historical interest. Its people are warm and friendly and have witnessed Moorish invaders come and go, leaving behind countless testaments to their artistic and architectural brilliance.
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This segment emphasizes the importance of careful planning in scientific research, whether on earth or above it, as the STS-40 crew records the effects of spaceflight on the body. A practical demonstration of the knowledge gained is shown in the use of a new type of spaceflight trainer to prevent motion sickness in space.
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"Biomass" might be called "solidified solar energy." Tremendous amounts of vegetable material with concentrated reservoirs of energy locked inside are manufactured by that greatest of dynamos, the sun. Energy can be effectively extracted from vegetable materials using a wide variety of methods, all highly efficient and all friendly to the environment. This self-regenerating resource is an ideal example of the harmonization of economy and ecology.
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Carbon Dioxide and Carbonic Acid. Formation of Calcium Carbonate. Carbon dioxide extinguishing a flame.
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Examines a phenomenon that truly characterizes our time. The rapid expansion of the international market place and the power of those who control it is perceived to be the principal reason why the gap between the rich and the poor is increasing, not diminishing. This viewpoint was also expressed by the thousands who demonstrated against the WTO in Seattle and Prague. On the other hand, some view globalization as being the only way for prosperity to spread to developing countries.
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This episode examines how the Chinese found creative and novel solutions to many kinds of practical problems. It also looks at what stifled Chinese genius at precisely the time that the West was beginning to catch up.
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"Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave" is a famous injunction of Mohammed. Islam has always valued the use of reason, and it formed the bridge that links the knowledge of Greece to that of the present day. Many of the ideas and institutions now taken for granted came to Europe from the Islamic world - the large and beautiful colleges which led to probably the oldest universities in the world, like Al Ahzal in Cairo. The observatory and hospital also passed from Islam to Europe. Islam's contribution to medicine was particularly great.
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In 711 A.D. the Moroccan Islamic army crossed the strait of Gibraltar and reached Tarifa, a port at the edge of the European continent, and began a rule of more than 800 years. Those years of Islamic rule left unique traces of its culture in the Andalusia region of Spain. Now, Southern Spain has a complex history having absorbed the influences from not only Islam but from the Romans and Christianity. Cordoba became a symbolic city mixing the various influences and now has a culture unique to Spain. Does that cultural development continue today?
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Magnetic diagnostic equiptment is used in every major hospital around the world, including Magnetic Resonance Imaging and other high-tech, widely accepted practices. Magnetic Therapy is available as a non-invasive, safe treatment for a range of conditions.
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Shows how carbon's structure allows it to be the backbone for macro molecules, and why starch and not cellulose is digestible by humans. Further sections show the extreme non-organic case of diamonds and the discovery of nitrocellulose and its importance; give the definitions of thermoplastics, thermosets, and glass transition temperature; and look at celluloid, bakelite, and nylon.
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America was now the richest nation in the world; Britain was victorious, but bankrupt; the Soviet Union had been devastated but was ideologically strong and committed to the victory of its brand of communism. The cooperation of the war years and the hopes of its continuation faded and Europe faced years of extreme hardship. The forces that were to shape international politics for the next fifty years emerged in 1945.
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Johan learns the different states of water evaporation when it changes to steam; condensation occurs when steam changes to water; and snow becomes the frozen state of water.
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A journey through time to find out when our ancestors developed thumbs.
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What special considerations are entailed in designing toys for a baby, for an impaired child, or for children with special needs? How can computer technology be utilized? Children create their own toys in scenes not unlike the Wacky Races.
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This episode is a close look at why three immense river systems like the Nile in Egypt, the Amu Darya and Syr Darya in Central Asia were dammed. This episode explores the role that water plays in world crises; yesterday, today, and most certainly in the future, when m ore people might be driven to war over water. However, water is also imaginable as a stake for peace negotiations. The negotiations over the water rights are still tense. In the Middle East, disputes over water are as old as the stones of Biblical times.
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The forces of sun, wind and water have changed the face of the earth just as much as tectonics. Weathering and erosion are driven by gravity, flattening the landscape. They create soil. Deposition starts the process of forming sedimentary rock.
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Without light, we wouldn't be able to see where we are going. We learn about different places light comes from and how it brightens our lives.
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Johan makes new discoveries about fish. Not every fish breathes the same way. He learns what gills are and how they work.
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Oceanography, climatology, and meteorology come into play as this segment explores the phenomena of global warming, the hole in the ozone layer, and El Nino in the earth's atmosphere. Research that scientists are conducting in space helps them understand the atmospheric mutations earth is experiencing.
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Looks at food containers, what they contain, and why they are different. Food production and packaging plants show how they protect consumers. Children design and make cookie containers for school fundraising.
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Confronts the most fundamental question of all: What is the true nature of man. At one time or another, every society has glorified conflict. Does this mean that the human species is violent by nature in some deep sense that will never change? Or is it possible to claim that we are gradually moving towards that distant horizon, where better people will create a better world?
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Reacting Metals with Hydrochloric Acid. Reacting Metals with Nitric Acid. Displacing Metals from Salts.
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Why are two legs better than four? Go back to when man first walked upright.
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Oaxaca is a vibrant land on the Pacific coast of southern Mexico. Its highlands are shrouded in mythology and reigned over by the breathtaking ruins of Monte Alban. It was the capital of the highly advanced Mixotec civilization, destroyed in a few years by Cortez and his conquistadors. .
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Rocks are complicated collections of mineral particles. Four silicate mineral groups make up 90% of the crustal rocks: mafic minerals, quartzes, feldspars, and micas. Rocks come in three basic varieties: ingenous, sedimentary, and metamophic. These are the ingredients of the rock cycle.
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This program looks at how the merchant class rose to become one of the most important in the empire.
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The revolution of solar energy failed to materialize by the end of the millennium. But the pioneers are thinking ahead and blazing a trail for the world to follow. But it's only the beginning of a long, long road from short-sighted, fast-food energy consumption to a solar world energy order.
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TARONGA ZOO - Water recycling system for animals. YANGTZE DAM - The world's largest and most controversial dam ever proposed. DUMMY PATIENT - A dummy used by medical students for training.
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With improved water management, water conservation campaigns and revolutionary techniques of water use, we can reduce the poential consequences of its scarcity. Technical innovations that create a stable production of fresh water out of seawater, brackish water and even wastewater are needed. New technologies are being developed that may one day help us preserve water both in space and on earth.
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The inner life of Islam is the mystical path known as Sufiism, and it has played a major role in the civilization. A majority of the poets of the Islamic world, and a great many of the finest musicians, architects and even scientists, have been Sufis, or strongly influenced by Sufism. This film includes a beautiful Persian garden of the 17th century, a symbol of the inner life; the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, the site of Mohammeds mystical "Night Journey"; and examples of Sufi practice in Egypt, Morocco and Iran. It ends in India, where the anniversary of one of the great Sufi saints of the past is celebrated with passionate devotional songs and music which can lift the audience into states of ecstasy
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Refining processes, distillation, cracking and reforming; the huge reliance on petrochemicals not only for fuels but also for a multitude of compounds from plastics to insecticides; an introduction to oil, its origins and products, and octane numbers; the problems of the scale of use, "Silent Spring" and plastic pollution; and chemistry as it faces environmental and ethical considerations.
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What better gift to offer one's classmates than friendship! Kiwi is going home today and she leaves behind a happy trail of memories. The other students decide to make some beautiful going-away presents for her.
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Considers how boats float and the role of streamlining, shape and building materials. Children design and race their own model sailboats.
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CHALLENGER DISASTER - The forensic engineering following the Challenger disaster. PYRAMIDS -Exploring the interior of the great pyramids of Gaza. TELEMEDICINE - Remote surgery for soldiers on the battlefield
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This episode examines the rapid growth of China's recent prosperity, and evaluates the long-term risk for China and the world if the great environmental, demographic, and political pressures that are growing alongside China's expanding economy explode.
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The rise in the number and severity of weather phenomena and natural disasters over the past years furnishes ominous proof that the earth's climate is changing. The global demand for energy is mushrooming. Fossil fuels, the primary cause of the climate changes, will no longer be the leading sources of energy production. Earth-shaking visions and endeavors are needed to rethink, redefine and reshape the use of energy and its sources for the future. The choice of an energy source - solar, wind, biomass, nuclear or hydroelectric - is of prime importance. Crucial to the world climate will be how quickly ways to use the energy of the sun can be developed. This is the ultimate source of all forms of commercially viable energy on earth and an inexhaustible one.
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Camouflage is an art Johan will need to master while finding treasures in primary living colors.
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How does the earth appear when viewed from space? Photography makes a contribution as it records the history of changes to our planet; wind shears for example are studied from specially designed planes.
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The Red River in northern Vietnam meanders through stunning scenery and eternal rice paddies before emptying into the fish-rich Gulf of Tonkin. Poverty, pride, Marxism, Confucianism and Buddhism have spread their influence and strengthened the resolve of this strong and self- sufficient people.
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Reacting Sodium with Water. Reacting Potassium with Water. Combustion of Magnesium and Formation of Magnesium Hydroxide. The Thermite Reaction.
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How did people spread out into the far corners of the earth? By adapting to nature or overcoming it?
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Describes how protein is intimately involved in life processes, and how proteins function as hormones; looks at the discovery of amino acids, their family formula, and polymerization of them; takes a look at peptides, denaturing albumin, and the levels of protein structure; and shows the lock and key model of enzyme action with an introduction to enzymes themselves.
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Not only are our cities and almost every product we use derived from the ground, so is almost all our energy. Yet minerals and petroleum products are only the start. Every culture has wondered about the origin and nature of the earth, and geology offers a rich and cautionary explanation.
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10 year old Rory adores taxis, of which there are 30,000 in London. Cars, bicycles, and the Underground are also used to get around. Rory, who loves to skateboard, and his family walk across the Millenium bridge and take a boat tour of the great city. They return home on a double decker bus.
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Today is a day like no other. A new student is joining Professor Iris' class. Her name is Kiwi and she is Ms. Principal's niece. After a shaky start, Kiwi enchants the other students and becomes their best friend.
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HELICOPTERS - The story of helicopter engineering. HELIUM 3 - A proposal to mine the moon for a potential energy source. EAST SPA - A remote device to extract the gas reserves on the North West Shelf in Washington.
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This episode reveals how China's traditional domestic industry met the international demand, and how Chinese industry was able to organize itself on a scale not seen in the West until the 18th century.
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This is a land of rolling hills, white cliffs, shimmering meadows and medieval castles, famous for its history.
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With each exploration Johan realizes some fun facts about birds; not every bird can fly! Johan must find a very unique type of bird that flies but not in the air.
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What is involved in designing instruments to create the particular sounds of each musical family? Children demonstrate how careful design and imagination can create instruments worthy of performance.
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Halogens. Halogens as Oxidizing Agents. Reacting Bromine with Potassium. Detecting Halides. Combustion of Sulfer and Formation of Sulfuric (IV) Acid. Phosphorus and its Properties. Self-ignition of White Phosphorus.
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This episode compares the 1768 voyage of the sailing ship "Endeavor" under Captain James Cook with the 1992 maiden voyage of the space shuttle "Endeavor" as it considers how exploration then and now is inherent in man, and how the knowledge gained contributes to mankind. For example, a robotic explorer named Dante explores an Antarctic volcano and contributes to the future exploration of Mars.
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Understanding Multiplication -
2 & 5 as Factors, 9, 1, & 0 as Factors,
3 & 4 as Factors
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Everyone needs to eat - animals, people, even plants! We talk about some of the things we eat and how they help us stay healthy and strong.
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Is Confucianism - the moral system at the root of Chinese civilization - a religion or a philosophy? This episode seeks to answer that question, while explaining the basics of the code and examining how it has survived centuries of foreign religious influences and competing domestic ideologies.
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What do water-skiing and the physics of spaceflight have in common? How is electricity generated simply by two objects moving through space? How does NASA conduct investigations into experiments when things go wrong? What physics are involved in the tethered satellite system? This segment demonstrates the interactions of many scientific disciplines in experiments and problem-solving processes.
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Were old methods of communication just as efficient? Imagine how they actually worked.
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ROBOTS - Has engineering gone too far? Are robots able to take over the world? THEME PARK ROBOTS -Robots for entertainment. TWA 800 - Forensic engineering following the mid-air explosion of flight TWA flight 800.
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Neutralizing Neutral, Alkaline, and Acidic Solutions. Preparing Zinc Sulfide. Preparing Sodium Chloride. Formation of Ammonium Chloride.
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Hill tribes cling to their tradition in a land of forests, streams and paddy fields. Rice paddies provide the staple food, accompanied by vegetables, fruit and meat.
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Hunting for rainbows turns out to be more than just sit and wait. Instead, Johan decides to make a colorful rainbow with garden sprinklers.
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One of nature's perfect ecosystems is revealed as children determine which kind of container to use and how to collect the rich liquid fertilizer; they also visit a commercial worm farm to see how it's done on a grand scale.
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Whether it is American spaghetti and meatballs, or authentic tortellini from Bologna, we're in love with pasta. From ancient Persia to Manhattan, pasta has journeyed into our diets for both special occasions and everyday fare. Is it a passing fling or is this relationship for keeps?
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The process of genetic engineering is becoming more sophisticated, and inventors of new plants, drugs and life-forms are now attempting to patent their creations. Its supporters claim the bio-tech revolution will bring untold benefits; its critics find the possible environmental, economic and ethical consequences profoundly disturbing. If a directive currently going through the European Parliament is passes it is feared that patents could lead to large multinational corporations owning the world's crops.
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Of all the major Impressionists, Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) is the man who pushed Impressionism towards a totally new way of representing the world, one which shattered the artistic conventions of five centuries and more.
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Paul Gauguin's life (1848-1903) was as colorful as his painting, a rich and varied melting pot of different styles, ideas and cultures.
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By 1940 Paul Robeson was the most recognized African-American in the world. Key events of his life, politics and career are presented. Robeson used his international acclaim to focus world-wide attention on racial injustices suffered by African-Americans in the 1930s, 40s and 50s. <br><br> By 1950, Robeson's battle for freedom cost him his career. Footage of the legendary entertainer discussing his views, along with clips of his memorable Hollywood movie career are presented. A Morehouse College historian analyses Robeson's impact, and the turbulent times he lived in.
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Paxtis family lives in the Basque country of France where his family raises goats for milk. He plays Basque handball, a very ancient sport that he likes to play barehanded.
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On 11 September 2001 the world stood still, aghast at the horrendous pictures of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Henceforth the global arena will never be the same. This devastating event has aroused heightened interest in peace issues. Is it really possible to achieve lasting peace?
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Looks at influences on Shelley's work, including his interest in the supernatural, the French Revolution, and his friendships with Byron and Leigh Hunt.
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Since freestyle involves doing jumps and stunts, it sometimes can be dangerous. Thirteen may be too young to do freestyle well, but Philippe loves to practice anyway.
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The work of Pierre August Renoir (1841-1919) is the most sensual and carefree of all the Impressionists.
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Hundreds of thousands of devout Hindus make the grueling journey from the hot, dusty plains of the Indian sub-continent to the terrifying grandeur of the Himalayan peaks.
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Earth's Moon was born in a catastrophic collision more than 4 billion
years ago. It started out very close to the planet but has been moving
away ever since. It's drifting away every year.
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Girdled by its mighty rings, Saturn is the most recognizable yet least understood planet. Seven years after leaving Earth, Cassini, the most sophisticated planetary explorer ever built, arrives at Saturn for a four-year orbital mission. The fate of the entire $3.5 billion expedition depends upon Mission Control being able to thread an unmanned spacecraft, traveling at 80,000 kilometers per hour, through a gap in the rings of Saturn without hitting even a speck of debris. Failure would be absolute; success, an historic moment in the annals of space exploration.
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A fascinating in-depth look at the formation of the universe and what exists now.
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PLANETS- VOYAGER Voyagers grand tour of Neptune and its moon Triton, COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS- The science that describes how aircraft and missiles move through the air
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This program describes the essential groundwork that will help entrepreneurs get their business off to a good start. The process of setting goals, defining the parameters of the business and establishing a business plan and a budget will be covered. Such topics as market research, choosing a professional advisor and selecting an accountant, a banker and a lawyer are explored.
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Two industrial designers devise an innovative new plastic sports drink bottle and a special sealing cap. The program introduces plastic as a material and shows the most common methods of manufacturing used in the plastics industry.
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Plastic floats. The World’s biggest plastic dumps are at sea. Millions of tons enter the ocean every year, pouring out from rivers and shores, ships and platforms. The world’s scientists have studied the phenomenon with alarming results.
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POINT OF VIEW- Studying meteorites and taking a mega-fast journey over California. MISSION STS91- Travel on a space shuttle mission to recover an astronaut from space station MIR.
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Young rider Jack Keetley explains what it took, in 1860, to carry the mail from Missouri to California at the speed of a racing horse.
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Porcupines are considered rodents and can weigh up to 44 pounds. They live in the woods and bushes and are vegetarians. Porcupines have quills on their backs for defense. Quills are like long, hard nails and can be up to sixteen inches in length.
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Olive trees are shaped as a hand with five fingers to grasp the sun. Olives are harvested and celebrated, monks make rare sweet liquor, pastry stretched to the size of a room, the vines are cared for. Fishermen pull eels from the Atlantic for their famous stews. The forest of Busaco holds 700 different kinds of trees.
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Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Most people are familiar with the acronym "laser," but don't really understand how it works, or the tremendous potential it has in a variety of applications. Learn about the science behind lasers and the many different types of them, with special attention paid to the new high power lasers Nova and Omega. A myriad of laser uses is detailed including applications for drilling and exploration, communication, medicine, the military, and everyday life
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Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Most people are familiar with the acronym "laser," but don't really understand how it works, or the tremendous potential it has in a variety of applications. Learn about the science behind lasers and the many different types of them, with special attention paid to the new high power lasers Nova and Omega. A myriad of laser uses is detailed including applications for drilling and exploration, communication, medicine, the military, and everyday life
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War-torn Lebanon is the meeting place, refuge and publishing center of contemporary intellectual thought in the Arab word. We discover the origins of Arab theatre and poetry, but above all how Arab writers respond to the challenges of the modern world.
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This program asks the question, Does prayer belong in the classroom? Three teens discuss whether or not there is a place for prayer in the classroom. Listen to why they think students feel prayer is an important beginning to each day and the difference they saw between public school and Christian school.
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Praying Mantises are powerful but graceful insects. They fight mercilessly to defend themselves when in danger, and dance when happy. Females are ruthless in protecting their offspring. They will even eat their mates to provide protein for their eggs. Their eggs are laid in a tough casing until it is time for the babies to hatch in the spring.
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Investigates how water's own weight is responsible for buoyancy and we examine the concept of pressure. A "Cartesian diver" shows why there is no stable state between floating and sinking, except on a density layer.
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The Price of Kings:The careers of three controversial political leaders - Arafat, Perez and Arias and the price of their leadership for themselves and their nations.
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'The Price of Kings: Oscar Arias’ explores the legacy of this man: the former President of Costa Rica and lone leader without an army who had the courage to forge peace with his neighbors against the will of US President, at risk to his own life and the impoverishment of his people.
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The second in the series of documentary films reveals the price he paid for being a leader, helping us answer the question “What is Leadership?” As a nation builder it’s hard to overestimate the achievements of Shimon Peres,
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Yasser Arafat’s political legacy is one marred by controversy. To some, he was a heroic revolutionary who fought for the freedom of Palestine and the rights of his people; to others he was a terrorist and leader of a corrupt state.
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Accountants, dentists, lawyers and veterinarians spend years learning their trade. However business skills are seldom included in their training. An overview of setting up and maintaining a sound practice is dealt with in this program. Where and how to find the staff and backup expertise for the business side of things is covered.
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Created by award-winning cartoonist/animator Henri Desclez, this colorful puppet series places important early elementary learning in an unusual and fun classroom setting. HEALTH, SCIENCE, MATH, WRITING, HYGIENE, NUTRITION and other significant topics are covered. Young students can't help but learn with the catchy educational songs. Questions are posed and interactions between PROFESSOR IRIS and his students reinforce the educational content of each lesson.
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This seven-part series reviews the current state of energy affairs, analyzes the international status quo, and speculates on future developments. What technological and political changes have to take place to make the gift of Prometheus an eternally burning flame? What advice would Prometheus give mankind today - as a scientist, an engineer, or a politician?
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Put the Brakes on Bullying emphasizes the importance of identifying and resolving bullying incidents in their early stages. The program is designed to help teachers, adults and children recognize the signs of bullying, and illustrates what steps schools, teachers, parents and individuals can take to prevent bullying. Stopping bullying in early childhood years is important in order to avoid bullying from becoming a major problem in teen and adult years.
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Explains why milk spoils and the reason cows were once kept in the center of town. By the middle of the 18th century disease and the growth of cities had forced cows out into the countryside; the prevention of spoilage and containerization of milk products was a challenge. This program also describes the heat treatment process used to keep milk fresh and the corresponding developments in packaging.
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