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A Mentor-Based Robotics Program that Inspires Innovation!
(1st-12th Grade)
Saturdays; May 25, June 8, July 13; 2:30 p.m. at John and Judy Gay Library (JJGL)
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Get ready... Get set... Get nervous! The Standard Deviants take you on a fun-filled tour of the human nervous system. They'll check out the central and peripheral nervous systems and all the tissues that keep them connected. You'll also learn about the brain, spinal cord, and much, much more. Let the Standard Deviants teach you about your nerves without getting on your nerves!
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The liver is the largest organ in the human body, carrying out more than 500 biological functions. In this program, you’ll learn the anatomy, size, and location of the liver. We’ll also explore the role of the liver in blood pressure, detoxification, digestion, and more. Also discussed: gall bladder, bile, and liver diseases.
3) Evolve
Series
Pub. Date
[2010], c2008
Language
English
Description
The deadliest natural weapon employed in the animal kingdom has independently evolved in creatures as diverse as jellyfish, insects, snakes, and even mammals. In this program, scientists show how evolution has adapted venom to fit the needs of the animals who wield it.
Language
English
Description
In this documentary, David Attenborough examines descendants of the first mammals to develop during the dinosaur age. By eating insects, they were able to extend their territory and adapt to water and flight habitats. Shrews closely resemble their ancestors, and imitate their foraging hunting techniques. Moles have moved underground, and elephant shrews evade predators by sprinting through a well maintained trail network. Insect hunters that grew...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The human body is truly extraordinary and rarely more so than in its ability to take care of itself. In this episode, we look at how we can optimise our health and maximise our own powers. With the help of our trademark, state of the art, scientific explanations. We meet a master of meditation and also some children just starting mindfulness classes, a psychiatrist able to hypnotise himself as well as a therapist using hypnosis as a form of anaesthetic...
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
Three blue-collar geniuses challenge each other with various puzzles and problems to determine who is The Smartest Guy in the Room. Terry and Guy must build self-propelling boats made of materials found on an ice cream truck. Randy competes head to head with them in a weights and measurements challenge.
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
One of our most eminent neuroscientists spent a year teaching himself to play the guitar. Why? Scientist Gary Marcus was keenly interested in how the brain can essentially rewire itself to make up for deficits caused by trauma. In the presence of Vernon Reid, #66 on Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, Gary Marcus discusses the experience of learning to play and the impulses that brought him to music. Presented in association...
9) Biology
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A dichotomous key is a tool for classifying organisms based on how similar they are to each other. It involves asking a series of questions, each with only two possible answers.
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Take a tour of both the central and peripheral nervous systems, and find out how information travels from one part of the body to another. Watch how nerve impulses travel from neuron to neuron with the help of an animated diagram. Learn about the parts of the brain and understand their functions. See models of the eye, ear, tongue, and nose, and learn how sensations are communicated from these parts of the body to the brain.
11) Speed
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Host Jeremy Clarkson faces a crushing g-force, revisits the breaking of the sound barrier and meets the first man to view Earth from space on the second episode of BBC-TV's Speed.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Sleep is your life-support system and Mother Nature's best effort yet at immortality, says sleep scientist Matt Walker. In this deep dive into the science of slumber, Walker shares the wonderfully good things that happen when you get sleep -- and the alarmingly bad things that happen when you don't, for both your brain and body. Learn more about sleep's impact on your learning, memory, immune system and even your genetic code -- as well as some helpful...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The placebo effect has long enjoyed a notorious reputation. To attribute a cure to the placebo effect, was to consider that the illness was created in the mind of a hypochondriac. If a hypochondriac invented the illness, then a hypochondriac could invent the cure. Now, in scientific contradiction to these theories, studies carried out over recent decades reveal that the placebo effect can result in physiological changes in the human condition that...
14) My Unusual Twin
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Despite being identical twins, Adam and Neil Pearson look completely different. By conventional genetics, that should be impossible. But they share the faulty NF-1 gene, which for Adam caused uncontrolled tumors to grow on his face. For Neil, the gene caused short-term memory loss. In this powerful and personal film Adam and Neil find out why their condition has affected them in such different ways. It’s a journey that takes them back to the moment...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
How much of what you think about your brain is actually wrong? In this whistlestop tour of dis-proved science, Ben Ambridge walks through 10 popular ideas about psychology that have been proven wrong — and uncovers a few surprising truths about how our brains really work.
Series
Language
English
Description
This live-action program teaches students that, for food to be of use to our body's cells, it needs to be broken down and absorbed into the blood stream. This is the job of the digestive system, a complex series of tools that includes teeth, saliva, bile, acids and enzymes designed to reduce nutrients to a form that can be delivered to cells. Students will come to understand that waste products and indigestible materials must be removed from the body....
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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Description
The vast majority of coma patients face a critical and very limited window of recovery time—after one year, the chance for improvement is slim to none. This documentary follows the progress of four individuals in comas or vegetative states over the course of a year, exploring the mysteries of the injured brain as each patient emerges, to varying degrees, from darkness. Interweaving commentary from renowned physicians and neurologists, the program...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Reason TV’s Nick Gillespie sits down with UC Santa Barbara anthropology professor John Toobyand Leda Cosmides, a professor of psychology, who co-founded and co-direct the UCSB Center for Evolutionary Psychology. They believe their approach to examining the information-processing mechanisms that have evolved in the brain can provide greater insights into human behavior and cognition. They talk about their ideas and their perspectives and how they...
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