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1) Dr. Brain
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
Do we all listen the same? How do we listen? Can noise make us sick? Do we all lose hearing ability over the years? Where do the rhythm and the music come from? Why do we all like music?Bruno Grossi plays with the idea of ??conducting sound experiments while Hernán Moreno invites us to imagine the lives of people without hearing.From the hand of Rodolfo Llinás, we know the functioning of our auditory system and the effect of sound on our brain...
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.
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...
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.
6) No Choice
Language
English
Description
In this episode, Bill Moyers travels to China to learn about healing and the mind from another culture. “What I discovered in China was another way of thinking about mind and body, about health and illness and a phenomenon called chi,” Bill Moyers tells the audience in his introduction. Later on in the episode, in a park where hundreds are practicing Tai Chi, he observes: “I can see that although traditional Chinese medicine seems alien to Westerners,...
Series
Language
English
Description
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche discusses sensory deprivation with R. Clay Reid, Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard, comparing its use as means of stimulating the brain (as in Bon and Buddhist ‘dark retreat practice’) with its use as a torture practice. "Dark retreat" (mun mtshams) is apowerfulmeans in which special circumstances—both physical and psychological—are created in order to enhance particular meditation and yogic practices. This form...
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...
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...
10) 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.
13) MINDWORKS
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Do you believe in ghosts, or do you think these supernatural beings are a figment of one's imagination? Psychologically speaking, are they just hallucinations? Whether or not these entities truly exist cannot exactly be proven. While most of these illusions are a result of how our brain and eyes respond to each other, we have also learned to create many tricks through science, technology, and art. It is fascinating to discover and relearn these old...
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....
15) Nervous system
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Describes the nervous system in the human body, including how it works to send impulses from the brain to the rest of the body, why it is important for vital body function, and how to keep it healthy.
Series
Pub. Date
[2009], c2009
Language
English
Description
Following an opening segment on the importance of oxygen to the human body, this program studies the structure and function of the respiratory system. Topics include the anatomy of the upper respiratory tract, the lower respiratory tract, and the alveoli; the diffusion of gas molecules through the walls of the alveoli and capillaries, and the effect of high altitude on the diffusion process; and the mechanics of breathing via the bulk flow transport...
17) Your Brain
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
Is what you see real? Join neuroscientist Heather Berlin on a quest to understand how your brain shapes your reality, and why you can’t always trust what you perceive. In the first hour of this two-part series, learn what the latest research shows about how your brain processes and shapes the world around you, and discover the surprising tricks and shortcuts your brain takes to help you survive.
Series
Pub. Date
[2005], c1998
Language
English
Description
This program explores the skeletal system, with an emphasis on its importance in providing structure and support for the body. Topics include how the skeletal and muscular systems work together to enable movement; the relationship between joints and bones; connective tissue; functions of the skeletal system, including support, protection, movement, storage, and blood cell production; and types of bones and joints.
20) 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.
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