This silent film features Renée Spitz's original footage of his studies on child development in the first year and the importance to babies of the basic needs: food, shelter, and someone to love them. The video shows the healthy development of a child who is well-loved and cared for, as well as the problems faced by children who have lost their mothers and who have inadequate mother substitutes, highlighting their mourning reactions. Black & white....

After sustaining a life-altering head injury, a young girl is given a second chance at a normal childhood thanks to her mobility assistance dog, Portia. In Lodi, California, a capuchin monkey named Siggy inspires newfound purpose in the life of Travis, a quadriplegic with a cervical spine injury.

A towering figure in the development of experimental and post-war electronic art music, Pauline Oliveros explores the origin of sound with neuroscientist Seth Horowitz. Oliveros is the founder of "Deep Listening,"which comes from her childhood fascination with sounds and from her works in concert music with composition, improvisation, and electro-acoustics. She describes “Deep Listening” as a way of listening in every possible way to everything...

Margarita doesn't think TJ can play basketball because he uses a wheelchair, but she learns that even though people may be differently abled, they can still have a lot in common.

Giving feedback on the management styles of your superior requires a great deal of tact; no one enjoys being criticized. This episode shows how the use of constructive criticism, while not pleasant, can be helpful to all involved in the process. One team member offers direct criticism of her bosses, who then allow the rest of the team to offer the same to her. Her assumption of being loved by her team is soon proven wrong. Not surprising is they are...

For Jane's 17-year-old part, being a teenager is hard enough without having to share your body with nine other identities. But when Alexis' rebellious behavior threatens their progress, Jane fights to regain control of her system.

Britain's state-of-the-art Antarctic research base Halley VI is in trouble. Built on the Brunt Ice Shelf, it sits atop a massive slab of ice that extends far beyond the Antarctic shoreline. But the ice is breaking apart and just 6km from the station is a ginormous crevasse, which threatens to separate Halley from the rest of the continent, setting the £28 million base adrift on a massive iceberg. So Halley needs to move. But this is probably the...

Writer Siri Hustvedt is a migraine sufferer and will often experience aphasic dreams. As she enters the slumbering state she will have hallucinations. As she says, these "are anomalies, no doubt, tics of the nervous system that affect some, not all, but they could well help explain more general human qualities—who we are, what we feel, and how we see. I suspect that everyone has a few Lilliputians in hiding. It may be just a question of whether...

Later in January, art-house luminary Isabella Rossellini will appear at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in her one-woman show, adapted from the celebrated Sundance Channel series about the surprisingly kinky and confounding mating rituals of insects and marine life Green Porno. With day-glo costumes and paper puppets, Rossellini channels a host of reproductive oddities. Part nature documentary, part DIY cartoon, Green Porno is a cheeky, delightful zoology...

This compelling video delivers basic information about rational emotive behavior therapy, or REBT. The first part of the video introduces REBT through discussion, diagrams, and dramatic vignettes. In the second part, the viewer will see how REBT principles are applied to the issue of managing one's feelings of grief. In a dramatic scenario, a person is forced to confront the self-defeating consequences of unresolved grief over his divorce. The video...