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Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
Description
Learn all about the major milestones in vaccines and antibiotics. Beginning with Edward Jenner and the immunization method against smallpox, this program covers the advances in vaccinations and immunotherapy. Learn about Waldemar Haffkine, who developed a treatment for cholera, and Almroth Wright, who developed a vaccine for typhus. Other treatments are discussed for many major diseases, including diphtheria, tuberculosis, whooping cough, yellow fever,...
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English
Description
In this program, Hazel Henderson and Wayne Silby, lawyer and founder of the Calvert Group of socially responsible mutual funds discuss where these investing trends Silby pioneered, are heading. They discuss how these trends evolved , as both were colleagues at Calvert from its launch in 1982 , when Henderson served on Calvert’s Advisory Council with other experts , helping develop Calvert’s social screens . These screens helped steer portfolios...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
We move around… always going faster and further. Whether it’s in the air or even in space, research is progressing and giving us the ability to travel. But this traveling has a significant impact on the planet. Indeed, 100,000 plane flights take place each day, which means more than 3 million per year around the world. The impact of air traffic on the environment has doubled in 20 years and air pollution is constantly increasing. At the same...
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Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
Description
Technology in sport has come along a long way, from the simplest timing devices such as stopwatches, to advances in fabric, and nutritional information, allowing athletes to compete and train in comfort, as well as to their optimum level of fitness. This video examines developments in swimsuit technology that have meant that Olympic swimmers get the benefit of slimmer, more hydrodynamic suits. It considers how soccer has evolved over the years as...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The age of artificial intelligence is dawning. In fact, it’s already here—in the guise of the self-driving car. This technology will have a world-changing impact. But how does an AI car see and communicate? Does it really think? Does it have morals? To investigate this complex world of algorithms that will soon be driving us to work, BBC builds its own self-driving car and tours Silicon Valley. Witness the research at the cutting edge of this...
13) Runaway Plane
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
For decades the United States has been on a quest to perfect stealth technology, but development of the F-35 fighter jet shows just how complicated dreams can become.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
This video explores the science, technology, and sheer nerve that goes into preparations for the Volvo Ocean Race, regarded as the "Everest of Yacht Racing." It looks at the space age technology, Formula One design techniques, and revolutionary clothing required to send a 60 foot long yacht 32,000 miles around the world at breakneck speed. Around the world, yachtswoman Tracy Edwards helps demystify the science, technology, and excitement that drives...
Pub. Date
[2002]
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English
Description
Behind the glamorous façade of the Monte Carlo Rally, there are teams of engineers and technicians who toil to produce cars with a competitive advantage. Designed to last only three days, this program profiles the design and technology behind Subaru’s latest rally vehicle, the X28. Based on mass-market production cars, the X28 is been almost entirely redesigned to that it can accelerate from 0 to 60 in three seconds. This video examines how the...
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English
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In this edition of Make, Create, Innovate, we explore an area close to all our hearts or rather our stomachs; food and how technology is changing what and how we eat. We first explore how technology can help with the growing problem of food security and sustainability with an inventor who has developed an innovative approach to help stabilize fish stocks. His nets contain special portals that attract undesirable fish and those from endangered lists...
18) Modern Marvels
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English
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It's hot, dry, deadly, and hard to ignore with close to 40% of Earth classified as desert. But in this scorching hour, the desert turns from barren wasteland into an environment rich with hope. In the Middle East, desalination of seawater now fills water needs. Americans have created booming desert communities like Las Vegas, where the Hoover produces hydroelectric power and manmade Lake Mead supplies water. Native Americans farmed the desert...
19) Breakthrough
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Everything that we do to move, live, work, play, create, and survive, is sustained by spinning a wheel. Whether engines in our cars, or whirling turbines generators in a power plant, spinning the wheels of civilization requires fuel. We've long relied on fossil fuels, but the supply is finite and the environmental costs of burning them are growing. Enter a new generation of inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs who are looking to the edge of discovery...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
This video discusses different types of alternative fuels, looking at biofuel in the UK from vegetable oil, turkey oil from Texas, cooking oil used to fuel a bus, cooking oil to fuel a recycling plant, a factory in Canada that converts wood chips to bio-oil.
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