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Health
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Standard 6-12
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Aids – Ending the Epidemic
Learn the astonishing progress
researchers have made to flight the battle against AIDS. People who
are HIV – positive can survive because powerful drugs keep the disease
in check. Scientists are busy working on an AIDS vaccine by studying people
who have a natural immunity to the disease.
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Standard 6-12
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Your Body Your Health
Examine how food is broken
down in the body’s digestive tract and how sickle cell anemia affects those
who suffer from it. Also, explore how the human body becomes addicted to
a substance and efforts worth taking to prevent addition.
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Standard 6-12
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The Eye: Structure and
Function
It is a window to our emotions,
and some say, to the soul. Explore the complexities of the human eye. Learn
how its delicate mechanisms – eyelids, lashes, cornea, pupil, iris, and
even tears – help us perceive the world. Understand how the eye perceives
the shape, color, distance and size of an object. Learn how the eye transmits
an image to the brain.
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Life Science
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Standard 3-6
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Animal Instincts
Humpback whales swim 3,000miles
to male. Polar bears can wander hundreds of miles and always find their
way home. Chimpanzees use tools to gather food.
How do they do it? Marine
Migration summers off the coast of Alaska. Winters off the coast of Maui.
Discover why the north Pacific humpback whale makes this annual odyssey.
Hibernation and Homing: See how bears use their homing instinct to return
from far – away journeys for food, and learn what happens during hibernation.
Parenting Principles: Watch parents teach baby primates in Borneo’s jungles
how to groom, build nests, and find safe leaves to eat.
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Standard 6-12
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An Inside look: Heart
Attack
Journey inside 45 – year
– old Jon Palmer’s body to experience a heart attack up close. The cardiovascular
system is an intricate web of vessels, arteries, muscles and electrical
impulses that keeps oxygen – rich blood pumping through our body.
But what happens when that system is challenged by fatty cholesterol plaque?
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Standard 6-12
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The Real Bionic Man
Are bionic men and women
in our future? In places like Utah’s Bionic Valley, scientists rare developing
incredibly sophisticated artificial body part: hearing devices implanted
in the cochlea and eyes that transmit electric signals to visual cortex.
This video explores the field of science – fiction – turned – science fact
and show how some inventions are already helping people with disabilities.
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Standard 6-12
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Human who are we?
See the amazing story of
why we’re the only species to invest in brains to survive. Unlike animals,
we find our source of strength in our minds, not our bodies. Brain size
and other dramatic changes brought into existence the Homo sapiens and
such “modern” innovations as language, culture and technology.
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