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Despite living longer and healthier lives than ever before, we have never been more obsessed with our health. And in an effort to detect the signs of silent killers lurking inside, more and more of us are turning to health tests. In this surprising BBC Horizon film, human guinea pig Michael Mosley puts himself through a battery of health tests available to people who feel perfectly well. From a simple assessment to a state of the art heart CT scan,...
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Teams can lose motivation for all kinds of reasons, and it's contagious. When this happens, Peter Quarry and Eve Ash recommend techniques for recognizing and unblocking low motivation, identifying a sense of purpose (the Five Whys), improving leadership and people's feelings of being appreciated. By sparking motivation, increasing purposefulness, and improving leadership skills, teams can create a silver lining effect and get issues and recommendations...
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Johann Strauss' waltz, On the Beautiful Blue Danube, is considered Austria's secret national anthem. First performed 150 years ago in Vienna, the composition from the Strauss "waltz factory" became an instant hit worldwide. This film by Eric Schulz looks behind the scenes of the "waltz factory" of the Strauss family. Historic film footage is combined with waltz impressions from Vienna's Musikverein and an unusual collection of mobile phone 'selfie'...
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This interview with gun activist Cody Wilson questions how printable firearms may change the dynamic of political power. Wilson fired a shot heard around the world when he created The Liberator, a plastic pistol he made on a 3D printer, and then put the 3D-printing files (or CADs) up on the Internet for free. To folks interested in cutting-edge technology and decentralized experiments in living, Wilson's gun symbolized an age of uncontrollable freedom....
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The Lion Queens is a series like no other. It takes you right into the lion kingdom and records some of the jaw-dropping and awe-inspiring close ups with the lion. The programs follow the courageous work of the Lion Queens who are helping the Asiatic Lion make a comeback. Riding on motorbikes, and often on foot, a brigade of girls patrols the jungle fearlessly. They chase down heavily armed poachers, capture leopards who stray in to the human settlements,...
6) Vox Pops
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Vox Pops from the staff at Liberty IT about working in IT, working in the company and how IT is changing and how work flows have changed to have the best communication between the team and their customers
7) Think Aloud
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To understand what thinking aloud strategy is and how it can be used in technical coaching but in other disciplines
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Geography series with Dr Iain Stewart. Our planet is unique within the solar system. Four-and-a-half billion years ago it had a twin named Theia which was absorbed into the Earth, increasing its gravity and allowing it to form an atmosphere. Iain travels to Meteor Crater in Arizona to explore the atmosphere's role in protecting us from bombardment by meteorites. Life on earth only prospers because it is provided with right amount of heat from the...
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We're putting more and more carbon dioxide and other gases into the atmosphere, which are trapping the sun's energy, and lo and behold, our planet is heating up in response. To fix this, we could cut carbon dioxide emissions, but that's been hard. What if there were a shortcut? What if we could reflect some of the sun's energy away before it had a chance to get trapped? Like.... with space mirrors!?
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Civilians shoot and upload police encounters to the Internet everyday using tiny cameras on their cell phones and other mobile devices. But police are looking to keep civilians accountable too, by wearing cameras of their own. In this video, former Seattle police officer Steve Ward talks about how video can keep both cops and civilians accountable.
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Featuring 10 Board Certified Dance/Movement Therapists, this innovative film demonstrates use of movement and dance to support self-expression, confidence, trauma healing, self-regulation, social skills and wellbeing for children. Includes case studies with children aged 0-15 with diverse special needs, in group and solo sessions. Expert voices: Dr. Suzi Tortora, Dr.Charne Furcron, Kalila Homann, Janet Kaylo, Susan Kierr, Jeanine Kiss, Rena Kornblum,...
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Katie Derham introduces the spectacular climax to the 2010 Proms from the Royal Albert Hall. There are encores from composers featured earlier in the season, with music by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Wagner, Henry Wood and Parry. The star soloists are American soprano Renee Fleming and viola player Maxim Rysanov, and the combined forces of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Chorus and the BBC Singers are conducted by Jiri Belohlavek. Audiences...
14) No Short Climb
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During the period immediately following the Great Depression, young African-American men and women graduated from high schools and college across the nation with degrees in the sciences. However, they found themselves unemployed and unemployable. Though large numbers of scientists, technicians, and support staff were widely recruited from prestigious colleges and universities, racial barriers kept these ranks limited to White applicants. As the U.S....
15) Dams
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They block the force of a river, produce enough electricity to power cities, move water over hundreds of miles and irrigate fertile valleys. Dams prevent floods and produce "green" energy.
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In a museum in Baltimore, the oldest and most authentic copy of a collection of works by the brilliant Greek mathmetician Archimedes is being painstakingly restored. The manuscript had been cut up and written over to form a medieval prayer-book. Horizon reveals how scientists are using cutting-edge imaging techniques to unlock the astonishing secrets of this time capsule.
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Ed Balls travels to America's Deep South, to immerse himself in the lives of those who put Trump in power and learn how this reality TV businessman won them over. Trump promised to make Americans proud again, so Ed joins the 15,000 working-class Americans heading to Saint-Jo, Texas, with their monster trucks and Confederate flags for the wild Rednecks with Paychecks festival - the ultimate celebration of Southern Pride. Determined to find out how...
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This episode follows Leonardo from his illegitimate birth to the unveiling of his masterpiece The Last Supper in 1497. Learning his craft in Florence, Leonardo survives arrest and possible burning at the stake to win the patronage of the powerful tyrant, Ludivico Sforza, Duke of Milan. While working for Sforza he paints Madonna of the Rocks, works out why the sky is blue and is the first person to properly dissect a human body. And he was a practical...
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In Henry IV and Henry V, Jeremy Irons (who is playing Henry IV in the new BBC films) uncovers the extraordinary appeal of Shakespeare's History Plays. He unravels the differences between the real history and the drama that Shakespeare creates. He discovers what William's sources were - and how he distorts them! And he invites us behind the scenes at the filming of some of the most important scenes in the new films of all of these plays.
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What was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River disappeared more than 100 years ago due to water diversion and land reclamation for agriculture. This program visits with a series of people living in and around the old lake bed, raising sometimes unsettling, unresolved questions about what was gained and what was lost in the process.
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