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1. Nanook revisited (1994)
Revisits Inukjiak, the Inuit village where Robert J. Flaherty filmed Nanook of the North. Examines the realities behind the documentary and the changes since 1922 when it was made.
Revisits Inukjiak, the Inuit village where Robert J. Flaherty filmed Nanook of the North. Examines the realities behind the documentary and the changes since 1922 when it was made.
2. Acid assault (1991)
Beginning with an overview of acids and bases, this program explains the formation and chemical properties of acid rain. Focuses especially on its devastating effects on marine and terrestrial biota.
Beginning with an overview of acids and bases, this program explains the formation and chemical properties of acid rain. Focuses especially on its devastating effects on marine and terrestrial biota.
3. Chesapeake planter a dialogue on early American farming (1976)
A tour through the world of the colonial farmer in the year 1777, when most of the 13 original colonies were still one vast forest. Farms consisted of small, rough clearings cultivated by hand or with primitive tool...
A tour through the world of the colonial farmer in the year 1777, when most of the 13 original colonies were still one vast forest. Farms consisted of small, rough clearings cultivated by hand or with primitive tool...
4. Danger ahead is there no way out? (1990)
Suggests some less drastic solutions to the global warming such as reducing CO2 emissions, using the sun and the wind as energy sources, using nuclear power, reducing energy usage, curbing or stopping the use of CFC...
Suggests some less drastic solutions to the global warming such as reducing CO2 emissions, using the sun and the wind as energy sources, using nuclear power, reducing energy usage, curbing or stopping the use of CFC...
5. Global warming (1990)
Shows the effect of rising temperatures on Earth, with its foreseeably disastrous consequences.
Shows the effect of rising temperatures on Earth, with its foreseeably disastrous consequences.
6. Modifying the weather (1990)
Shows the effect of migration in the Sahel in changing regional climate, the tomorrow-be-damned policy of water usage in Arizona, the drastic miscarriage of good intentions in Central Asia, where the efforts to irri...
Shows the effect of migration in the Sahel in changing regional climate, the tomorrow-be-damned policy of water usage in Arizona, the drastic miscarriage of good intentions in Central Asia, where the efforts to irri...
7. The Greenhouse effect (1990)
Analyzes the sun's gradual brightening and the relationship between sunlight and CO2. Explains why the atmosphere of Mars has too much and Venus too little CO2 to sustain life. Theorizes about the disappearance of d...
Analyzes the sun's gradual brightening and the relationship between sunlight and CO2. Explains why the atmosphere of Mars has too much and Venus too little CO2 to sustain life. Theorizes about the disappearance of d...
8. Sun, sunlight and weather patterns (1990)
Explains the origin of tropical storms, of tropical rain forests and polar deserts, shows the route and the effect of the Gulf Stream and its role in the Little Ice Age of the 16th century. Theorizes about the event...
Explains the origin of tropical storms, of tropical rain forests and polar deserts, shows the route and the effect of the Gulf Stream and its role in the Little Ice Age of the 16th century. Theorizes about the event...
9. Bill Moyers reports Earth on edge (2001)
This program assesses the state of the Earth's environment. Combining interviews with scientists and reports from Mongolia, British Columbia, Brazil, South Africa, and Kansas, Moyers explores the impact that human a...
This program assesses the state of the Earth's environment. Combining interviews with scientists and reports from Mongolia, British Columbia, Brazil, South Africa, and Kansas, Moyers explores the impact that human a...
10. Future talk the environment (1992)
A worldwide community of scholars, concerned with the environment and the future, came together in Santa Fe, New Mexico to discuss how we can meet our needs today and the needs and aspirations of future generations ...
A worldwide community of scholars, concerned with the environment and the future, came together in Santa Fe, New Mexico to discuss how we can meet our needs today and the needs and aspirations of future generations ...
11. Ancient civilizations The Aztecs (1997)
Explores Aztec history and culture, including their religious beliefs and agricultural advancements. Provides an overview of the events that shaped and destroyed the Aztec empire.
Explores Aztec history and culture, including their religious beliefs and agricultural advancements. Provides an overview of the events that shaped and destroyed the Aztec empire.
12. Maryland state of mind, [Fall 1995] (1995)
Rapture of the deep profiles University of Maryland, College Park professor Dr. Eugenie Clark and her marine biology research. The atom and the apple explores University of Maryland University College's research on ...
Rapture of the deep profiles University of Maryland, College Park professor Dr. Eugenie Clark and her marine biology research. The atom and the apple explores University of Maryland University College's research on ...
13. Maryland state of mind, [Fall 1997] (1997)
Robot ruckus examines University of Maryland College Park engineering and computer science students who win an international robotics competition in Tokyo, Japan with their robot jouster Lancelot. World harmony illu...
Robot ruckus examines University of Maryland College Park engineering and computer science students who win an international robotics competition in Tokyo, Japan with their robot jouster Lancelot. World harmony illu...
14. Maryland state of mind, [Winter 1999] (1999)
Hungry for Hollywood illustrates how Towson University's Mass Communication program teaches techniques of filmmaking and highlights a recent graduate who landed a job working in Hollywood. Name, rank and G.P.A. exam...
Hungry for Hollywood illustrates how Towson University's Mass Communication program teaches techniques of filmmaking and highlights a recent graduate who landed a job working in Hollywood. Name, rank and G.P.A. exam...
15. Maryland state of mind, [spring 2000] (2000)
In Man the "terpedo", engineering students at the University of Maryland, College Park design and build a human-powered submarine. A glass act discusses the glass blowing sculpture program at Salisbury State Univers...
In Man the "terpedo", engineering students at the University of Maryland, College Park design and build a human-powered submarine. A glass act discusses the glass blowing sculpture program at Salisbury State Univers...
16. Maryland state of mind, [Spring 1999] (1999)
In Bird in the bush, students from University of Maryland, College Park study the mating rituals of the Bower bird of Australia. Gideon's trumpet features University of Maryland at Baltimore School of Law conference...
In Bird in the bush, students from University of Maryland, College Park study the mating rituals of the Bower bird of Australia. Gideon's trumpet features University of Maryland at Baltimore School of Law conference...