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Schistosomiasis (1990)

Director

Douglas Fisher

Subject

Biology; Medical sciences

An estimated 200 million people and countless domestic animals in the tropics and sub-tropics suffer from schistosomiasis (bilharzia), and perhaps 400 million others are at risk. The video uses...

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Potent Biology: Stem Cells, Cloning and Regeneration (2006)

Subject

Biology; Medical sciences

Distribution

DVD (Region 1, 240 minutes), free

What are embryonic stem cells? Why are they potent? How do they differ from adult stem cells? Are embryonic development and regeneration intimately connected? In four presentations, given as part of the HHMI...

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Art of the Marbler, The (2011)

Director

KV Whitbread

Subject

Art; Librarianship

Beautiful marbled patterns for book end-papers and bindings produced at Douglas Cockerell and Son were filmed for Bedfordshire County Council. (13 minutes)

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Moebius Transformations Revealed (2007)

Subject

Mathematics

A short film made by Douglas Arnold and Jonathan Rogness at the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications at the University of Minnesota. The video depicts the beauty of Moebius Transformations in...

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Will There Be a Shortage of Spending Power? (2013)

Subject

Business studies; Economics

This lecture looks at the world surplus of savings as incomes gradually shift proportionally towards those who traditionally save a high proportion of their earnings and away from those who traditionally...

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Christmas Lectures 1991: Waking Up in the Universe (1991)

Subject

Science

Richard Dawkins presents the first in a series of lectures on the theme of "our own growing knowledge of how life grows up in the universe." (57 minutes). The other lectures in the series are also available...

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Life Cycle of the Tsetse Fly, The (1987)

Director

Douglas Fisher

Subject

Biology

Several of the 22 species of testse found in central Africa carry the trypanosome parasites that cause African sleeping sickness in man and ngana in cattle and other domestic animals. The video presents the...

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Hell on Earth (1931)

aka: Niemandsland

Director

Victor Trivas; George Shdanoff

Subject

History

The story of five men, an Englishman, a Frenchman, a German, a Russian Jew, and a Black American who meet on the battlefield of World War I. Setting aside their prejudices, they refuse to kill each other and...

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Richard Feynman: The Douglas Robb Memorial Lectures (4 Parts) (2006)

Subject

Education; Physics

A set of four archival video recordings from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, of the outstanding Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman. Although the recording is of modest technical quality...

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Sky at Night Series, The (2004)

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/spaceguide/skyatnight/proginfo.shtml

Monthly astronomy programmes from the BBC SKY AT NIGHT series, presented by Patrick Moore, are available for free viewing online. The archive contains programmes broadcast since December 2001 and new...

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