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Visiting the site of the world's worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl, Stefan Gates finds people living on toxic land. His journey takes him right up to the crumbling sarcophagus itself, and when a woman prepares a meal from produce grown in her garden,Gates is faced with a tricky dilemma.

Ensure the continued health and well-being of mother and baby as they make the transition from hospital to home. This video presents the most current need-to-know discharge information-including postpartum recovery tips, feeding basics, newborn care, and when to call healthcare providers. Content includes: Mother Care & Warning Signs, Baby Blues & Postpartum Mood Disorders, and Breastfeeding Basics. This special version includes all the same essential...

This video clip begins with two boys, Jaylin in green and Ethan in a blue shirt, standing against a brick wall in anticipation of a start signal for the race from Jeriah, wearing blue pants. Jeriah stands away from the wall as if to establish his role as ‘starting gun’. He sees that Ethan is looking at him, so he raises his hand to signal that the starting word (“Go”) is about to be spoken. But Jaylin is not looking at Jeriah, nor is Jeriah...

This video clip shows a group of two-year-olds working to voluntarily control their behavior in order to engage in turn-taking with peers. The children know that taking turns involves a period of waiting and a period of activity. One child asserts the “five-minute” rule as a means to negotiate turns swinging. While the children understand that time can be measured, they have trouble determining the actual time span of five minutes. The teacher...

Modern food production is largely dependent on fossil fuels. Now that we are beginning to reach the end of them, the main question remains: How will we feed a global population of 9 billion people in 2050? In the Netherlands, Belgium and Silicon Valley, numerous startups have sprung up that use smart technology, big data and new distribution systems to find solutions. This program explores tomorrow's food, which not only needs to be sustainable, tasty...

This video clip shows a 10-month-old infant soothing herself when frustrated, focusing her attention in spite of distraction, and organizing her behavior into an effective sequence, thereby exemplifying an area of development called “self-regulation.” Although her attention is temporarily directed elsewhere, she leaves some mental space for the game so that she can pick up where she leaves off. Having these two levels of attention supports the...

This video clip shows how a young boy’s curiosity causes him to pull up to a standing position to see what he can see. As he crawls across the floor, Connor appears to know that he wants to stand, and he recognizes that the shelf on the opposite wall will give him support. Notice how the teacher reads his intentions as she moves the teddy bear so that Connor can see it without turning away from the shelf he is holding. She then gingerly offers Connor...

This video shows two year olds initiating a game of Peek-a-Boo on the playground. It begins with two toddlers playing Peek-a- Boo over a fence. While they are enjoying this game, a third child attempts to join by popping up on one side of the partition. When this is unsuccessful, he leaves. Other children join in and the rules change.

This video clip shows two infants crawling and climbing in their classroom, illustrating how infants explore their world with their whole bodies.

In this video clip, two infants discover the joy of disappearing and re-appearing on opposite sides of a climb-through tunnel. In the second segment, the screen is divided into a replay of the peek-a-boo episode in the background and on the lower left we see a clip of the boy looking at this same episode on a computer screen. We see the boy stoop several times while he looks at the peek-a-boo episode on the computer. His actions can be seen as evidence...