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"Slime is strange and fascinating. It acts like both a solid and a liquid. Want to find out how to make your own? This book shows you how! Using simple materials and easy step-by-step instructions, young readers can explore the science behind this fun project"--Publisher's website.
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Jenna is supposed to be doing her chores, but she's secretly making slime instead. Her dads took away her normal slime ingredients, so she found a new recipe online. The instructions are a little weird, but the gooey blob she's created looks really cool. Until it starts growing and moving . . . and sucking things into its squishy mass! Written in graphic-novel format.
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"The dramatic story of one man's recovery offers new hope to those suffering from concussions and other brain traumas. In 1999, Clark Elliott suffered a concussion when his car was rear-ended. Overnight his life changed from that of a rising professor with a research career in artificial intelligence to a humbled man struggling to get through a single day. At times he couldn't walk across a room, or even name his five children. Doctors told him he...
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Let your creativity and your imagination soar with these colorful, crazy-fun recipes for slime, dough, clay, foam, mud and more. Create amazing concoctions like Fake Snow, Color-Changing Slime and Glow-in-the-Dark Dough. Dig your fingers into Glowing Magic Mud, Shaving Cream Dough and Kool-Aid Foam. Or, if you're brave enough, squeeze the Spider Egg Sack Slime or the Frog's Vomit Slime--eek! There are even some special slimes that you can eat like...
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The fascinating interplay of genetic predispositions and experience in the development of the brain after birth is demonstrated in this program filmed at the Brain Development Laboratory at the University of Oregon. Three profiles of plasticity are depicted with compelling footage of behavioral, MRI, and EEG research into the development of visual perception and language acquisition from infancy through old age. A congenitally Deaf young woman, university...
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By far the biggest discovery that's been made about our brains in the last ten years is just how changeable they really are. Scientists used to think the brain stayed much the same once it reached adult size at age 12, but this video clip takes a look at the transformative technology of the MRI and all the things it's taught us about the plasticity and function of the brain over the last decade.
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Plastic Fantastic Brain is a two part program that explores the truth behind medical marvels and cutting-edge technology that could help improve physical and mental capabilities. Part 1 tells the story of individuals whose brains adapted and created new connections to overcome extraordinary circumstances. Meet a woman who lives a fulfilling life with only half a brain, and a blind professor who learns to see using his tongue.
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Jerzy Grotowski was an innovative and influential theater director whose theories still resound throughout the theater world. His career, spanning forty years and influenced by war, encompassed five specific phases and reveals that reveal his rejection of conventional approaches in favor of theatrical experiments. Part 2 of this series features workshop exercises led by Grotowski practitioners.
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For centuries, men and women seem to have baffled each other. Are boys really better at math and spatial skills? Are girls better at empathy? What makes us have different strengths and weaknesses? And are these innate or are they shaped by cultural influences? Dr. Alice Roberts and Dr. Michael Mosley investigate the latest neuroimaging techniques and behavioral studies to determine whether men and women are wired differently. If they are, could this...
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Can modern genetics, psychology, and neuroscience actually identify the qualities that make up human creativity and brilliance? This program follows innovative research which may help determine what makes a person a genius-if such a label even makes sense. Dr. Manuel Casanova of the University of Louisville has detected differences in brain structure that may account for extreme intelligence. Dr. Justin Halberda of Johns Hopkins University administers...
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Seeing requires an immense amount of cerebral power - more than 65 percent of the brain's neural pathways. That massive machinery has been intensely studied, and yet scientists continue to be surprised by what we see with our eyes, what we actually perceive with our brains, and discrepancies between the two. This program takes viewers on a fascinating tour of the visual "assembly line," from the moment light enters our pupils to the way this information...
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This episode of the Green Interview features Gary Saunders, the author of the award-winning book My Life with Trees: A Sylvan Journey. In this exclusive Green Interview, he speaks with Silver Donald Cameron about how he is at home in the woods, and how that came to be, starting out in out port Newfoundland as the son of a river man. He spent most of his adult life in Nova Scotia as a forester, an artist, an educator, and a writer. His most recent...
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Our ears may have evolved for purposes of survival, but they also afford us the gift of music. How is it that a melody can "give wings to the mind," as Plato said, and so profoundly affect the human heart? In this program, finding the answer to that question will take viewers on a journey through the ear, into the brain, and straight into the core of the human psyche. Viewers meet world-class neuroscientists like Daniel Levitin, author of This Is...
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Leonardo da Vinci began his career around 1472 in Florence as a portrait painter. This program examines ten elements in da Vinci's The Virgin, the Infant Jesus, and Saint Anne: darkness and light, volume and color, figure and setting, distance, proximity, movement, and rest. In this painting, Saint Anne wears her hair braided. Her eyes are lowered and she is smiling. On her knees, the Virgin Mary is shown in a low-neck dress, leaning toward the infant...