Summary: Government agencies and professionals who deal with damage claims are literally trying to determine the dollars-and-cents worth of human life. How do we decide what is an efficient annual cost for a nursing home? Or the cost for a new liver? And who is going to pay? Dr. Willard Gaylin is a practicing psychiatrist and president of the Hastings Center, an institute devoted to studying the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: What's wrong with enjoying the rich variety of foods that importers make available? Do the reported drawbacks of globalization mean that we should eat only locally grown food? How are Western food choices related to environmental problems and to developing-world farmers? This program explores those questions by studying agricultural practices in the United Kingdom and worldwide. Comparing...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Beau Lotto is founder of Lottolab, a hybrid art studio and science lab. With glowing, interactive sculpture - and good old-fashioned peer-reviewed research - Lotto is illuminating the mysteries of the brain's visual system. In this TEDTalk, he describes his goal of creating color games that evoke the neurology of perception and cognition. Viewers receive a fun, first-hand look at our versatile...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Controversial Cambridge researcher Aubrey de Grey argues that aging is merely a disease - and a curable one at that. Humans age in seven basic ways, he says, all of which can be averted. In this TEDTalk, de Grey launches into a whirlwind presentation that hammers home his thoughts on how to defeat biological aging. a Q-and-A session follows. “Aubrey de Grey is a man of ideas,” says MIT’s...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: During the past century, life expectancy more than doubled in developed countries. However, in the last few decades, thirty new infectious diseases have emerged. One of them, AIDS, is perhaps the most devastating epidemic in history. This program examines the most critical threats we face today and the pressing need to strengthen global public health systems.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: He's an authority on leadership psychology and peak performance. He's a successful entrepreneur. He's a pioneering life coach and an internationally best-selling author. Tony Robbins makes it his business to know why we do the things we do, and in this TEDTalk he outlines what he terms the "invisible forces" that motivate everyone's actions - at work, in school, and throughout life.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Anna has built a successful business from the ground up-and upon retirement, leaves the company to her employees, not to her son. What does that decision tell us about Anna's psychology, and about the development of the human brain over a lifetime? This program explores the emotional and neurological side of learning, explaining how the brain processes and stores experiences and prepares for...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Sensing the thoughts and feelings of others may be a natural talent for most people, but how do we do it? Rebecca Saxe studies the way we think about the inner lives of our fellow humans. In her laboratory at MIT, she uses fMRI scans to identify what happens in our brains when we consider the motives, passions, and beliefs of others. In this TEDTalk, Saxe shares some of her fascinating findings...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert says our beliefs about what will make us happy are often wrong - a premise he supports with intriguing research as well as his accessible and unexpectedly funny book, Stumbling on Happiness. In this TEDTalk, Gilbert presents findings from his exploration of satisfaction and contentment, sharing simple experiments that viewers can apply to their own lives....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: This classic program uses brain research, cognitive development research, and educational practice as windows into the process of learning. Animation depicts the firing of synapses, the growth of dendrites, and the concept of brain plasticity, making the point that learning is as basic a human activity as breathing or eating. Also, factors that lead to school success are presented in a model...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1997
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Summary: This video explores the belief that a person's attitude, whether at home, school, or in the community, has tremendous influence on one's actions. Not only does our attitude influence our behavior, but how others perceive us. Changing our attitudes can improve relationships in all areas of our lives-it's up to us. In the video we meet some middle school students who decide to start a school-wide...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Is the line between being male and being female blurrier than we think? What are we to make of the fact that humans differ from chimpanzees by only a few nucleotides? At what point do we decide a fetus has "the right to life," and that someone existing on life-sustaining technology has the right to die? In this TEDTalk Dr. Alice Dreger questions the categories that are often used to define...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: A gripping story that explores the ambiguities between the supernatural and the natural, this dramatization portrays one man's descent into the "fantastic" and his ensuing madness.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: CADD-Computer-Aided Drafting and Design. This video is designed to provide an overview of CADD, Computer-Aided Drafting and Design, and its importance in today's world. Viewers will see real-world examples of applications, including engines, circuitry, and heating and air conditioning systems. Benefits of using CADD are outlined, and we hear from experts in the field who are actually using CADD...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Fast food is a delicious-but-fattening fact of teenage existence. This video returns to Eastern Illinois University as Ellen and Aaron further explore the concepts and strategies introduced in Portion Size Me. The game plan? After calculating caloric needs based on height, weight, age, gender, and activity level, they order smarter, skip the "little extras," and eat smaller portions. The true...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This episode begins in March of 1621, in what is now southeastern Massachusetts, when Massasoit, the leading sachem of the Wampanoag, negotiated with a ragged group of English colonists. The pale-skinned Pilgrim foreigners were in desperate need of Native help. Massasoit’s people had been decimated by unexplained sickness, and he calculated that an alliance with the foreigners could help...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: On the night of February 27, 1973, American Indian Movement (AIM) and Oglala Lakota activists seized the hamlet of Wounded Knee, and police cordoned off the area. Demanding redress for grievances, the protesters captured the world's attention for 71 gripping days. With heavily armed federal troops tightening a cordon around the Indians, the event recalled the massacre at Wounded Knee almost a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: In the spring of 1805, Tenskwatawa, a Shawnee, fell into a deep trance and claimed to have met the Master of Life, who told him that the Indians were in dire straits because they had adopted white culture and rejected traditional spiritual ways. In this episode the young prophet starts a spiritual revival movement that drew thousands of adherents from tribes across the Midwest. His elder...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Anna was born with a sweet tooth-and as a young woman, created a successful business using it. Her delicious jams and jellies gave pleasure to many, but did they also cause harm? This program explores the way the human body processes food and how its long-term growth and development are shaped by eating habits. Illustrating cellular aging and its relationship to AGEs, or advanced glycation end...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: In this TEDTalk, Malcolm Gladwell - prolific best-selling author and a master of uncovering truths hidden in strange data - gets inside the food industry’s pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce to make a larger argument about the nature of choice and happiness. “Pure Gladwell: cutting through conventional wisdom to define a new way of understanding how something works,” says Washingtonian...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: A child's drawing, a face, a designed object - why is something considered beautiful? And why does it seem to matter so much? In this TEDTalk, product designer Richard Seymour explores the human response to beauty and the sometimes passionate connection people form with objects that exhibit it. Seymour's close study of the way individuals react to things that move them reveals a link to primal,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: At the twilight of an active life, Anna is now bedridden due to a serious fall. What makes the elderly-even those who are in full possession of their mental and physical faculties-more prone to falling than younger people? As this program demonstrates, the answer lies not in the body or the brain alone, but in their interconnection. Exploring Anna's past dreams of becoming a ballerina, the film...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: With help from a professional nutritionist and the wide-ranging opinions of everyday consumers, this program investigates the factors that determine which foods we love-and which foods we just can't stomach. Viewers learn about a variety of social, psychological, and biological influences. Specific topics include the concept of satiety-our bodies telling us whether we are hungry or full-as well...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Our body is composed of billions of cells, but how does each cell know what to become? This program starts with the nucleus of a single cell and then explains the other components the cell needs to function: chromosomes, genes, DNA, and ribosomes. From hair color to height, our genes determine who we are. This program explores, through animated graphics, all of the basic genetic building blocks...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006