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Children's television programs. Documentary television programs. Educational television programs. Nature television programs. Nonfiction television programs. Science television programs. Television programs for the hearing impaired. Television programs. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. videorecordingSummary: Bill Nye delivers hot sand from Saudi Arabia and bananas from humid Costa Rica, all to explain how different climates are created and how they affect our planet.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILSummary: Bill Nye the science guy explores pollution in our environment and gives tips of how we can better use and protect our environment and its resources.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2005
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2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILSummary: Bill Nye travels to Arizona's stunning Sonoran Desert to explore this unique ecosystem and demonstrate the special ways its native plants and animals flourish.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILSummary: Bill Nye sheds light on solar flares, eclipses, sunspots, fusion, and solar energy, and visits an enormous solar energy farm outside Sacramento, California, to demonstrate how the sun is the source of energy for all living things on Earth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILSummary: Bill Nye shows all kinds of unexpected places where magnets can be found. In fact, the Earth itself is a huge magnet! Find out how to make a compass and why opposites attract.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2008
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2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILSummary: "Bill Nye checks out a millipede that crawls by coordinating the movement of its 200 feet, and reveals other creatures who move around without a leg to stand on."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILSummary: Have a blast watching the explosive examples Bill Nye uses to explain that everything is made of chemicals. Guest star Candace Cameron shares the lab with Bill and shows that fire is actually a chemical reaction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILSummary: Bill Nye will check out this important muscular pump's function in the body by pulling nine 'Gs' with the United States Navy's Blue Angels and chatting with Seattle Mariner Edgar Martinez.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2009
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD BCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILSummary: Bill Nye goes planet-gazing and takes a serious look at Jupiter's features, Earth's elliptical orbit, and the distances between planets. Cool home demo shows how to make Mars soil.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2008
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD BSummary: Bill Nye illustrates how various types of transportation utilize friction, from traction in trains and the "roll" of ball bearings in skateboards and automobiles, to the lack of friction in a hovercraft.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILSummary: Bill Nye The Science Guy talks about the atmosphere, its five different levels, and how it protects the Earth. Bill also soars into the heavy topic of atmospheric air pressure and radio waves.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILSummary: Bodies of water surrounded by land on all sides are called lakes if they're large and ponds if they're small. Where does all that water come from? Bill Nye ponders this and many other freshwater questions in this exciting program.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2009
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2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILSummary: "Did you know that nothing can move or stop by itself? In Motion, Bill Nye shows how everything needs a push or pull, a force, to make it move or stop. Sometimes an object might seem to be at rest even when it is actually in motion. Confused? It's all relative, relative motion, that is."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILSummary: Bill Nye gets aerobic about the importance of respiration when he jogs, bikes, swims, and scuba dives. Discover how to measure how much air each breath contains and make a model lung in a nifty home experiment. See a demonstration of how cigarette smoke can infiltrate and injure lungs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILSummary: Through the Wormhole explores the deepest mysteries of existence, the questions that have puzzled mankind for eternity. The series brings together the brightest minds and best ideas from the very edges of science to reveal the extraordinary truth of our universe, and to raise even more philosophical questions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Science 2014
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV THRSummary: The first season of this series examines the economies of being environmentally conscious in green building design. The first program, The green apple, uses New York City, particularly One Bryant Park and the Solaire, to demonstrates how the ubiquitous skyscraper can be a model of environmental responsibility. The second episode, Green for all, features architect and activist Sergio Palleroni...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by PBS Home Video 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DESSummary: Earth is an incredible, exceptional planet with an amazing life story full of cataclysmic disasters, eleventh-hour coincidences that save it from extinction, and an astonishing power to continually regenerate. Uses breathtaking footage and special imaging to tell the story of the great forces that shape the planet - volcanoes, the ocean, the atmosphere and ice. Traveling from Ethiopia's unique...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BBC Worldwide Americas 2008
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV EARSummary: Using specially developed camera lenses, Nova brings you the most intimate and most spectacular portrayal of a working bee colony ever filmed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2007