Tag: science
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Microcosmos
A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting nectar, ladybugs eating mites, snails mating, spiders wrapping their catch, a scarab beetle relentlessly pushing its ball of dung uphill, endless lines of caterpillars, an underwater spider creating an air bubble to live in,…
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The National Geographic Guide to Birding in North America
Birding expert James Currie presents components of birding: – essentials of bird anatomy and taxonomy, and how this knowledge helps the student critically in the field; – how to identify birds, plus related topics such as birding by ear, birding at night, bird behavior, avian migration; – optical equipment for birding, highlighting binoculars and spotting…
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Explained
This documentary series, made in partnership with Vox, explain some of the world’s current trends, from politics, to science to pop culture.
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Code van Coppens
Exciting challenges and great stunts. That’s how we know the Coppens brothers. Now they put special rooms full of scientific puzzles, tests and assignments that their famous friends have to bring to a successful conclusion. What familiar face cracks the Code of Coppens?
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Fantastic Fungi
A vivid journey into the mysterious subterranean world of mycelium and its fruit— the mushroom. A story that begins 3.5 billion years ago, fungi makes the soil that supports life, connecting vast systems of roots from plants and trees all over the planet, like an underground Internet. Through the eyes of renowned mycologist Paul Stamets,…
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Orb: On the Movements of the Earth
After learning heretical teachings about the Earth and the Sun, a child prodigy searches for his master’s hidden research while evading the Inquisition.