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New! TEDTalks: Paolo Cardini—Forget Multitasking; Try Monotasking
Item# 53063
© 2012
3 Min.
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People aren't just cooking anymore—they're cooking, texting, talking on the phone, watching YouTube, and uploading photos of the awesome meal they just made. In this TEDTalk, product designer Paolo Ca...
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Ceramics: The Secret Life of Materials
Item# 52559
© 2012
50 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-390-7
Sand and clay, transformed by fire, become glass, earthenware, porcelain, or concrete—all types of ceramics. In this program, materials scientist Dr. Mark Miodownik delves into the history, production...
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Metal: The Secret Life of Materials
Item# 52557
© 2012
50 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-388-4
It has only been in the last 60 years that science has unraveled the secrets of metal at the atomic level, learning how it can be strong enough to build empires but soft enough to be crumbled in the h...
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Plastic: The Secret Life of Materials
Item# 52558
© 2012
50 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-389-1
Science has created more new materials in the last 100 years than in all of the rest of history—and this is just the beginning. In this program, materials scientist Dr. Mark Miodownik explores the his...
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The Secret Life of Materials
Item# 52556
© 2012
150 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-387-7
Every era of civilization has been defined by man’s power to manipulate materials. From the Stone Age to the silicon age, materials have transformed our world and our lives. In this three-part series,...
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Stuff: A Horizon Guide to Materials
Item# 52584
© 2012
50 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-415-7
Recent decades have seen an explosion in the field of materials science, with the advent of new substances and newly found uses for known substances, intriguing scientists and industrial manufacturers...
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The Age of Invention: Shock and Awe—The Story of Electricity
Item# 49439
© 2012
60 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-636-9
Once a subject of crude experiments and parlor tricks, electricity was recognized some 200 years ago as a force that could completely transform the world—driving machines, lighting homes, and enabling...
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Revelations and Revolution: Shock and Awe—The Story of Electricity
Item# 49440
© 2012
60 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-637-6
Today we can hardly imagine life without electrical power—it defines our era. It creates human connections. It is the lifeblood of civil society. But how did we arrive here, at a place in which our un...
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Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity
Item# 49437
© 2012
180 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-634-5
For centuries, electricity was a complete mystery—something magical, beyond human reach. The act of harnessing it, carried out over time by some of the greatest minds in history, remade the world. Thi...
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Spark: Shock and Awe—The Story of Electricity
Item# 49438
© 2012
60 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-635-2
Starting with Francis Hauksbee’s 1705 Royal Society demonstration, in which he produced static electricity and a nascent form of neon lighting, this program looks at the origins of our understanding o...
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