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What Is Carboxytherapy?
Howcast - Learn about carboxytherapy for stretch marks, cellulite and dark undereye circles from licensed esthetician Joanna Vargas in this Howcast video.
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Is Dry Cleaning Bad for the Environment?
Howcast - Learn if you have to avoid dry cleaning in order to be eco-friendly in this Howcast video featuring Alegre of Green and Greener.
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How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
Howcast - Your carbon footprint is how many greenhouse gases you release in your daily activities. Be remembered by your good deeds, not your carbon emissions.
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How to Cure the Hiccups
When you have the hiccups, everyone has a remedy. The truth is, there are no scientifically proven cures that do the trick every time. But here are the most common ones that work for most people, most of the time.
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How to Calculate Your Carbon Footprint
A carbon footprint is an equation that estimates just how much you, personally, are contributing to global warming—and all you have to do is plug some info into an online calculator. Figuring out how to make your footprint smaller, of...
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How to Hold Your Breath like David Blaine
In 2008, David Blaine held his breath for over 17 minutes, breaking the world record for oxygen-assisted static apnea, a form of holding your breath underwater. Here's how he did it.
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DIY SCI - EXPLODING FILM CANISTERS
DIY SCI host Steve Spangler demonstrates how to make exploding film canisters! It's always more fun to invite some friends to set hundred off at once because anything worth doing is worth overdoing!
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DIY SCI - FIRE EXTINGUISHER
DIY SCI host Steve Spangler demonstrates how its possible to put out fire with carbon dioxide!
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DIY SCI - LIQUID NITROGEN ROCKET EXPERIMENT
DIY SCI host Steve Spangler demonstrates how liquid nitrogen can be used to make a bottle rocket! WARNING: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME! LEAVE EXPERIMENTS LIKE THIS TO THE DIY SCI PROFESSIONALS!
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DIY SCI - SODA CAN SCIENCE
DIY SCI host Steve Spangler demonstrates what causes some soda cans to float while others sink and the true way to keep your soda can from turning into a soda geyser!
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DIY SCI - SODA GEYSERS AT SCHOOL
DIY SCI host Steve Spangler demonstrates how soda geysers work with the help of over 100 kids at school!
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DIY SCI - DIY ROOT BEER
DIY SCI host Steve Spangler demonstrates how you can make your own root beer at home!
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Climate change in India
Pupil outcome: I can describe some impacts of climate change in India and give examples of ways in which the country is taking climate action. Key learning points: - Some people and places are more impacted by climate change than others....
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Food and climate change
Pupil outcome: I can describe ways in which food systems contribute to climate change and investigate possible actions that can be taken to reduce the carbon footprint of food. Key learning points: - Farming and food production are major...
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Making a speech about environmental issues
Pupil outcome: I can use my understanding of climate change to give a speech. Key learning points: - Climate change is driven by human activity - specifically, an increase in greenhouse gases. - Climate change will have significant...
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Identifying the features of an essay
Pupil outcome: I can identify the logical argument of an essay and I can identify an essay's linguistic features in a model. Key learning points: - Essays can either examine both sides of an issue in a balanced way, or they can argue...
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River processes of erosion, transportation and deposition
Pupil outcome: I can understand the processes at work in a river. Key learning points: - Rivers erode landscapes through the processes of hydraulic action, abrasion, attrition and solution. - Rivers transport sediment through the...
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Chemical formulae
Pupil outcome: I can use chemical symbols to write down chemical formulae for elements and compounds. Key learning points: - The symbols for each element (each type of atom) a substance contains, appear in its chemical formula. - Numbers...
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Reducing our carbon footprint (non-statutory)
Pupil outcome: I can explain what a carbon footprint is and how we can reduce it. Key learning points: - Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases trap heat in the atmosphere, leading to warmer temperatures on Earth. - A carbon footprint...
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Greenhouse gases (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability)
Pupil outcome: I can describe how greenhouse gases trap heat around Earth. Key learning points: - The atmosphere is a mixture of gases around Earth. - Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that makes up about 0.04% of the atmosphere and is...
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The function of leaves
Pupil outcome: I can describe why plants have leaves. Key learning points: - Many plants have roots, stems, leaves and flowers. - Plants can make their own food. This happens in the leaves of a plant. - Plants make food in their leaves,...
The Daily Conversation
The Future of Ocean Exploration
Deep sea mining, seafloor vents, underwater drones, bioluminescent sharks, and the disturbing effects of ocean acidification highlight the near future of oceanographic discovery.
The Daily Conversation
Exploring Carbon Pricing Methods
California’s cap-and-trade program is seen as the most successful way to put a price on carbon in the world. It uses a market system where companies buy and sell permits to pollute, but there's a minimum price to keep costs from dropping...
Professor Dave Explains
Subphylum Hexapoda Part 1: Insect Form and Function
We are moving through phylum Arthropoda, and we have just one subphylum left to go, Hexapoda. This one is huge, containing all the insects in the world. What can we say about the general form and function of the hexapods?