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Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Earth's Changing Climate (Video)
Take a deeper look into two scientific research projects: one that looks into the past, and the other which looks into the future. Applying the information learned through these projects can help us understand better ways to cope with...
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Annenberg Learner: Voices & Visions: Elizabeth Bishop
Information about Elizabeth Bishop and her poetry. Includes a video (with transcript) on the life and works of the poet. Part of the "Voices and Visions" series by Annenberg Media. [57:29]
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Annenberg Learner: Voices & Visions: t.s. Eliot
Information about T.S. Eliot, and a video (with transcript) on his life, influence, and poetry. There are also several links to other scholarly resources. Part of a 13-episode series entitled "Voices and Visions." [57:10]
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Annenberg Learner: Voices & Visions: Langston Hughes
James Baldwin and biographer Arnold Rampersad discuss the works and influence of African American writer Langston Hughes. There are also several links to other resources about Hughes. Video is part of a series entitled "Voices and...
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Annenberg Learner: Voices & Visions: Robert Lowell
Video on the life and poetry of Robert Lowell. There are also several links to other resources about Lowell. Part of a 13-episode video series entitled "Voices and Visions." Lowell reads his poetry himself and others discuss his style....
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Annenberg Learner: Voices & Visions: Marianne Moore
Video on the life and works of poet Marianne Moore where her friends and critics analyze her work. There are also links to several other resources about Moore. Part of a 13-episode video series entitled "Voices and Visions." [58:49]
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Annenberg Learner: Voices & Visions: Sylvia Plath
Video on the life and poetry of Sylvia Plath, with archival footage and visualizations of her work. Includes a video transcript. There are also several links to other resources about Plath. Part of a thirteen-hour series entitled "Voices...
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Annenberg Learner: Voices & Visions: Ezra Pound
Part of a video series that "explores the lives and works of 13 of America's most famous poets," this site consists of a video (with transcript) and a series of links to resources about Pound, including an excerpt of "Canto LXXXI." [56:59]
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Annenberg Learner: Voices & Visions: Wallace Stevens
Archival footage illustrates Wallace Stevens's poetry in a video from "Voices and Visions," a 13-episode series on American poets. There are also several links to other resources about Stevens. Includes a video transcript. [57:54]
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Annenberg Learner: Voices & Visions: Walt Whitman
Video on the life and poetry of Walt Whitman. Includes a video transcript. There are also several links to other resources about Whitman. [57:01]
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Annenberg Learner: Voices & Visions: William Carlos Williams
Video on the life and works of poet William Carlos Williams. Includes a transcript. There are also several links to other resources about Williams. Part of a series on American poets. [57:14]
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Annenberg Learner: Voices and Visions: Robert Frost
Information about Robert Frost, and a video featuring readings and interviews with the poet. Past of a thirteen-hour series entitled "Voices and Visions." Includes a downloadable video transcript. [57:15]
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Annenberg Learner: Mathematics Illuminated: The Primes
A detailed look at the importance of prime numbers, not only in math, but also in science and in the field of cryptography. [28:27]
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Annenberg Learner: Mathematics Illuminated: Geometries Beyond Euclid
Video presentation will help you visualize non-Euclidean geometry, comparing flat space with curved space and how they affect shape. Contains a history of non-Euclidean geometry, detailed discussion of curved vs. flat surfaces, and...
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Annenberg Learner: Against All Odds: Histograms
Meteorologists use histograms to map when lightning strikes and this visualization technique helps them understand the data in new ways. [9:42]
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Annenberg Learner: Against All Odds: Normal Calculations
Video program shows viewers how to use standard deviation, compute relative frequencies, find percentiles, and determine whether a distribution is normal. Real-life connections made by examining data from vehicle-emissions standards and...
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Annenberg Learner: Against All Odds: Multidimensional Data Analysis
A look at why multivariate data is collected and how it can be graphed by a computer program for study analysis. The real-life example shown here involves collecting and analyzing data taken from the Chesapeake Bay in order to examine...
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Annenberg Learner: Against All Odds: Binomial Distributions
Video explains that Sickle cell disease is an example of binomial distribution in families with two parents who are carriers for this genetic trait. [11:28]
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Annenberg Learner: The Constitution: That Delicate Balance
View this collection of Emmy award winning Videos on Demand which draw attention to many present day controversial topics and are debated by various professionals.
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Annenberg Learner: Strength to Overcome: South Africa and Kenya
Video program featuring two case studies about Africa entitled South Africa: This Land is My Land and Kenya: Medical Geography. The first study explores the post-apartheid government and economy. The second study investigates health care...
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Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: A Nation Divided
This video examines common soldiers defending their purpose in the Civil War and civilians, raising the question of whether the Union actually won the war. [28:25]
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Annenberg Learner: Earth Revealed
To support or supplement a course in earth science or geography, Annenberg Media offers twenty-six Videos on Demand (VoDs). The topics coverd range from why Earth can sustain life, to plate tectonics, to rock types and landscape...
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Annenberg Learner: Science in Focus: Energy: Energy in Cycles
Video workshop explores the everyday activities, such as walking, running, or playing a stringed instrument, that generate energy cycles, as well as the reasons energy cycles diminish and the ways to keep them sustained. [58:20]
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Annenberg Learner: Science in Focus: Energy: Understanding Energy
A video workshop looking at the world's use of fossil fuels as an energy source. Includes discussions about the limits of fossil fuel use and the importance of teaching energy conservation and investing in alternative energy sources.