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Starting with the accidental discovery of the significant history of a modest dwelling on a traditionally African-American street in Hagerstown, Maryland, this documentary traces t...
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From Series: Dynamic Learning
This short film shows you how to use retrieval practice to improve your understanding and develop your recall to identify gaps in your knowledge. While most study time is spent try...
ShortCuts TV
From Title: The Fish in the Sea (Hope in the Water, Season 1)
Community members wanted to start a no-take zone in the 1990s to protect the Isle of Arran coast. It took the Community of Arran Seabed Trust 13 years to convince the Scottish gove...
PBS
Deep-water diamondback squid fishing is a new form of fishing for Puerto Rico. Raimundo Espinoza founded his nonprofit to support environmental conservation through fishing diversi...
From Title: Farming the Water (Hope in the Water, Season 1)
Vietnam is the largest producer of shrimp. Scientist Loc Tran identified two pathogens in shrimp that caused approximately $2 billion in losses. He now operates ShrimpVet Farm, whi...
Damhof struggled to make his hatchery successful because of the lack of available information. Loc often meets with shrimp farmers in Vietnam to learn about problems in the industr...
From Title: Changing the Menu (Hope in the Water, Season 1)
Fishadelphia workers and customers tour the docks in New Jersey that provide their fish. Most people never learn where their food comes from.
Divers and fishers collect purple sea urchin in the hopes of thinning the population. The urchins are small and contain very little uni. Divers take most of the urchins to a farm t...
From Title: Easter Island Origins
Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, is famous for its statues. The over 1,000 Moai on the island are made of volcanic rock and date to between the 1300s and the 1700s.
NOVA
Rapa Nui has a different climate and soil than other Polynesian islands. Early settlers struggled to grow crops. Rapa Nui and Western researchers are studying the early settlement...
Dutch sailors first reached Rapa Nui on Easter Sunday in 1772. A cultural misunderstanding between the Rapa Nui and the landing party led to the death of 12 Rapa Nui. Misunderstand...
Westerner scholars initially believe Rapa Nui fell into warfare and societal collapse. Current archeologists have found evidence debunking the theory, showing a thriving society.
Researchers are still trying to determine how people moved the Moai across Rapa Nui. The ability to read Rapa Nui's writing system, Rongorongo, has been lost.
Researchers are mapping the Moai to better understand their locations. The Moai could be marking sources of freshwater.
From Title: Hunt for the Oldest DNA
Evolutionary biologist Eske Willerslev and his team are extracting frozen mud from lakes. They are searching for DNA from before the Vikings settled Iceland.
Willerslev explains how he got the idea to search for DNA in soil. Others did not take his idea seriously until he proved the existence of ancient dirt DNA.
Willerslev and his team spend 15 years trying to retrieve ancient DNA from the Arctic desert samples. Multiple biologists find DNA, but degradation makes them impossible to read un...
Willerslev's team spends two years verifying the ancient environmental DNA found in the Greenland samples. They learn that the DNA is at least 2 million years old, from the late Pl...
Willerslev's DNA sample is the oldest ever discovered. It reveals what a forest landscape before the Ice Age was like. The samples show that mastodons lived higher into the Arctic...
From Title: Fly With Me
Airlines did not allow women pilots and only hired white men to work in cabins. Flying was dangerous and many travelers were nervous. Airlines began hiring white women as a calming...
American Experience
Jets opened up travel abilities and made flying a type of mass transportation. Stewardesses were an important part of the glamorous image of the jet age.
Stewardesses must be single, and some airlines had age restrictions. Airlines wanted stewardesses to appear young and available to male customers. The age restriction kept salaries...
Stewardesses began organizing in the 1940s for better wages and treatment and formed unions. Dusty Roads led the fight against the age restriction.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 created protections for black workers and women and led to the creation of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Roads and other stewardesses br...
Stewardesses worked flights that took soldiers to Vietnam and often dealt with bomb threats. The serious and dangerous flights further confused the role of stewardesses, who perfor...
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