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Rock A Lingua

La Tierra, Lugares y Animales (Places and Wild Animals)

K - 8th
¡Esta tierra está enferma! Beginning Spanish learners learn more about the ways pollution affects rivers, forests, oceans, and the animals that live in these habitats with a catchy and informative song.
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Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: How Humans and Insects Conquered the Earth

9th - 10th
Ecologist Edward O. Wilson discusses current theories of why humans and insects have been so successful on Earth. He looks at social organization as key to their success. Aired Apr. 13, 2012 [30:20] Links to a video about E.O. Wilson...
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Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Google Ocean?

9th - 10th
An interview with Sylvia Earle from National Geographic and John Hanke from Google. They discuss the latest release of Google Earth which lets one explore the oceans. Aired Feb. 6, 2009 [17:47 min]
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Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Live Earth Concerts Kick Off Worldwide

9th - 10th
Can music stop global warming? Science Friday talks with some of the organizers of the 'Live Earth' concerts across the globe.
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Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Mars Rover May Be Contaminated With Earth Microbes

9th - 10th
A discussion with Catharine Conley, NASA's planetary protection officer, over a misstep prior to the launch of the Mars Curiosity Rover, where a drill might have been contaminated with Earth microbes. She explains that it was resolved...
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Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Earth Day and the Environment

9th - 10th
Next week marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. Has it made a difference? [23 mins. 46]
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Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Searching for Nature"s Time Machines in Relics

9th - 10th
A new book documents the creatures and places that can tell us about life on Earth millions of years ago.
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Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Is a Moon Necessary for a Planet to Support Life?

9th - 10th
Researchers are studying our moon's effects on the Earth to guide their search for habitable worlds elsewhere.
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Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Michael Novacek and 'Terra'

9th - 10th
An interview with Michael Novacek, author of Terra: Our 100-Million-Year-Old Ecosystem - and the Threats That Now Put it at Risk. He talks about the history of ecosystems and environmental threats the Earth faces. Includes link to a...
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Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Blue Marble: The Making Of

9th - 10th
Hear how the famous "blue marble" pictures of Earth are actually built from datasets collected by instruments aboard satellites and then translated into imagery here on the ground.
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Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Half a Century Later, a Return to Challenger Deep

9th - 10th
Film director James Cameron's recent journey to the deepest point on the Earth is discussed. Oceanographer Don Walsh, who made the same journey 52 years previously, is interviewed. Aired Mar. 30, 2012 [17:14 min] Links to a short video...
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Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: A Journey to the Oort Cloud, Where Comets Are Born

9th - 10th
The comet ISON, discovered by two amateur astronomers last year, will zoom past the Earth next fall. But where did it come from?
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Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: A Community of Ancient Bacteria

9th - 10th
We'll talk with researcher studying a community of bacteria that has been isolated from the surface for millions of years. They describe some of the biochemical processes that have allowed the bacteria to survive below glacier ice, and...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Inexpensive Inventions and the World's Poor: Earth Sky

9th - 10th
Environmental scientist Ashok Gadgil is perhaps best known for his inventions which include an ultraviolet water purifier that can provide clean, cheap water for a thousand people per day and an inexpensive, ultra-efficient cooking stove...
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Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Drilling to the Mantle of the Earth

9th - 10th
Geologist Damon Teagle talks about what boreholes may reveal about the Earth's formation. [16 mins. 39]
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Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Kepler Telescope Narrows Hunt for Earth's Twin

9th - 10th
NASA's Kepler telescope has discovered the first Earth-sized exoplanets, and another which orbits its star in the "Goldilocks zone," where liquid water could exist.
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Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Engineering Earth's Climate Could Be Dangerous

9th - 10th
Geoengineering could cool the Earth a few degrees, but with what consequences? [17 mins. 44]
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Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: A Trojan Asteroid Keeps Earth Company

9th - 10th
Listen as scientist discuss that the moon is not the only body in space following Earth's path. Learn how planet Earth has a new found neighbor, an asteroid that shares our orbit around the sun. [17:30]
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Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Ancient Earth May Have Smelled Like Rotten Eggs

9th - 10th
Learn how early Earth may have smelled like rotten eggs with this audio lecture! Lecture discusses bacteria-like creatures living nearly two billion years ago belched hydrogen sulfide, the signature stench of rotten eggs. [11:34]
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Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Studying Earth to Learn About Mars

9th - 10th
Planetary scientists and future explorers are trying to learn about our neighboring planet without ever leaving Earth.
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Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Predicting When Space Junk Will Come Home to Earth

9th - 10th
This weekend, another satellite is scheduled to crash to Earth, just a month after the last one.
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Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Tracking a Space Rock's Streak Past Earth

9th - 10th
Asteroid 2012 DA14 spans half a football field, and will whiz by the Earth a mere 17,000 miles above us--closer than many satellites.
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Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Summer Science: Lightning

9th - 10th
Thousands of lightning strikes occur each minute on Earth. We'll talk about the science of lightning.
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Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Mars

9th - 10th
In this segment, we'll get the big picture on science on the planet Mars. From orbiting observatories to roving rovers to the ditch-digging Phoenix -- what have planetary scientists learned about Mars, and what remains to be discovered?

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