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Pbs Learning Media: Function of Fever
Fevers are a sign of infection, but they may also be part of the cure. This drawing illustrates Matthew Kluger's lizard study, which supports the notion that fever can be beneficial.
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Pbs Learning Media: Marathon Migrators
This video segment from NOVA: "The Mystery of Animal Pathfinders" explores how the migratory patterns of shorebirds have evolved to coincide with the spawning of horseshoe crabs. [6:00]
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Pbs Learning Media: The Sense of Taste
This video segment explores the sense of taste in humans -- why we have it, and what happens when we lose it. Footage from NOVA: "Mystery of the Senses: Taste." Includes background reading material and discussion questions. [4:18]
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Pbs Learning Media: The Teenage Brain
Why do teenagers act the way they do? This video segment from FRONTLINE: "Inside the Teenage Brain" explores the work scientists are doing to explain some of the mysteries of teenage behavior.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Power of Touch
This video segment explores the role of touch in the development of young animals, including humans. Footage from NOVA: "Mystery of the Senses: Touch." [2:57]
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Pbs Learning Media: Sickle Versus Normal Cell
Background image of normal disc-shaped red blood cells from the University of Utah. Inset shows sickled red blood cells, curved and rigid, from the Virginia Medical College.
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Pbs Learning Media: Amazing Heart Facts
This feature from the NOVA: "Cut to the Heart" highlights facts about the heart, including its size and placement, and will help you to understand the importance of this wondrous organ in our bodies.
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Pbs Learning Media: Anglerfish
This video segment from NOVA: "Animal Imposters" shows the lightning-fast strike of the anglerfish. [1:30]
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Pbs Learning Media: Bird Beak Gallery
This collection of images of ten different birds illustrates the diversity of bird beaks.
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Pbs Learning Media: Deep Sea Bestiary
This document from NOVA: "Into the Abyss" describes the physical and behavioral traits of some of the least-known and most unlikely creatures on Earth.
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Pbs Learning Media: Body Breakdowns at High Altitudes
This interactive feature from the NOVA: "Surviving Denali" Web site details the variety of ways the body can fail while climbing a high-altitude peak.
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Pbs Learning Media: Brain Geography
Which part of your brain controls your ability to swallow? Your instinct to survive? And how do all the brain's parts function cooperatively? Find out with this interactive feature from the NOVA: "Coma" Web site.
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Pbs Learning Media: From the Heart
This video segment describes the basics of the circulatory system: how the heart pumps the blood that carries oxygen and nutrients throughout the body. [3:14]
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Pbs Learning Media: Unhinged!
This video segment explores the integral relationship between structure and function in snakes.
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Pbs Learning Media: Ruminants
Why do cows chew their cud? This video segment from Secret of Life: "Accidents of Creation" describes the physical adaptations that have made ruminants some of the most important, and certainly the most efficient, plant eaters on earth.
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Pbs Learning Media: Seeds Away
This collection of images shows several types of plant seeds, each with a different mechanism for dispersing from the parent plant.
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Pbs Learning Media: How the Woodpecker Avoids a Headache
This diagram from Rainbird Publishing describes the specialized physical characteristics that allow woodpeckers to create some of the most secure nests in the bird world.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Sinking of the u.s.s. Indianapolis
Through flashback, L.D.Cox tells how he survived the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis during World War II in this segment from History Detectives.
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Pbs Learning Media: Who Are the Baka?
This video segment from Africa features the Baka, people who live in the rainforest in southeast Cameroon.
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Pbs Learning Media: Disappearance of the Bees What's the Impact?
The disappearance of bees will have tremendous impact upon the way we live according to scientists in this segment from Nature.
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Pbs Learning Media: Desert Elephants
In this video from Nature, observe elephants trek across the desert to an isolated waterhole. [4:13]
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Pbs Learning Media: Dna Barcode Library
Botanists and biologists work to create a DNA barcode library for plant life in this video segment from New York Voices.
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Pbs Learning Media: Historic Relationships Between Dogs and Humans
In this video segment from Nature, learn the history of the world's first domesticated animal, the dog. [7:34]
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Pbs Learning Media: Gullah Music
In this video segment from EGG: the arts show, visit Sapelo Island, an island in Georgia inhabited by descendants of African slaves.