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Disposal of Surplus Sodium

Disposal of Surplus Sodium:Newsreel footage of the US War Assets Administration dumping surplus sodium into Lake Lenore after WW2. Sodium burns on contact with water.

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A Certain Kind of Death

A Certain Kind of Death:A 2003 documentary showing the process that occurs when a person dies with no next of kin. Human corpses are shown in states of decay and undress. The images are clinical rather...

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Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria

Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria:FRONTLINE investigates the rise of deadly drug-resistant bacteria.

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Learning From Dirty Jobs

Learning From Dirty Jobs:From the description: Mike Rowe, the host of "Dirty Jobs," tells some compelling (and horrifying) real-life job stories. Listen for his insights and observations about the...

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Stephen Fry in America

Stephen Fry in America:From the video description: Stephen Fry in America is a six part BBC television series in which Stephen Fry travels across the United States of America, a country in which he was...

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LRV, Apollo 16 (Stabilized)

LRV, Apollo 16 (Stabilized):HD stabilized footage of the Apollo 16 Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) on the moon.

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Richard Feynman: Fun to Imagine

Richard Feynman: Fun to Imagine:Richard Feynman, the 'Great Explainer,' explains the scientific principles behind everyday events such as why rubber bands are stretchy, why tennis balls can't bounce...

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Apollo Robbins: Tricks of the Trade

Apollo Robbins: Tricks of the Trade:Master pickpocket demonstrates the tricks of the trade.

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Power of Decision

Power of Decision:Declassified US Air Force film of a nuclear war simulation. From the YouTube description: This film was produced by the United States Air Force in the late 1950's for internal...

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1950s Housewife Tries LSD

1950s Housewife Tries LSD:Sidney Cohen (author of The Beyond Within: The LSD Story), administers LSD under clinical conditions to an unnamed "normal person" some time in the 1950s. This was well before...

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Inside Chernobyl's Sarcophagus

Inside Chernobyl's Sarcophagus:A 1996 documentary from BBC Horizon explains the Chernobyl accident, efforts to control the damage, and its state in subsequent years. Includes footage of workers inside...

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Severed Corpus Callosum

Severed Corpus Callosum:Alan Alda converses with a patient who has undergone a corpus callosotomy to separate the halves of his brain.

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NASA: Jewel Box Sun

NASA: Jewel Box Sun:From the description: This video of the sun based on data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, shows the wide range of wavelengths -- invisible to the naked eye -- that...

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The Hidden Life of the Cell

The Hidden Life of the Cell:BBC special describing the immense complexity constantly occurring inside microscopic living cells.

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Moon Machines: The Space Suit

Moon Machines: The Space Suit:The history and development of the Apollo space suit.

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Don't Look Down

Don't Look Down:This documentary follows James Kingston, an urban free climber who scales 100m cranes, 200m radio towers, tall buildings and bridges... without using any safety equipment at all.

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The Fog of War

The Fog of War:Academy Award(r)-winner for Best Documentary Feature, THE FOG OF WAR is the story of America as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense under President Kennedy and...

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Where Time Comes From

Where Time Comes From: The time that ends up on your smartphone—and that synchronizes GPS, military operations, financial transactions, and internet communications—originates in a set of atomic clocks...

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Meteorite Almost Hits Norwegian skydiver

Meteorite Almost Hits Norwegian skydiver: This is the first time in history that a meteorite has been filmed in the air after its light goes out. Full story.

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Stephen Colbert (Out of Character) Interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson

Stephen Colbert (Out of Character) Interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson: A discussion about science, society, and the universe with Stephen Colbert, who is out of character, at the Kimberley Academy in...

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