Trajan's Massive Building Projects
By the end of the 1st century AD, the Roman Empire stretches from England to Egypt and encompasses 15 million people. Trajan, an outsider, takes
Human Genome Project and Genomic Imprinting
The Human Genome Project mapped all the genes that make a human being. Scientists hoped this monumental accomplishment would lead to identification
Many Ways to See the World
mapmakers and how their unique backgrounds, philosophies, values, and politics led each to select a particular mathematical formula to create their maps
Subject: Map projection
Dasani: Filtered Tap Water
The success of Dasani's launch is a "runaway freight train." Coca Cola's Dasani is simply filtered tap water. Europeans drink
Asian Classics Input Project (ACIP): Monks and Computers
drives. ACIP aims to make available texts belonging to the Tibetan tradition from 500 B.C. to the present.
21st century turning points in U.S. history: Program 2. 2002-2004
The years between 2002 and 2004 ushered in America's first pre-emptive war, saw the human genome project jump start the biotech revolution and Google
Subject: Human Genome Project
Transcript: 2003, the U.S. Department of Energy announced to the nation that the Human Genome Project had finished mapping the hereditary information encoded in
The Patron Saints
Bold and unremitting in its depiction of the elderly, The Patron Saints eschews our hyper-individualistic culture obsessed with youth. Taking a head-on approach, husband-and-wife duo Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky peer with fly-on-the-wall acc...
Contributor(s): Pigeon Projects
Publisher: Pigeon Projects
Race to the Moon
With images and audio never before broadcast, this film recounts the flight many consider to be NASA's most daring and important. Interviews with
Subject: Project Apollo (U.S.)
The Code: The Genetic Blueprint
Every cell of the human body carries 23 pairs of chromosomes. The chemical substance within each chromosome--the DNA--contains hundreds, sometimes thousands of different genes, depending on the size of the chromosome. Genes direct the formation of t...
Subject: Human Genome Project
Transcript: disease, a physical or mental abnormality, or susceptibility to a disease. this was one reason the human genome project was launched Min the early 1990's