The long search with Ronald Eyre: footprint of the Buddha
Produced as a motion picture 1973-1977 for transmission on BBC 2.
The long search with Ronald Eyre: Zulu Zion
Produced as a motion picture 1973-1977 for transmission on BBC 2.
Is Mind Distinct from Body?: Distinctions Between Computers and the Human Mind
In his 1972 book What Computers Still Can't Do Hubert Dreyfus points out capacities of the mind computers fail to match such as a sense of relevance and common sense. What computers can do is spread the computational load over time and operate with ...
Transcript: information transmission inside a computer Is essentially the speed of light. They can do things very fast in time. The brain can't do that. The brain is very
Fitting In: Socialization Within the Family
Socialization is the lifelong process by which people develop their personalities and learn about their culture. For virtually everyone, that process begins within the family, during the earliest days of life.
Transcript: transmission of values and beliefs from parents to children frequently extends to deeply-held attitudes about fundamental issues, like race or gender. [scott
Protection Against HIV/AIDS
Dr. Alexandra Levine, Chief of the Division of Hematology at the USC School of Medicine, talks about the things people can do to protect themselves from contracting HIV. Some of these include knowing the sexual history of one's partner and making su...
Transcript: tremendous difference. Highly, highly likely to decrease the chance of Transmission. The other concept is that maybe we have to think in a society A little bit
Infection Control
Transcript: transmission. We're not really going to go into detail on transmission-based precautions, but we're going to mention that the Centers for Disease Control does
Building the Perfect Bug: Virology, Rogue Science, and Bioterrorism
Why did Dutch virologist Ron Fouchier and his team of researchers purposely engineer a lethal, airborne bird flu virus? That’s the first of many questions raised in this timely, eye-opening investigation. Why did Fouchier, in an uncanny parallel w...
Transcript: human to human transmissible microbe? Up until now, there's only spotty evidence that any human ever actually, you know, cough, cough, gave it to and
INFECTION CONTROL PRECAUTIONS
Transcript: and water. When you can use alcohol based hand rub. And we're going to review transmission based precautions and standard precautions. I know you
Infectious diseases: more mobility, greater danger
Illustrating connections between globalization and the spread of disease, this program uses data-mapping to assess the potential impact of deadly viruses - including the much-feared and adaptable avian influenza. Outbreaks of bird flu in the Netherl...
Transcript: 2003. 86 PEOPLE BECAME SICK THROUGH INFECTION FROM BIRDS. HUMAN-TO-HUMAN TRANSMISSION, WHICH COULD LEAD TO A PANDEMIC, WAS ALSO CONFIRMED. HOW DID
INFECTION 1
Transcript: , standard precautions, and transmission based precautions. This is not a microbiology exam. So you will not be tested on the organisms. I know for instance