Kanopy (Firm)
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When is your age considered "old"? What three health-promoting characteristics make up the foundation of healthy old age? What is your "locus of control"”and why is it so important to have one? These and other questions are answered in this first step on a journey that can change your life.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Take an alternate approach to cybersecurity, this time focusing on resiliency and recovery. There may be good reason to think that creating a system that isn't immune to failure but is less likely to be attacked"”and better able to operate even while under attack"”is the best course of action.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Medicine is a battle that is fought every day, in every corner of America, and all around the world. It is a fight against the ultimate villain, death, and it is waged heroically by men and women who live their lives by one profound oath: "I will do no harm." Who are these people, who each day balance selflessness and power, detachment and humanity, brilliance and fallibility? Who are their patients, who come to them vulnerable, bleeding, broken?...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Extensive readings, critical insights and biographical details are used to develop a texteured portrait of Walt Whitman and to demonstrate his innovative influences on American literature. The program explores his visions of political democracy, social harmony, and sensual joy in nature and the continuity of life. Photography of New York scenes illustrates selections from "Leaves Of Grass," "Drum Taps," and "Specimen Days."
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Witness an extraordinary consolidation of power as William used the military to overcome early resistance to his rule, systematically expropriated the nobility to install his own followers, and used both legal and admininstrative measures to fortify his position.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The core of this series is Kenya Boran 1 and 2, each designed to stand alone, but which together complement one another in a most useful and informative fashion. Their common subject matter is the development problems posed for rural Boran herdsmen and their families by the encroachment upon their once-isolated grazing lands of a growing town (Marsabit) and a major road (the new Nairobi-Addis Ababa Highway). These are shown in Kenya Boran 1, as two...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the internationally acclaimed Japanese architect who employs Buddhist ideas in a symbiosis of oriental forms and western modernism to achieve an intercultural architecture. This documentary follows him to his major accomplishments in Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nara, Osaka, Berlin, Paris, Chicago and New York . Kurokawa died in 2007.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The Year in Fashion 2009 fashion reflects the changes in the global economy. But it could be good news for the consumer as designers work hard to offer pretty clothes and recommend investment spending that even the budget conscious can’t resist. We review Spring Trends and Fall Must-Haves from the four fashion capitals of the world and learn which designers produced the best collections of the year at the CFDA Awards. Sonia Rykiel celebrates the...
69) The worm hunters
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In a Turkish headquarters the world's top earthworm scientists concoct a plan to find and name their ultimate discovery. Nothing will stop them as they travel to all corners of the world with spades, GPS worm locators and secret worm outing fluids to unearth their prize. But love turns savage when things don't go to plan and the worm gets the upper hand. An epic adventure into an underground science and an unstoppable passion.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This video shows how 7 different nondestructive test procedures are carried out, their advantages, limitations and typical areas of application. The processes covered by this program are: Dye penetrants (colour contrast and fluorescent) Magnetic particle (colour contrast and fluorescent) Ultrasonic testing (pulse echo and through transmission) Eddy current testing Alternating current field measurement (ACFM) Radiography (x-ray and gamma ray,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Twenty years ago, a young American hiker named Chris McCandless, the accomplished son of successful middle class parents, was found dead in an abandoned bus in the Alaskan wilderness and became the subject of the best-selling book and movie Into the Wild. Now, PBS retraces Chris McCandless' steps to try to piece together why he severed all ties with his past, burnt or gave away all his money, changed his name and headed into the Denali Wilderness....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Highly Recommended! An exceptional achievement, this is simply the best documentary on the Statue of Liberty ever made. It illuminates the forgotten story of the Statue of Liberty like no other program before it." -Barry Moreno, Author (The Statue of Liberty Encyclopedia) and Historian, Statue of Liberty National Monument "Highly Recommended! This program has excellent production values with good early views of the construction of the statue in Paris,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Begin your exploration of the scientific stories behind 10 of the most fascinating images made by the Hubble Space Telescope. In this episode, learn about Hubble's design and how its operations were almost cut short by a flaw in its mirror, a problem corrected during a space shuttle servicing mission.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Since 1968, designer Calvin Klein branded an image and a message that catapulted his label to the forefront of global fashion. A marketing master, he took his pure aesthetic and turned it into a standard for modern dressing. Klein’s uncluttered vision was embraced by legions of Hollywood’s best and secured his position as one of America’s premier designers. In 2003, he inked a mega deal with Phillips van Heusen. He and partner Barry Schwartz...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In 1926 Erwin Schrodinger developed an equation that underlies much of our modern quantum-mechanical description of physical reality. Solve a simple problem with the Schrodinger equation. Then learn how the merger of quantum mechanics and special relativity led to the discovery of antimatter.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Turning from star birth to star death, get a preview of the sun's distant future by examining the Cat's Eye Nebulae. Such planetary nebulae (which have nothing to do with planets) are the exposed debris of dying stars and are among the most beautiful objects in the Hubble gallery.
78) The Summer Sky
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Arching high overhead in the summer sky is the Milky Way, which is the plane of our galaxy seen from the inside. Tour this densely packed region of stars of all types, from dusty regions of star birth to the exquisite shells of dying stars. Here, a useful orienting feature is the Summer Triangle.
79) What Is Time?
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Approach time from a philosophical perspective. "Presentism" holds that the past and future are not real; only the present moment is real. However, the laws of physics appear to support "eternalism"”the view that all of the moments in the history of the universe are equally real.
80) Liverpool
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
A man employed on a massive cargo ship requests shore leave to visit his sickly mother, who lives in a remote logging town in Tierra del Fuego. He depends on booze and the unkindness of strangers to make the grueling journey southward, hinting at unspeakable tragedies beneath the surface.