Some residents of a German town get medieval during a festival that features some amazing attractions, including a 6-metre wide crossbow named “The Wolf.”
Languages: English
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CHASE Stretcher
Resolution Group demonstrates a new stretcher used to rescue people during natural disasters.
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Elk Personality
Biologist Rob Found is studying elk personalities in an effort to help wildlife managers identify problem elk.
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Zerotracer
Frank Loacker and Tobias Wuelser believe they can build an easy-to-drive electric vehicle that everyone can afford.
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Performance Enhancing Substances in Sport
Winning in sport is big business, with big financial returns. This can motivate sports people to decide to use performance enhancing drugs to give them the winning edge. This insightful program examines the world of performance enhancers, both legal and illegal, and outcomes of using them. Discussions with coaches, sport nutritionists and athletes reveal motivations for drug cheating, the medical side effects of the drugs, the drugs themselves and the implications of getting caught. This program is a must see for athletes and coaches at all levels of sport, especially those deriving an income from playing and winning.
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Nutrition and Hydration in Sports
The correct nutrition and hydration is vital for peak sports performance. This essential program examines the nutritional requirements that athletes have to be able to train and compete without disadvantaging their chances or damaging their health through fatigue and dehydration. Athletes, coaches and nutritionists discuss the correct way to structure an eating and hydration plan during training periods and a plan for competition days. Special emphasis is given to carb-loading, electrolyte intake and the correct use of hypotonic and hypertonic hydration and sports drinks.
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Mars Landing 2012: The New Search for Life
This one-hour special introduces the audience to a team of dedicated scientists who brought Curiosity to life. Brand new science and technology that had never been attempted made this mission a reality. From her custom-built heat shield designed to withstand intense 1,600 C degree heat and speeds up to 21,735 km/hr, to her state-of-the-art supersonic parachute. A revolutionary sky crane touchdown system was developed specifically for this mission, its job: get Curiosity to the surface of Mars. For the first time ever, a rover will be able to supply NASA – and the rest of the world – with stunning HD images from 17 different cameras. She will be able to zap rocks with a laser that’s as powerful as a million light bulbs focused on the head of a pin. She will drive for hundreds of kilometers and use her massive robotic arm to drill into Gale Crater to help answer questions of life. Curiosity is set to break all records.
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All About Food Additives
Most foods that we purchase for every day consumption, and those that we eat a little less often, contain additives of various descriptions. In fact humans have been using food additives for thousands of years, including salt, spices, colorings and flavorings. This excellent program looks at food additives, including colors, flavors, emulsifiers, gelling agents and stabilizers, preservatives and antioxidants, and processing aids that gets added to our foods and why we use them. Lief Lundin, a food scientist discusses these additives, why we use them and what the impacts of their use on our food are.
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Food Preservation Techniques
Food preservatives are commonly used in many foods we purchase and consume daily. While some food preservation techniques have been practiced for millennia, such as salting, drying and smoking, others have been made possible on a commercial scale by 20th century advancements in technology, such as freezing and pasteurizing. This film takes a look at why foods are preserved and the many advantages we gain as consumers, from the ability to store food for long periods of time to the causes of food spoilage; the differences between natural and artificial food preservatives; preservation techniques using temperature; and water and oxygen removal.
