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1) Genesis 2.0
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. "On the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, hunters search for tusks of extinct mammoths. One day, they discover a surprisingly well-preserved mammoth carcass. Resurrecting the woolly mammoth is a first manifestation of the next great technological revolution - genetics. It may well turn our world upside down."--Container.
2) Neanderthal
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Eight years ago there was an incredible breakthrough: The Neanderthal genome was first decoded. The greatest surprise was that most modern humans have inherited Neanderthal DNA and there is around two percent of their DNA inside everyone from outside sub-Saharan Africa. These genes have helped shape modern humans into what we are today and continue to affect us. So what kind of people were our ancient ancestors? This two-part series investigates...
4) District 9
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Twenty years ago, aliens from another planet made contact with Earth. Now, the refugee camp they are forced to live in has deteriorated into a slum-like ghetto. When field operative Wikus van der Merwe is put in charge of evicting the aliens, he contracts a strange virus that changes his DNA to match that of the refugees. As his body begins to mutate, he becomes a hunted man, and the aliens' only hope for freedom.
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
10 videodiscs (1800 min.) : sd. col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (viii, 296 p. ; 19 cm.)
Description
English novelist and scientist C. P. Snow classed certain scientific ideas with the works of Shakespeare as things every educated person should know. The lectures in this series explore the fundamental discoveries and principles of the physical and biological sciences--physics, genetics, biology, astronomy, chemistry, meteorology, thermodynamics, and more--providing a comprehensive and integrated introduction to all of science. The Joy of Science,...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A three-part British police drama tells the true story of scientist Alec Jeffrey's discovery of DNA fingerprinting in the 1980s and its introductory use by Detective Chief Superintendent David Baker in catching a double murderer.
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