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The Art Institute of Chicago; The Cleveland Museum of Art (2001)

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Program 1: Art Institute of Chicago (60 min.): Sister Wendy Beckett looks at American Gothic by Grant Wood, Chimu (pre-Incan) art from Peru, Joan Mitchell, Edward Hopper, Picasso, 18th century ceramic art, a West-African drum, Manfredi, pre-Columbian art from Central America, Manet, Marc Chagall, Renoir, Chinese sculpture, 12th century Korean pottery, George Innes, Puryear, Georges Seurat.

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02:00

The Art Institute of Chicago; The Cleveland Museum of Art

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2001)

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Program 1: Kimble Art Museum (60 min.): Sister Wendy Beckett introduces the Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth and looks at several artists and works including Maillol, a terracotta head of a Nigerian king, Cezanne, Hindu scultpture, Piet Mondrian, a Japanese screen, Caravaggio, George de la Tour, Caspar David Friedrich, Standing Maitreya Bodhisattva from Thailand, sculpture from Pakistan, Ercole d

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02:00

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; Los Angeles County Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2001)

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Progam 1: The Metropolitan Museum Of Art (60 min.): Sister Wendy Beckett introduces the museum and looks at a fragmentary sculpture of an Egyptian queen, Islamic art and a page from the Koran, Watteau, porcelain figures from the Commedia dell'Arte, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, art from New Guinea, Balthus, Medieval Art and the Cloisters, Velazquez, Egyptian art, women as artists, Marie-Denise Vill

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02:00

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The Mind's Big Bang & What About God? (2001)

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The Mind's Big Bang - 60 minutes
Between 100,000 and 50,000 years ago, something happened that triggered a creative, technological and social explosion, allowing humans to dominate the planet. What forces may have contributed to the emergence of the modern human mind?

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01:20

The Evolutionary Arms Race & Why Sex? (2001)

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The Evolutionary Arms Race - 60 minutes

Survival of the fittest: Is it raw competition, a level of cooperation indispensable to life, or both? Explore our own spiraling arms race with microorganisms - the only real threat to our existence - and trace the alarming spread of resistance among pathogens that cause disease.

Why Sex? - 60 minutes

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01:20

Great Transformations & Extinction! (2001)

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Great Transformations - 60 minutes

From the development of the four-limbed body plan, the journey of animal life from water to land and the emergence of humans, Great Transformations focuses on the evolutionary changes that triggered the earth's incredible diversity.

Extinction! - 60 minutes

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01:20

Rocks & Minerals Series (2001)

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This DVD contains 4 - 20 minute videos:

Minerals and Their Properties
Some of the terminology and concepts conveyed in this video include: inorganic, luster, streak, color, cleavage and fracture, specific gravity, hardness, Mohs scale, ore, metals, and gemstones.

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Middle

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01:20

Biomes Series (2002)

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This DVD contains 4 - 20 minute videos:

Grasslands
Terminology and concepts discussed in the program include: savanna, grassland, grass, prairie, nutrients, and bison.

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Middle

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01:20

Weather Series (2001)

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This DVD contains 4 - 20 minute videos:

The Atmosphere
Concepts and terminology covered in this video include: conduction, convection, radiation, lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, ozone, smog, greenhouse effect, ozone depletion, stratosphere, mesosphere, and troposphere.

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Middle

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01:20

Microorganisms Series (2001)

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This DVD contains 4 - 20 minute videos:

Protists
Concepts and terminology covered in this video include: protozoa, pseudopodia, algae, cilia, paramecium, flagellum, dinoflagellates, diatoms, euglenas, sporozoans, and amoebas.

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Middle

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01:20

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The Art Institute of Chicago; The Cleveland Museum of Art (2001)

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2001)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2001)

The Mind's Big Bang & What About God? (2001)

The Evolutionary Arms Race & Why Sex? (2001)

Great Transformations & Extinction! (2001)

Rocks & Minerals Series (2001)

Biomes Series (2002)

Weather Series (2001)

Microorganisms Series (2001)

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