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GOOD: Attack of the Giant Jellyfish!

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Giant jellyfish have invaded the northern coasts of the Japanese islands and they're causing problems. Frustrated local fishermen are hauling in little else. So one company, RIKEN, is trying to make marketable products from these gelatinous monsters. They're exploring everything from artificial gastric fluids made from jellyfish mucin to a jellyfish-based ice cream topping. If they succeed, they'll turn a costly problem into gooey gold. An original GOOD video.

02:09

GOOD: Salar de Uyuni
With an area about the size of New Jersey, Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni salt flat is known as the flattest place on earth. So when NASA needs to calibrate the satellite it uses to measure the shrinking of the polar ice caps, they point its laser at the Salar de Uyuni first. One of earth's fascinating natural phenomena helping us gauge the fate of another. An original GOOD Video.

50:36

Secrets of the Giant Sharks
The whale shark, the basking shark and the great white shark are the biggest fish on the planet but, for centuries, little was known about their lives and where they spend most of the year. Scientists hope that satellite technology will help them solve one of nature's greatest unsolved riddles. The results are intriguing.

02:45

GOOD: The Motorcycle Doctors
What good are vaccines if they never reach the people who need them? For millions of Africans living in rural villages far from medical facilities, isolation can lead to disease and death. In this original GOOD video we look at Riders for Health, a U.K.-based organization that uses high-speed off-road motorcycles to bring medical help to remote villages in Nigeria, Zimbabwe and The Gambia.

02:21

Bomb It: Revs
Interview with graffiti artist F*ckin' Revs about subway tunnels and his outlook on life and society.

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25:55

Email from a Shark
In one of nature's great mysteries, basking sharks appear off the UK's western coast every summer, then vanish as the season changes. This fascinating film meets marine biologist Dr David Sims, who hopes that emails triggered by hi-tech tags will help him track the secret movements of this gentle giant.

03:30

Snowflakes
The Awakeners alert Americans to the damaging effects of gas emissions

03:20

GOOD: Vampire Energy
Some household appliances cost us while they sit around and collect dust. They suck energy just by being plugged in, even if they aren’t turned on. This wickedly wasteful phenomenon is commonly known as standby power, but we call it Vampire Energy.

02:30

Investigating the Petermann Glacier
The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise has reached the Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland as part of a 3-month expedition examining the effects of climate change on the Arctic. The onboard team of scientists are coming up with unprecedented and worrying findings.

00:30

Your Actions Affect the Reefs Future
Whether you live one mile or one thousand miles from a coral reef, your actions affect the reefs' future and the reefs' future affects yours. As the natural guardians of our shores, reefs play a vital role in our global ecosystem. With climate change, pollution, and overfishing contributing to coral reef degradation, we can all play a role in protecting our land, sea and sky. And all it takes is a few simple changes to your daily routine.

49:25

Animal Play
As children we learn more about life through playing games than we do in any other way. It is the ability to play that enables us to develop into well co-ordinated, adaptable, highly social individuals. But we are not alone, animals play also. For many years this animal play was thought to be somehow 'different' to human play, but this is proving not to be the case. Why do animals indulge in play, what are the functions of these energy draining and often dangerous activities? This interdisciplinary programme will explore the reasons that play is so important to development: by describing social, locomotor and object play behaviour in animal as diverse as reptiles, birds and mammals, it will find out the benefits it does provide. Finally it will look at the shocking evidence of what happens to young animals who are prevented from playing. In a startling parallel to humans, animal deprived of play, develop into dysfunctional adults, and even serial killers. www.saint-thomas.net

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