Summary: NOVA's Lord of the Ants profiles soft-spoken Southerner E.O. Wilson, renowned for his scientific study of ants that led to his 1975 book Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, where he put forth the notion that evolutionary principles could explain social behavior throughout the animal kingdom, including in humans. Though sociobiology was a controversial new discipline at the time, today experimental...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LORSummary: "In Promises and Perils of Technology, five technology experts explain why they have tremendous optimism for the future. This is not blind idealism, as they also know and explain the perils of living in the "technic"--a world so awash in technology that we are as oblivious to its presence as fish are to water. The five accomplished individuals who host this series include technology...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.5 PROFord, Michael
Summary: Describes what is involved in becoming a champion in the Olympic games in ancient Greece.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts, an Imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2014