Aerial View of Playland & Edith Red sanctuary in autumn at Rye, NY in 4K
Playland Amusement Park is an amusement park and Edith G. Read Wildlife Sanctuary located in Rye, NY state. It is one of the only government owned-and-operated amusement parks in the United States.
NOVA scienceNOW : 39 - Personal DNA Testing, Art Authentication, Capturing Carbon, Pardis Sabeti
Personal DNA Testing - 01:40
NOVA scienceNOW examines the realm of personal DNA testing. It describes the latest tests, which look for single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). These single-letter differences in DNA sequence make humans unique from one another but may also predispose people to certain diseases. The video also discusses the Personal Genome Project, an extension of the Human Genome Project aimed at determining the root causes of many common diseases. The Personal Genome Project takes into account personal genomics as well as lifestyle information, such as one's living environment, habits, and behaviors.
Art Authentication - 14:25
Vincent van Gogh has inspired several talented artists to turn their hands to forgery. Can computers be used to identify which works are really his? To find out, NOVA scienceNOW, working in cooperation with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, commissioned an expert in art reconstruction to make a meticulous copy of a van Gogh painting. Then, we challenged three different computer teams—from Princeton, Penn State, and Maastricht universities—to see if they could spot the imitation in a group that included five genuine van Goghs.
Capturing Carbon - 27:45
How did an eighth-grader's science fair project inspire a new way to tackle rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere? Claire Lackner's father Klaus, a geophysicist at Columbia University, had a brainstorm after he saw how Claire used an aquarium pump to capture carbon dioxide in the air. A decade later, Dr. Lackner is testing a product inspired by his daughter's vision.
Profile: Pardis Sabeti - 40:30
By day, Pardis Sabeti is a Harvard evolutionary geneticist who is using an algorithm she developed to try to understand how the malaria parasite develops resistance to the drugs we use to fight it. By night, Sabeti and her band Thousand Days play the clubs around greater Boston. In this NOVA scienceNOW segment, meet the Iranian-born Sabeti in both of her very different worlds.
Cosmic Perspective & Bad News - 49:00
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