A primer on global warming, TOO HOT NOT TO HANDLE features contributions from leading scientists in the field. In addition to in-depth discussions of such subjects as the greenhouse effect, hurricanes, snowpack, hybrid vehicles, and alternative power sources, the film shows how businesses, local governments, and citizens are taking positive actions to reduce global warming emissions.

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In evolutionary terms, sex is more important than life itself. Sex fuels evolutionary change by adding variation to the gene pool. The powerful urge to pass our genes on to the next generation has likely changed the face of human culture in ways we're only beginning to understand.

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The prescription of antibiotics is a medical tightrope-walk. The drugs save lives, but, because of overuse, may soon usher in a new era of super-germs. This program outlines the discoveries of bacteria and penicillin and sheds light on the frightening emergence of multi-resistant, often deadly microbes during the last six decades. Presenting interviews with researchers who are deeply involved with the issue--including Tufts University microbiology professor Stuart Levy and Eva Nathanson of the World Health Organization's Stop TB Program--the film examines the implications of antibiotic-enhanced livestock feed and the dangers that staphylococcus poses to hospital patients. Viewer discretion advised. Contains footage of injections, surgeries, and open wounds.

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A red bird in a brown bag : the function and evolution of colorful plumage in the House Finch / Geoffrey E. Hill.
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Promiscuity : an evolutionary history of sperm competition / Tim Birkhead.
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The evolution of avian breeding systems / J. David Ligon ; original illustrations by Mike Ramos.
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Female control : sexual selection by cryptic female choice / William G. Eberhard.
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Sexual selection / Malte Andersson.
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Confessions of a Germ: The Plague
October 25
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The Killer Flu
The Last Antibiotics
November 14
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Plague FAQ from CDC

Plague, a bacterium that ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages and is today one of the most feared potential agents of bio-terrorism, may have met its match, according to Wake Forest University School of Medicine scientists.
Steven B. Mizel, Ph.D., principal investigator, told the American Gastroenterological Association meeting in Chicago that when mice immunized with a new combination vaccine were challenged with a lethal dose of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague, "the immune mice survived but the control mice succumbed in three days."

Mizel and his graduate student, Anna Honko, found that injecting a protein taken from plague bacteria into a mouse - one method of vaccination - produces little if any response in the mouse immune system. But if a protein termed flagellin is added to the vaccine, antibody levels against the plague bacteria are 500,000 times higher.

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The disease takes two forms: bubonic, which is spread by flea bites, and the more serious pneumonic, which is spread in the air. Government officials are concerned that it could also be used as a weapon.

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The defense establishments of the United States and the U.K. have each maintained active plague vaccine research and development efforts since the 1990s. Relevant plague vaccine development information has been shared among the U.S., U.K., and Canada under provisions of a memorandum of understanding between the three nations since 2000.

The U.K. plague vaccine candidate is a purified subunit vaccine containing the F1 and V antigens purified separately from recombinant Escherichia coli and then mixed together, while the DoD vaccine candidate contains the F1 and V antigens linked together as a fusion protein. The F1V fusion protein candidate was pioneered by the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command. The DoD program is now managed by the Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program in the office of the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense.

Testing of the U.K. plague vaccine candidate in the United States under the joint project arrangement is expected to begin in late 2005 with a phase one clinical trial to be performed in accordance with regulations administered by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The DoD plague vaccine candidate began phase one clinical trials, at the University of Kentucky, in the first quarter of 2005. This joint effort will continue until late 2005, at which time the DoD will evaluate both vaccine candidates and select one for continued advanced development.

http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=8397