Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Learn what happens when sugar and bacteria attack your teeth enamel... It's the price we have to pay for eating cake!
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
The battle between toothbrush and cavities ignites in this lively cartoon.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Guess what happens when little children forget to brush their teeth after eating sugar? Watch this fun cartoon and find out. You may never want to eat sugar again... unless you brush your teeth of course!
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
In the second episode of this animated series, we find out that not brushing one's teeth regularly can have dire consequences. The bacteria fight it out in this little boy's mouth and lose the battle, thanks to the dentist's drill.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
The Maestro explains how the revolutionary ideas of the early discoverers, which we now take for granted, were not always well received. Before Galileo, for example, everyone believed that the sun and all the other planets revolved around the earth!
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
In this video, a young Galileo gets one of his first revolutionary ideas on how to measure time. Pretty impressive for a fourteen-year-old, huh?
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France
Episode nine of this series focuses on Galileo, a prolific inventor and scientist. He discovered the principle of the simple pendulum motion, very useful in the measure of time and later in the making of clocks.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
In part four of this episode on "The Discoverers," Galileo, now a reputable scholar at the University of Padua, proceeds to make a telescope out of lenses with the help of his instrument maker, Marc'Antonio. In this cartoon, an attempt is made to explain Galileo's discoveries.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
In part five of this episode on "The Discoverers," Galileo is warned. His belief that the Earth revolves around the sun is sacrilegious. Giordano Bruno, who claimed this fact, was burned as a heretic by the Inquisition Tribunal.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Galileo is about to throw caution to the wind and reveal his startling discoveries about planet Earth.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Galileo is under close scrutiny because of his Copernican views. Unfazed, he carries on his research and his teachings. Will the Inquisition bring his demise or will his powerful friends, Pope Urban VIII among them, protect him?
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Galileo faces an uncertain future. Behind the scenes are political and religious intrigues and enemies plotting his downfall. The Pope, until now sympathetic to Galileo, has a change of heart. Under pressure from all sides and insulted by his latest works, The Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, portraying the Church's view through the character Simplicio (Simpleton), the pope finally sends Galileo to the Inquisition Tribunal.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Galileo is in prison. He tries one more time to prove his theories to his inquisitor. But he finally recants during the trial saying the famous sentence: "and yet... it turns"
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
In the series "Once Upon a Time... the Discoverers," the Maestro lets off some steam. Some two thousand years ago, Heron invented the steam machine in Alexandria, but it took two millenia to perfect the invention and put it to practical use.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
In part two of this series, "Once upon a Time... the Discoverers," Maestro talks about Cugnot, the inventor of the steam traction engine.
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