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Archaeology
MPBN: Quest Series, Moving Image, 00:58:03

Sifting through a 6,000-year-old prehistoric settlement; Discovering the remains of 1812 soldiers under a city seafood shop; We'll follow several teams of professional and amateur archaeologists as they unearth pieces of northern New England's past. We'll see the latest techniques and technologies they're using to detect, excavate and preserve these interesting finds.

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Archaeology - New England
New England - Antiquities
Archaeologists - New England
Archaeologists - Canada
New England - History

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Bodies In Motion: The Biomechanics of Sports
MPBN: Quest Series, Moving Image, 0:54:36

Using athletics, QUEST takes a fresh look at the way our bodies move. Bridging the gap between research and the playing field, coaches, trainers and athletes themselves discover how to optimize performance and what to do when injury causes that performance to fail.

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Biomechanics
Sports -- Physiological aspects
Human mechanics
Human locomotion

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Climate Change: In Our Backyard
MPBN: Quest Series, Moving Image, 0:56:45

Using close-to-home examples, the views of leading scientists come alive as they show how climate change can affect almost every aspect of our lives - and in turn, how we affect the climate.

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Climatic changes
Ecology/Energy

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Food
MPBN: Quest Series, Moving Image, 0:56:44

There seems to be mass confusion about what we should be eating. QUEST explores how the government's food pyramid and many of the latest diet plans only make it more confusing.

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Diet
Food

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Gulf of Maine
MPBN: Quest Series, Moving Image

As QUEST takes us into the Gulf of Maine, we see a dynamic web of life, not as an extension of our world, but as its own ecosystem. What is going on down there? Can more be done?

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Ecosystem health
Marine ecology
Marine resources conservation
Coastal zone management
Ecosystem management
Biogeochemical cycles
Fishing/Fisherman
Oceanography
Maine, Gulf of
Ocean bottom
Habitat (Ecology)

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Winter
MPBN: Quest Series, Moving Image, 0:56:43

For those plants and animals that don't migrate south for winter, a lot of preparation goes into getting ready for winter. When it comes to dealing with winter, plants and animals know things we humans don't.

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Winter -- New England
Ecology/Energy
Seasons -- New England
Natural history -- New England

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