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Judo with Nature
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Planting trees in front of dikes is one way to keep large waves from flooding the shore.
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Video description: At PBS' recent Annual Meeting, physicist and acclaimed author Brian Greene discusses his return to NOVA with "The Fabric of the Cosmos," coming to PBS Wednesdays, November 2-23, 2011, at 9:00 p.m. ET. The four-part miniseries takes us to the frontiers of physics to see how scientists are piecing together the most complete picture yet of space, time, and the universe.
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