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So why don't you zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom Come on and zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom I'm Chris I'm Jennifer I'm Ron. I'm Macario. I'm Karen. I'm the bell. I'm Nell. Who are you? What do you do? How are you? Let's hear from you. We need you Won't you zoom, zoom, zoom, ma-zoom Come on and zoom, ma-zoom, ma-zoom I'm gonna give it a try We're gonna reach for the sky So you can help us survive

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Lufigliano. Biedelman. Schwartz. Zoom. That's a choice. Am I starting? Yeah. No, I start. Can I start? Alright, start. I'm okay. I'm gonna go and use another one. Well... Zoom! You're out. Bye! That was the winner! Once again! Take it off! Take it, Rob! Take this one! Look at that there! My name's Arta Arthema. I live about two miles away from the ocean between Falmouth and Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

My brothers and some friends and I I've been spending almost every day this summer here at a place called New Alchemy. I don't care, I have to be scared of you. All of our parents work here, and that's how we really got involved. New Alchemy is an experimental farm to try to find ways to grow your food without wasting all the oil and all the natural resources we have. We use mulch, and that's putting something on the ground to keep out the weeds and to keep in the moisture. Since we're so close to the ocean, we decided that we should use seaweed and it's been working really well for us. Three main things we're concerned about at the farm is food, energy, and shelters.

the dome is made of triangles so the reason why it's a dome shape is because the Sun can get on get in from all directions and the triangle is the strongest shape geometrical shape one of the main things that we're experimenting with this fish most people think that the only way you can get fish is to go take your rod and go fish in the stream or a lake or the ocean What most people don't really realize is that you can also grow fish if you can get baby fish and put them in a pond and let them grow until they get real big. And then we have some other things, and these are called solar tubes, and we sit them outside, and they'll get warmed up by the sun, and we have fish growing out there. Ron, how can we have to put the fish in the bag? Because if you do it quickly, they'll be shocked, and then they'll get sick. They will stop the growth and stop the growth, right?

So I'm going to take some water, this is the pond water, and I'll put some in the bag, not very much. Right. They'll still have enough for them to swim around in. Okay, that should be enough, I think, for one bag. In an hour they'll be ready to go in. And so this will be something like a natural pond, except that it's completely above the ground. Okay, these are the kids' gardens, and you can sort of see where they're divided. divided and they were given to us just sort of so that we could have some experience in growing with our gardens and like they've been getting better every year just like the main gardens have and like that's Rob's garden that's my garden and we'll just we'll be growing plants we'll almost copy the adults and grow our own food and then we'll just like get tomatoes and everything it's just sort of for fun and it's also to give us experience with the garden our sources of food are going to be changing in the future people are

probably going to have to have their own garden so that's really why we're working on it so hard our main focus of the garden is not really growing stuff but it's experimenting so that you can grow the most stuff out of the smallest area just like with the fish you can't really pick anything from the gardens unless you weigh it and measure it so that we'll know how much harvest we got Okay, no, um, $3.92. $3.92. Okay, this is a Cape Cod rock, and this is like, um, this is like a small scale of a building that people could live in, and they could grow the fish in, and they could grow the plants in, and they could get all their energy from that windmill there, all in one little package.

We're trying to get ideas from maybe a few hundred years ago, a few thousand years ago, the present, and ideas of our own. Like if you'd walk in and walk me and you see all these weird shapes, like circles and like domes and like cylinders, you're going to really think that's weird. the weird shapes are really just to like collect the most sun and it's really most things are that are related to energy they're just weird because they're new these days new alchemy is really an exciting place to be at we're like an idea farm where we'll think up an idea and and we'll experiment it. If it turns out to be good, then we'll tell all the people, and then they can, in turn, tell everybody about it. If you would like to find out how to clean up your environment,

write to Zoom for Zoom Ecology Tips. Zoom, Box 350, Boston, Mass. 02134. There was once a strange land called New Fishland. There was a sea all around this land, but the strange thing about it was that there were no fish in the water. This made the land's name seem quite funny. However, in the town were very proud people who didn't care about this weird name of the land in which they lived. This was with everyone, all except a professor named W. Salt. I want to build a machine that will be able to produce fish to fill the empty sea. And so he did. W. Salt built a machine that was able to produce fish. He named it the Incredible Fish Machine.

It was named this because it could produce fish of many sizes, colors, and shapes. It was the greatest invention that anybody had ever built. The people were all proud of W. Salt. Oh, that's such a good one. Thank you very much. Thank you. It was soon on display at W. Salt's lab. The machine became very popular, for it could produce striped, zigzagged, multicolored, and four-eyed fish, besides plant-colored or featured fish. But the machine could only be run by the professor, because if it was run by anyone else, it would produce too many fish, and it could be damaged. Months passed and W. Salt thought, It's time to take a vacation from producing fish. The sea is full of them, and so are the pet shops and food stores. Professor Salt set off on a 90-day trip around the sea. Professor Salt had made a big mistake,

for he had not asked anyone to take care of the machine. A mischievous boy named Mike went in W. Salt's lab and he started fiddling with the machine. Oh, wow, look at these buttons. I wonder what this one is for. All of a sudden, the machine rattled, clanged, and then... The machine exploded with fish flying from side to side, my grid yelling. The machine has exploded! The machine has exploded! W. Salt was called to his lab immediately. Even after days of repairing the machine, it could never work again. The whole town felt sorry for Professor W. Salt. but he didn't feel that bad because i did fill the sea with the fish and i did invent quite unusual fish he also told himself and the people that a good thing can't last forever i'd like a nice warm winter coat please yes madame how long would you like it why the whole winter

dear zoom hello i watch your show all the time i have a barrel for you the name is the marble cross first you put a six foot line in front of you then spin around until you're dizzy put a spoon in your mouth by the handle and place a marble on the spoon. Now try to walk straight in a line. Sincerely yours, Russell Kims, Franklin, Pennsylvania. That's high. Okay, Lavelle, Angel, and Jennifer, come here. I'm gonna spin them around. You take the marbles and the spoons. I messed up on that. Spin, spin, spin. Spin, spin, you know you ain't dizzy yet.

I am dizzy. She's dizzy, she's dizzy. It's your slapper. Mama. She only got two, two, two. Aw, the little baby. Look at the line. There it is. Don't make her fall. Don't try to make her fall. That's it, that's it. Don't fail. She did it. Do it all. Okay, ready? Yeah, get the next one. Tell me when to stop. Okay, you're dizzy, you're dizzy. Okay, you're good. Oh, no, stop spinning, stop spinning again. Spin him around again. All right, I'm holding it. All right, all right. There's your supper. Okay, ready? I go. Don't try to make him laugh. All right. You don't have to go so slow. Come on, come on. You can do it. You can do it. You don't have to put your feet right on the line. Maybe that will get him to do it. He's putting his feet right on the line. Put his foot off. Girl, girl. He's putting his feet right on the line. Boom.

No, come on. You got to do it fast. Don't do that. Do it faster, because by the time I start spinning, I'm going to start spinning you. He's off. Hang on. Yeah, but she's on the board. She's on the board. Grab a spoon. You made it. Keep going. One more set. Hey. Hey, he made it. Okay, slow down. Slow down. Welcome to Zoom Views and Weather. Today's story comes from Samantha Allison of Ames, Iowa. She writes, Dear Zoom, last year my family had to move from the city to the country because my dad got transferred from his job. it was hard to move to a different place the people talk differently here too so everybody makes fun of me at school I like our new house and the new space to play in but I still miss my friends and all the things we did in the city which do you think is best the city or the country Samantha I talked with all the

other zoomers about that very question I lived in the city New York City when I when I was growing up, but I lived in the country for four years, and I was really used to it, and then I came and lived in Cambridge, and you know, it's hard, so I can imagine it's just as hard going back, going into the country. I can imagine how she felt, like getting friends in the country, because the country people talk different from up here in the city, and they be saying, like they they say tonic, they don't say tonic, they say soda. Yeah, that's what I do, I say soda. You go to a store, you say, can I have a tonic, a bottle of tonic, what'd you say, huh? Repeat yourself. When last year's class, we went on a trip to a place called Elbernobscot, it's like a camp, okay? It's like a camp, but it's different, right? And so when we went, we came back here for a while,

it was just uh i started sneezing and oh you gotta change so fast i know my eyes got watery and i'm i wasn't used to um i wasn't used to the squirrels running up and down you could hear the pitter patter on the top of the roof i love to live in the country anytime you know better than um say i don't think i'd have a difference you know because over there when you get up in the morning you know it's more fresh air there's more things to explore you know i'm curious people like to live over there. Like, I was raised in the city, so it would be kind of hard to change the country. Yeah, but I think if you move from the city to the country, they're going to find good things in each place, and if something bad would happen in the country, all right, and you'd say, oh, I wish I was back in the city. But, you know, you blame it on different things, but it's really, you know, it's what happens, so you may as well live with it. And now the weather. Lavelle, today's weather is whether you like to live in the city or country. The country because it's quieter and I'm used to living there and I love

nature. I guess I'm more of a city person. I don't know. I like to be close to like where a lot of things going on and you have a choice of what you want to do. Out in the country. There's fresh air. Well the country because it's more quiet. Sometimes the city and mostly because like I since I live in In New York, I miss the street noises and stuff, so I guess there. Sometimes the city, because there's a lot going on. Sometimes the country, because it's a smaller place to roam around. That's today's Zoom views and weather. Wherever you live, send your letters to Zoom, Box 350, Boston, Mass., 02134. And don't forget your self-addressed stamped envelope. 2-14.

2-14, we pick up a stray St. Bernard dong at the corner of Spring Valley Road and Shuman. 10-4. Well, okay, Marlene, we've got to go get that St. Bernard. Maybe it'll be tied up. Hopefully. Hopefully it'll be tied up. My name is Marlene Johnson, and I work at the Humane Society in Madison, Wisconsin. Herb's a guy that people call a dog catcher, but he really isn't. He's a humane officer that goes after strays. Sometimes I get to go with him, and I get to help him out under the porch. Well, let's make sure that he's friendly before we go in there and start approaching him. Come here, hound. Sometimes I get nervous, because then I think, oh, it's one of these huge dogs. Come on. Boy, he's a big St. Bernard. Really? He looks friendly. They're not usually vicious at all. They're house pets. Nice dogs that got loose.

Why don't you put a leash on them and see if we can... No tags? No tags or anything else. I guess I got interested in animals when we lived on a farm in Illinois. I really miss the animals on the farm. Oh, boy. Aha, we're in luck. He's gonna be an easy loader. Great. An easy loader. Fantastic. Most people think a Humane Society is a jail for dogs, but it isn't really. It's a place where we keep steering animals, dogs, and cats. Mike's the manager at the Humane Society, and he's the one that answered my question and really taught me a lot. I just want to make sure he's got all of his molars there, which he does. They aren't too dirty, they're pretty clean. So he's not too awfully old. and they get those about a year and a half or so, so it was probably about two years. He wasn't truly without his air conditioning, and that's how it stays cool, especially when it's a half cat. I started working at the Humane Society in the summer, and now I'm kind of a caretaker for the animals.

No matter what kind of dog it is, we give it a shot so it won't get distemper, which is a contagious disease for cats and dogs. When you're down and troubled, and you need a helping hand, and nothing, oh, nothing's for strays we keep them seven working days for the owner to claim it then put a price on it for seven more days then we keep it for as long as we can if there's room in the kennels There have been a few dogs I wanted to take home, but we've already got a dog, and my

mom said enough's enough now I notice when someone is being cruel to their pet if they're close by going to say hey how would you like to be treated like that people that come in that want to buy puppies, I push my favorites. He's an Australian terrier. You like this one? You do? I work on the kids because they're the ones that get their mother's attention, they make up mind for her that this is the one they want. Put your hand right here. When kids come and get a puppy at the shelter I want to give them advice

and I tell them to be patient with this puppy because he's little and he'll learn. Sometimes I'd rather be with animals than people because animals are quieter, they listen better, and they just want affection, and I give it to them. Here, you're all finished. You don't like me after this? If I want to be a vet, I have to go through high school, college, graduate school. Seems like a long time. I know I can make it, because I wanted to be a vet since I was nine when I was on that farm. Well, yes I will, you've got a friend. The icky little chimp scratch. Look at that bunch of cows. Nope, a herd. Heard of what?

Heard of cows. Of course I've heard of cows. Nope, a cow herd. Gracious me, why do I care what a cow herd? I'd like to be under the sea In an octopus's garden in the shade He let us in, knows where we've been In his octopus's garden in the shade I'd ask my friends to come and see An octopus's garden with me I'd like to be under the sea In an octopus's garden in the shade We would be warm below the storm

In our little hideaway beneath the waves Resting our head on the seabed In an octopus's garden near a cave We would sing and dance around Because we know we can't be found I'd like to be under the sea In an octopus's garden in the shade We would shout and swim about the coral that lies beneath the waves, beneath the ocean wave.

Oh, what joy for every girl and boy, knowing they're happy and they're safe, we would be so happy, you and me. No one there to tell us what to do I'd like to be under the sea In an octopus's garden with you In an octopus's garden with you In an octopus's garden with you In an octopus's garden with you In an octopus's garden with you We need you Won't you zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom

Come on and zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom I'm gonna give it a try We're gonna reach for the sky You can help us survive Hey! Come on and zoom, come on and zoom, zoom Come on and zoom, come on and zoom, zoom Major funding for Zoom is provided by a grant from General Foods Corporation and by public television stations. Additional support is provided by unrestricted general program grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Ford Foundation.