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The Universe - Science Fiction, Science Fact (www.youtube.com)The world of tomorrow is quickly becoming the futuristic world of today. While you may not be "beaming" to your next appointment, researchers are preparing for the first tests of a transporter. And while scientists have long mocked Hollywood's visions of warp speed a new generation of physicists continues to rewrite the fundamental rules of the universe. Is there a way around the cosmic speed limit?
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Richard Dawkins - The Blind Watchmaker - 1/5 (www.youtube.com) -
4.TechnoCalyps - Part III - The Digital Messiah (video.google.com)
Part Three of a three-part documentary about Transhumanism
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5.TechnoCalyps - Part II - Preparing for the Singularity (video.google.com)
Part Two of a three-part documentary about Transhumanism
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6.TechnoCalyps - Part I - TransHuman (video.google.com)
Part One of a three-part documentary about Transhumanism
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7.David Attenborough "The Living Planet 1 - The Building of the Earth" (video.google.ca)
From the icy summits of the Himalayas to the lush tropics. Shows how creatures become adapted to living in certain environments.
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Hulu.. so U.S. only :(
Cosmos is the best.
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9.BBC - Earth News - Vine seeds become 'giant gliders' (news.bbc.co.uk)
Remarkable footage has been captured of falling Alsomitra vine seeds, which use paper-thin wings to disperse like giant gliders.
The seeds, which are produced by a football-sized pod, can glide hundreds of metres across the forest.
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Lord of the Ants (www.youtube.com)Every so often a giant emerges on the stage of science, someone who transcends the narrow boundaries of a particular line of research and alters our perspective on the world. E.O. Wilson is such a man.
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11.Triumph of the Nerds (video.google.com)
Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires is a documentary film written and hosted by Robert X. Cringely. The title references the 1984 film, Revenge of the Nerds, and the documentary itself is based on Cringely's book Accidental Empires. The documentary chronicles the rise of the personal computer/home computer beginning in the 1970s . It continues through the 1980s and the mid 1990s, ending at the beginning of the Dot-com boom with the release of Windows 95.
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The Day the Earth Nearly Died (www.youtube.com)Documentary about the most probable reason(s) for the Permian mass extinction 250 million years ago.
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13.Controlling Our Food (video.google.com)
The gigantic bio-tech corporation Monsanto is threatening to destroy the agricultural biodiversity which has served mankind for thousands of years.
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14.Richard Dawkins - Nice Guys Finish First (video.google.com)
Richard Dawkins documentary which discusses selfishness and cooperativeness BBC Horizon
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BBC Horizon - Psychedelic Science - DMT, LSD, Ibogaine (www.youtube.com)Documentary about DMT, LSD & Ibogaine
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The Ascent of Man (www.youtube.com)The inspiration for Carl Sagans 1980 series, Cosmos, Jacob Bronowskis 1973 series, The Ascent of Man. Over the course of thirteen episodes, Bronowski travelled around the world in order to trace the development of human society through its understanding of science. "...He was not confined to a single discipline, but ranged over the entire panorama of human learning. His book and television series, The Ascent of Man, are a superb teaching tool and a remarkable memorial; they are, in a way, an account of how human beings and human brains grew up together." Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden
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Absolute Zero (www.youtube.com)What is cold? How do you achieve it, and how cold can it get?
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18.Fermat's Last Theorem (video.google.com)
Simon Singh and John Lynch's film tells the enthralling and emotional story of Andrew Wiles. A quiet English mathematician, he was drawn into maths by Fermat's puzzle, but at Cambridge in the '70s, FLT was considered a joke, so he set it aside. Then, in 1986, an extraordinary idea linked this irritating problem with one of the most profound ideas of modern mathematics: the Taniyama-Shimura Conjecture, named after a young Japanese mathematician who tragically committed suicide. The link meant that if Taniyama was true then so must be FLT.
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Lasts Days on Earth (www.youtube.com)Global Warming, Nuclear War, Biological Warfare, Gamma Ray Burst, Asteroid Impact, Terrorism, Black Holes, Super Volcanoes are just a few possibilities that can render the human race extinct and even destroy the planet. Will humanity prosper into the future or will there one day be a Last Day on Earth.
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20.James Burke : Connections, E01 : "The Trigger Effect" (www.youtube.com)
Episode 1 of James Burke's most well-known series "Connections" which explores the surprising and unexpected ways that our modern technological world came into existence.
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Moon Machines - Saturn V (www.youtube.com)This episode of MOON MACHINES immerses viewers in the incredible story of the mighty Saturn V moon rocket -- technology that joined the vision of World War II German rocket scientists with that of a generation of young, dedicated engineers from across the United States.
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22.What On Earth Is Wrong With Gravity? [BBC 2008 - Horizon] (video.google.com)
Particle physicist and ex D:Ream keyboard player Dr Brian Cox wants to know why the Universe is built the way it is. He believes the answers lie in the force of gravity. But Newton thought gravity was powered by God, and even Einstein failed to completely solve it. Heading out with his film crew on a road trip across the USA, Brian fires lasers at the moon in Texas, goes mad in the desert in Arizona, encounters the bending of space and time at a maximum security military base, tries to detect ripples in our reality in the swamps of Louisiana and searches for hidden dimensions just outside Chicago.
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23.100 Greatest Discoveries - Physics (www.youtube.com)
Physics is the study of the world around us. Asking some of the most profound questions in human history. How the Universe works? What holds matter together and what is this strange force, gently enough to make an apple fall yet powerful enough to lock the moon in captive orbit? Our need to understand has inspired humankinds greatest discoveries. From unleashing the fearsome power of the atom. To uncovering the nature of light itself. To revealing the forces that hold our entire universe together. These are the greatest discoveries in Physics.
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Buckminsterfullerene Documentary - Horizon (www.youtube.com)Horizon documentary from the mid-90s about the discovery of carbon-60 (buckminsterfullerene).
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25.The Graphing Calculator Story (video.google.com)
[From Google TechTalks]
Developer sneaks into Apple to finish canceled project:"I've been working sixteen hours a day, seven days a week. I'm not being paid. In fact, my project was canceled six months ago, so I'm evading security, sneaking into Apple Computer's main offices in the heart of Silicon Valley, doing clandestine volunteer work for an eight-billion-dollar corporation."
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