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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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28.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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30.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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32.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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33.100 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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35.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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36.BBC Dolphins - Deep Thinkers? (www.guba.com)
Dolphins are amazing
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2057 -- The Body - What Will The Future Look Like (www.youtube.com)The Body: Flying ambulances? Intelligent clothing? Custom-built organs from scratch? Robotic surgery? Learn about today's medical breakthroughs that will extend our lives in 50 years.
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Mars Rising - Journey to The Red Planet (www.youtube.com)Mars Rising - Journey to The Red Planet
The extraordinary challenges and obstacles faced by the international space community in sending a manned mission to Mars ... and bringing it back. William Shatner narrates "Mars Rising"
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Parallel Universes (BBC) (www.youtube.com)Everything you're about to read here seems impossible and insane, beyond science fiction. Yet it's all true. Scientists now believe there may really be a parallel universe - in fact, there may be an infinite number of parallel universes, and we just happen to live in one of them. These other universes contain space, time and strange forms of exotic matter. Some of them may even contain you, in a slightly different form. Astonishingly, scientists believe that these parallel universes exist less than one millimetre away from us. In fact, our gravity is just a weak signal leaking out of another universe into ours.
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40.How the Earth Was Made: Hawaii (www.history.com)
The Hawaiian islands are the remotest island chain on the planet. Emerging in the center of the Pacific their origins have remained a puzzle for generations.
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41.How the Earth Was Made: The Alps (www.history.com)
The jagged backbone of Europe, spanning seven countries and providing essential water to millions, the alps are Europe's most important landmark. But how did marine fossils get here, seven thousand feet above sea level?
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Stanford Lectures: Leonard Susskind's Modern Physics concentrating on General Relativity (www.youtube.com)Stanford Continuing Studies
Leonard Susskind is the Felix Bloch Professor of Physics at Stanford University
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Monster of the Milky Way (www.pbs.org)Does the Milky Way harbor a supermassive black hole? How big could it be?
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44.Richard Feynman: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (video.google.com)
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45.Carl Sagan - Cosmos - Part 1 "The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean" (video.google.com)
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Darwin's Legacy | Lecture 1 (www.youtube.com)September 22, 2008 introductory lecture by William Durham for the Stanford Continuing Studies course on Darwin's Legacy.
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Oxygen on Vimeo (vimeo.com)All about Oxygen.. funny and cute
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48.THE SINGULARITY OF RAY KURZWEIL - VBS.TV (www.vbs.tv)
Ray Kurzweil tells us about his vision of the Singuarlity—a point around 2045 when computers will acquire full-blown artificial intelligence and technology will infuse itself with biology.
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The Eyes of Nye: Transportation (www.youtube.com)Finally someone insightfully tackles today's issues from a scientific perspective. In Bill Nye's new show The Eyes of Nye, Bill examines the problem of pollution from transportationâwhich has outstripped manufacturing to become America's largest source of air pollutionâby tracing the historical roots of American car culture, trying out some cutting-edge traffic simulation software, and exploring the promise of fuel-efficient cars and state-of-the-art hydrogen technology.
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Richard Feynman on the Arrow of Time (www.youtube.com)Richard Feynman with the most exceptional lectures in "The Character of Physical Law"
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