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The magnificent ancient city of pyramids at Caral in Peru hit the headlines in 2001. The site is a thousand years older than the earliest known civilisation in the Americas and, at 2,627 BC, is as old as the pyramids of Egypt.

Rudi Affolter and Gwen Tighe have both experienced strong religious visions. He is an atheist; she a Christian. He thought he had died; she thought she had given birth to Jesus. Both have temporal lobe epilepsy. Like other forms of epilepsy, the condition causes fitting but it is also associated with religious hallucinations. Research into why people like Rudi and Gwen saw what they did has opened up a whole field of brain science: neurotheology. The connection between the temporal lobes of the brain and religious feeling has led one Canadian scientist to try stimulating them.

Richard Dawkins takes an in-depth look at Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution in this excellent Channel Four series.

Part 2 of Richard Dawkins’ series about Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution.

Part 3 of Richard Dawkins’ series about Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution.

Excellent lecture by creativity expert Ken Robinson in which he examines whether schools kill creativity in children and what we can do to improve matters.

A 2006 British report estimated that the projected costs of global warming to be as costly as both world wars and the Great Depression added together. Yet, with such consequences, some scientists still insist that climate change, if it is happening at all, could be a good thing.

The Denial Machine investigates the roots of the campaign to negate the science and the threat of global warming. It tracks the activities of a group of scientists, some of whom previously consulted for Big Tobacco, and who are now receiving donations from major coal and oil companies.

A fascinating look at the untold and sometimes controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society in the west. How was the all-consuming self created, who created it and what were their intentions? Examines the work of Sigmund Freud and his nephew Edward Bernays who is often seen as the “father of the public relations industry” and was the first to use psychological techniques in advertising.

Through a series of interviews, this film argues that the bizarre events surrounding the 9/11 attacks, and the equally bizarre prosecution of the so-called “war on terror”, can be more credibly understood in the wider context of an imminent divergence between the supply and demand of global oil.

A Channel 4 documentary from Martin Rees who reckons “the universe is still a place of mystery and wonder”, I have to agree.

Everything you thought you knew about the universe is wrong. It’s made of atoms, right? Wrong. Atoms only account for a measly 15% of everything that exists. The mass of the universe consists of something so mysterious and elusive that it has been dubbed ‘dark matter’.