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Nuclear Fusion Documentary Movie

admin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:02:28 +0000

A BBC Horizon documentary on a US government scientist’s claim that he had made nuclear fusion out of sound waves in his laboratory.

Life And Death In The 21st Century – Documentary

admin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:00:08 +0000

Scientists search for the Holy Grail – can humans live forever?

The Illusion of Reality – Documentary

admin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:58:14 +0000

Professor Jim Al-Khalili explores how understanding the atom more deeply has forced us to rethink the nature of reality. He discovers that there might be parallel universes in which different versions of us exist, finds out that empty space isn’t empty at all, and investigates the differences in our perception of the world in the universe and the reality.

Immigration – How We Lost Count : BBC Documentary

admin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:40:23 +0000

Jeremy Vine looks at the contentious issue of immigration in the UK.

Global Dimming

admin — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:29:32 +0000

Revealing the devastating affects of a phenomenon that scientists are calling ‘global dimming’.

Strangelets

admin — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:40:41 +0000

How the world might end 4 different ways in one day. With the CERN supercollider coming on line soon and the different experiments they will be performing this short film seems a good place to understand our new world!

The Lost Pyramids Of Caral

admin — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:31:36 +0000

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.

God on the brain

admin — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:28:21 +0000

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.