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Freedom Downtime: The Story of Kevin Mitnick

Science | 14 Sep, 2012 | 2 Comments

This documentary tells the untold story of Kevin Mitnick, who got condemned by the media for breaching NORAD and causing damage of millions to a software company, without any base for the allegations. He was jailed for just copying software but things went awfully dreadful and serious and he became the first citizen in American history[...]

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Why Are We Here?

Science | 14 Sep, 2012 | No Comments

In this short documentary, Dawkins takes a look at purpose of human existence and makes the important question - Why are we here? Noting that religious stories of human purpose fail miserably, Dawkins suggests that science may be able to offer a better explanation for human existence. Beginning with Darwin, says that Darwin's theory of evolution[...]

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Don’t Grow Old

Science | 13 Sep, 2012 | No Comments

For centuries, scientists have been trying to reach an elixir of youth. Now remarkable findings suggest that aging is somewhat flexible, which ultimately can be manipulated.

Horizon meets scientists who are trying to rebuild why we age and more vital to us all, what can we do to prevent it. But the theory will prevail?

Is the[...]

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First Orbit

Science | 13 Sep, 2012 | 85 Comments

April 12, 1961 - Yuri Gagarin is about to do what no other person has seen in the history of humanity - Earth from space. Over the next 108 minutes you will see that most people in life. What places the first cosmonaut waited silently gliding over the world below? How does it feel to see[...]

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Get Lamp: The Text Adventure Documentary

Science | 12 Sep, 2012 | 36 Comments

The early years of microcomputers were characterized by restricted sound, uncomplicated graphics and tiny amounts of computing power; quite unlike the loud, fast, life-like action that are the trademarks of the modern games on our computers. We have really come of age with Quake, Half-life and Halo!

An entire industry grew manifolds over telling fantastic stories,[...]

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To Infinity and Beyond

Science | 10 Sep, 2012 | No Comments

"Documentary examines the current thinking about very large numbers and infinity when it comes to mathematics and the observable universe. For the third year, most of us have learned to count. Once we know how, it seems as if there was nothing to stop us counting forever. But while the idea may seem infinite perfectly[...]

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A War on Science

Science | 10 Sep, 2012 | No Comments

When Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution 150 years ago, broke the dominant belief of his time - that humans were the product of divine creation. Through his observation of nature, Darwin proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection. This caused a stir. After all, if the story of creation could be doubted,[...]

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Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Science | 09 Sep, 2012 | No Comments

Land is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a point. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of[...]

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Scientific American Frontiers

Science | 08 Sep, 2012 | No Comments

Weight loss surgery. Despite the risks, people are lining up to solve their weight problems in the operating room. And if the latest device - an implantable stomach pacemaker - is resolved, millions more will be out of a surgery. Cars that think. The fully automatic car may be in the future one way, but cars[...]

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How To Mend A Broken Heart

Science | 08 Sep, 2012 | 2 Comments

Dr. Kevin Fong discovers how scientists are close to being able to repair his heart if it stops working. Meet some of the people who have undergone heart surgery and pioneering scientists who are pushing the limits of treatment failure.

We met a man who has had his heart replaced with an artificial one powered by[...]

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The Human Spark

Science | 07 Sep, 2012 | 3 Comments

In the caves and rock shelters of the Dordogne region of France, witness the spectacular Alan Alda paintings and sculptures dating from 30,000 years ago, works of art that archaeologists thought that the first record of people with minds like ours. When this art has been created in Europe had been inhabited for hundreds of thousands[...]

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How Did the Universe Begin?

Science | 07 Sep, 2012 | No Comments

Only a man with a brain the size of Stephen Hawking seriously the challenge of answering the question: How did the universe begin? in less than 30 minutes, while intended for the general population. Conference Hawking is a master class in the conciseness and clarity of thought. It rotates through the history of thought on the[...]

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World Island Wonder

Science | 07 Sep, 2012 | 1 Comment

Dubai, which was once considered a desert landscape, is metamorphosing into a hugely popular tourist destination given that it is the most daring reclaimed land project that has been undertaken till date. 300 new islands have emerged on the Arabian Gulf and size of these is so huge that they can be viewed from space! This[...]

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The Day The Earth Nearly Died – BBC Horizon

Science | 07 Sep, 2012 | 105 Comments

250 million years, long before dinosaurs roamed the earth, the earth and the oceans teemed with life. This was the Permian, a golden era of biodiversity that was about to come crashing to an end. Within a few thousand years, 95% of life on the planet would be destroyed, Earth's biggest mass extinction has ever[...]

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