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Why We Believe in Gods: Andy Thomson (Lecture)

Science | 26 Jan, 2012 | 311 Comments | 54 mins

This lecture summarizes the scientific research that explains the human inclination to create divinity.

It is a defense of atheism, but rather shows what science has to say about the various modules and capabilities that humans have developed over the millennia that lend themselves to the creation and acceptance of religious explanations.

Although the author made clear[...]

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Did Cooking Make Us Human?

Science | 18 Jan, 2012 | 21 Comments | 57 mins

We are the only species on earth who cook their food - and also the smartest species on the planet. The question is: Do we cook because you are intelligent and imaginative, intelligent and imaginative and we are because our ancestors discovered the kitchen? Horizon examines the evidence that the diet of our ancestors and change their[...]

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The Root of All Evil? – Richard Dawkins

Religion | 13 Jan, 2012 | 54 Comments | 47 mins

A shocking and controversial look into the effect of religion on on our society with special focus on the contradiction between religion/faith and Science. Written and presented by Richard Dawkins, in which he argues that the world would be better off without religion. Watch Documentary Online Now

Ancient Aliens

History, Strange | 12 Jan, 2012 | 4 Comments | 41 mins

Were we visited by extraterrestrials in ancient times? This documentary explores this unorthodox ideas with some compelling evidence. Could this all be science fiction? Possibly, but it makes for an entertaining[...]

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Capturing the Friedmans

Uncategorized | 10 Jan, 2012 | 28 Comments | 2 mins

Capturing the Friedmans is a documentary directed by the first time filmmaker Andrew Jarecki. The documentary is a disturbing but mesmerizing account of child molesters Arnold and Jesse Friedman. Andrew Jarecki’s film raises as many questions as answers and one cannot decide whether the two are guilty or not. Capturing the Friedmans is about the middle-class Long[...]

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Clash of the Dinosaurs

Science | 25 Dec, 2011 | No Comments | 172 mins

This Video explores dinosaurs inside and out showing their structures and the way they lived. Extreme Survivors: 120 million years of evolution made dinosaur bodies better modified to their surroundings than any mammal nowadays. The current science exposes the anatomic reasons that made them such unbelievable survivors. Perfect Predators: The Cretaceous Period created walking death machines with[...]

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The End of God?: A Horizon Guide to Science and Religion

Science | 13 Dec, 2011 | No Comments | 14 mins

As Pope concludes his visit to Britain, the historian Dr. Thomas Dixon goes into the archives of the BBC to explore the troubled relationship between religion and science. Of the U.S. creationist physicists Large Hadron Collider, which traces the spread of scientific knowledge and wonders if there is room for God in the modern world. The[...]

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Heavy Watergate: The War Against Cold Fusion

Science | 09 Dec, 2011 | No Comments |

On March 23, 1989, respected chemists, Dr. Stanley Pons and Martin Fleishman made an announcement that shook the world of science. Desktop experiments with heavy water, a renewable resource available in the water of oceans, produced large amounts of thermal energy. The proper name of "cold fusion", challenged this development many basic scientific concepts. In response, a[...]

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Owning the Weather

Science | 07 Dec, 2011 | No Comments |

There is nothing more terrifying than the time out of control. From the beginning we search for ways to manipulate Mother Nature. Now, thanks to technological advances in the past three decades, the holy grail of climate science may actually be available to us in our fight for the climate itself. Chaos theory hurricane control, cloud[...]

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Six Degrees of Separation

Science | 05 Dec, 2011 | No Comments | 50 mins

Documentary development of the science behind the idea of ​​six degrees of separation. Originally thought to be an urban myth, it now seems that nobody on the planet can be connected in just a few steps from the association. Six degrees of separation is also found in the heart of a major scientific advance. That could be a[...]

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How Does Your Memory Work?

Featured, Science | 05 Dec, 2011 | 21 Comments | 49 mins

A really interesting documentary on the workings of the "self definition" memory of the human being. There are a few different areas to our brain that deal with memory like speech and language and short term memories like shopping lists etc. This documentary follows the lives of three individuals who have very different memory to[...]

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Science and Islam

Science | 02 Dec, 2011 | No Comments | 175 mins

Jim Al-Khalili Physical travels through Syria, Iran, Tunisia and Spain to tell the story of the great leap in scientific knowledge that took place in the Islamic world between the ages 8 and 14.

His legacy is tangible ones such as algebra, the algorithm and alkali all Arab in origin and in the heart of modern[...]

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The Story of Science: Power, Proof and Passion

Science | 11 Nov, 2011 | No Comments | 10 mins

For thousands of years we struggled with the great questions of existence. Who are we? What is the world made of? How did we get here? The quest to answer these is the history of science. Each week, medical journalist Michael Mosley charts the often unpredictable path we have taken. In recreating a famous alchemist experiment,[...]

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Natural Mystery

Science | 31 Oct, 2011 | 1 Comment |

It seems that there is no real division between mind and body. Both work together as part of the human totality and changes in one influence the other. Nothing is all in the mind, or just physical. We seem to be extraordinary mixtures of mind and matter, able almost to use one to create the[...]

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The Changing Ape

Science | 25 Oct, 2011 | No Comments | 50 mins

In the burning heart of Senegal, at a place called Fongoli, a chimpanzee holding a momentous act. Strips a branch of its leaves, bites the tip at one point and the tool jams in a hole in a tree, killing a bushbaby. In short, has been manufacturing and using tools for hunting. Only human beings are supposed[...]

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The Secret You

Science | 25 Oct, 2011 | 14 Comments | 58 mins

With the help of a scientist who wields a hammer, Jennifer Aniston and general anesthesia, Professor Marcus du Sautoy is in search of answers to one of the greatest mysteries of science: how do we know who we are? While the thoughts that make us feel like we know ourselves are easy to use, which are[...]

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The Secret Life of Chaos

Science | 19 Oct, 2011 | 31 Comments | 5 mins

Chaos theory has a bad name, conjuring up images of unpredictable weather, accidents and economic science has gone wrong. But there is a fascinating and hidden from the chaos, that scientists are only beginning to understand. It turns out that chaos theory answers a question that mankind has asked for millennia - How did we[...]

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