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Addicted to Plastic

Science | 10 Aug, 2012 | 2 Comments

Plastic is one of the most consumed materials in the world. But this plastic does not biodegrade for millions of years. Addicted to Plastic tries to convey the life cycle of plastic by taking the viewer through a two year trip across the globe. We also see possible solutions of this mass source of[...]

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The Search for Adam

Science | 31 Jul, 2012 | No Comments

Could it be that all descendants of Adam? And if Adam existed, who he was, where she lived and what he looked like? Join leading geneticist and National Geographic Explorer-In-Residence, Spencer Wells, who embarks on a quest to find trees of all the men of the family back to an ancestor. His extraordinary journey ultimately lands him[...]

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Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going (Lectures)

Social | 31 Jul, 2012 | No Comments

Mr. Joseph had been lecturing about the unsustainability of the economy based on money - on the consumer cyclical, planned obsolescence, corporate malfeasance and the piles of toxic waste. It's time to wake up, sang, speaking solemnly through a wireless clip-on microphone. The doomsday scenario, the large contraction, which could be happening now. The system of[...]

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Beautiful Minds

Science | 14 Jul, 2012 | 1 Comment

Who are the modern men and women who will be remembered for the brilliance of their minds? What are your legacy and what you can to tell us his extraordinary discoveries about the nature of science and the nature of truth? In the first of a three-part series, Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell describes how she[...]

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The Secret Life of Chaos

Science | 02 Jul, 2012 | 35 Comments

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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DNA

Science | 25 Jun, 2012 | 24 Comments

Deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms (with the exception of RNA viruses). The main function of the DNA molecules is the long-term storage of information. DNA is often compared to a set of plans as a recipe or[...]

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The Trouble With Atheism

Social | 15 Jun, 2012 | No Comments

The problem with atheism is a documentary of one hour on Atheism, Rod Liddle by. Aired on Channel 4 December 2006. The documentary focused on criticizing atheism and science, by its perceived similarity to the religion and the arrogance and intolerance. The program includes interviews with a number of prominent scientists, including atheists Richard Dawkins[...]

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Phages: The Virus that Cures

Science | 06 Jun, 2012 | 8 Comments

This specific playlist looks at superbugs and the mechanism to combat these using Phages. Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) threatens to infect a large number of patients who make short trips, even in the hospital, and the gradual increase in the number of bacteria that are resistant to all known antibiotics, scientists are turning to new[...]

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Genetically Modified Food: Panacea or Poison

Health | 27 May, 2012 | 1 Comment

This documentary highlights the dangers of genetically modified food products as there has been no study on the safety of these products on human beings. And the claims of them being absolutely safe remain unverified. Even the scientific community is divided on this issue having radically different views, leaving the proving factor on its continued[...]

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The Death of the Oceans – BBC Horizon

Science | 21 May, 2012 | 5 Comments

One gets the feeling that the decision to frame the title of The Death of the oceans? as a matter may have been taken in the last minute in order to discourage immediate despair by the viewer. If the program itself communicated anything, however, is that the oceans dead are much stronger possibility that the question[...]

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Cosmos: A Personal Voyage

Science | 10 Apr, 2012 | 109 Comments

With the Cosmos, Carl Sagan and his wife and co-writer, Ann Druyan, brilliantly illustrated the underlying science of the book of the same title, placing the human within a context of space and time taken to infinity incredibly clear view. The series, which originally aired on PBS in 1980, has been seen by more than[...]

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From Big Bang to Us: Made Easy

Science | 07 Apr, 2012 | No Comments

This series explains the scientific evidence of our origins, from the Big Bang to the human migration out of Africa, so most seventh-graders would understand. That challenges people who believe they were created by a deity 6,000 years ago to deal with the evidence instead of ignoring it. About the author: caver. I've been a journalist for[...]

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The Search for Life: The Drake Equation

Science | 31 Mar, 2012 | No Comments

For many years, our place in the universe was the subject of theologians and philosophers, not scientists, but in 1960 a man changed all that. Dr. Frank Drake was one of the references in the new science of radio astronomy, when he did something that was not only revolutionary, but it could have cost him the[...]

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The Ghost in our Genes

Science | 07 Mar, 2012 | 25 Comments

Our genes carry the incredible information about our past. It is this genetic information, which affects our present, because the only way forward is to look into the past. This documentary explains the science of genetics and its impact on our future life. A gene is the basic unit of heredity in living organisms. The field[...]

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