Humanity

Bitter Lake is a 2015 BBC documentary film by filmmaker Adam Curtis. It argues that Western politicians keep simplifying the stories they tell, into a simple-to-digest by the public “good” vs. “evil” argument, due to society’s overwhelming chaos and disorder, which they neither grasp nor understand.

Humanity

The Story of Earth

March 4, 2014

An exhilarating 90 minute special from National Geoprahic this epic documentary uses stunning graphics to tell our planet’s amazing story. The only home to life in the universe that we know of, what is that makes our planet so special? Earth was a very different place 4 billion years ago as it coalesced from hails of […]

Cosmology

Neil Armstrong: First Man on the Moon

October 26, 2013

It was a monumental first. Greater than Columbus. Greater than any previous voyage of discovery. Played out live on TV across the globe, Neil Armstrong instantly became the most famous man on the planet. A humble aeronautical engineer, Armstrong was not prepared for worldwide celebrity. He was however, the most prepared, capable and competent man […]

Cosmology

In the Shadow of the Moon

October 23, 2013

Of all mankind’s endeavours surely none has been so awe inspiring as our expedition to the Moon. This riveting 4OD documentary, In the Shadow of the Moon, combines archive footage of events with recent interviews of all the surviving Apollo program astronauts. Politically of course it was all about the Americans beating the Soviets in […]

Cosmology

The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster

May 28, 2013

The story of the 1986 Challenger disaster is every bit as compelling as that of the Titanic. It was rushed into launch by a PR machine intended to boost the sagging popularity of the Space Shuttle, which had come to be seen by many as pointless and expensive. School teacher Christa McAuliffe was chosen […]

Cosmology

John Lloyd: An Animated Tour of the Invisible

October 23, 2012

Comedic genius John Lloyd‘s classic Ted Talk is an entertaining rumination on the wonder of the universe, here beautifully animated as part of TED’s TEDEd project – ‘lessons worth sharing’. Recorded in 2009, Lloyd cleverly weaves a linguistic labyrinth of intriguing juxtapositions whilst highlighting the paradoxes of our scientific understanding of the universe. Delivered as […]

Humanity

Isaac Asimov’s ‘The Last Question’

October 8, 2012

The Last Question is perhaps Isaac Asimov‘s most famous short story. First published in 1956, it concerns the evolution through time of Multivac, a super computer which begins as a sort of giant problem solving internet and, over billions of years, evolves into a godlike intelligence permeating the entire universe. The early Multivacs predict Google […]

Humanity

The Lost Codex of Archimedes

September 24, 2012

Archimedes is the most famous of the ancient mathematicians, and not just because of his penchant for running naked through the streets shouting ‘Eureka!’. A genius centuries ahead of his time he calculated an accurate value for Pi, discovered the principle of water displacement and invented the archimedean screw. “Give me a place to stand, […]

Humanity

Richard Dawkins: Universe – “Queerer Than We Can Suppose”

August 12, 2012

Richard Dawkins‘ brilliant and expansive 20 minute TED talk suggesting that not only is the universe queerer than we suppose, it may be queerer than we can suppose. Quoting J.B.S. Haldane, Richard Feynman, David Deutsch, Lewis Wolpert, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and even Major General Albert Stubblebine III, Dawkins asks whether there are things about the universe […]

Humanity

Jacob Bronowski – Day at Night

June 30, 2012

Revealing interview with the unique Jacob Bronowski on the Day at Night with James Day in 1974. Anyone who has seen The Ascent of Man will already be familiar with Bronowski’s staggering wealth of knowledge and the insight that he wields with it. Entertaining and brilliant as ever, here we find out about the man […]

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