Genius of Britain Episode 3 HD

A Conversation Between Richard Dawkins and Stephen Hawking

Aired June 3, 2010

A clip from the Channel 4 documentary Genius of Britain.

The Genius of Britain Episode 2 (HD)

"In this new five-part series, leading scientific figures - Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins, James Dyson, David Attenborough, Robert Winston, Paul Nurse, Jim Al-Khalili, Kathy Sykes and Olivia Judson - celebrate the British scientists and inventors who literally created the modern world. The second programme in the series looks at the scientific spark that ignited the Industrial Revolution in Britain. James Dyson tells the story of how a young James Watt was inspired to perfect the steam engine that would change the world forever. Jim Al-Khalili explains how Joseph Priestley, a clergyman with a fascination for gases, discovered the very air we breathe and started a craze for soda water. David Attenborough talks about his hero Joseph Banks, the great naturalist who sailed to the South Seas and founded Kew Gardens on his return. And Robert Winston reveals the extraordinary story of John Hunter, surgeon, anatomist... and body-snatcher."
(Part 2 of 5)


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The Genius of Britain Episode 1

Aired May 30, 2010


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"We may only be a small island, but Britain's great scientists and inventors have literally created the modern world, from the invention of the steam engine, computers and the world-wide web, to the discovery of the theory of evolution and the atom. In a new five-part series some of Britain's leading scientific figures tell the stories of the people behind these innovations. The first programme begins 350 years ago when a small group of friends, colleagues and rivals defied everything that was known about the world at that time. Stephen Hawking and Jim Al-Khalili explain how Isaac Newton saw mathematics at the root of everything, from gravity to light."

(New Series, Part 1 of 5)

BBC Derren Brown Investigates (Trailer)

"Channel 4 (UK) trailer for the series launch of 'Derren Brown Investigates'."

BBC Weird Nature - Crazy Ant Farmers

"Learn more about the weird and wonderful world of ants as they farm great herds of aphids to harvest the sweet honeydew nectar. Great animal video from BBC show 'Weird Nature'."



(Via Pharyngula)

Natural World - Clever Monkeys

"David Attenborough's entertaining romp through the world of monkeys has a serious side: for when we look at monkeys we can see ourselves. From memory to morality, from 'crying wolf' to politics, monkeys are our basic blueprint.

Pygmy marmosets 'farm' tree sap; bearded capuchins in Brazil develop a production line for extracting palm nuts; white-faced capuchins in Costa Rica tenderly nurse the victims of battle; and in the Ethiopian highlands a deposed gelada baboon has got the blues."


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BBC Natural World - Bringing Up Baby

"Natural World investigates the vital bond between animal mothers and their babies. The more we study animals, the more we realise just how emotional they are; all mothers are faced with tough choices as they struggle to bring up babies in a difficult and dangerous world, constantly balancing their own needs with those of their infants. Yet there are many ways to raise your brood, from the fish who looks after her young in her mouth to the extended childhoods of gorillas or orang-utans. Narrator Sir David Attenborough"


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Richard Dawkins Interviews Creationist Wendy Wright (Repost)

"Wendy Wright is President of Concerned Women for America (CWA), the nation's largest public policy women's organization. Miss Wright promotes legislation and international policies that are beneficial to women and families, briefs congressional and presidential staff on pro-family issues, and trains grassroots activists. She is frequently interviewed in national media on moral, social and political issues. Miss Wright was named among "The 100 Most Powerful Women of Washington" in 2006 by the Washingtonian Magazine. The National Pro-Life Religious Council awarded Wendy for her "continuous leadership in the cause of life."


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The Cell - The Spark of Life (Episode 3 of 3)

"Dr Adam Rutherford concludes his compelling journey through 350 years of science to discover the secrets of the cell and of life itself. The Spark Of Life begins with some of the earliest evidence of life on Earth: fossilised cells that are a staggering one billion years old. It is now believed that all life on Earth began with one primordial cell from which every living thing evolved. Today, however, knowledge of the cell has brought humankind to the brink of something truly profound. Scientists may be about to create living cells from scratch and, if they succeed, it will be the first life form on Earth that has not evolved from that original cell. It would be the Second Genesis."


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The Cell - The Chemistry of Life (Episode 2 of 3)

""Dr Adam Rutherford explores how scientists began to probe ever more deeper into the cell in order to unlock the secret of life, as he continues his compelling journey through 350 years of science."


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Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, and Arthur Clarke - On Religion and gods

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The Cell - The Hidden Kingdom (Episode 1 of 3)

Episode 1 of 3

"Dr Adam Rutherford introduces a new three-part series that tells the extraordinary story of the scientific quest to discover the secrets of the cell and of life itself. Every living thing is made of cells, microscopic building blocks of almost unimaginable power and complexity."


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Philosophy - Nietzsche on Hardship

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Documentary - The Suicide Tourist [Download]

Just watched this today, and I highly recommend it.

"The controversy about a persons right to die at a time and place of
their own choosing has become focused on the Swiss organisation Dignitas,
and its founder, civil rights lawyer, Ludwig Minelli. Dignitas, based
in Zurich Switzerland, is the only place in the world where a person
seeking an assisted suicide can be helped to die, no matter where they
are from. For a year, Oscar-winning Canadian director John Zaritsky
had exclusive access to Dignitas, and its clients. In this program,
Zaritsky tells two interwoven stories about suicide. In the first,
he follows a terminally ill man, 59-year-old American Craig Ewert,
through the last four days of his life - preparing to leave his
adopted home in England for the last time, then on his journey
to Zurich, and into the care of Dignitas, with whose help he will
end his life. The second story follows Canadian couple George
and Betty Coumbias, who test that philosophy, and the Swiss tolerance
for a law that some say is giving Zurich a reputation for suicide
tourism. George has terminal heart disease, and would like to choose
the time of his death with the help of Dignitas his wife Betty is
determined to die with him, even though she is perfectly healthy."



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James May rides in a U2 spy plane

"James May from Top Gear U.K. takes an emotional ride to the edge of space in a U2 spyplane. "

David Attenborough - Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life [Download]

"Passionate Darwinian David Attenborough, who sees evolution as the cornerstone of all the series he has ever made, shares his personal view on Darwin's controversial idea. Journeying through the last two hundred years, he tracks the changes in our understanding of the natural world, and asks three key questions: how and why did Darwin come up with his theory? Why do most people think he was right? And why is it more important now than ever before?"



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The Selfish Green [Download]

"The Selfish Green Debate

The Selfish Green was the opening event of Wildscreen 2004, a landmark debate on the future of conservation with Sir David Attenborough, Professor Richard Dawkins, Jonathan Dimbleby (chair), Dr Jane Goodall and Dr Richard Leakey."



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BBC Nietzsche - Human All Too Human [Download]

"The prescient seeds of thought disseminated by Friedrich Nietzsche in the 19th century prefigured the pivotal 20th-century concepts of existentialism and psychoanalysis. In this program, interviews with Nietzsche biographers Ronald Hayman and Leslie Chamberlain, archivist Dr. Andrea Bollinger, translator Reg Hollingdale, writer Will Self, and philosopher Keith Ansell Pearson probe Nietzsche’s life and elucidate his writings. In addition, his sister’s role in editing his works for use as Nazi propaganda is highlighted. Extracts of Nietzsche’s aphoristic prose, drawn from works such as The Parable of a Madman and Thus Spoke Zarathustra, aptly convey the essence of a supreme stylist and prophetic thinker."



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