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Understanding – Flight, WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES


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The desire to fly is as old as human culture. Ancient Egyptians studied birds in an attempt to learn how to fly. Centuries later, we were still strapping on wings, jumping off cliffs… and crashing. It took a bit of time, bruised bodies and the occasional death to figure out that we were too heavy and too weak to propel ourselves with flapping wings. But in the last century, our dreams of flight finally became reality. While we haven’t grown wings, we have learned how to fly by shaping metal and plastic into machines that take us higher and faster than birds could ever fly or possibly even imagine.

Produced and written by Pamela Caragol
Narrated by Jane Curtin
Photography by Chris Nusbaum
Music by Michael Whalen
50 minutes, English and Mandarin Chinese dual audio, 1996

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Audio2: Mandarin Chinese
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Horizon – All episodes


Full Episode List

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Uranus Encounter (26 May 1986)

Horizon investigates the information transmitted back to Earth from the spacecraft Voyager II as it flew past the seventh planet, Uranus

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The Blind Watchmaker (1987)

Richard Dawkins refutes the claims of creationists that Darwinism cannot be credible because blind chance alone would not produce the complexity of organisms as they exist.

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Nice Guys Finish First (1987)

Richard Dawkins discusses selfishness and cooperation, focusing especially on the tit for tat strategy of the prisoner’s dilemma game.

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Canal in the Jungle (1988)

The first attempt to construct a canal in Panama began in 1880 under French leadership. After this attempt failed and saw 200,000 workers die, the project of building a canal was attempted and completed by the United States in Panama in 1914.

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Fermat’s Last Theorem (15 January 1996)

At the age of ten, browsing through his public library, Andrew Wiles stumbled across the world’s greatest mathematical puzzle. Fermat’s Last Theorem had baffled mathematicians for over 300 years. But from that day, little Andrew dreamed of solving it. Horizon tells the story of his obsession, and how, thirty years later, he gave up everything to achieve his childhood dream.

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The Time Lords (2 December 1996)

Horizon investigates the physics of wormholes and the limitations physics places on the possibility of time travel.

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Noah’s Flood (16 December 1996)

Follows the work of geologists Bill Ryan and Walter Pitman, who for twenty five years have been investigating evidence for the location of the biblical flood and Noah’s Ark.

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Ice Mummies – Part 1 – The Ice Maiden (30 January 1997)

The results and conclusions drawn by the world’s leading scientific experts from the investigations following the discovery, in various parts of the world, of ancient dead bodies mummified by ice, thus preserving a lot of their secrets. Tools, artifacts and clothes have been found along with the bodies and similarly investigated leading scientists to some startling revelations.

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Ice Mummies – Part 2 – A Life In Ice (6 February 1997)

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Ice Mummies – Part 3 – Frozen In Heaven (13 February 1997)

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The Man Who Lost His Body (16 October 1997)

Looks at Ian Waterman, who at 19 caught a virus that destoyed half of his nervous system and who, in spite of medical assertions that he would never walk, feed or move again, managed by sheer will-power to get back some mobility. Examines the question of how far the brain can over-ride disease or physical problems.

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Antarctica – The Ice Lives (12 March 1998)

Report on the possibility of colonising Antarctica, Earth’s most hostile environment, focusing on the scientists who are acting as pioneers into the freezing wilderness, eager to learn the survival techniques of the continent’s many wildlife species

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Antarctica – The Ice Forms (19 March 1998)

The second of three documentaries exploring Antarctica focuses on the mystery of how the ice-covered continent was originally formed. New evidence suggests incredibly powerful geological forces were responsible : a theory which flies in the face of received scientific wisdom

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Antarctica – The Ice Melts (26 March 1998)

Last of the three documentaries about Antarctica. How the threat of global warming in 1987 signalled the start of an environmental panic

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The Midas Formula Stockmarket Formula (2 December 1999)

This is the extraordinary story of a beautiful mathematical formula that changed the world, the financial markets, and indeed capitalism itself. It could do the unthinkable – it took the risk out of playing the money-markets. To its inventors it brought the Nobel Prize for economics. To those who used it, it brought great wealth. But this glittering tale would end in tragedy.

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Living Forever (4 January 2000)

In the 21st century, will scientists reach the Holy Grail – will they discover the fountain of youth? Will we live forever? Scientists are now close to understanding the biological mechanisms that make us age and make us die. A few decades ago, no-one thought we could add years to life. The maximum life-span possible for humans was believed to be a hundred or so – and all because of an immutable genetic clock.

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Extreme Dinosaurs The Science Of Giants (23 November 2000)

Horizon follows the scientists to Argentina as they unearth a brand new species of dinosaur; the biggest carnivore ever discovered. Not yet named, this new creature is even bigger than T. rex, the so-called ‘king’ of the carnivores. The new giant South American predator had a skull bigger than a man that was full of serrated, knife-like teeth and long powerful jaw muscles. They could dissect their prey with almost surgical precision.

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Supermassive Black Holes (30 November 2000)

n June 2000, astronomers made an extraordinary discovery. One that promises to solve one of the biggest problems in cosmology – how and why galaxies are created. Incredibly, the answer involves the most weird, destructive and terrifying objects in the Universe – supermassive black holes. Scientists are beginning to believe that these forces of pure destruction actually help trigger the birth of galaxies and therefore are at the heart of the creation of stars, planets and all life.

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Atlantis Reborn Again (14 December 2000)

Although scientists believe they have categorically disproved the myth of Atlantis, the idea is more popular now than ever before. The latest exponent of the theory of a single lost source for all civilisation, is Graham Hancock. Although he doesn’t call it Atlantis, his compelling ideas about a sophisticated society destroyed in a flood 12,000 years ago seem to be based on a reworking of the original Atlantis myth, whose survivors brought culture, religion, monument-building and civilisation to the rest of the world. Horizon puts Graham Hancock’s controversial theories about the past to the test, dissecting his evidence for a lost civilisation.

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Life on Mars (18 January 2001)

If there’s life on Mars, it would be one of the most important discoveries of all time. It would mean life on Earth was not some special unique event – it would mean there’s likely to be life throughout the Universe.

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Death Star (18 October 2001)

Out in deepest space lurks a force of almost unimaginable power. Explosions of extraordinary violence, are blasting through the Universe every day. If one ever struck our Solar System it would destroy our Sun and all the planets. For years no one could work out what was causing these awesome explosions. Now scientists think they have identified the culprit. It’s the most extreme object ever found in the Universe; they have christened it a ‘hypernova’.

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Cloning The First Human (25 October 2001)

There is another question that few ever ask: is the science actually ready yet for cloning healthy humans? Horizon follows the latest research, which has led many scientists to believe that Zavos and Antinori’s plans to clone the first human could end in tragedy. The programme also meets couples like Matthew and Desirée Racquer (above) who think cloning offers them the only way to raise a child who is truly their own.

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The Lost Pyramids Of Cara (31 January 2002)

The magnificent ancient city of pyramids at Caral in Peru hit the headlines in 2001. The site is a thousand years older than the earliest known civilisation in the Americas and, at 2,627 BC, is as old as the pyramids of Egypt. Many now believe it is the fabled missing link of archaeology – a ‘mother city’. If so, then these extraordinary findings could finally answer one of the great questions of archaeology: why did humans become civilised?

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The Dinosaur That Fooled The World (21 February 2002)

In the mid 1800s, when Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution, one species of animal remained a mystery; where did birds fit on his evolutionary tree? Several years later his friend and colleague, Thomas Henry Huxley, came up with an answer. Huxley had recently examined a new fossil from southern Germany called Archaeopteryx which was causing considerable excitement in palaeontological circles. There were clear signs of feathers and it was obvious this was the earliest fossil evidence of a bird ever found. Huxley noticed something else as well. To him it looked as though the skeleton bore a striking similarity to that of a family of meat eating dinosaurs known as therapods.

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Freak Wave (14 November 2002)

The world’s oceans claim on average one ship a week, often in mysterious circumstances. With little evidence to go on, investigators usually point at human error or poor maintenance but an alarming series of disappearances and near-sinkings, including world-class vessels with unblemished track records, has prompted the search for a more sinister cause and renewed belief in a maritime myth: the wall of water. Waves the height of an office block. Waves twice as large as any that ships are designed to ride over.

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The Secret of El Dorado (19 December 2002)

In 1542, the Spanish Conquistador, Francisco de Orellana ventured along the Rio Negro, one of the Amazon Basin’s great rivers. Hunting a hidden city of gold, his expedition found a network of farms, villages and even huge walled cities. At least that is what he told an eager audience on his return to Spain. The prospect of gold drew others to explore the region, but none could find the people of whom the first Conquistadors had spoken. Orellana’s story seemed to be no more than a fanciful myth.

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Trial & Error (27 February 2003)

a cure for cancer, as well as cystic fibrosis and hundreds of other genetic illnesses. It was the simplest idea but one with enormous potential. If a gene is defective in the human body, just replace it with one that works properly. Scientists were justifiably excited about gene therapy, but this enthusiasm would end up costing one young man his life.

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Earthquake Storms (1 April 2003)

In the last hundred years earthquakes have claimed the lives of over one million people. It is impossible to say accurately when a quake will strike but a new theory could help save lives by preparing cities long in advance for an earthquake.

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The Secret Life of Caves (3 April 2003)

Set against the back drop of awe inspiring geological beauty, a strange scientific adventure sets out to discover how a mineral clad cave network – the height of a 30 storey building and the length of six football fields – came to exist deep below the Guadalupe Mountains in North America.

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Flight 587 (8 May 2003)

In 105 seconds 265 people lost there lives as Flight 587 crashed into the New York suburb of Queens in November 2001. Horizon finds out why and in the process comes across a very startling fact.

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The Bible Code (20 November 2003)

Michael Drosnin is an American journalist and best selling author. He has written two books claiming that he can see into the future using a 3000 year old code, hidden in the Bible.

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Secrets Of The Star Disk (29 January 2004)

This is the extraordinary story of how a small metal disc is rewriting the epic saga of how civilisation first came to Europe, 3600 years ago.

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The Dark Secret Of Hendrik Schon (5 February 2004)

Imagine a world where disease could be eradicated by an injection of tiny robots the size of molecules. That is the hope offered by nanotechnology. But others fear nanotechnology could lead to a non-biological cancer – where swarms of tiny nanobots come together and literally devour human flesh.

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T.Rex – Warrior or Wimp? (11 March 2004)

Tyrannosaurus rex – it’s the scariest, meanest, most bewitching dinosaur of them all. Children are captivated by the sheer savagery of the teeth. Experts marvelled at the force of its bite – ten times more powerful than anything we know today. Moviemakers made millions out of the terror it inspired. But could our picture of this monster be completely wrong?

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The Truth Of Troy (15 March 2004)

It’s one of the greatest stories ever told. The legend of Helen of Troy has enchanted audiences for the last three thousand years. But is there any reality to the myth?

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Project Poltergeist (18 March 2004)

This is the story of two genuine scientific heroes, who for 40 years were engaged in a single extraordinary experiment – to find out why the Sun shines. What they would reveal would stun the world of science. They may have found the reason why everything, including us, exists.

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First Olympian (23 July 2004)

Horizon recreates the first Olympics of ancient Greece, it shows the hardship and pure determination needed and how these athletes devoted their lives to it.

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King Solomon’s Tablet Of Stone (23 September 2004)

When authenticity of a remarkable artefact from the Holy Land with an asking price as high as $10million is thrown into doubt, the world of archaeologically suspects more fakes.

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Making Millions the Easy Way (30 September 2004)

In the mid-1990s, a team of American science students took on the might of the Las Vegas casinos, and came home with millions of dollars. Hardworking engineering students during the week, they became high-rolling gamblers by the weekend and proved that, in one game at least, the house doesn’t always win.

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Supertwisters (28 October 2004)

Following the storm chasers who risk their lives to discover how a strong wind is turned into a 500km/h killer tornado.

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Global Dimming (15 January 2005)

We are all seeing rather less of the Sun. Paradoxically, the decline in sunlight may mean that global warming is a far greater threat to society than previously thought.

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Neanderthal (10 February 2005)

Their bodies were well equipped to cope with the Ice Age, so why did the Neanderthals die out when it ended?

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Does The MMR Jab Cause Autism (29 May 2005)

No public health issue of recent years has attracted such heated debate as the question of whether the MMR vaccine can cause autism. Horizon separates fact from fiction.

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Malaria, Defeating the Curse (5 June 2005)

This is the story of an epic battle between science and nature. It’s a battle to destroy a disease that is one of the biggest killers on the planet: malaria. Every time scientists thought they were winning, the disease has returned stronger and more deadly.

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The Hawking Paradox (8 September 2005)

Has Stephen Hawking been wrong for the last 30 years?

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Titan A Place Like Home (20 October 2005)

Over a billion kilometres away, Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, holds tantalising clues to how life began here on Earth.

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The Family That Walks on All Fours (17 March 2006)

Five siblings from Turkey who walk on all fours could provide science with an insight into human evolution.

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The Woman Who Thinks like a Cow (8 June 2006)

Dr. Temple Grandin has a unique ability to understand the animal mind – and she’s convinced her skill is down to her autistic brain.

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Bye Bye Planet Pluto (22 June 2006)

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made a tough decision to strip Pluto of its status as a planet. The evidence against Pluto had been mounting ever since its discovery in 1930.

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We Love Cigarettes (29 June 2006)

A love of nicotine unites all peoples across the globe, regardless of colour, wealth or creed. Where religion and politics have failed, tobacco has succeeded, but at what cost? For over 50 years people have been knowingly paying for the pleasure of tobacco with their lives, making man’s fatal tryst with the cigarette one of the weirdest love affairs ever.

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Nuclear Nightmares (13 July 2006)

Horizon speaks to a number of scientists who are asking whether we need to rethink the dangers of radiation as there is evidence to suggest that there is a threshold below which radiation may be harmless – or even beneficial.

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Tutankhamun’s Fireball (20 July 2006)

A team of scientists set out to solve the mystery of chunks of ancient glass scattered in a remote part of the Sahara Desert. Their quest takes them on a perilous journey into the Great Sand Sea, the wastes of Siberia and the test site of the world’s first atomic bomb in New Mexico. What their search uncovers is a devastating new natural phenomenon.

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Human v2.0 (24 October 2006)

It’s predicted that by 2029 computer intelligence will equal the power of the human brain. Some believe this will revolutionise humanity – we will be able to download our minds to computers extending our lives indefinitely. Others fear this will lead to oblivion by giving rise to destructive ultra intelligent machines.

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The Great Robot Race (31 October 2006)

Horizon follows 20 robot cars on a remarkable race across the Nevada desert. These cars drive themselves. There are no drivers and no remote controls, they must navigate entirely on their own.

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We are the Aliens (14 November 2006)

Horizon investigates panspermia, the idea that life on Earth came from another planet.

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A War on Science (26 January 2006)

When Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution nearly 150 years ago, he shattered the dominant belief of his day – that humans were the product of divine creation. Through his observations of nature, Darwin proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection. This caused uproar. After all, if the story of creation could be doubted, so too could the existence of the creator. Ever since its proposal, this cornerstone of biology has sustained wave after wave of attack. Now some scientists fear it is facing the most formidable challenge yet: a controversial new theory called intelligent design.

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Moon For Sale (10 April 2007)

After 40 years, man is preparing to return to the Moon. But this time the astronauts won’t just land on the Moon – they plan to stay. If they succeed in transporting Helium-3 back to Earth they could solve the world’s energy crisis.

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Skyscraper Fire Fighters (24 April 2007)

When a fire gets out of control in a skyscraper it tests fire fighters to their limits. Horizon investigates a system that could change the way fires are fought forever.

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The Six Billion Dollar Experiment (1 May 2007)

In the coming months the most complex scientific instrument ever built will be switched on. The Large Hadron Collider promises to recreate the conditions right after the Big Bang. By revisiting the beginning of time, scientists hope to unravel some of the deepest secrets of our Universe.

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How to Commit the Perfect Murder (8 May 2007)

Modern forensic science should make it impossible to commit murder and get away with it. But how easy would it be to outfox the detectives? With the help of top forensic scientists, and real-life murder investigations, Horizon explore whether it’s possible to commit a perfect murder.

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Everest – Doctors in the Death Zone, part 1 (23 September 2007)

This two-part special follows a team of doctors conducting a series of groundbreaking experiments as they climb Everest, the world’s highest peak. From their laboratory tents, pitched in -25&degC conditions, the experts use their own bodies for medical tests. They push themselves to the limit to better understand the human body’s behaviour in a low-oxygen environment. The team hopes their work will lead to new, life-saving treatments for intensive care patients suffering from hypoxia, a shortage of oxygen in the body.

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Everest – Doctors in the Death Zone, part 2 (30 September 2007)

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How to Kill a Human Being (15 January 2008)

Michael Portillo explores humane solutions to the apparent international crisis in capital punishment, which even in the technologically advanced United States has required reassessment of the practicalities amid concerns about unnecessary suffering. With evidence of gruesome botched executions across the world, the former MP finds what he believes could be the answer.

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Total Isolation (22 January 2008)

For the first time in 40 years Horizon re-creates a controversial sensory deprivation experiment. The original experiments carried out in the 1950s and 60s thought by the scientific establishment to be too cruel and were discontinued.

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What on Earth is wrong with gravity? (29 January 2008)

Particle physicist and ex D:Ream keyboard player Dr Brian Cox wants to know why the Universe is built the way it is. He believes the answers lie in the force of gravity. But Newton thought gravity was powered by God, and even Einstein failed to completely solve it. Heading out with his film crew on a road trip across the USA, Brian fires lasers at the moon in Texas, goes mad in the desert in Arizona, encounters the bending of space and time at a maximum security military base, tries to detect ripples in our reality in the swamps of Louisiana and searches for hidden dimensions just outside Chicago.

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Is alcohol worse than ecstasy? (5 February 2008)

Recent research has analysed the link between the harmful effects of drugs relative to their current classification by law with some startling conclusions. Perhaps most startling of all is that alcohol, solvents and tobacco (all unclassified drugs) are rated more dangerous than ecstasy, 4-MTA and LSD (all class A drugs). If the current ABC system is retained, alcohol would be rated a class A drug and tobacco class B.

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How to make better decisions (13 February 2008)

We are bad at making decisions. According to science, our decisions are based on oversimplification, laziness and prejudice. And that’s assuming that we haven’t already been hijacked by our surroundings or led astray by our subconscious!

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How to live to 101 (19 February 2008)

The quest to live longer has been one of humanities oldest dreams, but while scientists have been searching, a few isolated communities have stumbled across the answer. On the remote Japanese island of Okinawa, In the Californian town of Loma Linda and in the mountains of Sardinia people live longer than anywhere else on earth.

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The pleasure of finding things out, Richard Feynman Interview (1981)


FEBRUARY 2006: The classic autobiographical Feynman documentary
BBC Horizon/PBS Nova
THE PLEASURE OF FINDING THINGS OUT

Fifty minutes of pure Feynman! This is the original Horizon/Nova interview – essential for any Feynman fan… and for everyone else too!

‘I’m an explorer, OK? I like to find out!’ Richard Feynman, physicist and adventurer extraordinary…

THE PLEASURE OF FINDING THINGS OUT was filmed in 1981 and will delight and inspire anyone who would like to share something of the joys of scientific discovery. Feynman is a master storyteller, and his tales — about childhood, Los Alamos and the Bomb, or how he won a Nobel Prize — are a vivid and entertaining insight into the mind of a great scientist at work and play.
50 minutes, colour

“The 1981 Feynman Horizon is the best science programme I have ever seen. This is not just my opinion – it is also the opinion of many of the best scientists that I know who have seen the programme… It should be mandatory viewing for all students whether they be science or arts students”
- Professor Sir Harry Kroto, Nobel Prize for Chemistry

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Visions of the future


Thanks to uploader – he know who he is

In this new three-part series, leading theoretical physicist and futurist Dr Michio Kaku explores the cutting edge science of today, tomorrow, and beyond. He argues that humankind is at a turning point in history. In this century, we are going to make the historic transition from the ‘Age of Discovery’ to the ‘Age of Mastery’, a period in which we will move from being passive observers of nature to its active choreographers. This will give us not only unparalleled possibilities but also great responsibilities.

1. THE INTELLIGENCE REVOLUTION
Monday 5 November 2007 9pm-10pm; rpt 12.35am-1.35am; 3.05am-4.05am (signed); Wednesday 7 November 8pm-9pm
In the opening instalment, Kaku explains how artificial intelligence will revolutionise homes, workplaces and lifestyles, and how virtual worlds will become so realistic that they will rival the physical world. Robots with human-level intelligence may finally become a reality, and in the ultimate stage of mastery, we’ll even be able to merge our minds with machine intelligence.

For the first time on television, see how a severely depressed patient can be turned into a happy person at the push of a button – all thanks to the cross-pollination of neuroscience and artificial intelligence.

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2. THE BIOTECH REVOLUTION
Monday 12 November 2007 9pm-10pm; rpt 12.25am-1.25am; rpt 3.25am-4.25am (signed); rpt Wednesday 14 November 8pm-9pm
Genetics and biotechnology promise a future of unprecedented health and longevity: DNA screening could prevent many diseases, gene therapy could cure them and, thanks to lab-grown organs, the human body could be repaired as easily as a car, with spare parts readily available. Ultimately, the ageing process itself could be slowed down or even halted.

But what impact will this have on who we are and how we will live? And, with our mastery of the genome, will the human race end up in a world divided by genetic apartheid?

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3. THE QUANTUM REVOLUTION
Monday 19 November 2007 9pm-10pm; rpt 12.50am-1.50am; rpt 2.50am-3.50am (Signed); Wednesday 21 November 8pm-9pm
The quantum revolution could turn many ideas of science fiction into science fact – from metamaterials with mind-boggling properties like invisibility through limitless quantum energy and room temperature superconductors to Arthur C Clarke’s space elevator. Some scientists even forecast that in the latter half of the century everybody will have a personal fabricator that re-arranges molecules to produce everything from almost anything. Yet how will we ultimately use our mastery of matter? Like Samson, will we use our strength to bring down the temple? Or, like Solomon, will we have the wisdom to match our technology?
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BBC – Tribe (aka Going Tribal)


Tribe, (known as Going Tribal in America) is a documentary television series
co-produced by the BBC and the Discovery Channel, and hosted by Bruce Parry.

In each season, Parry — a former British Royal Marine — visits a number of remote tribes
in such locales as the Himalayas, Ethiopia, West Papua, Gabon and Mongolia, spending
a month living and interacting with each society. While there, Parry adopts the methods
and practices of his hosts, participating in their rituals and exploring their cultural norms.
This often enables him to form personal bonds with the members of each tribe.

Parry is accompanied by a translator, but attempts to learn the basics of each tribal language.

Password for ALL files is: N!MrOd

Series 1

Episode 1 – Adi
Explorer Bruce Parry spends six weeks living with the remote Adi people of Arunachal Pradesh in the Himalayas.
The Adi were once feared as ruthless warriors. They have been cut off from the rest of the world for centuries,
but Bruce learns to live as they do, hunting, eating rats and taking part in sacrificial rituals.

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Episode 2 – Suri
For the Suri people of Ethiopia, ritualised violence is a way of life through extraordinary stick-fighting festivals.
But explorer Bruce Parry finds that the rule of the gun is killing their ancient traditions.


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Episode 3 – Kombai
The jungles of Papua were once famed for their head-hunters and cannibals.
Explorer Bruce Parry travels to live with the Kombai people to discover whether cannibalism is still part of their lives.


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Episode 4 – Babongo
To become men, the Babongo people of Gabon take a powerful hallucenogen
that sends them on a life-threatening, three day trip. Explorer Bruce Parry undergoes
the initiation and finds it has some terrifying side effects.


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Episode 5 – Darhad
The Darhad herders of Outer Mongolia are some of the last nomadic people on the planet.
Explorer Bruce Parry joins a family for their arduous winter migration. He finds the going tough
as he helps them herd their three hundred animals across a high mountain pass.


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Episode 6 – Sanema
The remote Sanema people of the Venezuelan Amazon inhabit a universe full of powerful spirits and ancestors.
Explorer Bruce Parry lives with the tribe, eats the same food as them and takes part in a dramatic shamanistic festival.


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Series 2

Episode 1 – Nyangatom
Documentary series with explorer Bruce Parry. He spends three months living with the remote tribes
of the Omo valley in Ethiopia. His first stay is with the Nyangatom whose warriors are feared by their neighbours.
Parry wants to find out what they’ve done to deserve their fearsome reputation.


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Episode 2 – Hamar
Documentary series with explorer Bruce Parry. He continues his three-month expedition through a
remote African valley, staying with a tribe whose young men prove themselves by jumping over a line of cattle.
Bruce is challenged to join the ritual.


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Episode 3 – Dassanech
Documentary series with explorer Bruce Parry. Bruce concludes his three-month expedition through
a remote African valley, living by Lake Turkana and taking part in a terrifying crocodile hunt.


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Great Britiish Journeys


Great British Journeys, presented by Nick Craine (Coast & Map Man)

We know who explored new worlds, conquered mountains and sailed oceans.

But who ‘discovered’ Britain?

In this fascinating series, Nick Crane investigates eight epic and challenging journeys, following in the footsteps of our greatest indigenous explorers.

From the 12th century to the 20th, from major cities to the wilds of the Hebrides, Nick pieces together how the map of Britain took shape. And, in the process, discovers something about who we are.

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01 – Thomas Pennant
In 1772, Thomas Pennant set out to explore the last remaining blank on the map of the British Isles, a place he described as ‘desolation itself’.
At the time, more was known about America’s east coast than about the Hebrides.

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02 – William Gilpin (The River Wye)
In Observations on the River Wye (1770), William Gilpin drew, painted and discussed one of the most beautiful rivers in Great Britain. He did so in order to formulate his theories on landscape, the picturesque and the nature of God.
In seeking out nature and views, Gilpin was actually the first to popularise a pastime we assume is timeless. A country clergyman, he became the genius of British sightseeing, and his journey an important milestone in British tourism. In a sense, William Gilpin’s trip down the River Wye – largely conducted on a boat in pouring rain – was about helping us to see this country in a new light.
In retracing it, Nick Crane sets out to discover why Gilpin made such trips so popular. How was the River Wye affected by the changes that were around in Gilpin’s day? And has Gilpin’s quest for the picturesque corrupted our view of landscape?

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03 – Celia Fiennes
Can Nicholas Crane follow in the footsteps of an intrepid 17th century
explorer to the very top of the great precipice at Blackstone Edge? It took
a certain kind of woman to ride a horse from London to the Scottish border.
That Celia Fiennes was courageous there is little doubt, but she was also an
acute observer. Her descriptions make fascinating comparison with the modern landscape. Hardly any aspect of England’s geography escaped her eye.
Celia was fascinated by anything that was new. Country houses and gardens,
the hospitals and spas appearing all over the country: they all spelt out
the march of progress that she thought made England great.

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04 – William Cobbett
William Cobbett’s Rural Rides (1821-6) criss-crossed the southern counties – Surrey, Hampshire, Wiltshire. Appropriately they began at the highest point in south east England: Leith Hill, from where a rolling panorama unfolds in every direction.
At the time, England was in flux. The Napoleonic Wars were over, but returning soldiers found the countryside no longer had jobs for them.
Cobbett was convinced this was endemic of a nation tearing its own heart out – that heart being agriculture.
In this journey, Nick tries to find out if Cobbett was right or wrong. Were the advances in agriculture destroying ‘old England’, or was Cobbett just a traditionalist railing against progess? Is anything left of Cobbett’s countryside – and why did his journey nearly land him in prison?

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05 – Gerald of Wales
Gerald’s account covers a seven week journey in March and April 1188.

From Hereford, Gerald covered over 500 miles. His route ranged from southern Wales, an area he knew, to the wilder north. Along the way he tackled some of Wales’ steepest mountains and most treacherous rivers.

His trip bequeathed not only the first book ever to be wholly devoted to Wales, but also the most vivid portrait of a British medieval journey ever written.

Gerald made this journey because he and Baldwin, the Archbishop of Canterbury, were under orders from the King to enlist men for the Third Crusade.

Nick sets out to uncover how successful their appeal was. Did their journey work out as planned? And what was it like to travel around Wales 800 years ago, compared to now?

Who was Gerald of Wales?
Gerald de Barri was the son of a Norman knight, and actually only a quarter Welsh.

In 1188, Gerald was in his 40s, archdeacon of Brecon and a royal official. Despite the historical gap, we know plenty about him. He was tall, energetic and an excellent horseman. Apparently he even had shaggy eyebrows!

Arguably Gerald is Britain’s first travel writer. Although he wrote by hand in Latin, he shows qualities we appreciate today. An excellent storyteller, historian and naturalist, he writes with style and flair, keeping his readers interested. He also creates a mental map of Wales, vital in an age before cartography was commonplace.

Gerald never made it to the Holy Land, instead he dedicated his life to writing. By his death in 1223 he’d produced 17 books, a staggering achievement for his era. In fact, because of those books we know more about him than almost any other person living at the time.

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06 – Daniel Defoe
Where was the journey?

In the early years of the 18th century, Daniel Defoe travelled around the whole British Isles. As a spy, merchant and journalist, he knew the country better than most. He’d even travelled around it on the run from the law.

He wrote his Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain to inspire his fellow countrymen and women. He saw this island as a land of opportunity, rather than the island of difficulties he created in Robinson Crusoe.

Nick follows the first of Defoe’s 17 trips: from London through the mud and marshes of Essex, the storm-battered coast of Suffolk and the commercial heartland of Norfolk.

In doing so, Nick tries to uncover why Defoe started with East Anglia. Why was it so important in his day? And what happened to it afterwards?

Who was Daniel Defoe?

Daniel Defoe (1659 or 61 – 1731) was a pioneering English novelist, the father of modern journalism, a writer who published over 500 works and the author of one of the greatest adventure stories ever written.

But with this work he had deeper aims than spinning a good yarn. Daniel Defoe was obsessed with money – the making and losing of it.

He thought a guidebook would fill a gap in the market, and make him rich. That’s probably why he wrote the Tour anonymously. He paints an incredible picture of Britain, but hides the person who wrote them. By coming across as a well traveled entrepeneur, Defoe concealed his own notoriety as the 18th century equivalent of Del-Boy.

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07 – John Leland
Where was the journey?

In the 1530s, England was in a state of turbulence, caused by Henry VIII’s break from Rome and dissolution of the monasteries. Leland was sent on a mission by the monarch to save the libraries of these vanishing monasteries. But over nine years (1533-42), he turned the trip into something bigger.

Leland planned to produce the information for a great map of Great Britain. He set himself the task of visiting and describing the entire nation in detail. It was a staggering undertaking, one that ultimately drove him mad.

The journey that best exhibits Leland’s legacy was his 1533 visit to Somerset, Devon and Cornwall.

In this Great British Journey, Nick Crane retraces Leland’s route and tries to discover what impact the dissolution of the monasteries had on the Tudor landscape. Does anything of that landscape remain today? And what was it about this project that cost Leland his sanity?

Who was John Leland?

Born in 1503, John Leland became a Royal Chaplain in 1529 then sub-librarian to Henry VIII. A scholar and priest, he was by instinct a geographer with a fantastic eye for detail.

His journals made him the great recorder of Tudor England: although he feared his words wouldn’t survive, Henry VIII ordered them preserved. And while Leland died without producing his great map of England, the notes he left behind confirmed him as England’s original discoverer, the man who invented field work and whose rigorous methods laid the ground for generations of mapmakers.

So why did he go mad? It’s probable that the magnitude of his task took a huge toll on Leland. And as a religious man, it must have pained him to see the fabric of the church being destroyed. But perhaps it was the loneliness of being so far ahead of his time that finally drove him over the edge.

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08 – HV Morton
Where was the journey?

HV Morton toured Scotland in the 1920 and 30s, driving a Bullnose Morris, from south to north and east to west.

At the time, Scotland still had the feeling of wild unexplored lands – and the motor car the novelty of a new form of transport that could open such places up. Morton tried to capture this spirit with his writing, and in doing so struck a popular chord with the middle classes of his day.

But there are layers beneath what initially appears an unashamedly picturesque meander through Scotland. For example, did Morton really believe the car was the ultimate mode of travel? What was he really looking for? Did he embellish his account at all? And how much has Scotland changed in the 70-odd years since?

Who was HV Morton?
The wonderfully-named Henry Canova Vollam Morton was born in Lancashire in 1892. At 17, he joined the paper his father edited: The Birmingham Gazette. This led to The Daily Express, where he made his name covering the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb.

Despite his English birth, Morton’s Scottish mother had filled his childhood with tales of Bonnie Prince Charlie, William Wallace and Rob Roy. It was inevitable he’d leap at The Daily Express’s request for a series of articles on driving round Scotland.

It led to two books: In Search of Scotland (1929) and In Scotland Again (1933). They are two of the earliest and best books from a 60-year career in travel writing, that also covered Europe, Africa and the Middle East. They’re escapist classics, a romantic blend of landscape, history and colourful characters, with nothing reserved about the style. If anything, Morton runs out superlatives too soon, but this weakness can also be a strength of great travel writing: it truly makes you wish you were there.

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HORIZON 2000 Supermassive Black Holes


In June 2000, astronomers made an extraordinary discovery. One that promises to solve one of the biggest problems in cosmology – how and why galaxies are created. Incredibly, the answer involves the most weird, destructive and terrifying objects in the Universe – supermassive black holes. Scientists are beginning to believe that these forces of pure destruction actually help trigger the birth of galaxies and therefore are at the heart of the creation of stars, planets and all life.

Supermassive black holes are so extraordinary that until recently, many people doubted that they existed at all. The idea of giant black holes the size of the Solar System seemed more like science fiction that reality – such monsters would be so powerful that they could destroy the very fabric of the Universe. But in the last five years a series of discoveries has changed our understanding of supermassive black holes and galaxies forever.

Using the powerful Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have been scanning nearby galaxies, searching for these giant black holes. It’s a difficult job – by their very nature black holes swallow light – so can never be seen. So what scientists have been looking for is the effect of their massive gravity, hurling stars around them at immense speed. What they’ve found is more extraordinary than anyone could ever have imagined; not just evidence that these vast destructive monsters exist… but so far they’re in every single galaxy toward which they have turned their telescopes. These giant agents of destruction appear to be common throughout the Universe. Scientists now think supermassive black holes are a fundamental part of what a galaxy actually is.

Lurking at the heart of every single galaxy is a giant black hole of apocalyptic proportions – and that includes our own galaxy, the Milky Way. Astronomer Andrea Ghez has been studying the heart of the Milky Way for the last five years. What she\’s discovered is irrefutable evidence for a giant black hole, 3 billion times the size of our own sun. A black hole that could destroy the entire Solar System. And as Horizon was filming in July 2000, Ghez got some terrifying images – of the giant monster sucking up gas and stars at the galaxy heart.

So what is this giant monster doing at the heart of our galaxy? What effect will this giant black hole 25,000 light years away have on us and the rest of the galaxy around it? These are questions that have been puzzling astronomers for the last few years – and in June, two separate groups of scientists found evidence that points to a startling answer. Rather than being destructive parasites, it seems that supermassive black holes may be essential in the very creation of the galaxies they live in.

Exactly how our galaxy was created has mystified astronomers and physicists for years. Although there have been many theories, there’s little evidence to explain how the gas in the early Universe condensed to form the galaxy we see today. Now scientists realise they’ve been missing a vital ingredient – a supermassive black hole. The immense gravity of a giant black hole might trigger the gas to collapse in the first place. By churning up the gas around it, a giant black hole would trigger the birth of stars, planets and life itself. Despite being the most destructive thing in the Universe, scientists now think our supermassive black hole could be crucial in creating the galaxy as we know it.

The supermassive black hole in our own galaxy may be the reason we exist, but recent work suggests it may also be our end. At present Earth is so far away from the black hole that it can’t affect us, but physicist John Dubinski thinks all that could change. In January 2000 he graphically simulated the final fate of our galaxy. In 3 billion years we will collide with the next door galaxy, Andromeda. The resulting apocalypse will force the Earth and our Solar System out of orbit. Dubinski has calculated a worrying 50:50 chance that we’ll be sent hurtling in towards the black hole at the centre of this maelstrom. This would be fatal for the Earth.

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Horizon 2003 Earthquake Storms


Earthquakes are among the most devastating natural disasters on the planet. In the last hundred years they have claimed the lives of over one million people. Earthquakes are destructive mainly because of their unpredictable nature. It is impossible to say accurately when a quake will strike but a new theory could help save lives by preparing cities long in advance for an earthquake.

“We knew that Izmit was dangerous”

Prof Geoffrey King, Institut de Physique du Globe

The surface of the Earth is made up of large ‘tectonic’ plates. These plates are in slow but constant motion. When two plates push against each other friction generates a great deal of energy. For this reason earthquakes occur most frequently on tectonic fault lines, where two plates meet. However these fault lines run for thousands of kilometres; predicting exactly where a quake will occur is nearly impossible.

Stress lines

In 1992, Dr Ross Stein was monitoring a large earthquake in a town in California called Landers. Three hours later, there was another quake 67km away at Great Bear. Stein believed that this was not simply an aftershock, instead he theorised the event at Landers had set off the earthquake at Big Bear. Stein believes that when an earthquake occurs the stress that has built up along the fault, is in part, transferred along the fault line. It is this energy transfer that causes other quakes to occur hours, days or months after the original.

Stein’s team began to look for connections between the quakes in Landers and Big Bear. They had already been working on a computer model that could help them study the relationship between earthquakes. The data collected during the Landers/Big Bear quake had enabled them to create a model that could predict where the stress from Landers would have been transferred. When they looked at the result the calculations did indeed show that the stress from Landers would have been transferred along the fault to Big Bear. They then plotted all of the subsequent ‘aftershocks’ and discovered that almost all occurred within a high-risk area they called a `red zone’. This did not prove the theory of earthquake storms though. In order to do that the quakes would have to be triggered months or even years after the original earthquake.

Scientists from around the world were attracted by this new theory and there was one part of the world where it seemed from the available evidence that the earthquake storm theory might hold true.

Tremor trail

Prof Geoffrey King was fascinated by the cyclic behaviour of the North Anatolian fault in northern Turkey. Earthquakes in the region moved from east to west with a period of quiet at the end before the cycle began again. King used the same model that had been used to show the connection between the quakes in Landers and Big Bear. The first earthquake King looked at was in the northern city of Erzican in 1939. Using the available data on that quake he found that a town to the west called Tokat was in the red, danger zone. Tokat was indeed struck by a quake in 1942. The model seemed to be working. In 1967 Adapazari, also in a red zone, was hit. It looked like stress generated in one earthquake was being transferred to the west. These could not be aftershocks as they were separated by years, not hours.

As King continued to put data into the model he discovered that a city called Izmit seemed to be the next place that would be struck. With a population of 500,000 people King and other scientists knew they needed to make this discovery public knowledge.

“Buildings can be improved. Construction can be modified”

Prof Geoffrey King

Newspapers, science journals and other publications all printed this remarkable news. Unfortunately there was not enough interest from the local community. In August 1999 King was tragically proved right when a massively energetic earthquake lasting just 45 seconds killed 25,000 people. It was a bittersweet feeling for King. On one hand he was proved right, on the other he knew that many people had lost their lives who could have been saved. King also knew that there was a high chance of more earthquakes. So using the data acquired from the Izmit quake he began to work out where the next most likely earthquake site would be.

The answer would cause a great deal of concern. At the edge of the red zone lay the city of Istanbul, home to more than four million people. The city’s high population density puts its inhabitants at maximum risk. There is good news though; if the warning from King’s team is heeded then arrangements can be made to make Istanbul safer in the event of an earthquake, whenever it happens. For now though, only time will tell if King’s prediction will prove correct.

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