mathematics

BBC Horizon: Consciousness - The Secret You

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Professor Marcus du Sautoy goes in search of answers to one of science’s greatest mysteries - How do we know who we are? (58 min)

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The Secret Life of Chaos

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BBC narrator, Professor Jim Al-Khalili explores how Chaos Theory has slowly changed the paradigm in science and may answer the question that mankind has asked for millennia? This one is most excellent. (59 min, 6 segments)

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The History of Mathematics: Ep.2 - The Genius of the East

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Episode 2 of the BBC documentary series The Story of Math gives due credit to the East - China, India and Arabia in the history of mathematics. (58 min, 6 segments)

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ATOM: Ep.3 - The Illusion of Reality

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The final part of Professor Jim Al-Khalili’s documentary series shows how the world we think we know turns out to be a tiny sliver of an infinitely weirder universe than which we could have conceived. (56 min, 6 segments)

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The History of Mathematics: Ep.1 - The Language of the Universe

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In the first episode, The Story of Maths is the story of civilization, of human history starting with the need to quantify. (58 min)

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New Swirled Order - Crop Circle Documentary 2009

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A recent documentary exploring the mystery of crop circles. (50:06 min)

Daniel Tammet - The Boy With the Incredible Brain

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The story of Daniel Tammet, a twenty-something with extraordinary mental abilities - he sees and feels numbers, does huge calculations in his head and learns a new language in a week. (48 min, 5 segments)

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