Connections 3
The third and last installment of James Burke’s Connections series. Once again, James Burke explores how progress occurs, almost exclusively by accident, and through various “connections” between ideas or individuals.
The third and last installment of James Burke’s Connections series. Once again, James Burke explores how progress occurs, almost exclusively by accident, and through various “connections” between ideas or individuals.
In this documentary science series, Richard Dawkins, Jim Al-Khalili, James Dyson, Stephen Hawking, David Attenborough and Robert Winston celebrate the great thinkers and moments in British science, from Newton to the present day.
Nobel Prize winner Sir Paul Nurse examines why science appears to be under attack, and why public trust in key scientific theories has been eroded – from the theory that man-made climate change is warming our planet, to the safety of GM food, or that HIV causes AIDS.
A documentary series about the history of mathematics, presented by Oxford professor Marcus du Sautoy.
James Burke’s most well-known series “Connections” which explores the surprising and unexpected ways that our modern technological world came into existence. Second Series.
Michael Mosley takes an informative and ambitious journey exploring how the evolution of scientific understanding is intimately interwoven with society’s historical path.
This two-part scientific detective tale tells the story of a remarkable group of pioneers who wanted to reach the ultimate extreme: absolute zero, a place so cold that the physical world as we know it doesn’t exist, electricity flows without resistance, fluids defy gravity and the speed of light can be reduced to 38 miles per hour.