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The Sagan Series

The Sagan Series is a project by Reid Gower to pay tribute to the late, great Carl Sagan.
Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences. He published more than 600 scientific papers and articles and was [...]

November 13, 2011 Cosmos, Featured Slider 0 Comments

Next World: Future Intelligence

Catch a first-time glimpse at smart technology that will put android helpers in the home, network commuters and entire cities to the Web, and bring us entertainment systems that can virtually make dreams come true. Advances in artificial intelligence are creating machines with near human-like mental agility. Intelligence will be embedded everywhere — even in [...]

March 14, 2011 Tech 1 Comment

Aldous Huxley’s The Ulimate Revolution

“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because [...]

February 26, 2011 Featured Slider, Lectures 0 Comments

The History of Mathematics

Mathematics is the Empress of the Sciences. Without her, there would be no physics, nor chemistry, nor cosmology. Any field of study depending on statistics, geometry, or any kind of calculation would simply cease to be. And then, there are the practical applications: without maths theres no architecture. No commerce. No accurate maps, or time-keeping: [...]

January 3, 2011 Math 0 Comments

What Makes A Genius?

Could you have come up with Einstein’s theory of relativity? If not – why not? This is what Marcus du Sautoy, professor of mathematics, wants to explore. Marcus readily admits that he is no genius, but wants to know if geniuses are just an extreme version of himself – or whether their brains are fundamentally [...]

January 3, 2011 Featured Slider, Mind Power 0 Comments

The Joy of Stats: Hans Rosling Makes Statistics Fun

Hans Rosling says there’s nothing boring about stats, and then goes on to prove it. Only with statistics can we make sense of the world and harness the data deluge to serve us rather than drown in its confusion.
Rosling is a man who revels in the glorious nerdiness of statistics, and here he entertainingly [...]

December 30, 2010 Math 0 Comments

The Holographic Universe

All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. WE are all
one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such
thing as death. Life is only a dream. And we are the imagination of
ourselves.
- Bill Hicks
The act of observation creates reality. This fascinating documentary about cutting edge physics explores the paradox of existence and our [...]

November 29, 2010 Physics 1 Comment

How Science Saved My Soul

One light year is equivalent to 6 trillion miles. Our galaxy has a total diameter of 100,000 light years. Our galaxy has over 200 billion stars.
Using mind-blogging facts about the incredible solar system we live in, this short video shows that the pursuit of knowledge and truth through science is an essential part of any [...]

November 10, 2010 Astronomy 2 Comments

Spontaneous Human Combustion

Over the last century, more than one hundred people have lost their lives in the most baffling circumstances. Officially, the deaths have been put down to freak accidents in unfortunate circumstances. But unofficially, there’s a chilling theory that links all of them together: Spontaneous Human Combustion. But does the phenomenon really [...]

October 20, 2010 Physics 1 Comment

The Secret Beyond Matter

The subject of this film you are about to watch reveals a crucial secret of your life. You should watch it very attentively for it concerns a subject that is liable to make fundamental changes in your outlook on the material world. The content of this film presents not just a different approach, or a [...]

October 20, 2010 Physics 5 Comments

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