"An investigation into society's obsession with the end of the world. The programme reinterprets various doomsday panics throughout history, from the Jehovah's Witnesses' flight to the mountains in the belief that the great flood was imminent, to the prospect of nuclear winters and the presence of deadly viruses... We are used to living in an age when the end of the world is always just around the corner. Over the last 30 years, scientific research and media novelty have combined to make every scare feel like it could be the next end of the world. And it seems like, with each discovery that our existence is just as fragile as we feared, science has taken on the same doomsday appeal as old testament religion - while, increasingly, modern religions employs the logic and reason of science to convince non-believers they have the answers."
"Dee Ryding's fascinating Time Shift explores how, from the 1970s New Ice Age, via global warming, nuclear winters, Sars and millennium bugs, we've successfully survived every predicted apocalypse, only to invent a new one to get worried about." Tom Ware, Time Shift Series Editor.
BBC documentary - Ariel Sharon
The life and career of Ariel Sharon. I found the documentary very neutral. BBC brilliantly showed the psychology behind the monster. Please put your comments to share public opinions.
BBC Horizon The Six Billion Dollar Experiment
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, scintists hope to unravel some of the deepest secrets of our Universe.
Within these first few moments the building blocks of the Universe were created. The search for these fundamental particles has occupied scientists for decades but there remains one particle that has stubbornly refused to appear in any experiment. The Higgs Boson is so crucial to our understanding of the Universe that it has been dubbed the God particle. It examplains how fundamental particles acquire mass, or as one scientist plainly states: "It is what makes stuff..."
Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision: Hunter S. Thompson 1978 BBC Documentary
Hunter S Thompson and long time artistic collaborator Ralph Steadman are filmed as they travel to Los Angeles for an early planning meeting about the movie Where The Buffalo Roam. Fascinating for any fan of Fear and Loathing is Las Vegas, as Johnny Depp studied the footage in order to better adopt Thompson's mannerisms. There is also a detailed description of Thomspon's elaborate funeral plans, realized in 2005, involving a fist-shaped obelisk.
By the End of Time (BBC - TIME Part 2 of 4)
In this four-program series, string theory pioneer Michio Kaku goes on an extraordinary exploration of the world in search of time.
He discovers our sense of time passing and the clocks that drive our bodies. He reveals the forces of time that make and destroy us in a lifetime. He journeys to some of the Earth's most spectacular geological sites to look for clues to the extraordinary depths of time at a planetary level. Finally, he takes us on a cosmic journey in search of the beginning (and the end) of time itself.
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