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How Do Motion and Gravity Affect Time?
330 views / 1 likes - addedTune in and join the conversation during the premiere of "The Richness of Time" on Friday, January 17th at 8pm EST.Join a physicist, a neuroscientist, and a linguist as they explore the deep enigmas of time. Time feels like it flows, but does it? Time see
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Monitoring Human Impact on Earth with Landsat 8
298 views / 0 likes - addedTune in and join the conversation during the premiere of "Eyes in the Skies: Bringing the Universe Down to Earth" on Friday, December 20th at 8pm EST.For the last half century we have slipped the surly bonds of earth with landers, rovers and spacecraft th
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Searching for WIMP Dark Matter
334 views / 0 likes - addedIf you believe the worlds leading physicists, the vast majority of matter in the universe is hiding in plain sight. For nearly a century, evidence has mounted that the gravitational pull necessary to keep clusters of galaxies intact, as well as stars with
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The Rubber Hand Illusion
309 views / 0 likes - addedWatch "The Reality of Reality: A Tale of Five Senses" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1jn86eUX0EPROGRAM DESCRIPTION:Your eyes and ears dont tell you the truth. Thats not what theyre for. The senses evolved to enable us to survive and succeed in the
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Why Do Galaxies Rotate?
283 views / 0 likes - addedIf you believe the worlds leading physicists, the vast majority of matter in the universe is hiding in plain sight. For nearly a century, evidence has mounted that the gravitational pull necessary to keep clusters of galaxies intact, as well as stars with
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What is Slime Mold and is it Intelligent?
268 views / 0 likes - addedHow much brain do you need to be smart? Bees and ants perform marvels as colonies, though each insect has barely any brain. And plantswith no brain at allexhibit behaviors that, by any definition, count as intelligent. Brace yourself for a mind-bending ex
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Is a Brain Upload Possible? Max Tegmark on Whole Brain Emulation
378 views / 0 likes - addedTune in and join the conversation during the premiere of "To Be or Not to Be Bionic: On Immortality and Superhumanism" on Friday, November 22nd at 8pm EST.PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONWe can rebuild him. We have the technology, began the opening sequence of the hug
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How Much Dark Matter Exists in the Universe?
379 views / 0 likes - addedIf you believe the worlds leading physicists, the vast majority of matter in the universe is hiding in plain sight. For nearly a century, evidence has mounted that the gravitational pull necessary to keep clusters of galaxies intact, as well as stars with
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Can a Plant Remember?
348 views / 0 likes - addedTune in and join the conversation during the premiere of "Intelligence Without Brains" on Friday, November 8th at 8pm EST.PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONHow much brain do you need to be smart? Bees and ants perform marvels as colonies, though each insect has barely a
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The Roots of Exploring Plant Intelligence
330 views / 0 likes - addedTune in and join the conversation during the premiere of "Intelligence Without Brains" on Friday, November 8th at 8pm EST.PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONHow much brain do you need to be smart? Bees and ants perform marvels as colonies, though each insect has barely a
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A Brief History of Gene Editing
334 views / 0 likes - addedTune in and join the conversation during the premiere of "CRISPR in Context: The New World of Human Genetic Engineering" on Friday, October 25th at 8pm EST.PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONIts happened. The first children genetically engineered with the powerful DNA-ed
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He Jiankui and the World's First Gene-edited Babies
349 views / 0 likes - addedTune in and join the conversation during the premiere of "CRISPR in Context: The New World of Human Genetic Engineering" on Friday, October 25th at 8pm EST.PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONIts happened. The first children genetically engineered with the powerful DNA-ed
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The New World of Human Genetic Engineering
974 views / 0 likes - addedTune in and join the conversation during the premiere of "CRISPR in Context: The New World of Human Genetic Engineering" on Friday, October 25th at 8pm EST.PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONIts happened. The first children genetically engineered with the powerful DNA-ed
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Real-life 'Batman' Daniel Kish Demonstrates Human Echolocation
459 views / 0 likes - addedTune in and join the conversation during the premiere of "Can We 'Cure' Deafness and Blindness? Should We?" on Friday, September 13th at 8pm EST.Recent breakthroughs in vision and hearing mean many forms of blindness and deafness may soon be reversible. T
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What It Takes to Boldly Go
340 views / 0 likes - addedFifty years ago, as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin bounced on the moons surface below, Apollo 11 Command Module Pilot Michael Collins briefly disappeared behind the lunar disk, becoming the first person to experience space entirely alone. As we set our si
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The Quest for the Ultimate Theory
374 views / 0 likes - addedTune in and join the conversation during the premiere of "Loose Ends: String Theory and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory" on Friday, August 2nd at 8pm EST.Thirty-five years ago string theory took physics by storm, promising the coveted unified theory of
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What Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins Feared Most
481 views / 0 likes - addedFifty years ago, as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin bounced on the moons surface below, Apollo 11 Command Module Pilot Michael Collins briefly disappeared behind the lunar disk, becoming the first person to experience space entirely alone. As we set our si
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The woman who turns brains into soup: Suzana Herculano-Houzel
450 views / 0 likes - addedEver wondered how many neurons are in the human brain? Meet Suzana Herculano-Houzel, a professor at Vanderbilt University whose pioneering "brain soup" technique made it possible to accurately count the number of neurons in brains of all sizes. From eleph
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Brian Greene on the 100th Anniversary of the Eclipse that Proved Einstein Right
391 views / 0 likes - addedBrain Greene tells the story of Einstein's journey to develop his wild ideas about space and time, his General Theory of Relativity. Photographs of stars taken during a solar eclipse on May 29th, 1919, confirmed his calculations correct. This major discov
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Blue Origin's Vision to Send Millions of People to Space
389 views / 0 likes - addedFifty years ago, as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin bounced on the moons surface below, Apollo 11 Command Module Pilot Michael Collins briefly disappeared behind the lunar disk, becoming the first person to experience space entirely alone. As we set our si
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