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What Are Black Holes?
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What Happens if You Fall into a Black Hole?
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Teaser: A Technophile’s Adventureland
Boaz Almog, Dickson Despommier, Dennis Hong, Katherine Isbister -
The Cosmos
I See a Darkness: Perlmutter on Discovering Dark Energy
Saul Perlmutter, John Hockenberry -
Life
Mary-Claire King: Queen of the Blue Moon
Mary-Claire King -
Life
The Infamous Hand Injury
Andrew Dawson -
The Mind
The Importance of Feedback
Andrew Dawson -
Life
Ian Waterman’s Missing Body
Andrew Dawson
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The Mind
The Articulate Hand: Debbie Graham
Andrew Dawson -
Life
Eric Lander: The Genesis of Genius
Eric Lander -
Life
Do You Want to Live Forever?
Bill Ritter, Aubrey de Grey, Leonard Guarente, Michael Rose -
Life
Longevity: Differences in Emphasis
Aubrey de Grey, Michael Rose -
Life
Using the Tools at Our Disposal
Leonard Guarente -
Life
Rise of the Grey Nations
Bill Ritter, Aubrey de Grey, Leonard Guarente, Michael Rose -
The Mind
Curing the Aging Brain
Leonard Guarente, Aubrey de Grey -
Life
Long Term Longevity
Michael Rose
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Life
Get to Know Your Gerontologist
Aubrey de Grey -
Life
A Bona Fide New You
Aubrey de Grey, Judith Campisi -
Life
The New Science of Aging
Leonard Guarente, Michael Rose -
Life
The Promise of Regenerative Medicine
Aubrey de Grey -
Life
The Flourishing Affliction of Old Age
Judith Campisi -
Reality
The Higgs Boson: What Are We Looking For?
Monica Dunford -
The Cosmos
Brian Greene and Lawrence Krauss on CERN’s Higgs Announcement
Brian Greene, Lawrence M. Krauss -
Reality
Unifiers in History: James Maxwell
Jim Gates
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The Cosmos
Eternal Inflation of a Cosmic Landscape
Leonard Susskind, Jim Gates -
The Cosmos
Steven Weinberg: A Simple, Right Theory of Everything
Steven Weinberg -
The Cosmos
Steven Weinberg: A Collider of Possibilities
Steven Weinberg -
Life
Steven Weinberg: Modern Science’s Gift to Culture
Steven Weinberg -
Life
Steven Weinberg: The Real Needs of Society
Steven Weinberg -
Life
Steven Weinberg: Congress Versus the Collider
Steven Weinberg -
Life
Steven Weinberg: In Defense of Pure Science
Steven Weinberg -
Life
Steven Weinberg: The Priorities of Practical
Steven Weinberg
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Life
Steven Weinberg: Is It Anti-Science or Just Confusion?
Steven Weinberg -
The Cosmos
Looking Through the Eyes of Mathematics
Keith Devlin -
The Mind
Process and the Mathematical Revolution
Keith Devlin, Jonathan Borwein, Marcus du Sautoy, Simon Singh -
Life
Can Math Be Beautiful?
Robert Krulwich, Marcus du Sautoy, Simon Singh -
The Mind
Creative Math: The Heart of Something Complicated
Robert Krulwich, Marcus du Sautoy, Simon Singh, Jonathan Borwein -
The Mind
The Origin of Numbers
Robert Krulwich, Jonathan Borwein, Marcus du Sautoy, Simon Singh -
Life
Welcome to the Mathematical Universe
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The Mind
Interpreting Animal Dreams
Matthew Wilson
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The Mind
Do Lab Rats Dream of Running Mazes?
Matthew Wilson -
The Mind
Getting Sleep in the Wild
Niels Rattenborg -
Life
Why Study Birds?
Niels Rattenborg -
The Mind
The Safety of Sitting Ducks
Niels Rattenborg -
The Cosmos
NOVA’s The Fabric of the Cosmos with Brian Greene
Brian Greene -
The Mind
What is Parasomnia?
Carlos H. Schenck -
The Mind
The Curious Case of Kenneth Parks
Carlos H. Schenck -
The Mind
Perchance to Dream about Tetris
Robert Stickgold
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The Mind
Dreams and the Resolution of the Mind
Robert Stickgold -
Life
A Worldwide Standard of Care
Olufunmilayo Olopade, Eric Lander -
Life
Our Global Human Genome
Olufunmilayo Olopade -
Life
Humanizing Cancer Research
Siddhartha Mukherjee -
Life
Cancer: The Future of a Cure
Eric Lander -
Life
Finding the Telltale Genome
Eric Lander, Mary-Claire King -
Life
Mary-Claire King: Freedom to Discover
Mary-Claire King -
Life
Spotlight: The Dao of Zib
Jean Berko Gleason
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Life
Spotlight: Life without Cryptography
Tal Rabin -
The Cosmos
Spotlight: Guided by the Stars
Priyamvada Natarajan -
The Mind
Spotlight: The Frontier of the Mind
Joy Hirsch -
Life
Spotlight: From Math to Ants
Corina Tarnita -
The Cosmos
Harnessing Quantum Computers
Edward Fredkin, Seth Lloyd -
Reality
Digital Physics: The Pioneering Konrad Zuse
Edward Fredkin, Jürgen Schmidhuber -
Reality
Testing from Inside the Maze
Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara -
Reality
From a Simple Code Emerges Complexity
Jürgen Schmidhuber
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Reality
Is the Universe Analog or Digital?
Jürgen Schmidhuber, Edward Fredkin, Seth Lloyd -
Reality
How Many Bits Are in the Universe?
Seth Lloyd, Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara -
Reality
Where Is the Computer, Who Is the Programmer?
Edward Fredkin -
Reality
Is the Universe Digital?
John Hockenberry, Brian Greene -
Life
Creating Universes with Digital Bits
John Hockenberry, Jürgen Schmidhuber -
Life
What Is the Future of Cryptography?
Simon Singh -
Life
What Is Public Key Encryption?
Tal Rabin -
Life
Can We Make Online Voting Secure?
Simon Singh, Tal Rabin, Orr Dunkelman, Brian Snow
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Life
Human Trust vs. Cyber Trust
Brian Snow, Josh Zepps -
Life
Cyber-Terrorism: A Question of Intent
Brian Snow -
Life
Cryptography’s Human Problem
Brian Snow, Simon Singh, Tal Rabin -
Life
The Importance of Implementation
Brian Snow -
Life
Cryptography: Cracking Codes
Simon Singh -
Life
The Enigma Machine Explained
Simon Singh -
Life
Cryptography: Codes, Ciphers, and Connections
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Life
Public Perceptions of Privacy
Orr Dunkelman, Simon Singh, Brian Snow, Josh Zepps
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Life
Moth: The Perfect Human Hand
Kodi Azari -
Life
Moth: The Long Ukrainian Winters
Roald Hoffmann -
The Mind
Moth: Confessions of a Pro-Social Psychopath
James Fallon -
Life
Moth: Why I Teach
Eric Lander -
Life
Moth: Life on a Möbius Strip
Janna Levin -
Life
The Puzzle of Heterosexual Women
Meredith Chivers -
Life
Sexuality across Cultures
Paul Vasey -
Life
Fa’afafine: How Do Homosexual Genes Survive?
Paul Vasey
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Life
Love and the Opportunistic Brain
Jim Pfaus -
Life
Making Impossible Predictions about Sexuality
Andrew Solomon, Marc Breedlove, Jim Pfaus -
The Mind
The Birds and the Bees across Species
Jim Pfaus -
Life
What is Sexual Orientation?
Andrew Solomon, Paul Vasey, Jim Pfaus -
Life
The Many Faces of Human Sexuality
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Life
Is Sexuality a Choice?
Jim Pfaus, Paul Vasey, Meredith Chivers -
Life
The Transgender Decision
Andrew Solomon, Marc Breedlove, Paul Vasey -
Reality
The Problem of Being Almost Consistent
Leonard Susskind, Gerard ’t Hooft, John Hockenberry
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Reality
How Do Holograms Work?
Leonard Susskind -
Reality
Good Physicists Are as Variable as Snowflakes
Leonard Susskind, John Hockenberry -
The Cosmos
A Conflict of Principles
Leonard Susskind, Gerard ’t Hooft -
Reality
What Is Information?
Gerard ’t Hooft -
The Cosmos
How Much Information Exists in the Universe?
Raphael Bousso -
Reality
The Cost of 2-D Coding
Leonard Susskind, John Hockenberry -
Reality
What Is the Holographic Principle?
Peter Galison, Brian Greene, Cumrun Vafa -
Life
A Coat of Many Odors
Sissel Tolaas
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Life
A Culture of Human Cheese
Sissel Tolaas -
Life
The Smell of Fear
Sissel Tolaas -
Life
Strip Club Science
Leslie Vosshall, Avery Gilbert -
Life
The Smell of Clean
Leslie Vosshall, Avery Gilbert -
Life
Are Flowers Smelling You Back?
Consuelo De Moraes -
Life
Smell: Fact or Fiction?
Avery Gilbert -
Life
The Great Pheromone Debate
Avery Gilbert, Leslie Vosshall -
Life
The Power of Smell
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Life
How Do We Smell?
Leslie Vosshall -
The Mind
The Making of a Spotless Mind
Todd Sacktor -
The Mind
What Is Memory?
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The Mind
The Fallibility of 9/11 Memories
Elizabeth Phelps -
The Mind
The Fiction in Our Identity
Jonah Lehrer, Daniel L. Schacter -
The Mind
How Good Is Your Memory?
Daniel L. Schacter -
The Mind
To Remember Better, Build a Mansion in Your Mind
Joshua Foer, Lynn Nadel -
The Mind
Genius’ Dark Cousin
Dean Keith Simonton, Brian Greene, Philip Glass, Julie Taymor
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The Mind
What Is Genius?
Dean Keith Simonton, Brian Greene -
The Mind
‘Genius Cells’ in the Brain?
Douglas Fields -
The Mind
Robot Learning: Rebuilding Newton
Hod Lipson -
Life
Robot’s First Steps
Hod Lipson -
Life
Robot Learning: Look at My Watch
Rodney Brooks, Faith Salie -
Life
Triage by Transistors
Eric Horvitz, Faith Salie -
Life
Inside the Mind of WATSON the Supercomputer
David Ferrucci -
The Mind
Double Jeopardy: WATSON
David Ferrucci, Rodney Brooks
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The Mind
The Ghost in the Machine
Rodney Brooks, Faith Salie, David Ferrucci, Eric Horvitz -
Life
Man-Made Minds: Living with Thinking Machines (Intro)
Faith Salie -
Life
Cool Job: Lit-Hop Extraordinaire
Baba Brinkman -
The Mind
The Creative Brain across Time and Cultures
Julie Taymor, Rex Jung, Douglas Fields -
Arts
Cool Job: Robot Talent Agent
Heather Knight -
Earth
Cool Job: Ancient DNA Detective
Beth Shapiro -
Earth
Cool Job: Ecological Adventurer
Mark Moffett -
The Mind
The Making of an Epiphany
Brian Greene, Marcus du Sautoy
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Life
Cool Job: High-Flying Engineer
Nate Ball -
The Mind
Suddenly, Everything Is Different
Philip Glass, Brian Greene, Marcus du Sautoy, Rex Jung -
Life
When You’re a Scientist
Kevin Temmer -
The Mind
Genius: Striking Out a New Path
Jessica Frey, Raja Burrows, Patrick Halley -
The Mind
BIORYTHM: Opening Reception
The Theremin Inspectors, Chesney Snow, Reactable, Heart ‘N’ Beat -
The Mind
The Improbable Truth about Numbers
Charles Seife -
The Mind
Telephone Math: Lost in Translation
Leonard Mlodinow -
The Mind
Hey, That’s My Birthday Too
Amir Aczel
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Life
Spotlight: Do Not Touch the Frog
Mark Moffett -
Reality
Is Warp Drive Possible?
Lawrence M. Krauss -
The Mind
The Science of Sleep
Alan Alda, Giulio Tononi -
Arts
Art Is the Beauty of Imagination
Jules Feiffer -
Arts
BIORHYTHM Promo Clip
Reactable, Heart ‘N’ Beat, The Theremin Inspectors, Music, Emotion, Empathy -
The Cosmos
The Question You’re All Asking…
Sandra Magnus, Leland Melvin -
The Cosmos
The Stickiness of Water
Sandra Magnus -
The Cosmos
Fun, Games, and Newtonian Physics in Space
Leland Melvin, Sandra Magnus
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The Cosmos
The Future of Spacesuits
Dava Newman -
The Cosmos
Q & A from the ISS
Tracy Caldwell Dyson -
The Cosmos
Astronaut Diaries: What’s on the Menu?
Miles O’Brien, Leland Melvin, Sandra Magnus -
The Cosmos
Working at 100,000 Feet
Leland Melvin -
The Mind
The Story of the Living, Breathing Mirror
Oliver Sacks -
The Mind
The Illusion of Speech
Jamshed Bharucha -
Life
Do We Live in a Reasonable Universe?
William Phillips -
The Mind
Finding God In the Brain
Nina Azari
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Life
Faith’s Unanswered Questions
Lorenzo Albacete -
Life
The Heartbeat of Science
Bill Blakemore, Nina Azari, Lorenzo Albacete -
Life
Where Is the Evidence?
Paul Bloom, Lorenzo Albacete -
The Cosmos
Infinite Worlds: Cosmic Interlude
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The Cosmos
Where Are These Universes Coming From?
Andrei Linde -
The Cosmos
Bathrooms and Bubble Universes
Robert Krulwich, Andrei Linde -
The Cosmos
Flat, Clumpy, and Same
Alan Guth -
The Cosmos
Why Are We Here and Not There?
Brian Greene
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The Cosmos
The Beauty of Agreement
Brian Greene -
The Cosmos
Awkward Cosmology
Brian Greene -
Reality
Are We Living in a Simulation?
Robert Krulwich, Nick Bostrom -
Life
Faith in the Mathematical Order
Paul Davies -
The Mind
Reason and Religion
Thupten Jinpa -
Arts
Spirituality and Music in Adversity
Elaine Pagels, Bill Blakemore -
Life
Satisfaction in Knowledge
Francisco Ayala -
The Mind
Persistence of Memory
Giulio Tononi
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The Mind
Democratic System in Our Heads
Alan Alda, Giulio Tononi -
Life
The Insurance Game
Francis Collins, Robert C. Green -
Life
Personalized Medicine: How can We Make It Easy?
Francis Collins -
The Cosmos
Greetings from the People of Earth
Claire Evans -
Life
Are We Blinded by Life?
David Charbonneau -
The Cosmos
Searching for Stellar Transits
David Charbonneau -
Life
Guestimating Exoplanets
David Charbonneau -
Life
Mission to Europa
Steven Squyres
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Life
A Drop in the Bucket
Jill Tarter -
The Cosmos
Mars Rover on Final Approach
Steven Squyres -
Life
Intergalactic Germ Swapping: What Is Panspermia?
Steven Squyres -
Life
The Hatchery of Life
Michael Russell -
Earth
Global Location Made Easy
William Phillips -
Reality
The Best Tickers are Atoms
William Phillips -
Reality
Magnetic Magic
William Phillips -
The Mind
Why Are Scientists Most Like Children?
William Phillips
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Reality
Can We Reach Absolute Zero?
William Phillips -
The Mind
Instinctually Musical
Lawrence Parsons -
Arts
Notes and Neurons: Jamming
Bobby McFerrin, Daniel Levitin -
The Mind
The Universal Language
Bobby McFerrin, Jamshed Bharucha -
The Mind
What Does the Brain Have to Do with Music?
Daniel Levitin -
Arts
Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventor (Part III)
Bobby McFerrin -
Arts
Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventor (Part II)
Bobby McFerrin -
The Mind
Music: A Whole Body Experience
Lawrence Parsons
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The Mind
Hearing in Utero
Jamshed Bharucha, Daniel Levitin, Lawrence Parsons -
Arts
Music Where It Is: Context and Perception
Bobby McFerrin, Daniel Levitin, Lawrence Parsons -
Arts
Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventor (Part I)
Bobby McFerrin -
The Need for Cognitive Privacy
Paul Root Wolpe -
Decoding the Visual Field
Frank Tong -
The Faint Echoes of Memory
Frank Tong -
The Noisy System of Guilt
John-Dylan Haynes, Frank Tong -
Decoding Dreams
Frank Tong
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It Sounds Like You’re Talking About Mind Reading
John-Dylan Haynes -
Life
The Ant Cemetery
Edward O. Wilson -
The Mind
Dreams, Darkness, and Consciousness
Giulio Tononi, Alan Alda -
The Cosmos
How Many Stars Are There in the Sky?
Mike Francis -
Life
Order out of Chaos: Ant Communication
Josh Zepps, Edward O. Wilson -
Life
What Biodiversity Really Means
Edward O. Wilson -
Arts
How Do You Paint the Air?
Margaret S. Livingstone -
The Cosmos
The Cosmic Treasure Hunt
Lucy Hawking
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Life
My Father, Stephen Hawking
Lucy Hawking -
Life
Spinning Spider Yarns
Mark Moffett -
Life
Adventures inside an Acorn
Mark Moffett -
Life
Fighting Ant Foes
Edward O. Wilson -
Arts
Creating the Illusion of 3D
Buzz Hays -
Life
Let’s Talk about Frogs
Mark Moffett -
The Cosmos
Building a Better Spyglass
Mike Francis -
The Cosmos
Of Stars and Crystalline Spheres
Mike Francis
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Arts
Jules Feiffer Draws
Jules Feiffer -
Arts
A Painting is a Kind of Line
Patrick Cavanagh -
Life
Understanding Monkey Talk
Klaus Zuberbühler -
Arts
Where Does Seeing Happen?
Christopher W. Tyler -
Life
Thinking about Thinking
Brian Hare -
Reality
Why Extra Dimensions Make Sense
Brian Greene -
The Mind
The Stranger You’ve Become
Alan Alda, Charlie Kaufman, Giulio Tononi -
The Mind
Two Minds in One Brain
Charlie Kaufman, Giulio Tononi
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Life
Is Genetically Modified Food Safe?
Louise O. Fresco, Pamela Ronald -
Life
Risk Genetics
Robert C. Green -
Life
What Bonobos Can Teach Us
Vanessa Woods, Brian Hare -
The Cosmos
Spotlight: Things That Are Really There
Mario Livio -
Earth
Modern MacGyver: The Camel Fridge
Winston Soboyejo -
The Cosmos
Why Search for Life?
David Charbonneau, Jill Tarter, Michael Russell -
Arts
Painting and the Scientific Method
Bevil Conway -
Reality
General Relativity
Brian Greene
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The Cosmos
SETI: What Are We Looking For?
Jill Tarter -
Life
Doggone Devious
Brian Hare -
The Cosmos
Spotlight: The Setting of Other Suns
Debra Fischer -
The Cosmos
What Will Really Happen in 2012?
Neil deGrasse Tyson -
Reality
Moth: The Randomness of Concentration Camps
Leonard Mlodinow -
The Mind
Spotlight: This Is My Brain
Jamshed Bharucha -
Arts
Painting Blind
Chuck Close -
Life
Personalized Medicine: Do You Want to Know?
Francis Collins, Robert C. Green
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Life
The Ultimate Computer
Eric Horvitz -
Life
Sharing Is Caring?
Brian Hare -
The Cosmos
Moth: Since NASA Wouldn’t Send Me
Richard Garriott -
Arts
Concert in your Cranium
Polygraph Lounge -
The Mind
Mind Control: Introducing BrainGate
John Hockenberry, John Donoghue -
Reality
Moth: Suffering for Science
Frank Wilczek -
Life
Why Science Literacy Matters
Neil deGrasse Tyson -
The Mind
The Social Neuron
Patrick R. Hof
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The Mind
In a Coma, Do We Cease to Exist?
Giulio Tononi, Alan Alda -
Life
Escher String Quartet
Escher String Quartet -
Arts
Chuck, Up Close
Chuck Close -
Reality
Mental Math
Arthur Benjamin -
Reality
Incompleteness and Complexity
Gregory Chaitin -
Reality
Quick: What’s 37 x 37?
Arthur Benjamin -
Arts
The Power of the Pentatonic Scale
Bobby McFerrin -
Reality
Gödel’s Lasting Legacy
Gregory Chaitin, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Mario Livio
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Life
A Biologist’s Mother Day Song
Adam Cole -
The Mind
Cool Job: The Neuroscientist
André Fenton -
Arts
Sounds That Surround Us
Polygraph Lounge -
Arts
Trailer: Icarus at the Edge of Time
Brian Greene, Philip Glass, David Henry Hwang, Al + Al -
Reality
Sudoku on Steroids
Arthur Benjamin -
Life
Are We Ready for Designer Babies?
George Church, Francis Collins, Robert C. Green -
The Mind
The Music of the Spoken Word
Jamshed Bharucha, John Schaefer -
Arts
The Siren Song
Polygraph Lounge
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Reality
Platonism vs. Formalism
Mario Livio -
Reality
How Real is Star Trek?
Lawrence M. Krauss -
Reality
Quick: Multiply by 11
Arthur Benjamin -
Life
How Loud Can You Go?
Christopher Shera -
Reality
Mathematics: Invented or Discovered?
Mario Livio, Gregory Chaitin -
The Mind
How to Define Consciousness?
Marvin Minsky, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Gregory Chaitin, Mario Livio -
Arts
Could That Be Music?
Polygraph Lounge -
Life
First Contact
Seth Shostak
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Arts
Hearing Yourself Hear
Jacob Kirkegaard -
The Cosmos
Hawking Radiation
Kip Thorne -
Life
What Makes It Music?
Jamshed Bharucha, John Schaefer, Polygraph Lounge -
Life
How We Hear
Christopher Shera -
Earth
The Future of Food
Pamela Ronald, Monty P. Jones, Louise O. Fresco -
Reality
Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein -
Reality
Quick: What’s 78,269 x 78,269?
Arthur Benjamin -
Life
The Great Success and Tragedy of Agriculture
Louise O. Fresco
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Reality
Tomorrow Is Yesterday
Lawrence M. Krauss -
Reality
Introducing the Real-Life Holodeck
Eric Horvitz -
Reality
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics
Mario Livio, Marvin Minsky -
Life
Food Is Everything
Monty P. Jones -
Reality
Five Years, One Experiment
Frank Wilczek, Monica Dunford -
Reality
Will the LHC Kill Us?
Jennifer Klay, Frank Wilczek -
Reality
The Standard Model and Supersymmetry
Frank Wilczek -
Calculating Risk in Personalized Medicine
Francis Collins, Robert C. Green
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The Cosmos
LHC: ALICE Experiment
Jennifer Klay -
Life
Breed More Bacteria?
Sylvia Earle, David E. Guggenheim -
Life
Gathering the Ocean
Sylvia Earle, David E. Guggenheim -
Life
Aquaculture: The Next Generation
David E. Guggenheim -
Life
Oceans: Inspiring Fear and Stewardship
Fabien Cousteau, Sylvia Earle, David E. Guggenheim, David G. Gallo -
Life
Life Needs Water
David G. Gallo, David E. Guggenheim, Sylvia Earle -
Life
Cleaning up the Cleanup
Sylvia Earle -
The Mind
Getting Intimate with Technology
Luciano Floridi, John Hockenberry
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The Cosmos
The Discovery of Black Holes
Kip Thorne, Alan Alda -
The Mind
Is Google Making Us Smarter?
Gary Small -
The Cosmos
Black Holes and Time
Kip Thorne, Alan Alda -
The Mind
Creating Consciousness
Luciano Floridi, John Donoghue, John Hockenberry -
Life
Cool Job: The Medical Ecologist
Dickson Despommier -
The Cosmos
Black Holes
Robbert Dijkgraaf -
Reality
Unknown Pleasures: The Search for New Particles
Monica Dunford, John Hockenberry -
Life
Cool Job: The Amphibian Biologist
Tyrone Hayes
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Earth
Technological Determinism
Rosalind Picard, Luciano Floridi -
Life
Cool Job: The Cave Microbiologist
Hazel Barton -
Arts
Cool Job: The Art Historian
Maurizio Seracini -
The Cosmos
Cool Job: The Alien Hunter
Jill Tarter -
The Mind
How to Program Intelligence?
Rosalind Picard, John Donoghue -
Life
Cool Job: The Aquatic Biologist
Pamela Schaller -
The Cosmos
Ask Brian Greene: Why Do We Think the Higgs Particle Exists?
Brian Greene -
Reality
Cool Job: The Roboticist
Dennis Hong
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Earth
Modern MacGyver: The Dirt Battery
Hugo Van Vuuren -
Earth
Modern MacGyver: The Lunch Pail Stove
Benjamin West -
Life
Modern MacGyver: The Indestructible Rice
Pamela Ronald -
The Cosmos
Wavelengths from the Sky
Laura Danly -
The Cosmos
What the Binary Pulsar Can Tell Us
Andrea Lommen -
The Cosmos
When Black Holes Collide
Kip Thorne -
Reality
The History of Gravity
Laura Danly -
Reality
The Graviton and Superstring Theory
Shamit Kachru, Lawrence M. Krauss, Brian Greene
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The Cosmos
The Sound of Ancient Gravity
Rainer Weiss -
Reality
A Tree Is to the Universe…
Shamit Kachru, Brian Greene, John Hockenberry -
The Mind
Coping with Face Blindness
Chuck Close, Oliver Sacks -
The Mind
Remeeting People
Chuck Close -
The Mind
Can I Catch Face Blindness?
Oliver Sacks -
World Science Festival: Youth and Family Highlight Reel
World Science Festival -
Arts
Trailer: The Creator
Al + Al -
Earth
Trailer: ReKindling Venus
Lynette Wallworth
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On The Shoulders of Giants: A Special Address by Steven Weinberg
Steven Weinberg -
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Mysteries of the Mathematical Universe
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The Mind
The Mind after Midnight: Where Do You Go When You Go to Sleep?
Carl Zimmer, Matthew Wilson, Niels Rattenborg, Carlos H. Schenck -
Life
Cancer’s Last Stand? The Genome Solution
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Rebooting the Cosmos: Is the Universe the Ultimate Computer?
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The Mind
Keeping Secrets: Cryptography in a Connected World
Josh Zepps, Brian Snow, Tal Rabin, Orr Dunkelman, Simon Singh -
The Mind
The Origins of Orientation: Sexuality in 2011
Jim Pfaus, Marc Breedlove, Meredith Chivers, Paul Vasey, Andrew Solomon -
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A Thin Sheet of Reality: The Universe as a Hologram
John Hockenberry, Gerard ’t Hooft, Leonard Susskind, Herman Verlinde, Raphael Bousso
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Life
Scents and Sensibilities: The Invisible Language of Smell
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The Unbearable Lightness of Memory
Dan Harris, Daniel L. Schacter, Elizabeth Phelps, Lynn Nadel, Todd Sacktor -
The Mind
Beautiful Minds: The Enigma of Genius
Philip Glass, Julie Taymor, Rex Jung, Douglas Fields, Dean Keith Simonton, Brian Greene -
The Mind
Man-Made Minds: Living with Thinking Machines
Faith Salie, David Ferrucci, Eric Horvitz, Hod Lipson, Rodney Brooks -
The Mind
The Illusion of Certainty: Risk, Probability, and Chance
Marcus du Sautoy, Gerd Gigerenzer, Leonard Mlodinow, Josh Tenenbaum, Amir Aczel -
The Mind
Strangers in the Mirror
Oliver Sacks, Chuck Close, Alexandra Lynch, Robert Krulwich -
The Mind
The Limits of Understanding
Mario Livio, Gregory Chaitin, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Marvin Minsky, Sir Paul Nurse -
The Mind
Consciousness: Explored and Explained
Charlie Kaufman, Giulio Tononi, Alan Alda
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The Mind
Eye Candy: Science, Sight, Art
Jules Feiffer, Buzz Hays, Patrick Cavanagh, Margaret S. Livingstone, Christopher W. Tyler, Lawrence Weschler -
The Mind
Mind and Machine: The Future of Thinking
John Donoghue, Gary Small, Luciano Floridi, Rosalind Picard, John Hockenberry -
Life
Food 2.0: Feeding a Hungry World
Pamela Ronald, Louise O. Fresco, Bill Blakemore, Monty P. Jones -
The Mind
The Mathemagician
Arthur Benjamin -
The Cosmos
The Search for Life in the Universe
Jill Tarter, Steven Squyres, David Charbonneau, Michael Russell, Sir Paul Nurse -
The Mind
All Creatures Great and Smart
Brian Hare, Vanessa Woods, Jeremy Niven, Patrick R. Hof, Klaus Zuberbühler, Jad Abumrad -
The Cosmos
Black Holes and Holographic Worlds
Alan Alda, Raphael Bousso, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Andrew Hamilton, Kip Thorne -
The Cosmos
Astronomy’s New Messengers
Laura Danly, Andrea Lommen, Kip Thorne, Rainer Weiss
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The Cosmos
Back to the Big Bang: Inside the Large Hadron Collider
Frank Wilczek, Jennifer Klay, Marcela Carena, Monica Dunford, John Hockenberry -
Reality
Good Vibrations: The Science of Sound
Jamshed Bharucha, Jacob Kirkegaard, Christopher Shera, Mark Whittle, Polygraph Lounge, John Schaefer -
The Cosmos
Hidden Dimensions: Exploring Hyperspace
Brian Greene, Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Shamit Kachru, Lawrence M. Krauss, John Hockenberry, Escher String Quartet -
The Cosmos
Astronaut Diary: Life in Space
Tracy Caldwell Dyson, Sandra Magnus, Leland Melvin, Dava Newman, Miles O’Brien -
The Mind
Notes & Neurons: In Search of the Common Chorus
Jamshed Bharucha, Bobby McFerrin, Daniel Levitin, Lawrence Parsons, John Schaefer -
The Cosmos
Infinite Worlds: A Journey through Parallel Universes
Brian Greene, Nick Bostrom, Alan Guth, Andrei Linde, Paul D. Miller, Robert Krulwich -
Life
!@#$% Traffic: From Insects to Interstates
Robert Krulwich, Iain Couzin, Anna Nagurney, Mitchell Joachim
