BBC Horizon

BBC Horizon

A long-running BBC popular science and history documentary programme. The format of the series varied in the early years following its launch in 1964 but is now standardised at 50 minutes.
 
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Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 738 Comments: 0 Attenborough: Can the Earth Cope? Attenborough: Can the Earth Cope? From Horizon: How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth? When the global population reaches 9 billion people, how will the Earth cope? Sir David Attenborough explores the changing demographics of Earth over the next 40 years. Thought provoking clip from the BBC's flagship science series Horizon. User: spam_vigilante Mar 9, 2012 1:42 PM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 1282 Comments: 1 BBC Horizon: Playing God BBC Horizon: Playing God Broadcast (2012) Adam Rutherford meets a new creature created by American scientists, the spider-goat. It is part goat, part spider, and its milk can be used to create artificial spider's web. It is part of a new field of research, synthetic biology, with a radical aim: to break down nature into spare parts so that we can rebuild it however we please. This technology is already being used to make bio-diesel to power cars. Other researchers are looking at how we might, one day, control human emotions by sending 'biological machines' into our brains. User: spam_vigilante Feb 4, 2012 7:18 PM
Permanent Tag: Science Rating: Amazing Hits: 245 Comments: 0 Horizon: The Nine Months That Made You Horizon: The Nine Months That Made You Horizon explores the secrets of what makes a long, healthy and happy life. It turns out that a time you can't remember - the nine months you spend in the womb - could have more lasting effects on you today than your lifestyle or genes. It is one of the most powerful and provocative new ideas in human science, and it was pioneered by a British scientist, Professor David Barker. His theory has inspired a field of study that is revealing how our time in the womb could affect your health, personality, and even the lives of your children. First aired Sun 28 Aug 2011. RT 59:18. User: spam_vigilante Nov 27, 2011 12:39 AM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 1854 Comments: 4 Horizon: The Core Horizon: The Core For centuries we have dreamt of reaching the centre of the Earth. Now scientists are uncovering a bizarre and alien world that lies 4,000 miles beneath our feet, unlike anything we know on the surface. It is a planet buried within the planet we know, where storms rage within a sea of white-hot metal and a giant forest of crystals make up a metal core the size of the Moon. Horizon follows scientists who are conducting experiments to recreate this core within their own laboratories, with surprising results. First aired on BBC Two, Wed 31 Aug 2011. RT 59:02. User: spam_vigilante Nov 26, 2011 12:37 AM
Headline Tag: Science Rating: Amazing Hits: 982 Comments: 10 Horizon - Are You Good Or Bad Part 1 Horizon - Are You Good Or Bad Part 1 The science of why some people become criminals and others do not. User: truth-is-the-nemesis Sep 10, 2011 9:09 PM
Permanent Tag: Science Rating: Amazing Hits: 339 Comments: 2 Horizon: T Rex, Warrior or Wimp? Horizon: T Rex, Warrior or Wimp? Tyrannosaurus rex - it's the scariest, meanest, most bewitching dinosaur of them all. Children are captivated by the sheer savagery of the teeth. Experts marvelled at the force of its bite - ten times more powerful than anything we know today. Moviemakers made millions out of the terror it inspired. But could our picture of this monster be completely wrong? Was T. Rex in fact a slow lumbering creature, with hideously bad breath, that couldn't get anywhere close to catching a Triceratops. Was it really a scavenger that lived off the scraps left by others? Was T. Rex, in fact, a wimp? Featuring fabulous graphics and interviews with T. Rex experts from around the world, Horizon looks at the new science that is challenging the legend of the dinosaur we love to hate. User: spam_vigilante Apr 24, 2011 10:34 AM
Headline Tag: Science Rating: Amazing Hits: 1508 Comments: 4 Horizon: The Secret World of Pain Horizon: The Secret World of Pain Fist aired Jan 31, 2011. RT 59:26. Horizon reveals the latest research into one of the most mysterious and common human experiences - pain. Breakthroughs have come from studying a remarkable woman in London who has felt no pain at all in her life, a man in the US who cut off his own arm to survive, and three generations of an Italian family who don't feel extremes of temperature. We witness a new treatment that involves a pioneering computer game 'snow world' that contains the power to banish pain. And we find how powerfully our moods and emotions shape what pain we feel. User: spam_vigilante Feb 9, 2011 8:51 AM
Unmoderated Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 380 Comments: 0 BBC Horizon: Can We Make a Star on Earth? BBC Horizon: Can We Make a Star on Earth? Professor Brian Cox takes a global journey in search of the energy source of the future. Called nuclear fusion, it is the process that fuels the sun and every other star in the universe. Yet despite over five decades of effort, scientists have been unable to get even a single watt of fusion electricity onto the grid. Brian returns to Horizon to find out why. Granted extraordinary access to the biggest and most ambitious fusion experiments on the planet, Brian travels to the USA to see a high security fusion bomb testing facility in action and is given a tour of the world's most powerful laser. In South Korea, he clambers inside the reaction chamber of K-Star, the world's first super-cooled, super-conducting fusion reactor where the fate of future fusion research will be decided. **YouTube Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=1F6E3B3CFEE16A8F User: JesusFlysSouth Mar 27, 2010 5:47 PM
Permanent Tag: Television Rating: Good Hits: 2698 Comments: 13 BBC Horizon: Is Everything We Know About The Universe Wrong? BBC Horizon: Is Everything We Know About The Universe Wrong? There's something very odd going on in space - something that shouldn't be possible. It is as though vast swathes of the universe are being hoovered up by a vast and unseen celestial vacuum cleaner. Sasha Kaslinsky, the scientist who discovered the phenomenon, is understandably nervous: 'It left us quite unsettled and jittery' he says, 'because this is not something we planned to find'. The accidental discovery of what is ominously being called 'dark flow' not only has implications for the destinies of large numbers of galaxies - it also means that large numbers of scientists might have to find a new way of understanding the universe. Dark flow is the latest in a long line of phenomena that have threatened to re-write the textbooks. Does it herald a new era of understanding, or does it simply mean that everything we know about the universe is wrong? User: JesusFlysSouth Mar 11, 2010 5:19 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Television Rating: Good Hits: 349 Comments: 0 BBC Horizon: The Day the Earth Nearly Died BBC Horizon: The Day the Earth Nearly Died 250 million years ago, long before dinosaurs roamed the Earth, the land and oceans teemed with life. This was the Permian, a golden era of biodiversity that was about to come to a crashing end. Within just a few thousand years, 95% of the lifeforms on the planet would be wiped out, in the biggest mass extinction Earth has ever known. What natural disaster could kill on such a massive scale? It is only in recent years that evidence has begun to emerge from rocks in Antarctica, Siberia and Greenland. User: JesusFlysSouth Mar 9, 2010 4:36 PM
Permanent Tag: Television Rating: Good Hits: 850 Comments: 7 Bbc Horizon: The Secret You. Consciousness. Pt1 of 6. Bbc Horizon: The Secret You. Consciousness. Pt1 of 6. BBC Horizon: The secret you User: JesusFlysSouth Feb 24, 2010 12:38 PM
Permanent Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 952 Comments: 3 BBC Horizon: The Secret Life of the Dog BBC Horizon: The Secret Life of the Dog Horizon: The Secret Life of the Dog. How research into dogs is giving scientists a greater understanding of human behaviour. Aired January 7, 2010 on BBC Two We have an extraordinary relationship with dogs - closer than with any other animal on the planet. But what makes the bond between us so special? Research into dogs is gaining momentum, and scientists are investigating them like never before. From the latest fossil evidence, to the sequencing of the canine genome, to cognitive experiments, dogs are fast turning into the new chimps as a window into understanding ourselves. Where does this relationship come from? In Siberia, a unique breeding experiment reveals the astonishing secret of how dogs evolved from wolves. Swedish scientists demonstrate how the human/dog bond is controlled by a powerful hormone also responsible for bonding mothers to their babies. Why are dogs so good at reading our emotions? Horizon meets Betsy, the world's most intelligent dog, and compares her incredible abilities to those of children. Man's best friend has recently gone one step further - helping us identify genes responsible for causing human diseases. User: spam_vigilante Jan 16, 2010 4:32 AM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 2850 Comments: 4 BBC Horizon: The Mysterious Mr. Tesla BBC Horizon: The Mysterious Mr. Tesla Just slightly more than half of the entire 1982 documentary. Still, well worth watching. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Tesla's patents and theoretical work formed the basis of modern alternating current electric power (AC) systems, including the polyphase power distribution systems and the AC motor, with which he helped usher in the Second Industrial Revolution. User: spam_vigilante Nov 30, 2009 10:15 AM
Permanent Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 840 Comments: 0 BBC Horizon: How to Make Better Decisions Pt 2 of 2 BBC Horizon: How to Make Better Decisions Pt 2 of 2 People believe they are rational creatures, but you'll be surprised how often our minds trick us. Learn why people make bad decisions and how you can avoid them. From BBC Horizon. Part 2 of 2. First aired Feb 12, 2008. User: spam_vigilante Nov 8, 2009 9:32 AM
Permanent Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 1478 Comments: 3 BBC Horizon: How to Make Better Decisions Pt 1 of 2 BBC Horizon: How to Make Better Decisions Pt 1 of 2 We are bad at making decisions. According to science, our decisions are based on oversimplification, laziness and prejudice. And that's assuming that we haven't already been hijacked by our surroundings or led astray by our subconscious! Featuring exclusive footage of experiments that show how our choices can be confounded by temperature, warped by post-rationalisation and even manipulated by the future, Horizon presents a guide to better decision making, and introduces you to Mathematician Garth Sundem, who is convinced that conclusions can best be reached using simple maths and a pencil! From BBC Horizon. Part 1 of 2. First aired Feb 12, 2008. User: spam_vigilante Nov 8, 2009 5:24 AM
 
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