Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Nova scienceNOW volume 2011, episode 6
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English
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Host Neil deGrasse Tyson examines the emerging technologies of social robots, robotic cars, earthquake forecasting, smart power grids, and designer microbes. Includes a profile of Jay Keasling, a pioneer in the cutting-edge field of synthetic biology.
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"This is a cultural history of mathematics and art, from antiquity to the present. Mathematicians and artists have long been on a quest to understand the physical world they see before them and the abstract objects they know by thought alone. Taking readers on a tour of the practice of mathematics and the philosophical ideas that drive the discipline, Lynn Gamwell points out the important ways mathematical concepts have been expressed by artists....
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"The film features interviews with leading astrophysicists and cosmologists from the world's renowned universities and observatories, who explain concepts ranging from Galileo's act of revealing the cosmos with a simple telescope, to the latest discoveries in space, including startling new ideas about life on other planets and dark energy - a mysterious vacuum energy that is accelerating the expansion of the universe." - Container.
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Host Neil deGrasse Tyson will tackle one of science's major challenges in each episode, framed as a simple question that ordinary people wonder and worry about. Neil will guide us as he explores dramatic discoveries and the frontiers of research that connect each central, provocative mystery.
112) StarTalk: Season 2
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English
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Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson brings together celebrities, scientists, comedians, and more to explore a variety of cosmic topics, colliding pop culture with science in a way that late-night television has never seen before. Topics range from popular science fiction, space travel, extraterrestrial life and the Big Bang, to the future of Earth and the environment.
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Nova scienceNOW volume 2009, episode 3
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English
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Investigate some of today's most exciting advances in scientific research.
119) Fight for space
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In the '60s and '70s, the Space Race inspired a generation to pursue careers in science and technology. Then it all stopped. The film asks why this happened and calls to reawaken our sense of wonder and discovery.
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Our true origins are not only human, or even terrestrial, but in fact cosmic. Drawing on recent scientific breakthroughs and cross-pollination among geology, biology, astrophysics, and cosmology, Origins illuminates the soul-stirring leaps in our understanding of the cosmos. This newly revised and updated edition features such startling discoveries as the more than 5,000 newly detected exoplanets that shed light on the origins of and possibilities...