Sir Isaac Newton is one of history's greatest scientists. But what was he like as a man?
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History
The Early Earth and Plate Tectonics
The Earth is formed by accretion of spatial particulates and large masses and eventually formes an outer crust. Video follows with speculation of early plates and land masses and their movement through time. clip taken from national geographics "HOW THE EARTH WAS MADE"
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NOVA | Optical Tricks of the Parthenon | PBS
Ancient Greek architects were on to something when they built the Parthenon with subtle curves and no right angles. While it remains debatable, some scholars argue that these features were intended to counter the brain's tendency to see optical illusions.
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Carl Sagan on God and Gods
My hero from the past! Every time I hear him he sounds like the guy in the movie the Martix.
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Truth of Troy: Trojan War Story
Take a closer look at the fictional story of the Trojan War written by Homer. Was there any truth in the myth? Is it possible that there was an ancient war fought for love? Did Helen really have a face that launched a thousand ships?
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E94B8205CF3F0EC7
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BBC-Dangerous Knowledge (Mathematics)
In this one-off documentary, David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians - Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing - whose genius has profoundly affected us, but which tragically drove them insane and eventually led to them all committing suicide.
part II: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpWXT9yMBnw&feature=related
for the rest of the serie see:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bbc+dangerous+knowledge&sear...
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Kelvin temperature scale
The Kelvin temperature scale is linked to the concept of absolute zero.
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Graham Hancock -the Lost Civilization part 1
Indiana Jones here I come :)
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Ethiopian Mathematics: A Night Of Numbers - Go Forth And Multiply
How the Ethiopians used the same mathematical approach to multiplications as computers do these days by using powers of two and divisions
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