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Richard Feynman: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

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The inimitable Richard Feynman interviewed on BBC’s Horizon in 1981. A rare genius made even rarer by his ability to communicate his ideas through well crafted and captivating stories. His excitement for the universe seems to almost burst out of his every pore, an instatiable thirst for knowledge and an infectious enthusiasm fuelled by a […]

Nikola Tesla – Master of Lightning.

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Nikola Tesla. The ultimate mad genius scientist. Inventor of alternating current (A/C), the radio and the remote control, he died penniless working on the ultimate weapon – the ‘death beam’. Criminally forgotten by the general public, in favour of his great rivals Thomas Edison and Guglielmo Marconi, Tesla’s inventions power the world we live in […]

Atom – The History of Atomic Physics

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Jim Al-Khalili’s brilliant 3 part history of atomic physics. This truly remarkable story is not only about the incredible discoveries that has lead to our new, and sometimes terrifying, technologies.  Nor is it just about the fundamental insights we have gleamed into the nature of nature itself. It is also a very human story of […]

The Story of Electricity

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Jim Al-Khalili is doing a fine job of making the history of science interesting, entertaining and accessible. Here he brings us “Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity”. Free of the time restraints and the constant barage of audio and graphical effects that pepper most US science documentaries, the BBC allow him the space to […]

Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Science

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Contentious and divisive, Stephen Wolfram is obviously a singularly brilliant man. He received a Ph.D. in particle physics from Caltech at age 20, and received a MacArthur award age 21. Inspired by cellular automata he then spent a decade writing a whole new science. He is also the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research the […]

Wolfgang Ketterle: The Coldest Matter in the Universe

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Nobel Prize winner and owner of the best accent in science, Wolfgang Ketterle is one of the foremost researchers into one of the most intriguing areas of Physics – the study of matter at ultra cold temperatures. In particular the Bose-Einstein condensate, where quantum effects like the wave nature of matter can actually be seen […]

Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty and Elegance in Physics

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The all knowing polymath that is Murray Gell-Mann is one of the world’s greatest living geniuses. Plus he does a good line in sunglasses. Two persuasive reasons why you should spend the time to get to know anyone, let alone the man who looked to James Joyce when naming the smallest constiuents of matter – […]

Brian Greene: Superstring Theory

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Brian Greene gives the argument for superstring theory at TED. Including a brief chronological history of the search for the holy grail of science – a unified theory of everything. Gravity has always long been the black sheep of the family of fundamental forces of nature, the mathematics of superstring theory offers one of the […]
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