Tagged:Educational
American Experience produced this series about Presidents of the United States. It is very well done. I’ll have to admit I have a special affection for Richard Nixon even though he got caught with his hand in the cookie jar.
Since the 1990’s the Yarlung Tsangpo River has been the destination of a number of teams that engage in exploration and whitewater kayaking. The river has been called the “Everest of Rivers” because of the extreme conditions of the river. The first attempt to run was made in 1993 by a Japanese group who lost [...]
This documentary is about NASA?s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft. It is the third mission in NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Probes program.
Space Rip presents Cosmic Journeys: Voyage to Pandora: Humanity’s first interstellar flight. Pandora is the idyllic blue world featured in the movie Avatar. Its location is a real place: Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to our Sun and the most likely destination for our first journey beyond the solar system. Remarkably, it’s anti-matter, the science [...]
Watch in 1080p as massive solar eruptions take aim at our high-tech society. 93 million miles away… an angry sun vents its rage. Dark regions, called sunspots, appeared unexpectedly on its surface… a sign of rising tension within. It had been three and a half years since the sun last erupted in fury…
Space Rip presents Cosmic Journeys: When Will Time End? Time is flying by on this busy, crowded planet as life changes and evolves from second to second. And yet, even the life span of the human species is just a blip compared to the age of the universe, at 13.7 billion years and counting. It now seems that our entire universe is living on borrowed time. How long it can survive in any form depends on whether Stephen Hawking’s theory checks out.
THE SECRET OF NIKOLA TESLA is a story about the life and mind of a “scientific superman” who, against all odds, changed the world forever with his discoveries, inventions and imagination.
I was sorry to hear about the passing of Mike Wallace last week. I was reading some things about him and I came across these recordings that Mr. Wallace donated to the Harry Ransom center at the University of Texas. 65 half hour interviews interviewing everyone from Eldon Edwards (Grand Wizard of the KKK) to Henry Kissinger.