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Cosmology, Physics Documentaries are FASCINATING. Some students might remember a boring Wonder Years type professor droning on in high school, but times have changed, the physics documentary has changed, and cosmology and physics documentaries are as cutting edge as a knife, but far more penetrating into what makes the world tick. Watch one physics or cosmology documentary and you will be hooked. Guaranteed.

• Can We Make It to Mars?

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  In 1961 JFK predicted that there would be a man on the moon before 1970. No one really believed him, but it happened (unless you believe that it did not! – well, then it still happened!). In 1970 it was predicted that America would put a man on Mars by 1980. Nobody thought that it
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• TED Talk: Teenage-Women in Science

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  Meet Lauren, Shree, and Naomi: three leaders of tomorrow in the world of scientific research. In 2011, these three teenaged women won top prize for their respective age group in the first Google Science Fair. Making their accomplishment even more remarkable is that women swept the competition in all three categories.  In this special presentation
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• Welcome To The Future

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    Scientists often look to the past to understand the present: working closely with anthropologists, extinct creatures like dinosaurs and ancient events like the extinction of the dinosaurs. But let’s take a moment to imagine the future. Better yet, let’s get some scientists and biologists to wonder with us. A world different from our own
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• Why Reading Matters

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  The science of reading is explored in this documentary and is expounded by writer Rita Carter. She cites how the activity helps our brain unlock its full potential and she also delves on the effects of digital revolution to how much men value reading today. The skill, which must be developed as a child, is
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• What On Earth Is Wrong With Gravity?

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  The greatest minds in the world have always wondered about gravity and have presumed that most anything stemmed from it — from the Big, Bang Theory, to how life force exists on earth, through the different distruptions in the cosmos. “What On Earth Is Wrong With Gravity?” is presented by Dr. Brian Cox and takes
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• The Brain: Our Universe Within – Discovery Channel

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  Fifty years ago, something was discovered in a cave. This is more common than we may think: as our ancestors used caves for shelter and dwelling. Most often, what is found is a scrap of cloth, pottery, etc. Sometimes, a human skull. On this day, a man found a skull. It turned out to be
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• Today I Died – Science Documentary

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  Will our generation be able to live forever? Unlikely, even with the wonders of science creating more and more 100+ year old human. At the end of the day, there’s only so much our bodies can take: our teeth, our hearts, our organs, our bones and skin: they all decay. But, what if we could
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• History Channel – The Universe | Edge of Space | Full Documentary

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  I just added two religion/history based documentaries and many of us need to clean our pallet and finish the meal with some hard science. Today, we humbly bring you THE UNIVERSE – Edge of Space. It’s one of the better documentaries ever produced by The History Channel and it will delight – both visually land
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• Science and Islam: Part 1: The Language of Science

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  We found a remarkable series on Islam by the BBC. Rather than come at the religion from a purely religious perspective, BBC focuses on the hard science behind religion: in part 1, we focus on the language of science. This crisp and well researched documentary does a fantastic job of explaining an old religion to
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• Garrett Lisi’s Theory of Everything

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  Garrett Lisi is a physicist who’s come up with a fascinating theory which gives us a pattern, or layout for sub-atomic particles (similar to the periodic table of elements). Time will tell if Lisi’s theory is correct as, like the periodic table when it was first derived, Lisi’s ‘table’ has gaps where there should be
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