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Secrets of Quantum Physics, The (2014)

Subject

Physics

Jim Al-Khalili investigates quantum physics. Episode 1: Einstein’s Nightmare: How Albert Einstein thought he’d found the fatal flaw in the theory of quantum physics. [60 minutes] Let There Be Life: A...

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Darwin and the Ancient Earth: Dinosaurs and the ‘Deep Past’ In the 19th-Century Imagination (2009)

Subject

Geology; Natural history

Why was the young Charles Darwin’s fascination with geology so important for his later work and why was prehistory so popular in early nineteenth-century Britain? This podcast with Professor Jim Secord,...

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Jim Fallon: Natural Born Killer? (2015)

Subject

Psychology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 18 minutes), £25.00

Neuroscientist Jim Fallon uncovered the defining characteristics of the ‘serial killer brain’, only to discover he too had the brain and genes of what he calls a ‘really bad news character’. So why...

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Secret Life of Chaos, The (2011)

Director

Nic Stacey

Subject

Physics

Documentary in which Professor Jim Al-Khalili shows how chaos theory can answer a question that mankind has asked for millennia - how does a universe that starts off as dust end up with intelligent life?...

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The House of Wisdom and the Legacy of Arabic Science (2008)

Subject

Science

Video recording of the 2007 Michael Faraday Lecture given at the Royal Society by Professor Jim Al-Khalili. While Europe languished in the Dark Ages the spread of Islam heralded a remarkable period of...

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Exploring England (2013)

Subject

Geography; Social sciences

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 25 minutes), £49.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £49.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

This film looks at England and English life from a range of geographical, social, historical political perspectives. It features interviews with Jim Bolton, Professor of History at the Queensbury College,...

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Newton’s Optics (2011)

Subject

Astronomy; Physics

This Learning Object consists of a three vodcasts by Jim Bennett, Director of the Oxford Museum of the History of Science, on the Newtonian telescope - why Newton designed it, and how it fits into the story...

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Higgs Boson (2010)

Subject

Physics

In 1964 Peter Higgs had a big idea about the mystery of how matter in the universe got its mass. This question has such an important place in physics that well over one billion pounds is being spent in the...

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Ucs Struggle, The (1971)

aka: Ucs 1

Subject

Politics & government; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (PAL, 23 minutes), £8.00

Cinema Action campaign film from 1971 supporting the fight to retain their jobs by workers at Upper Clyde Shipyards who developed a new weapon to help them in their struggle: the occupation and work-in.

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Writing for Games: Debate (2011)

Subject

Media studies

Audio recording of a discussion held at BAFTA on 28/10/2011. Which techniques can be adapted from film, TV and other media to make characters and stories in video games more engaging, and which need radical...

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