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  1. Wave-Particle Paradox, The (1980 Video)

    Director
    David Jackson
    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Demonstrates two famous paradoxes in physics: is light waves or particles and are electrons waves or particles? The discussion is set against the debate on whether truth is objective or subjective in the...

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  2. 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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  3. Great Ideas of Philosophy Series II (6 Programmes) (2006)

    Subject
    Philosophy
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 45 minutes each), £39.95 each; £189.95 set

    Stimulating commentary by renowned philosophers whose lines of inquiry intersect the spheres of science, religion, politics, epistemology, and logic makes this 6-part series useful for the study of...

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  4. Herzberg: Review and Evaluation (1979 Film, Video)

    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Herzberg discusses his methods and motivations in spectroscopic research. Gives an elementary historical outline of emission/absorption spectroscopy from Newton to the grating spectrograph. A brief mention...

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  5. Genetic Engineering in Medicine, Agriculture and Law

    Subject
    Biology

    Video recordings of a series of 34 lectures given at UCLA by Dr Bob Goldberg, a plant molecular biologist who specialises in the area of plant gene expression. The lectures examine the historical and...

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  6. Root of All Evil?, The (2007)

    Subject
    Philosophy; Religious studies
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL, 400 minutes), £14.99

    Nine months before the release of his bestselling book ‘The God Delusion’, Richard Dawkins had the world buzzing with his television documentary ROOT OF ALL EVIL? In Part 1, THE GOD DELUSION, Richard...

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  7. Evolution: Fossils, Genes and Mousetraps (2006)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 90 minutes), free

    Leading evolution educator Ken Miller discusses the controversy surrounding the teaching of evolution, presents compelling evidence for evolution and reasons why "intelligent design" is not scientific. The...

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  8. Answers from the Qur’An/Miracles of the Qur’An (2006)

    Subject
    Philosophy; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 97 minutes), £12.99

    Two programmes from the series based on the works of the Turkish author and thinker Harun Yahya, who promotes a creationist view of Islam. ANSWERS FROM THE QUR’AN is a documentary, divided into three...

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  9. To Infinity and Beyond (2010)

    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

    Infinity is older than time, bigger than the universe and stranger than fiction. Once you learn to count, in theory you could go on counting forever. But instead you enter a paradoxical world where nothing...

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  10. Alchemy (2010)

    Subject
    Chemistry

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of Alchemy, the ancient science of transformations. The most famous alchemical text is the Emerald Tablet, written around 500BC and attributed to the mythical...

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