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James Webb Space Telescope (Jwst) Sunshield Deployment Test

Subject

Space science

A major test of the sunshield for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was conducted in July 2014 by Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, California. For the first time, the five sunshield test layers were...

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Esa DVD Lesson Series

aka: European Space Agency Lesson Series

Subject

Space science

Four video lessons produced by the European Space Agency. The lessons focus on explaining basic scientific concepts and showing the difference between being on Earth and in space. All videos are now...

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Moon: The Great Impact (2010)

Subject

Astronomy

A look at the Japanese space probe, Kaguya, which is orbiting and cataloguing the entire surface of the moon for the first time. Launched in 2007, Japan’s first moon orbiter has been circling the moon and...

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Guardian Tech Weekly Podcast: Creating a Digital Public Space (2011)

Subject

Information technology; Librarianship; Technology

In the 28 September 2011 edition of The Guardian’s weekly Tech Podcast Jemima Kiss examines plans for a digital public space - a part of the internet that could grant worldwide access and create links...

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Christmas Lectures 1977: The History of Mars (1977)

Subject

Astronomy; Science

Carl Sagan’s introduction to the Red Planet from the Royal Institution’s Christmas Lectures series from 1977 is streamed here by the Ri Channel as part of a collection of videos gathered under the...

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Aliens: The Big Think (2016)

Subject

Natural history; Space science

Astronomer Royal Martin Rees and scientists take up the search for extra-terrestrials, exploring the theory that we should be searching for machines, not organic life, beyond the solar system. [59 minutes]

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Men’s Madness: The Myth of Male Reason (1991)

Subject

Social Studies; Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 52 minutes), £25.00

Film commissioned and Broadcast by Channel Four in 1991. The film- described by the Guardian in 1991 as ‘an outlandish essay in technophobia- seems remarkably perceptive as the relentless assault on the...

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Mathematics Goes to the Movies (2017)

Subject

Film studies; Mathematics

An enormous amount of our leisure time is spent interacting with the media, watching television and movies. Much of the space on our computers (and on the Internet) is taken up with static and moving images,...

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Galileo: Europe Shows the Way (2005)

Subject

Technology

Distribution

CD-ROM (PC Version, 10 minutes), free (Tren)

The deployment phase for GALILEO, the European programme of civil radio-navigation by satellite will begin in 2006. GALILEO is compatible and interoperable with the American GPS but will furnish a more...

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David Starkey’s Monarchy - The Windsors (2009)

Subject

History

Dr David Starkey concludes his epic story of the British monarchy with a special programme on the history of the House of Windsor. Far from being stuck in the past, the story of the monarchy in the 20th...

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