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TVO - Big Ideas - October 10, 2009: Lawrence Krauss on dark matter, dark energy and the end of the universe

Category: Talks, Debates, Interviews
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TVO - Big Ideas - October 10, 2009: Lawrence Krauss on dark matter, dark energy and the end of the universe Lawrence Krauss is a professor in the Department of Physics at Arizona State University. His lecture entitled Life, the Universe and Nothing deals with dark matter, dark energy and the end of the universe as we know it. It was recorded at the Isabel Bader Theatre in Toronto on March 27th, 2009. For more information on this episode, including information on the guests and various other resources and links, visit the episode webpage ----- Note: This is an iPod video podcast that is available for free download from the website. Quality is good. Audio podcast (mp3 format) is also available for free download. Type: m4v file Size: 174MB Runtime: 00:53:56 Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 320x240 Audio: AAC 32000Hz mono 48Kbps Download this episode using the attached torrent file or download it directly using this link: http://feeds.tvo.org/~r/tvobigideasVideo/~...20x240_404k.m4v You can also watch a flash video of this lecture through your web-browser here: http://www.tvo.org/TVO/WebObjects/TVO.woa?..._834130_LKrauss ----- Resources and links to related material 1) PBS NOVA - The Elegant Universe (torrent for this documentary to be uploaded soon) 2) Channel 4 - What We Still Don't Know with Martin Rees (torrent for this documentary to be uploaded soon) 3) TVO - Big Ideas - May 3, 2008: Neil Turok on The Big Bang (torrent for this program to be uploaded soon) ----- TVO - Big Ideas TELEVISION FOR PASSIONATE THINKERS [quote]I had never seen your program before, in fact I had never even heard of it. I was fortunate enough to tune in today ... Nothing is quite as nourishing as food for thought. -Brian, Big Ideas viewer[/quote] [quote]I have been off and on social assistance for several years. When I watch your show, I really am in university (a place I badly miss) and I don't feel so poor. -Gillian, Big Ideas viewer[/quote] [quote]... Were it not for Big Ideas to bring this to our attention we would be clueless. You are doing important work and those of us that are fortunate enough to catch your program, greatly appreciate your efforts. -Gary, Big Ideas viewer[/quote] BIG IDEAS, now in its eighth season, has an increasingly loyal following, exemplified by viewers such as Brian, Gillian and Gary. The program started in a late, late-night time slot with - among other offerings - the literary lectures by Robert Adams. It is now an established part of our weekend schedule, airing at 4pm on Saturday, with a repeat broadcast on Sunday, also at 4:00 pm. As TVO's educational mandate grew, so did the concept for BIG IDEAS, explains producer Wodek Szemberg: "We have recognized from the passionate viewer response that there was a real niche for this kind of unapologetically intellectual programming." BIG IDEAS podcasts are among the most popular TVO web offerings. "BIG IDEAS is a showcase of ideas that shape our public debates. At their best the lectures featured on the program expose us to the differing ways of defining what matters and how that affects our understanding of the world as it is and as it is likely to be," adds Szemberg. "Each age has a set of questions by which it defines itself. If, 50 years from now, someone came across a list of BIG IDEAS shows, they would have a pretty good idea of what people thought about and debated in the early 2000s." By nature of its lecture format, pacing and inquisitive approach, it is the antithesis of the prevailing sound-bite television norm. Engaging, articulate speakers stand behind lecterns across the province addressing audiences - a stark, on-air aesthetic running counter to fast edits and whizzy sound effects. The simple, bold concept, a victory of substance over style, has found an appreciative following. The success of this public television offering is testimony to our viewers need for nothing but intelligent discussion with perhaps a dash of personality and humour. At a time when much television programming induces in many viewers feelings of guilt, BIG IDEAS is as guilt-free television experience as it is possible to imagine. BIG IDEAS offers a variety of thought-provoking topics which range across politics, culture, economics, art history, science.... The program has introduced Ontario viewers to the impressive brainpower of people like Niall Ferguson on American empire, Daniel Libeskind on architecture, Robert Fisk on the Middle East, George Steiner on the demise of literacy, Camille Paglia on aesthetic education, Tariq Ramadan on being a Western Muslim, Noam Chomsky on U.S. politics, Leon Kass on dying, Janice Stein on accountability and governance. The public face of the program is Andrew Moodie, who assumed the hosting duties for BIG IDEAS on January 7, 2006. You may recognize him as one of the three jurors who helped us to come up with the 10 finalists in 2005's Best Lecturer Competition, or you may know him as a gifted actor and playwright. TVO's Big Ideas website: http://www.tvo.org/TVOsites/WebObjects/TvoMicrosite.woa?bigideas
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Nova: The Deadly Deception 1993 11 26 PBS

Category: Documentary
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Nova: The Deadly Deception 1993 11 26 PBS 699.51 MB/ For four decades, 400 African American men from Macon, Alabama were unwitting participants in a government study of untreated syphilis. NOVA tells the story of this notorious human experiment. George Strait, ABC News Medical Correspondent, hosts. Original broadcast date: 01/26/93 Written, Produced and Directed by Denise DiAnni - WGBH Boston, 1993 From the University of Tuskegee website: "For forty years between 1932 and 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) conducted an experiment on 399 black men in the late stages of syphilis. These men, for the most part illiterate sharecroppers from one of the poorest counties in Alabama, were never told what disease they were suffering from or of its seriousness. Informed that they were being treated for “bad blood,” their doctors had no intention of curing them of syphilis at all. The data for the experiment was to be collected from autopsies of the men, and they were thus deliberately left to degenerate under the ravages of tertiary syphilis—which can include tumors, heart disease, paralysis, blindness, insanity, and death. “As I see it,” one of the doctors involved explained, “we have no further interest in these patients until they die.” (Syphilis is treatable with antibiotics) This program, hosted by CBS News correspondent Richard Schlesinger, includes an interview with one of the last surviving participants, Herman Shaw; explains the role of Nurse Rivers; and presents the medical establishment's justification for disguising racism as legitimate medical research." Fair Quality- ========================================================== A nearly extinct relic of Nova's earlier, more journalistically daring days, (well before ExxonMobile became a main underwriter), The Deadly Deception was once a documentary screened in high schools throughout the country. It may be still, although its internet presence is certainly not consistent with that of an important educational film. The title is unlisted at the WGBH website (the sales outlet for all Nova productions). Upon navigating to the "Archive" link on the Nova main page one discovers that only episodes aired from 1996-present have been cataloged. Browsing alphabetically under 'D' or 'T' is equally fruitless. The only reference to the film anywhere within the entirety of PBS' webspace is inside an un-linked alternate archive, which begins with the notice: "Please note that these listings are provided for informational purposes only; very few of these programs are available for purchase on video. Those that are can be found at the NOVA section of Shop WGBH." A Chicago public television station, WTTW 11, came under criticism when they refused to air the documentary. The Coalition for Democracy in Public Television cited an obvious conflict of interest between the station's programming department and "major channel 11 contributor General Electric," one of many powerful entities implicated in in the Tuskegee experiment. The allegations of network bias in favor of corporate funders were categorically denied by the station but the documentary was never aired. (edits...see http://tracker.conspiracycentral.net/torrents-details.php?id=7097) http://www.tuskegee.edu/Global/Story.asp?s=1207586 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14801-2005Jan16.html shunter-other active torrents/posts at: http://www.bt-chat.com/browse.php?category=11
Seeders: 13
Leeches: 21

PBS Nova - The Big Energy Gamble (2009.720p.HDTV.AC3-SoS)

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Originally aired: 2009.01.20 "Arnold Schwarzenegger is betting on green. He wants to roll California’s greenhouse gas emissions back to their 1990 levels, and he’s promising Californians that their lifestyles — and their pocketbooks— won’t feel the pinch. But is Schwarzenegger gambling with his state’s economy? With help from eco-celebrities like Ed Begley, Jr. and Bill Nye “The Science Guy,” NOVA examines California’s aggressive pursuit of a sustainable energy future. From San Francisco’s Luscious Garage, where mechanics create custom plug-in hybrids for customers like Google, to the Tehachapi Valley, where thousands of wind turbines are spinning out electricity, NOVA visits the places where green energy is already becoming a reality. Yet some critics fear that, as the nation struggles through an economic meltdown, the state’s new policies are inviting dire consequences. Will California be a role model for the rest of the country or a cautionary tale?" more info: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/energy/ == Runtime: 52:37 Source: OTA High Definition 1080i Video Encoding: xvid.1280x720.4103kbps Audio Encoding: ac3.384kbps-5.1chan File Size: 1.65GB Support your local PBS Station by making a contribution or by purchasing their DVDs. To help speed up future releases, please try to seed this torrent as much as possible. Thanks. == SoS = http://www.sonofshun.com/forums
Seeders: 19
Leeches: 90

PBS Nova - Ocean Animal Emergency (2008.HDTV.SoS)

Category: Documentary
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Originally aired: 2008.11.25 "Warming seas and man-made pollutants are combining to unleash toxic algae blooms that are decimating whales, sea lions, and other marine mammals. Nova explores this crisis through the work of Dr. Frances Gulland and other wildlife veterinarians at the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, Calif. — the equivalent of a West Coast ER for ocean mammals — as they fight to save sick and injured marine mammals while trying to figure out what's killing them." more info: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ocean911/ == Runtime: 52:50 Source: OTA High Definition 1080i Encoding: xvid.720x400.1701kbps.mp3.160.vbr File Size: 700MB Support your local PBS Station by making a contribution or by purchasing their DVDs. To help speed up future releases, please try to seed this torrent as much as possible. Thanks. == SoS = http://www.sonofshun.com/forums ------------ Content Type: [Documentary]
Seeders: 4
Leeches: 9

DNA- Secret of Photo 51 (2003) PBS NOVA

Category: Documentary
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DNA- Secret of Photo 51 (2003) PBS NOVA 773.37 MiB 55 min On April 25, 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick published their groundbreaking discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, the molecule essential for passing on our genes and the ''secret of life.'' But their crucial breakthrough depended on the pioneering work of another biologist?Rosalind Franklin. She would never know that Watson and Crick had seen a crucial piece of her data without her permission. This was an X-ray image, ''Photo 51,'' that proved to be a vital clue in their decoding of the double helix. 50 years later, NOVA investigates the shocking truth behind one of the greatest scientific discoveries and presents a moving portrait of a brilliant woman in an era of male-dominated science. Sadly, Franklin never lived to see her vital role in the discovery vindicated. While Watson and Crick went on to win the Nobel Prize in 1962, Franklin died in 1958, at 37, from ovarian cancer; and the Nobel is not awarded posthumously. Hear the inside story from Maurice Wilkins, the colleague who showed her crucial x-ray to Watson; Raymond Gosling, Franklin's Ph.D. student with whom she made Photo 51; and Nobel Prize winner Sir Aaron Klug, Franklin's last collaborator, who shows new evidence of just how close Franklin came to making the vital double helix discovery herself. PLEASE RESEED: “Rosalind Franklin: DNA's Dark Lady” by posting to Docs at www.bt-chat.com Thanks...!! http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/photo51/ Please support PBS with donations and purchases. Shunster-ex TPB
Seeders: 25
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PBS Nova Judgement Day: Intelligent Design on Trial

Category: Documentary
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In 2004, the war over evolution came to Dover, Pennsylvania. NOVA captures the emotional conflict in interviews with the townspeople, scientists, and lawyers who participated in the historic six-week trial, Kitzmiller, et. al. v. Dover School District, et. al. With recreations based on court transcripts, NOVA presents the arguments by lawyers and expert witnesses in riveting detail and provides an eye-opening crash course on questions such as "What is evolution?" and "Does intelligent design qualify as science?" http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/id/program.html e01 10:50 e02 07:04 e03 08:47 e04 09:32 e05 08:36 e06 09:26 e07 08:24 e08 09:11 e09 07:25 e10 09:49 e11 08:52 e12 10:38 Total: 278MB
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PBS Nova - World in the Balance

Category: Documentary
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It took all of human history until 1800 for the worlds population to reach its first billion. Now we add a new billion nearly every dozen years. Over the next half century, 98 percent of that growth will take place in our planet's poorest regions. And as the global total swells to nearly 9 billion by 2050, the social and environmental strains will be enormous. Through vivid personal stories, The People Paradox reveals many startling trends. In Japan, Europe and Russia, birth rates are shrinking and the population is aging. But in parts of India and Africa, more than half of the still growing population is under 25. The surprising conclusion: world population is now careening in two dramatically different directions. The second hour, China Revs Up, is an insiders look at Chinas booming economy and its growing impact on the environment. What will happen as China follows Americas affluent lifestyle and begins to rival the U.S. as the worlds biggest polluter? In this groundbreaking, worldwide investigation of humanitys future, NOVA shows how decisions made now will change the fate of everyone over the next fifty years. 2 Parts in 1 File: The People Paradox and China Revs Up Homepage: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance/ Screenshots from the video: http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/2948/wib16el.jpg http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/4285/wib26dw.jpg
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