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Biology Study and teaching Business ethics Economic aspects Chemistry Study and teaching Environmental sciences Study and teaching Marketing Moral and ethical aspects Philosophy Study and teaching Physics Study and teaching Science Social aspects Technology Social aspects ThermodynamicsSummary: From ancient Chinese firecrackers to medieval alchemy to the anxieties of the nuclear age, this program looks at a variety of explosive materials and shows how we have learned to harness their power. British engineer Jem Stansfield demonstrates the inner workings and fiery effects of several different chemical concoctions. He goes underground to show how gunpowder was used in the mines of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: The consensus of the world's science academies, reached after a series of annual conferences, is that climate change is real, and that it's caused by human activity. Why, then, do so many people doubt these findings? In this program Nobel Prize winner Paul Nurse seeks to understand what may be the greatest amount of suspicion of the scientific community since the Dark Ages. Nurse goes head to...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011