Science and technology in large part provide the president’s immense power – whether to choose to prosecute a war, save millions from disease or launch a mission to Mars. But like most US presidents – and indeed heads of government around the world – neither candidate has a science education. The Bizarre and The Cool:

Personally I’m a major fan of BBC documentaries, and in this video you’ll see why. Let’s check out the most expensive ever, 2 year in the making timelapse video of some bad-ass plants growing! The BBC video quality is always unmatched, the locations they reveal are many times never filmed before and their whole crew with the enormous budget is almost unbeatable. BBC is throwing all their millions into something educational and beautiful, unlike most [...]

Infinity is a very weird concept to comprehend. In fact the human mind can’t really understand what infinity is. This documentary will challenge your philosophical mind. By our third year, most of us will have learned to count. Once we know how, it seems as if there would be nothing to stop us counting forever. But, while infinity might seem like an perfectly innocent idea, keep counting and you enter a paradoxical world where nothing [...]

A love of nicotine unites all peoples across the globe, regardless of colour, wealth or creed. Where religion and politics have failed tobacco has succeeded, but at what cost? For over 50 years people have been knowingly paying for the pleasure of tobacco with their lives, making man’s fatal tryst with the cigarette one of the strangest love affairs ever. Globally the tobacco industry is still worth over $430 billion and going strong, cigarettes are [...]

The half-human, half-robot cyborg has long been a vision nurtured by science fiction writers and futurologists. But how close are we to humans version 2.0, computer-enhanced people? It’s predicted that by 2029 computer intelligence will equal the power of the human brain. Some believe this will revolutionise humanity – we will be able to download our minds to computers extending our lives indefinitely. Others fear this will lead to oblivion by giving rise to destructive [...]

Horizon uncovers the secret world of our dreams. In a series of cutting-edge experiments and personal stories, we go in search of the science behind this most enduring mystery and ask: where do dreams come from? Do they have meaning? And ultimately, why do we dream? What the film reveals is that much of what we thought we knew no longer stands true. Dreams are not simply wild imaginings but play a significant part in [...]

Only 50 years ago the world population was about 2,5 billion. In the last 50 years we managed to get 7 billion on this tiny planet, a staggering increase by almost 300%. Recent studies show that in this rate we will exceed 20 or even 30 billion in the next 40 years and that basically means we run out of water, food and oil. Meanwhile we are destroying the earth in a passionate way and [...]