The Latest Available Pictures From Space
*Produced in cooperation with NASA *Showcases Earth’s most spectacular images from orbiting satellites *Includes over 250 color photos graphically depicting climate changes, pollution, population growth and more
For the past 40 years, satellites have been sent into space to look back at amazing planet Earth. Scientists, using the [...]
Oliver Sacks on Your Inner Fish Since the 1970 publication of Migraine, neurologist Oliver Sacks’s unusual and fascinating case histories of “differently brained” people and phenomena–a surgeon with Tourette’s syndrome, a community of people born totally colorblind, musical hallucinations, to name a few–have been marked by extraordinary compassion and humanity, focusing on the patient [...]
Some biologists speculate that if we ever make contact with extraterrestrials, those life forms are likely to be–like most life on earth–one-celled or smaller creatures, more comparable to bacteria than little green men. And even though such organisms would not likely be able to harm humans, the possibility exists that first contact might be our [...]
From the BBC’s internationally renowned award winning Natural History unit comes the second release in this extraordinarily ambitious undertaking. BBC Atlas of the Natural World is a unique survey of life on Earth in all its remarkable richness an beauty. This six-disc set brings together four landmark BBC series that combine to give one of [...]
