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- Just outside Paris, France, inside a high-tech vault, requiring three independently controlled keys, rests a small metallic cylinder about the diameter of a golf ball. Encased within three vacuum-sealed bell jars it may not look like much, but it is one of the most important objects on the planet. It affects nearly every aspect of our lives from the moment we are born, to the food we eat, the cars we drive, and even the medicines we take. The Last Artifact follows the high-stakes race to redefine the weight of the world reveals the untold story of one of the most important objects on the planet. The kilogram, the base unit of mass in the International System of Units, helped send humans to the moon and satellites into space. This small hunk of metal is the object against which all others are measured. Yet over time, its mass mysteriously eroded by the weight of an eyelash. A change that, unbeknownst to most, unleashed a crisis with potentially dire consequences.
- Sometimes, unexpected guests can very quickly become pests. But what happens when you ask them to leave? Join the Red Queen and Alice on live action, animated journey down the rabbit hole, as they are caught in an evolutionary arms war between parasite and host.
- We live in a fascinating, dynamic world surrounded by complex systems and ruled by a myriad of intangible laws. But what if all the complexity of our climate, our ecosystems, and even life itself could be grounded in a single concept, a single law of nature that has the power to give rise to all these complex systems and more? What if we had already discovered it? The Second Law of Thermodynamics sounds more complex than it is. But, put simply it states that energy will spread out over time; that order will tend to disorder, and heat will flow into the cool. In real terms the second law translates to 'nature abhors a gradient'. Natural systems will form to disperse an energy gradient whenever it occurs. These systems can become incredibly complex, so complex that they may well be the driving force behind life as we know it. Join Eric D. Schneider and Dorion Sagan on a journey from cups of tea to tornadoes, and steam engines to jungles. In the process you may well discover why Life is just another cog in a grander machine, why trees are cool, and why we probably shouldn't be changing the temperature of our planet.
- Part animation, part archival exploration this short film will take you to the moon, and back (and quite possibly beyond). Yet, for all mankind's fascination we still know very little about the Moon. So join us as we take a sideways look at the history of Lunar observation, exploration and adoration. From Gallileo (who had a fantastic beard) to Neil Armstrong (who didn't). And from Méliès (who made the first Sci-Fi film) to the Mesopotamians (who didn't even know what Science was).