How to kill a human being
Former Conservative MP, Michael Portillo pushes his body to the brink of death in an investigation into the science of execution.
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How to make better decisions
We are bad at making decisions. According to science, our decisions are based on oversimplification, laziness and prejudice. And that's assuming that we haven't already been hijacked by our surroundings or led astray by our subconscious!
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Nuclear Nightmares
For twenty years scientists have been studying the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster for people and wildlife. What they have found contradicts many common beliefs about the effects of radiation. As this film reveals, leading scientists are now questioning the assumptions that have for decades governed their thinking about the dangers of radiation.
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T Rex, Warrior or Wimp
Tyrannosaurus Rex - it's the scariest, meanest, most bewitching dinosaur of them all. Children are captivated by the sheer savagery of the teeth. Experts marvelled at the force of its bite - ten times more powerful than anything we know today. Moviemakers made millions out of the terror it inspired. But could our picture of this monster be completely wrong?
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Genius Sperm Bank
The Genius Sperm Bank was created in the late 1970s by Robert Klark Graham, an American millionaire optometrist,its aim was to breed highly intelligent people in order to save the world from genetic decline. Graham believed he could achieve this by getting clever men to donate sperm.
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Space Tourists
The sci-fi generation who felt let down by NASA are now in their 50s and 60s, and they are determined to realise their childhood dream of roaring rockets - even if it means putting their hands in their pockets and building their own. They say anyone will be able to holiday in orbit within three years. But who will be the first to get tourists into space? Horizon looks at the contenders, from Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic to Jeff Bezos, founder of amazon.com. The race is on!
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Secrets Of The Star Disc
This is the extraordinary story of how a small metal disc is rewriting the epic saga of how civilisation first came to Europe, 3600 years ago.
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Nanotechnology - Dark Secret Of Hendrik Schon
Imagine a world where disease could be eradicated by an injection of tiny robots the size of molecules. That is the hope offered by nanotechnology - the science of microscopically small machines. But others fear nanotechnology could lead to a non-biological cancer - where swarms of tiny nanobots come together and literally devour human flesh.
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The Mystery Of The Jurassic
For years scientists have been trying to find the mysterious evolutionary master key responsible for transforming the dinosaurs into world-beaters. In the early Jurassic, 200 million years ago, they were a relatively small group of primitive creatures. By the late Jurassic, 50 million years later, they had become the magnificent array of carnivores and giant plant eaters that would dominate the planet for millions of years. In between lies the mysterious period of the middle Jurassic in which all these changes must have happened. But what were they? What was it that transformed the dinosaurs?
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How Your Memory Works
An extraordinary journey into the human memory. From the woman who is having her most traumatic memories wiped by a pill, to the man with no memory, this film reveals how these remarkable human stories are transforming our understanding of this unique human ability
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Moon For Sale
After 40 years, man is preparing to return to the Moon. But this time the astronauts won't just land on the Moon - they plan to stay.
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Battle of the Brains
Horizon takes seven people who are some of the highest flyers in their field - a musical prodigy, a quantum physicist, an artist, a dramatist, an RAF fighter pilot, a chess grandmaster and a Wall Street trader. Each is put through a series of tests to discover who is the most intelligent?
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An Experiment To Save The World
Has this man created nuclear fusion? Horizon investigates...
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Time Trip
Horizon's Time Trip is a thrilling journey deep into the strangeness of cutting-edge physics - a place where beautiful, baffling ideas are sometimes indistinguishable from the utterly crazy.
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King Solomon's Tablet of Stone
The authenticity of many Holy Land artefacts is thrown into doubt.
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Who's Afraid of Designer Babies?
Without genetic technology Ruiaridh would not have been born, but does that make him a 'designer baby'?
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Madagascar, A Treetop Odyssey
How a giant inflatable raft and a habitable metal tree house could save the rainforest of Madagascar.
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The Truth of Troy
It's one of the greatest stories ever told. The legend of Helen of Troy has enchanted audiences for the last three thousand years. In May this year a Hollywood film staring Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom will be launched in Britain. But is there any reality to the myth? Horizon has unprecedented access to the scientist with the answers.
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Is Alcohol Worse Than Ecstasy?
Recent research has ****ysed the link between the harmful effects of drugs relative to their current classification by law with some startling conclusions. Perhaps most startling of all is that alcohol, solvents and tobacco (all unclassified drugs) are rated more dangerous than ecstasy, 4-MTA and LSD (all class A drugs). If the current ABC system is retained, alcohol would be rated a class A drug and tobacco class B.
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We Love Cigarettes
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 weirdest love affairs ever.
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v10342094tFd3RjzN
Neanderthal
Their bodies were well equipped to cope with the Ice Age, so why did the Neanderthals die out when it ended?
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The Lost Civilization Of Peru
Two thousand years ago a mysterious and little known civilization ruled the northern coast of Peru. Its people were called the Moche.
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Dirty Bombl
A dirty bomb is a radiological weapon but unlike a nuclear bomb, its purpose is to contaminate rather than destroy. It uses normal explosives to disperse radioactive materials in the local environment, creating a hazard to health that could last for years unless cleaned up.
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Saturn Lord of the Ring
With its famous rings, Saturn is the most distant planet clearly visible to the naked eye. But how did the rings get there and when were they formed? To study the planet in detail, scientists needed to get closer. So on 15 October 1997, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft was launched.
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Sexual Chemistry
The drug Viagra revolutionised the treatment of sexual dysfunction in men on its launch five years ago. An accidental discovery, the tablet that gave impotent men the chance once more to have natural erections became the fastest selling pill in history and has earned its manufacturer, Pfizer, over 6bn.
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v62760274ct3Tn9...urce=embedVideo
We are the Aliens
Clouds of alien life forms are sweeping through outer space and infecting planets with life – it may not be as far-fetched as it sounds.
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Are We Alone in the Universe?
Horizon joins the planet hunters who've discovered a new world called Gliese 581 c. It is the most Earth-like planet yet found around another star and may have habitats capable of supporting life. NASA too hopes to find fifty more Earth-like planets by the end of the decade, all of which dramatically increases the chance that alien life has begun elsewhere in the galaxy.
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v6510831TDzyRPXa
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