http://documentaryheaven.com Welcome To Documentary Heaven!! Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:18:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://documentaryheaven.com/playing-god/ http://documentaryheaven.com/playing-god/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:41:46 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6390 Adam Rutherford meets a new creature created by American scientists, the spider-goat. It is part goat, part spider, and its milk can be used to create artificial spider’s web.It is part of a new field of research, synthetic biology, with a radical aim: to break down nature into spare parts so that we can rebuild it however we please. This technology is already being used to make bio-diesel to power cars. Other researchers are looking at how we might, one day, control human emotions by sending ‘biological machines’ into our brains.... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/playing-god/feed/ 14 http://documentaryheaven.com/james-burke-connections/ http://documentaryheaven.com/james-burke-connections/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:33:13 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6375 Connections is a ten-episode documentary television series created, written and presented by science historian James Burke. The series was produced and directed by Mick Jackson of the BBC Science & Features Department and first aired in 1978 (UK) and 1979 (USA). It took an interdisciplinary approach to the history of science and invention and demonstrated how various discoveries, scientific achievements, and historical world events were built from one another successively in an interconnected way to bring about particular aspects of modern technology. The series was noted for Burke's crisp and enthusiastic presentation (and dry humour), historical reenactments, and intricate working models.... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/james-burke-connections/feed/ 1 http://documentaryheaven.com/stargazing-live/ http://documentaryheaven.com/stargazing-live/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:33:56 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6364 Professor Brian Cox and Dara O Briain host three days of live stargazing featuring epic images from observatories around the globe.Episode 1: Jonathan Ross is shown how to use a telescope. Brian explains why planets are spheres. Hawaii becomes home to Liz, who tells us about Mars and Mark gives tips on how to take brilliant night photographs.Episode 2: Liz shows us images of the sun, Brian explains how we know where every planet will be at a certain time, Liz talks about blackouts from CMEs. We are shown images of the Andromida Galaxy, our nearest neighbour, and a weirdo talks about sound in Apace.Episode 3: Brian talks to the astronauts on board the International Space Station,Mark gives amateur stargazers a chance to watch the Quadrantid Meteor Shower, Liz looks at the night skies from beautiful Hawaii nd shows us some of the telescopes, Dara goes on top of the Lovell telescope at their HQ in Jodrell Bank Observ... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/stargazing-live/feed/ 6 http://documentaryheaven.com/britains-greatest-codebreaker/ http://documentaryheaven.com/britains-greatest-codebreaker/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:03:44 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6354 This drama documentary records the brilliance – and the destruction – of one of the 20th century’s greatest minds. Alan Turing is the genius British mathematician who was instrumental in breaking the German Naval Enigma Code during World War II, arguably saving millions of lives. He was also the visionary scientist who gave birth to the computer age, pioneered artificial intelligence, and was the first to investigate the mathematical underpinnings of the living world. Turing is one of the great original thinkers of the 20th century, who foresaw the digital world in which we now live. In the eyes of many scientists today Turing sits alongside Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin at the table of scientific greats.... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/britains-greatest-codebreaker/feed/ 8 http://documentaryheaven.com/pipe-down/ http://documentaryheaven.com/pipe-down/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2012 05:10:50 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6318 Pipe Down is an hour long documentary that tells the story of a rural community in Co. Mayo in Ireland, who have been battling the oil giant Shell over their plans to put a dangerous raw gas pipeline through the community and complete construction of a gas processing terminal that is a threat to their delicate environment.The documentary features interviews with Colin Joyce of Shell Ireland; Willie Corduff, a local farmer & one of the Rossport Five; Pat O'Donnell, a local fisherman; Gerry Coyle, a County Councillor for the area (Fine Gael); Eoin O'Leidhin & Diane Amber, activists with the Shell-to-Sea group; Terence Conway, a spokesperson for the Shell-to-Sea group; and Niall Harnett, who co-ordinates the solidarity camp in the area.... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/pipe-down/feed/ 9 http://documentaryheaven.com/professor-brian-cox-a-night-with-the-stars/ http://documentaryheaven.com/professor-brian-cox-a-night-with-the-stars/#comments Sun, 25 Dec 2011 13:46:53 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6292 For one night only, Professor Brian Cox goes unplugged in a specially recorded programme from the lecture theatre of the Royal Institution of Great Britain.In his own inimitable style, Brian takes an audience of famous faces, scientists and members of the public on a journey through some of the most challenging concepts in physics.With the help of Jonathan Ross, Simon Pegg, Sarah Millican and James May, Brian shows how diamonds – the hardest material in nature – are made up of nothingness; how things can be in an infinite number of places at once; why everything we see or touch in the universe exists; and how a diamond in the heart of London is in communication with the largest diamond in the cosmos.... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/professor-brian-cox-a-night-with-the-stars/feed/ 27 http://documentaryheaven.com/on-the-road-with-scientists-at-cern/ http://documentaryheaven.com/on-the-road-with-scientists-at-cern/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:34:07 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6281 Matthew Stadlen spends the day at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research near Geneva, with accelerator physicist Steve Myers.CERN is one of the world’s largest and most respected centers for scientific research. Its business is fundamental physics, finding out what the Universe is made of and how it works. At CERN, the world’s largest and most complex scientific instruments are used to study the basic constituents of matter – the fundamental particles. By studying what happens when these particles collide, physicists learn about the laws of Nature.... 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