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The BBC HORIZON documentary “Don’t grow old” shows scientists who are searching for an “elixir of youth” that should help us to manipulate and extend our lifespan. But is there really an anti-aging formula like “antioxidants“, that really works for all of us? Or is it just a question of right nutrition and a healthy [...]

This BBC documentary is about us – the human beings living on the planet earth. Naturalist Sir David Attenborough investigates if an ongoing rise in population growth is possible or if we have to introduce birth control to prevent overpopulation. The size of the human population is currently nearly 7 billion people, which is much [...]

We got notified currently by Google Video (http://video.google.com), that Google will discontinue their video-hosting service. For a long time this service was the only one that allowed videos longer than 20 minutes to be uploaded. The possibility to upload new videos stopped some time ago, but now Google is also DELETING all existing videos on [...]

Energy is all around us. There is not only electric energy, but all forms of power. It’s in every atom, drop of water, breeze of wind or move we make. Engineers like Nikola Tesla or Viktor Schauberg have been researching for years on new ways of creating electricity. This documentary about free energy gives some [...]

Who dares think a nation?  This is the entire film, American Philosopher, by Phillip McReynolds.  Philosophers, including Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, Richard Bernstein, Joseph Margolis, John E. Smith, and many others, discuss the very idea of “American Philosophy”, the origins of pragmatism, and the role of the philosopher in American life.

New movie from the “Zeitgeist” creators. This time “Zeitgeist – Moving Forward” is about the “social order” in our monetary-market economics. Main topics in this movie are cyclical consumption, pressure for cost efficiency, the waste of labor, energy and materials, our dept based monetary system an the overall decision-making processes in the market system.

China is one of the fastest growing economies in the world with more than 10% annually growth rate over the last 30 years. It just recently surpassed Japan as the second largest economy in the world and will probably replace the USA as the number 1 economy in the world by 2020. Martin Jaques is [...]

Since 1924 the Black Friday opens the holiday shopping season every year. The day after thanksgiving is a very popular shopping day because many retail-shops like Best-By and online-shops like Amazon offer special discounts for their customers on this specific day. Black Friday is called so, because it marks the day where shops begin writing [...]

This documentary about stupidity tells us the history of the word “moron”, the difference between stupid, moron, smart, intelligent, genius and questions the regular practice of classifying peoples intelligence through standardized IQ tests. Of course also Mr. Bush is examined in this report. A well educated guy who, nevertheless, acts in a completely dumb way [...]

What is Reality? Philosophs, physics and mathematicians have been thinking about this question since thousands of years. This BBC Documentary by David Malone looks at famous personalities who have been thinking about the true nature of reality and shows the findings, doubts and troubles they faced when they started talking publicly about their new “revolutionary” [...]