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The Scripture of Nature
from the Nova site
Remarkable time-lapse footage by one of the world’s foremost nature photographers reveals massive glaciers and ice sheets splitting apart, collapsing, and disappearing at a rate that has more and more scientists alarmed. This NOVA-National Geographic Television special investigates the latest evidence of a radically warming planet. More…
Have questions about the speeded-up melting now occurring across the Arctic, about possible consequences for coastlines around the world, or about what’s it like to work on and around an active glacier? From now until March 25, the day after the premiere broadcast of “Extreme Ice,” we will collect e-mailed questions from viewers for Jim White (see bio below). White’s responses to selected questions will be posted on March 30. Please note that questions may be edited for clarity.
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Just listened to the interview with James Balog on NPR’s Fresh Air where he talked about his adventures photographing the melting glaciers. Extraordinary. I can’t wait to see this documentary. Also… you need to Check this out.
Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial is a 2004 PBS Nova documentary about how the debate between Evolution and Intelligent Design gripped the Dover Pennsylvania School District and how this controversy ended up being resolved in court.
An amazing documentary that explains both evolution and intelligent design and how the controversy of whether intelligent design rightfully belongs in the realm of science continues to rage on.
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies is a 1997 book by Jared Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at UCLA. In 1998 it won a Pulitzer Prize and the Aventis Prize for Best Science Book. A documentary based on the book was broadcast on PBS in July 2005, produced by the National Geographic Society.
According to the author, an alternative title would be A short history about everyone for the last 13,000 years. But the book is not merely an account of the past; it attempts to explain why Eurasian civilizations, as a whole, have survived and conquered others, while attempting to refute the belief that Eurasian hegemony is due to any form of Eurasian intellectual, moral, or inherent genetic superiority. Diamond argues that: the gaps in power and technology between human societies originate in environmental differences amplified by various positive feedback loops; and that, if cultural or genetic differences have favored Eurasians (for example Chinese centralized government, or improved disease resistance among Eurasians), it is only so because of the influence of geography.
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