Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman
Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman
Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman
Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman
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When getting water at a segregated fountain, young Morgan begins to reflect on the subject of race. Is one really superior?
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Is There a Superior Race?
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Researcher Josh Correll explains what led him to focus on rascism, and ithe importance of understanding it.
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The Puzzle of Racism
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An experiement shows when one person in a group starts to “take” instead of “give,” gradually most of the group will resort to taking for themselves as well. Are we influenced by our surroundings?
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Sharing Experiment
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Stereotypes affect everyones behavior; Josh Correll illustrates how little snippets of information can lead us to our behavior.
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Stereotypes
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No matter how arbitrarily a group is formed, we automatically find ourselves aligned with that group, putting it's needs before our own.
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Overriding Our Better Judgement
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Researchers have found that the feeling of joy at our rival's failure is something that our brains learn to crave.
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Brain Workings of Competition
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Morgan reflects on his youth, facing a stereotype and standing up to a bully.
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Can We Eliminate Evil?
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Do we need a time machine to time travel, or could a wormhole do the job?
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Building a Wormhole
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Can We Build a Time Machine?
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Professor Paul Davies uses a chocolate factory production line to illustrate how the future limits what can be in the present.
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Imagine Our Universe As A Chocolate Factory
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Some theorize we each have an individual slice of the present and our brains trick us into believing it is the same for all. Does our brain trick us into only seeing time in one direction, and could we change that view?
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Is There a Universal "Now?"
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Closed time like curves, exotic arrangements of matter overlapping back upon themselves, suggest it might be possible to go back in time. Professor Todd Brun studies this theory, but believes we cannot change events.
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Could We Go Back In Time?
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Experiments with subatomic particles show the future position of the particle limits where it can be in the present. Professor Paul Davies thinks may also be happening at the level of our everyday reality.
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Could the Future Affect What’s Happening Now?
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Morgan wishes his grandmother was still alive, which leads him to ponder the concept of time.
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Is Time Travel Possible?
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As young Morgan plays in the woods in summer, he wonders if time really exists
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Does Time Really Exist?
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Richard Lenski, who is conducting the world’s longest evolutionary experiment has tended colonies of e-coli over 27 years. After years, one strain mutates. Why did that group evolve?
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Evolution is Like Poker
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Robots Are Becoming More Human-Like Every Day
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Musings on the incredible biological forces that allow human life to be born.
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Human Life Comes Into Existence In Just A Fraction Of An Instant
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Global networks are resulting in faster human technological advancements.
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If all living things have a metabolism, does that include the ocean?
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Is the Ocean a Superorganism?
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'LUCA' ('last universal common ancestor') is the scientific nickname for the first species on Earth, which lived about 3.5 billion years ago.
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Meet 'LUCA,' Our Common Ancestor From 3.5 Billion Years Ago
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Chemist Anders Nielsen took x-ray images of liquid H2O molecules and discovered that groups of water molecules perform elaborate synchronized choreography. Watch these synchronized swimmers demonstrate.
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Synchronized Swimmers Demonstrate Water Molecule Behavior
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An experiement shows when one person in a group starts to “take” instead of “give,” gradually most of the group will resort to taking for themselves as well. Are we influenced by our surroundings?
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Sharing Experiment
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A new invention is devised to train your brain to work like the brain of a highly skilled expert.
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How To Train Your Brain
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Marc Salem thinks every material thought we have has an involuntary physical emission that cannot be hidden.
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Information Leakage
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Statistics professor Richard Janikowski uses data to find patterns hidden in the numbers. Can his methods stop crime before it happens?
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