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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Find out how elephants react when they see themselves in a mirror.
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Brainwashing individuals is easier than you might think. If someone is susceptible enough, they could be willing to risk it all to save their group or cause.
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Can a Group Identity Turn into Brainwashing?
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The universe as we know it is possible due to an extremely precise balance of forces. A formula so exact, that one small change would disallow any form of life. Did a divine hand make certain the balance was just right?
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The Balance of Forces
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A study tests whether humans are born to think there is a reason for everything around them.
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Are We Born With a Divine Mind?
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Is there a link between one's association with God and their ability to exert self control?
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Belief in God = Self Control?
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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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Why do poor children perform worse in school? A researcher looks into this and finds physical differences between the brains of the rich and the poor but children aren't born with these differences.
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Physical Differences Between Brains of Rich and Poor Kids
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There are only two classes, says Victor Yakovenko, an econophysics researcher at the University of Maryland and the income inequality is especially shocking when he presents a visualization of the issue.
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The Rich Don't Play By the Same Rules
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If cameras and microphones were placed inside every area of your house, how would you react? Can we adapt to zero privacy? An experiment tested exactly that.
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What Would Happen If We Had No Privacy?
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The threat of exposure could be used to stop greed.
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The Power of Shame
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Twins offer an amazing opportunity to study the effects of genetics versus environment. Professor Eric Turkheimer studies the genetics of complex human behavior. What role do individual genes play in our paths in life?
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Nature or Nurture
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Ophiocordyceps unilateralis -- colloquially known as the Zombie-Ant Fungi -- causes those affected by it to turn into zombie-like creatures: the crawling dead.
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This Fungus Turns Victims Into The Crawling Dead
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Is a zombie apocalypse possible? Hear what some of the 'Through the Wormhole' producers think as the show takes a deep dive into the science of the undead.
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'Wormhole' Producers Talk Zombies
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