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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Like most of you, Morgan Freeman has his own questions about life and the universe. For example, why is he so darn sexy? An all new season of Through the Wormhole begins June 2013 on Science Channel.
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Space and time seem continuous to us but on a fundamental level, it may be more granular than that.
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A Million Trillion Trillion Trillionth of a Second
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The Brain Computer Interface uses meta-morse code and analyzation of EEG signals from the brain to determine what a person is thinking.
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New Technology Knows What You Are Thinking
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Morgan Freeman was never afraid to ask questions. In this behind the scenes video, Morgan explains how his love of science started.
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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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This leafless parasitic vine exhibits complex problem solving behaviors not normal to most plant life.
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This Parasitic Plant Is A True Serial Killer
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With a split time lens, one scientist has created a light gap that lasts almost a billionth of a second.
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Can We Hide Time?
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As our aging sun begins to burn helium, the intense heat generated in its core blasts away some of its outer layers, causing it to lose mass.
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What Happens To Earth When The Sun Dies?
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The raw materials needed to trigger the creation of an entire universe could be held in your hands.
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Any 10-Kilogram Mass Could Inflate Into A New Universe
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