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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?WWW

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Is There a Superior Race?

Researcher Josh Correll explains what led him to focus on rascism, and ithe importance of understanding it.WWW

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The Puzzle of Racism

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?WWW

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Sharing Experiment

Stereotypes affect everyones behavior; Josh Correll illustrates how little snippets of information can lead us to our behavior.WWW

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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.WWW

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Overriding Our Better Judgement

Researchers have found that the feeling of joy at our rival's failure is something that our brains learn to crave.WWW

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Brain Workings of Competition

Morgan reflects on his youth, facing a stereotype and standing up to a bully.WWW

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Can We Eliminate Evil?

Do we need a time machine to time travel, or could a wormhole do the job?WWW

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Building a Wormhole

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Can We Build a Time Machine?

Professor Paul Davies uses a chocolate factory production line to illustrate how the future limits what can be in the present.WWW

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Imagine Our Universe As A Chocolate Factory

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?WWW

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Is There a Universal "Now?"

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.WWW

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Could We Go Back In Time?

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.WWW

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Could the Future Affect What’s Happening Now?

Morgan wishes his grandmother was still alive, which leads him to ponder the concept of time.WWW

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Is Time Travel Possible?

As young Morgan plays in the woods in summer, he wonders if time really existsWWW

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Does Time Really Exist?

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?WWW

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Evolution is Like Poker

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Massively sophisticated computer networks are capable of simulating the start of the galaxy. People just need to input the right variables to make it work. How does dark matter change the results?WWW

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Is Dark Matter the Key to Existence?

Could smashing atoms with giant accelerators be the wrong way to understand the nature of time? Some think we should just give atoms a little push...like a curling stone!WWW

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Time is Like Curling

In the first moments of the universe, an untold number of unstable matter and particles were born and then vanished in fractions of a second, ultimately evolving into matter as we know it today. Can scientists recreate those first moments?WWW

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Reviving Extinct Matter

Geneticist Robert Lanza brings extinct animals back to life, and says the technology exists to bring back dead humans. But will society ever permit human cloning?WWW

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Physicist Lee Smolin applies the theory of evolution to physics to help explain how the laws of nature came to be.WWW

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Fine Tuning Physics

What if the beginning of our universe was not really the beginning of all existence? One scientist believes time has always existed. The beginning of our universe might be merely a shift from the death of one universe to the start of another.WWW

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The Beginning or the End?

Canine psychologist Stanley Coren has measured the intelligence of more than 100 dog breeds. Find out how doggie smarts are measured and see which breed is ranked seventh from the bottom!WWW

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Canine Brain Power

Alien evolution could produce a living machine-like planet filled with the intelligence of billions of alien minds. But if this does exist, how do we spot it?WWW

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Computational neuroscientist Yuki Kamitani explains how a computer can visualize what a person is seeing, just by monitoring their brain. In a few years, we may be able to watch our own dreams in HD!WWW

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Movie of Our Dreams

If backwards time travel was possible, could we change history? Or is the power of space and time so great that time travelers would be unable to alter even the smallest detail?WWW

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The Butterfly Effect

Can the creation of life be understood by looking at bubbles? One scientist may have finally created the first cells of life under his microscope.WWW

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A scientist creates hair-raising experimental short films to find out how empathy works in the human brain.WWW

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When we adapt a memory to match those of our peers, do we also change a signal in our brain that creates a false memory?WWW

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Supermassive black holes are classified as possessing a total mass between one million to one billion times the mass of our sun. That's huge!WWW

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Supermassive Black Holes

If there are aliens, they could see that our planet supports life based on the variety of colors produced by land, water and weather systems on Earth. However, we do not yet have the proper tools to identify colors of far away exoplanets.WWW

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Cosmic dust and other matter cloud our view into space. So scientists have not technically seen a black hole. But one astronomer claims he has seen past the cosmic litter using a new infrared technology. And according to him, he saw a massive bla ...WWW

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Black Hole in the Milky Way?