published: 12 Apr 2013
views: 179238
58:50
BBC Geisha Girl (2005)
The story of Yukina, a 15 year old girl from Kaneyama, who moves to Kyoto to become a Maik...
published: 12 Apr 2013
BBC Geisha Girl (2005)
The story of Yukina, a 15 year old girl from Kaneyama, who moves to Kyoto to become a Maiko (Apprentice Geisha) and one day a Geiko (full Geisha). We see her trials, what life can be like for hopefuls. Kikuyu became full Geisha (Erikae) fall 2009. But alas it seems she has recently retired :-/
This video is copyright BBC and is shared for the sole purpose of education and entertainment.
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The Truth About Food: 1/6 (BBC Documentary Series)
Want to know what food really does to your body? Forget the headlines, watch our intriguin...
published: 18 Apr 2013
author: DocumentaryWorId
The Truth About Food: 1/6 (BBC Documentary Series)
Want to know what food really does to your body? Forget the headlines, watch our intriguing investigations with 500 volunteers as we expose the real science ...
published: 18 Apr 2013
views: 141040
author:
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39:48
The Woman Who Woke Up Chinese BBC full Documentary 2013
The Woman Who Woke Up Chinese BBC full Documentary 2013In 2010, 38-year-old Sarah Colwill...
published: 04 Sep 2013
The Woman Who Woke Up Chinese BBC full Documentary 2013
The Woman Who Woke Up Chinese BBC full Documentary 2013In 2010, 38-year-old Sarah Colwill's life was changed forever. She was rushed to hospital suffering from what she thought was a severe migraine, but when she woke up her local Plymouth accent had disappeared, leaving her sounding Chinese.
She was diagnosed with Foreign Accent Syndrome, a rare condition with no clear cause. For the past three years, Sarah has had to deal with other people's puzzled reactions and the huge impact her new voice has had on her life and her family.
Now, Sarah is determined to find out what happened inside her head. Can science give her any answers? And will she ever get back to the person she used to be?
published: 04 Sep 2013
views: 52134
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BBC Documentary - Horizon: The Creative Brain How Insight Works
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published: 29 Mar 2013
BBC Documentary - Horizon: The Creative Brain How Insight Works
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It is a feeling we all know - the moment when a light goes on in your head. In a sudden flash of inspiration, a new idea is born. Today, scientists are using some unusual techniques to try to work out how these moments of creativity - whether big, small or life-changing - come about. They have devised a series of puzzles and brainteasers to draw out our creative behaviour, while the very latest neuroimaging technology means researchers can actually peer inside our brains and witness the creative spark as it happens. What they are discovering could have the power to make every one of us more creative.
published: 29 Mar 2013
views: 269488
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BBC Documentary: Who Gets the Best Jobs?
Richard Bilton examines the social barriers that have contributed to the UK being more une...
published: 03 May 2013
BBC Documentary: Who Gets the Best Jobs?
Richard Bilton examines the social barriers that have contributed to the UK being more unequal than at any other time in history.
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published: 03 May 2013
views: 315216
59:01
The Mafias Secret Bunkers BBC Documentary
Mafia is a term used to describe certain clan- or culturally-based organized crime enterpr...
published: 28 Sep 2013
The Mafias Secret Bunkers BBC Documentary
Mafia is a term used to describe certain clan- or culturally-based organized crime enterprises. The original and best known Mafia is the Sicilian Mafia in Italy. When used alone, typically refers to either the Sicilian Mafia or the American Mafia. The term is sometimes used for other organized crime groups in Italy and around the world, e.g. "the Russian Mafia" or "the Japanese Mafia". These terms are applied informally by the press and public; the criminal organizations themselves have their own terms (e.g. the Sicilian Mafia calls itself "Cosa Nostra" and the "Japanese Mafia" calls itself yakuza).
published: 28 Sep 2013
views: 204
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The Making of Merkel with Andrew Marr BBC documentary 2013 about Angel Merkel imp politician
The making of Angela Merkel, a German enigma
On the eve of the German federal elections, A...
published: 21 Sep 2013
The Making of Merkel with Andrew Marr BBC documentary 2013 about Angel Merkel imp politician
The making of Angela Merkel, a German enigma
On the eve of the German federal elections, Andrew Marr looks at the enigmatic Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel. She is the most important politician in Europe and the most powerful woman in the world. Yet she has been criticized by some for her lack of charisma and accused by others of trying to turn Europe into a Greater Germany. Andrew Marr delves into her childhood and background to discover what has shaped her political vision and style. Growing up in East Germany, the paranoid state at the heart of the Communist Eastern Bloc, then becoming a research scientist, she only entered politics in her mid-thirties after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Her political journey has been marked by caution and compromise - but with occasional flashes of ruthlessness and an unyielding commitment to European Union. In this film, Andrew Marr lifts the veil on a very unusual politician.
published: 21 Sep 2013
views: 7504
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BBC Horizon Special - Tomorrow's World (2013)
Original Broadcast Date: April 11th, 2013
Tomorrow's World: A Horizon Special - BBC...
published: 12 Apr 2013
BBC Horizon Special - Tomorrow's World (2013)
Original Broadcast Date: April 11th, 2013
Tomorrow's World: A Horizon Special - BBC
published: 12 Apr 2013
views: 145882
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Planet Ant - Life Inside The Colony - BBC
BBCs Planet Ant - Life Inside The Colony 2013.
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published: 13 Mar 2013
Planet Ant - Life Inside The Colony - BBC
BBCs Planet Ant - Life Inside The Colony 2013.
Learn more about ants http://antark.net/
With permission.
published: 13 Mar 2013
views: 483189
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Inside North Korea BBC Panorama News Programme
North Korean travel experts have slammed the BBC for putting local guides at risk, saying ...
published: 15 Apr 2013
Inside North Korea BBC Panorama News Programme
North Korean travel experts have slammed the BBC for putting local guides at risk, saying the country would hold them responsible for the actions of the journalists who posed as LSE students on a tour of the country.
And two tour guides speaking to HuffPost UK said it was relatively easy for anyone to visit the country, and even obtain a journalist visa.
The London School of Economics has expressed fury at BBC journalists who went undercover on a student trip to North Korea, claiming the corporation recklessly endangered students. The BBC claims the students were informed of the risks, necessary to take to get into the country.
Huff Post UK
published: 15 Apr 2013
views: 511219
57:53
Documentary: Addicted to Pleasure - Sugar (BBC Documentary Series)
How sugar cane fuelled a consumer revolution but is now responsible for serious ailments.
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published: 18 Apr 2013
Documentary: Addicted to Pleasure - Sugar (BBC Documentary Series)
How sugar cane fuelled a consumer revolution but is now responsible for serious ailments.
Actor Brian Cox reveals the rich and controversial past of sugar, alcohol, tobacco and opium to uncover how the commercial exploitation of these products hooked the world.
published: 18 Apr 2013
views: 131064
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How Robots Will Change the World - BBC Documentary
Robotics future
Robot will Compete to Handle Future Disasters
Robotics is the art and co...
published: 04 Jul 2013
How Robots Will Change the World - BBC Documentary
Robotics future
Robot will Compete to Handle Future Disasters
Robotics is the art and commerce of robots, their design, manufacture, application, and practical use. Robots will soon be everywhere, in our home and at work. They will change the way we live. This will raise many philosophical, social, and political questions that will have to be answered. In science fiction, robots become so intelligent that they decide to take over the world because humans are deemed inferior. In real life, however, they might not choose to do that. Robots might follow rules such as Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, that will prevent them from doing so. When the Singularity happens, robots will be indistinguishable from human beings and some people may become Cyborgs: half man and half machine.
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1.How The Titanic Was Built - BBC Documentary
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2.BBC Documentary -Japanese High Speed Bullet Train
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPLx9j-bBHo
3.Robots Army in the Future - BBC Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0VgrSSlGoo
4.BBC Documentary - Human Intelligence | How Smart Are You.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEePiqHhS-k
5.BBC Horizon Special Documentary - Life In the Future (Tomorrow's World)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBMNEeyvvtY
6.BBC Documentary 2013 - Hunting The Internet Bullies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3qUj-vB68E
Unfortunatly, due to Japan's shrinking population and poor government intervention plans, they will be completly unable to capitalize on their (shrinking) advantage in technology. India's vast advantage in the fields of technology, and Germany's massive hi amounts of capital will make them far larger powers then Japan.
Microsoft Robotics Studio
Microsoft is currently working to stabilize the fragmented robotics market with its new software Microsoft Robotics Studio.
Minimal requirements To start a robotic breakthrough we need the following capabilities :
object recognition capabilities of a 2-year-old child language understanding of a 4-year-old manual dexterity of a 6-year-old That will allow robotisation of most manual jobs in the world and will be the turning point in the robotic history.
and for introducing the robots into social context we would need
social understanding of an 8-year-old child edit Types of Robots Humanoid robots
Lara is the first humanoid robot with artificial muscles (metal alloy strands that instantly contract when heated by electric current) instead of electric motors (2006).
Asimo (video) is one of the most advanced projects as of 2006.
ASIMO Hubo Lara Add a photo to this gallery Modular robots
Utility fog. Scenario:Modular Robots.
M-Tran consists of standard blocks and is reconfigurableModular robots can be built from standard building blocks that can be combined in different ways.
M-Tran - a snake-like modular robot that uses genetic algorithms to evolve walking programs Self replicating robots - modular robots that can produce copies of themselves using existing blocks. Swarmanoid is a project that uses 3 specialized classes of robots (footbots, handbots and eyebots) to create an effective swarm. Such swarm should be able, for example, to tidy a bedroom with each robot doing what it is best at. Police Robots
Being a police officer or a fireman is a dangerous job. They will be replaced by robots. Robot police officers will be sent to the scene of the crime to stop it. The police robots will know automatically who is committing the crime (City Awareness Grid Electronic C.A.G.E). People are afraid of robots with guns. Guns will be illegal in the future. Police robots will only have non-lethal weapons.
Educational toy robots
Educational toy robots
Sports Robots
RoboCup
Physical robots
Operating System:
Urbi (Universal Real-Time Behavior Interface) is an open source cross-platform software platform in C++ used to develop applications for robotics and complex systems. Urbi is based on the UObject distributed C++ component architecture. It also includes the urbiscript orchestration language which is a parallel and event-driven script language. UObject components can be plugged into urbiscript and appear as native objects that can be scripted to specify their interactions and data exchanges. UObjects can be linked to the urbiscript interpreter, or executed as autonomous processes in "remote" mode.
published: 04 Jul 2013
views: 124083
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BBC Panorama The Honeymoon Murder Who Killed Anni Dewani? BBC documentary 2013
BBC Panorama The Honeymoon Murder Who Killed Anni Dewani? BBC documentary 2013
When a beau...
published: 20 Sep 2013
BBC Panorama The Honeymoon Murder Who Killed Anni Dewani? BBC documentary 2013
BBC Panorama The Honeymoon Murder Who Killed Anni Dewani? BBC documentary 2013
When a beautiful young bride was murdered on her honeymoon in South Africa - allegedly on the orders of her British husband - it made headlines around the world. Nearly three years on, the truth about Anni Dewani's killing remains a mystery, while in July a British judge ordered Shrien Dewani - still sectioned under the mental health act in the UK - should be extradited to South Africa to stand trial. BBC Panorama has obtained the secret police files which make up the prosecution case against the 33-year-old Bristol businessman, and has commissioned leading forensic experts to review all the evidence. Their findings expose fundamental mistakes both in the police investigation and in the interpretation of forensic evidence. Could Shrien Dewani be - as he has always claimed - an innocent man?
published: 20 Sep 2013
views: 28629
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BBC Horizon - Defeating the Hackers HD
Exploring the murky and fast-paced world of the hackers out to steal money and identities ...
published: 21 Aug 2013
BBC Horizon - Defeating the Hackers HD
Exploring the murky and fast-paced world of the hackers out to steal money and identities and wreak havoc with people's online lives, and the scientists who are joining forces to help defeat them.
Horizon meets the two men who uncovered the world's first cyber weapon, the pioneers of what is called ultra paranoid computing, and the computer expert who worked out how to hack into cash machines.
published: 21 Aug 2013
views: 6707
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The Most Astounding Fact
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Astr...
published: 07 Mar 2012
author: Max Schlickenmeyer
The Most Astounding Fact
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Astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was asked in an interview with TIME magazine, "What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?" This is his answer.
Special thanks to:
Reid Gower http://saganseries.com/
Michael Marantz http://vimeo.com/2822787
Carl Sagan http://www.hulu.com/cosmos
Neil deGrasse Tyson http://www.facebook.com/neiltyson
NASA http://www.nasa.gov/
...for their inspiration.
CREDITS
Narration: TIME Magazine's "10 Questions for Neil Degrasse Tyson"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiOwqDmacJo
Music: "To Build a Home" by the Cinematic Orchestra feat. Patrick Watson
http://www.cinematicorchestra.com
Video (in order of appearance):
IMAX: Hubble 3D (Orion)
http://www.imax.com/hubble/
Animal Planet: Safari
http://movies.netflix.com/Movie/Animal_Planet_Safari_The_Last_Lion_of_Liuwa/70153174?trkid=438403
Yellowstone: Battle for Life (Waterfall)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jcdml
Supernova to Crab Nebula
http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/heic0515a/
BBC: Wonders of the Solar System (formation of the solar system)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qyxfb
Accretion and First Eukaryotes from the 2011 film "Tree of Life" directed by Terrence Malick
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accretion_(astrophysics)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_life
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_evolutionary_history_of_life
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/05/ribonucleotides/
http://www.twowaysthroughlife.com/
BBC: Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life
http://www.wellcometreeoflife.org/
"Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia" by Ayrton Orio (Model: Xharon Kendelker)
http://vimeo.com/9505354
BBC: Wonders of the Solar System (Brian Cox w/ telescope)
"Afghanistan - touch down in flight" by Augustin Pictures
http://vimeo.com/31426899
http://lukasugustin.de
"mongolia!" by wiissa
http://vimeo.com/27876709
http://wiissa.com
Excerpt from "Outside In", Copyright Stephen van Vuuren/SV2 Studios
http://www.outsideinthemovie.com
IMAX: Hubble 3D (Inside Orion Nebula)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_Nebula
Shuttle Launch from 1985 IMAX film "The Dream is Alive"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_Is_Alive
"Earth -- Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over -- NASA, ISS" by Michael Konig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls9yJTphLxg
http://koenigm.com
Excerpt from "The Island" - La Palma Time Lapse Video by Christoph Malin
http://vimeo.com/27539860
http://christophmalin.com
Galaxy Map and Galaxy Formation by NCSA's Advanced Visualization Lab
http://avl.ncsa.illinois.edu/
"Mars sunset" captured by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit (from BBC: Wonders of the Solar System)
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_347.html
Edited by Max Schlickenmeyer
Neil goes on to say "For me, that is the most profound revelation of 20th century astrophysics and I look forward to what the 21st century will bring us, given the frontiers that are now unfolding."
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Stunt Poetry
Shot with the Canon 60D. Edited in Premiere.
Post production done in After Effects wit...
published: 12 Aug 2011
author: Rishi Kaneria
Stunt Poetry
Shot with the Canon 60D. Edited in Premiere.
Post production done in After Effects with Twixtor.
Directed by Rishi Kaneria.
Starring Dante Ha, a professional stunt man whose work includes Dark Knight Rises, Contagion, X-Men:First Class, Walking Dead, Teen Wolf and more.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4010586/
Music by Clint Mansell.
Featured on:
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http://gizmodo.com/5975954/moog-tunes-deep-ends-and-why-toking-may-or-may-not-turn-you-into-a-blithering-idiot
NOZAP:
http://llx-nozap.blogspot.com/2011/08/stunt-poetry-rishi-kaneria.html
The Curious Brain:
http://thecuriousbrain.com/?p=24201
Dooce.com:
http://dooce.com/2011/09/13/stunt-poetry
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julienmarie.fr/2011/un-cascadeur-poete/
2dots-era.blogspot.com/?2011/?09/?creative-film-stunt-poetry.html
http://www.fubiz.net/2011/09/01/stunt-poetry/
Aired on:
"Random Acts" on BBC Channel 4 on Tuesday November 22nd at 11 pm: http://randomacts.channel4.com/
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Richard Feynman - Ode To A Flower
From the BBC Interview for Horizon 'The Pleasure of Finding Things Out.
(http://www.bbc.co...
published: 18 Dec 2012
author: Fraser Davidson
Richard Feynman - Ode To A Flower
From the BBC Interview for Horizon 'The Pleasure of Finding Things Out.
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/broadband/archive/feynman/)
Animated by Fraser Davidson (www.sweetcrude.tv).
5:57
My Favourite Things
'My Favourite Things' 2009
2009 - Chapel Allerton Film Festival - Official selection
2009...
published: 15 Jun 2009
author: kidswithcrayons
My Favourite Things
'My Favourite Things' 2009
2009 - Chapel Allerton Film Festival - Official selection
2009 - Exposures Manchester Film Festival - Official selection
2009 - BBC Big Screen showcase - Official selection
2009 - Eye Candy for Strangers - Official selection
2010 - BECTU Talent Short Film Competition - Official selection
2011 - Opuzen Film Festival - Official selection
2011 - Little Big Shots International Film Festival - Official selection
A production by 'kidswithcrayons'
Starring Amelia Cook & Theo Styles
Directed by Edward Styles
Produced by Lucy Owens
Cinematography & Colouring by Jamie Havill
Production Design by Charlotte Sintrat
Editing by Carey Moyle
Music Composed by Stephen Wright
A big thankyou to Daniel Beckett, Thomas Handforth, Robert Cook, Jayne Cook, Neice Cook, The gentleman with the camera & John Bull chocolatiere
Youtube results:
49:08
Atlantis Reborn (BBC Documentary)
Horizon puts Graham Hancock's controversial theories about the past to the test, dissectin...
published: 09 Jan 2013
Atlantis Reborn (BBC Documentary)
Horizon puts Graham Hancock's controversial theories about the past to the test, dissecting his evidence for a lost civilisation.
Although scientists believe they have categorically disproved the myth of Atlantis, the idea is more popular now than ever before. The latest exponent of the theory of a single lost source for all civilisation, is Graham Hancock. Although he doesn't call it Atlantis, his compelling ideas about a sophisticated society destroyed in a flood 12,000 years ago seem to be based on a reworking of the original Atlantis myth, whose survivors brought culture, religion, monument-building and civilisation to the rest of the world.
Graham Hancock offers various pieces of evidence to support his theory. He claims that the mysterious lost civilisation left its mark in ancient monuments, which he calculates were built to mirror certain constellations of stars. His hugely popular ideas have attracted such a wide audience that they stand to replace the conventional view of the past, which is based on scientific evidence that the civilisations of the ancient world were developed independently, by different peoples, on different continents.
Horizon journeys across the world to examine Hancock's evidence for a lost civilisation and puts his theory to the test.
Using modern astronomy, Hancock and his followers claim they can find messages from a lost society in the patterns of some of the greatest ancient monuments of the world. One colleague in particular, the author Robert Bauval, believes that the Giza pyramids in Egypt were built to mirror the stars of Orion's belt.
Hancock also believes that the great temples of Angkor Wat in Cambodia mirror the constellation Draco as it would have appeared 12,000 years ago - at a time when the world was in the Stone Age. They see this as evidence that a great civilisation existed at this time, and later conveyed its wisdom to the peoples of the ancient world, before disappearing without trace from the archaeological record.
Astronomers, archaeologists and geologists study this evidence. Dr. Ed Krupp of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, is troubled by Bauval's claims.
Horizon further examines Hancock's claims that the Sphinx and the mysterious ancient city of Tihuanacu in Bolivia were built 12,000 years ago by survivors of the lost civilisation itself.
It considers the idea that either Antarctica or an extraordinary underwater site at Yonaguni in Japan were the original home of these vanished people. In a film full of contentious debate and powerful arguments, Graham Hancock's claims are pitted against cutting edge scientific analysis to discover whether his popular theory could be true.
published: 09 Jan 2013
views: 80782
58:33
BBC Natural World - Queen of the Savannah [HD]
The queen African honeybee rules the savannah - even elephants panic at the buzzing of her...
published: 07 Jul 2012
BBC Natural World - Queen of the Savannah [HD]
The queen African honeybee rules the savannah - even elephants panic at the buzzing of her hive. This recreates the life of the queen and her colony as they fight to survive. Ground-breaking close-up photography shows a bee-eye view of their world, from the queen murdering her sisters to fighting off giant invaders and eventually migrating across the savannah to the great Mount Kenya.
Accompanied by short film Safe in the City with Dr George McGavin on the growth of the urban beekeeper.
published: 07 Jul 2012
views: 281667
48:59
Ancient Egyptian Glass From Outer Space | BBC Documentary
Horizon follows a team of scientists set out to solve the mystery of chunks of ancient gla...
published: 19 Feb 2013
Ancient Egyptian Glass From Outer Space | BBC Documentary
Horizon follows a team of scientists set out to solve the mystery of chunks of ancient glass scattered in a remote part of the Sahara Desert. Their quest takes them on a perilous journey into the Great Sand Sea, the wastes of Siberia and the test site of the world's first atomic bomb in New Mexico. What their search uncovers is a devastating new natural phenomenon.
In 1996 in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Italian mineralogist Vincenzo de Michele spotted an unusual yellow-green gem in the middle of one of Tutankhamun's necklaces.
The jewel was tested and found to be glass, but intriguingly it is older than the earliest Egyptian civilisation.
Working with Egyptian geologist Aly Barakat, they traced its origins to unexplained chunks of glass found scattered in the sand in a remote region of the Sahara Desert.
But the glass is itself a scientific enigma. How did it get to be there and who or what made it?
The BBC Horizon programme has reported an extraordinary new theory linking Tutankhamun's gem with a meteor.
Sky of fire
An Austrian astrochemist Christian Koeberl had established that the glass had been formed at a temperature so hot that there could be only one known cause: a meteorite impacting with Earth. And yet there were no signs of a suitable impact crater, even in satellite images.
American geophysicist John Wasson is another scientist interested in the origins of the glass. He suggested a solution that came directly from the forests of Siberia.
"When the thought came to me that it required a hot sky, I thought immediately of the Tunguska event," he told Horizon.
In 1908, a massive explosion flattened 80 million trees in Tunguska, Siberia.
Although there was no sign of a meteorite impact, scientists now think an extraterrestrial object of some kind must have exploded above Tunguska. Wasson wondered if a similar aerial burst could have produced enough heat to turn the ground to glass in the Egyptian desert.
published: 19 Feb 2013
views: 505453
49:02
Neanderthal - BBC Documentary
In 1848 a strange skull was discovered on the military outpost of Gibraltar. It was undoub...
published: 16 Jan 2013
Neanderthal - BBC Documentary
In 1848 a strange skull was discovered on the military outpost of Gibraltar. It was undoubtedly human, but also had some of the heavy features of an ape... distinct brow ridges, and a forward projecting face. Just what was this ancient creature? And when had it lived? As more remains were discovered one thing became clear, this creature had once lived right across Europe. The remains were named Homo neanderthalensis (Neanderthal man) an ancient and primitive form of human.
The archaeological evidence revealed that the earliest Neanderthals had lived in Europe about 200,000 years ago. But then, about 30,000 years ago, they disappeared... just at the time when the first modern humans appear in Europe. The story has it that our ancestors, modern humans, spread out of Africa about 100,000 years ago with better brains and more sophisticated tools. As they spread into Neanderthal territory, they simply out-competed their primitive cousins.
But was Neanderthal really the brutish ape-man of legend, or an effective rival to our own species? And how exactly had he been driven to extinction? What could be found out about this remarkable evolution from the bones themselves? To begin the investigation a skeleton was needed, and no complete Neanderthal had ever been found.
However a reconstruction expert at The American Museum of Natural History in New York realised that it would be possible to create an entire composite skeleton from casts of partial skeletons. Gary Sawyer combined and rebuilt broken parts to create the most complete Neanderthal ever seen. This Neanderthal stood no more than 1.65m (5' 4") tall, but he had a robust and powerful build - perfect for his Ice Age environment. But would he have stood up to the cold better than modern humans?
published: 16 Jan 2013
views: 268696
