title: Beyond Belief

Specials

title: Anthony Grayling - The Good Life

title: Anthony Grayling - The Good Life

title: Sam Harris - Facts, Values and a Place for the Profound

title: Season 0

Season 2006

title: Steven Weinberg, Lawrence Krauss, Sam Harris & Michael Shermer

overview: Topics: Cardinal Schonborn, Catholicism, Clash Of Cultures, Darwin, Einstein, Evolution, Galileo, God, Intelligent Design, Islam, Morality, Newton, Richard Dawkins, Two Cultures, Religion

title: Neil deGrasse Tyson

overview: Topics: Astronomy, Cosmology, Darwin, Evolution, George Bush, Intelligent Design, Islam, Newton, Physics, Ptolemy, War, religion, science education. Discussion: Tyson, Weinberg, Krauss, Harris & Shermer.

title: Neil deGrasse Tyson

title: Joan Roughgarden, Richard Dawkins, Francisco Ayala & Carolyn Porco

overview: Topics: Astronomy, Bible, Buddhism, Cosmology, Darwin, Evolution, Francis Crick, Intelligent Design, Morality, Sexuality, gender, religion.

title: Stuart Hameroff & V.S. Ramachandran

overview: Topics: drugs, Hallucinogens, Kant, Mental State, Platonics, Prayer, Quantum Coherency, Quantum Mechanics, Sexuality, consciousness, neuroscience, religion

title: Stuart Hameroff & V.S. Ramachandran

title: Paul Davies, Steven Nadler & Patricia Churchland

title: Susan Neiman, Loyal Rue & Elizabeth Loftus

title: Mahzarin Banaji, Richard Dawkins & Scott Atran

title: Scott Atran, Sir Harold Kroto, Charles Harper & Ann Druyan

title: Sam Harris; Jim Woodward; Melvin Konner; Discussion: Harris, Woodward, Konner, Dawkins & Paul Churchland

title: Richard Sloan, V.S. Ramachandran, Neil deGrasse Tyson & Terrence Sejnowski

title: Season 2006

Season 2007

title: Welcome by Roger Bingham

overview: Roger Bingham is a scientist in the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory at the Salk Institute, and a member of the research faculty at the Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego. He is the co-author of The Origin of Minds: Evolution, Uniqueness, and the New Science of the Self, and the creator and host of Emmy award-winning PBS science programs on evolutionary psychology and cognitive neuroscience, including the critically acclaimed series "The Human Quest". He is co-founder and Director of The Science Network.

title: Welcome by Roger Bingham

title: Darrin McMahon

overview: Darrin McMahon is the Ben Weider Professor of History at Florida State University. He is the author of Enemies of the Enlightenment and Happiness: A History, which was awarded Best Books of the Year honors for 2006 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate Magazine, and the Library Journal. His writings have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Daedalus, and The New Republic's "Open University."

title: Darrin McMahon

title: Margaret Jacob

overview: Margaret Jacob, a professor of History at UCLA, is an authority on the scientific roots of the Enlightenment, the origins of Western cosmopolitanism, and the freemasons, freethinkers and other radicals and revolutionaries of the 18th century. Her books include Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe; The Enlightenment: A Brief History with Documents; and (with Larry Stewart) Practical Matter: Newton's Science in the Service of Industry and Empire, 1687-1851.

title: Margaret Jacob

title: Edward Slingerland

overview: Edward Slingerland is Canada Research Chair in Chinese Thought and Embodied Cognition at the University of British Columbia. His research includes Warring States Chinese thought, cognitive linguistics, cognitive science, evolutionary psychology, methodologies for comparative religion, virtue ethics and the classical Chinese language. His forthcoming book, What Science Offers the Humanities: Integrating Body & Culture, argues for the relevance of the natural sciences to the humanities, and outlines an integrated, embodied approach to the study of culture.

title: Edward Slingerland

title: Donald Rutherford

overview: Donald Rutherford is a member of the UCSD Philosophy Department whose main research interests are in the history of modern philosophy. Much of his work has dealt with the philosophy of Leibniz, leading to a book, Leibniz and the Rational Order of Nature, and to a critical edition and translation (with Brandon Look) of the Leibniz-Des Bosses correspondence. His current research focuses on the role of eudaimonistic ethical theory in the seventeenth century.

title: Donald Rutherford

title: Daniel Dennett

overview: Daniel C. Dennett, the author of Breaking the Spell; Freedom Evolves; and Darwin's Dangerous Idea, is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He was the Co-founder (in 1985) and Co-director of the Curricular Software Studio at Tufts, and has helped to design museum exhibits on computers for the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Science in Boston, and the Computer Museum in Boston.

title: Daniel Dennett

title: David Sloan Wilson

overview: David Sloan Wilson, Professor in the Biology and Anthropology Departments at Binghamton University, is director of EvoS, a unique campus-wide evolutionary studies program. He is known for championing the theory of multilevel selection, which has implications ranging from the origin of life to the nature of religion. His most recent book is Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives.

title: David Sloan Wilson

title: Jonathan Haidt

overview: Jonathan Haidt, an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, studies the emotional basis of moral judgment and political ideology. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 and then did post-doctoral research in cultural psychology at the University of Chicago. He was awarded the Templeton Prize in Positive Psychology in 2001 and is the author of The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom.

title: Jonathan Haidt

title: Michael Shermer

overview: Michael Shermer, a former college professor, is the founding publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Skeptic magazine. A monthly columnist for Scientific American, he is the author of The Science of Good and Evil. His most recent book is Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design, a discussion of the boundary between religion and science.

title: Michael Shermer

title: Panel

overview: Daniel Dennett, David Sloan Wilson, Jonathan Haidt & Michael Shermer

title: Panel

title: Gregory Clark

overview: Gregory Clark chairs the Department of Economics at the University of California, Davis. He is author of the recent book A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World, which in part details how the economic systems of the long pre-industrial era helped shape modern cultures, and perhaps even modern human preferences at the genetic level.

title: Gregory Clark

title: Deirdre McCloskey

overview: Deirdre McCloskey teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has written fourteen books on economic theory, history, philosophy, rhetoric, and ethics. She taught for twelve years in economics at the University of Chicago, and describes herself as a "postmodern freemarket quantitative Episcopalian feminist Aristotelian." Her latest books are The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Capitalism and (with Stephen Ziliak) The Cult of Statistical Significances.

title: Deirdre McCloskey

title: Stuart Kauffman

overview: Stuart Kauffman has had an unusually varied career in biological science, with forays into quantum gravity and economics. His interests are theoretical biology, origin of life, origin of agency, developmental genetics, and evolution. He has published four books: Origins of Order; At Home in the Universe; Investigations; and Reinventing the Sacred (due April 2008).

title: Stuart Kauffman

title: Sean Carroll

overview: Sean Carroll is a Senior Research Associate in Physics at the California Institute of Technology. He previously worked at MIT, UC Santa Barbara, and the University of Chicago. He studies topics in theoretical physics, focusing on cosmology, field theory, particle physics, and gravitation. He is currently studying the nature of dark matter and dark energy, connections between cosmology, quantum gravity, and statistical mechanics, and scenarios for the beginning of the universe. He is a contributor to the blog "Cosmic Variance".

title: Sean Carroll

title: David Albert

overview: David Albert is a Professor of Philosophy and Director of the M.A. Program in the Philosophical Foundations of Physics at Columbia University. He studies in particular the quantum mechanical measurement problem and the problem of the direction of time. Dr. Albert has published two books, Quantum Mechanics and Experience and Time and Chance, and numerous articles on quantum mechanics.

title: David Albert

title: Welcome by Roger Bingham

title: Welcome by Roger Bingham

title: Peter Atkins

overview: Peter Atkins is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, Fellow of Lincoln College. He is the author of nearly 60 books, including Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science; Four Laws that Drive the Universe; and the world-renowned textbook Physical Chemistry. He has been a visiting professor in France, Israel, New Zealand, China, and Japan, and continues to lecture widely throughout the world.

title: Peter Atkins

title: Sir Harold Kroto

overview: Sir Harold Kroto, Chairman of the Board of the Vega Science Trust, a UK educational charity that produces science programs for television, in 1996 shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for the discovery of a new form of carbon, the C60 Buckminsterfullerene. He has received the Royal Society's prestigious Michael Faraday Award, given annually to a scientist who has done the most to further public communication of science, engineering or technology in the United Kingdom.

title: Sir Harold Kroto

title: Scott Atran

overview: Scott Atran, Research Director at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris, France, has experimented extensively on the ways scientists and ordinary people categorize and reason about nature. He currently is an organizer of a NATO working group on suicide terrorism. His publications include In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion and The Native Mind: Cognition and Culture in Human Knowledge of Nature (co-authored with Douglas Medin and forthcoming from Oxford University Press).

title: Scott Atran

title: Lee Silver

overview: ee Silver is Professor of Molecular Biology and Public Policy at Princeton University. He received a doctorate in biophysics from Harvard University and trained at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He is the author of Challenging Nature: The Clash Between Biotechnology and Spirituality; Remaking Eden; and Mouse Genetics, and co-author of an undergraduate genetics textbook. He has published 180 articles in the fields of genetics, evolution, embryology and behavioral genetics.

title: Lee Silver

title: Greg Epstein

overview: Greg M. Epstein serves as the Humanist Chaplain of Harvard University, and sits on the executive committee of the 38-member interfaith corps of Harvard Chaplains. Ordained as a Humanist rabbi, Epstein holds graduate degrees from the University of Michigan and Harvard Divinity School. He was lead organizer of The New Humanism, an international conference held at Harvard University in April 2007, and blogs for the Washington Post/Newsweek magazine project, "On Faith."

title: Greg Epstein

title: Roland de Sousa

overview: Ronald de Sousa is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He was educated in Switzerland, Oxford, UK, and Princeton, USA. He is the author of The Rationality of Emotion and of Why Think?: Evolution and the Rational Mind. His current research interests focus on emotions, evolutionary theory, cognitive science, sex, and the puzzle of religious belief.

title: Roland de Sousa

title: Patricia Churchland

overview: Patricia Churchland, who chairs the University of California, San Diego Philosophy Department, focuses also on neuroethics and attempts to understand choice, responsibility and the basis of moral norms in terms of brain function, evolution and brain-culture interactions. Her books include Brain-Wise, Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain and On the Contrary, with Paul M. Churchland.

title: Patricia Churchland

title: Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

overview: Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is a philosopher and novelist. She is the author of eight books, including the novels The Mind-Body Problem and Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal and Quantum Physics. Her last two books were non-fiction: Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel and Betraying Spinoza. She has received many awards for her fiction and scholarship, including a MacArthur, and is currently at work on a novel.

title: Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

title: John Allen Paulos

overview: John Allen Paulos, professor of mathematics at Temple University, Philadelphia, is an author, public speaker, and columnist for ABCNews and the Guardian. His writings include Innumeracy, A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper, Once Upon a Number, A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market and scholarly papers on probability, logic, and the philosophy of science as well as OpEds, book reviews, and articles in publications from The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, Discover, The American Scholar, and the London Review of Books.

title: John Allen Paulos

title: V.S. Ramachandran

overview: VS Ramachandran, Director for the Center of Brain and Cognition and professor with the Psychology Department and the Neurosciences Program at the University of California, San Diego, co-authored Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind, with Sandra Blakeslee, and is the author of A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness.

title: V.S. Ramachandran

title: Adam Kolber

overview: Adam Kolber is a visiting fellow at Princeton University's Center for Human Values and a law professor at the University of San Diego. He writes about the legal and ethical implications of emerging neurotechnologies, including drugs to dampen traumatic memories and brain imaging techniques to assess subjective experiences. He runs the "Neuroethics & Law Blog" and is an associate editor of the journal Neuroethics.

title: Adam Kolber

title: Jonathan Gottschall

overview: Jonathan Gottschall teaches English at Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, PA. His work seeks to bridge the humanities-sciences divide. He is co-editor of The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative, and the author of The Rape of Troy: Evolution, Violence, and the World of Homer. His next book will be Literature, Science, and a New Humanities.

title: Jonathan Gottschall

title: David Brin

overview: David Brin's bestselling novels, such as Earth and Kiln People, have been translated into more than 20 languages. The Postman was loosely Kevin Costnerized in 1998. A scientist and futurist, Brin speaks and consults widely about over-the-horizon social and technological trends. The Transparent Society won the nonfiction Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Association.

title: David Brin

title: Robert Winter

overview: Robert Winter, scholar, pianist, and media author, holds the Presidential Chair in Music and Interactive Arts at UCLA. His very non-linear career has encompassed Beethoven scholarship, the evolution of the piano, several public radio series, popular culture, the history of technology, seven new media projects (starting with Beethoven's 9th) hailed as milestones in multimedia publishing, and countless appearances as an advocate for the arts in a No-Child-Left-Behind world.

title: Robert Winter

title: Welcome by Roger Bingham

title: Welcome by Roger Bingham

title: Sam Harris

overview: Sam Harris has authored the New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason, which won the 2005 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction, and Letter to a Christian Nation. His essays have appeared in Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times, The Times of London, The Boston Globe and elsewhere. He is currently researching the neural basis of religious belief while completing a doctorate in neuroscience.

title: Sam Harris

title: Daniel Smail

overview: Daniel Lord Smail has an abiding passion: to bring time depth back into the ways in which we teach and research history in this country. He is a history professor at Harvard University. In his book, On Deep History and the Brain, he joins other historians who seek to transcend the legacy of Judeo-Christian sacred chronology. When not otherwise pursuing a history that begins in Africa, he is a European historian who works on law and justice in late medieval Mediterranean cities.

title: Daniel Smail

title: Jeff Hawkins

overview: Jeff Hawkins is the founder of two computer companies, Palm and Handspring, and the designer of many computing products including the PalmPilot and Treo Smartphone. He also founded and ran the nonprofit Redwood Neuroscience Institute (now part of UC Berkeley) and founded the for-profit Numenta, which is developing a new technology, Hierarchical Temporal Memory, based on neocortical memory architecture. Hawkins has a BSEE from Cornell University. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineers in 2003.

title: Jeff Hawkins

title: PZ Myers (overview from audience)

overview: PZ Myers is a developmental biologist at the University of Minnesota, Morris who focuses on the interplay of developmental and evolutionary processes. He is a columnist for Seed magazine and maintains a somewhat popular weblog, "Pharyngula", which takes a ruthlessly godless view of biology, evolution and the culture wars.

title: PZ Myers (overview from audience)

title: Season 2007

Season 2008

title: Roger Bingham

overview: Roger Bingham is Co-founder and Director of The Science Network. He is also a member of the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory at the Salk Institute of Biological Studies and the Institute for Neural Computation at UC San Diego. He is the co-author of The Origin of Minds: Evolution, Uniqueness, and the New Science of the Self, and the creator and host of Emmy award-winning PBS science programs on evolutionary psychology and cognitive neuroscience, including the critically acclaimed series The Human Quest.

title: Roger Bingham

title: Anthony Grayling

overview: Anthony Grayling is Professor of Philosophy at Birbeck College, University of London, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He has written and edited many books on philosophy and other subjects; among his most recent are a biography of William Hazlitt and a collection of essays. For several years he wrote the "Last Word" column for the Guardian and is a regular reviewer for the Times Literary Review and the Financial Times.

title: Anthony Grayling

title: Sonja Lyubormirsky

overview: Sonja Lyubomirsky is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside. Her honors include a Faculty of the Year Award, Faculty Mentor of the Year Award, a Templeton Positive Psychology Prize, and a million-dollar grant from NIMH to conduct research on the possibility of permanently increasing happiness. Her book, The How of Happiness, was released in January 2008 by Penguin Press and translated into 15 languages.

title: Sonja Lyubormirsky

title: Owen Flanagan

overview: Owen Flanagan is James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. He also holds appointments in Psychology and Neurobiology and is a Faculty Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience. In 1998, he was recipient of the Romanell National Phi Beta Kappa award, given annually to one American philosopher for distinguished contributions to philosophy and the public understanding of philosophy. He has written several books; the most recent is The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World.

title: Owen Flanagan

title: Guven Guzeldere

overview: Güven Güzeldere is Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and of Neurobiology at Duke University. He has published articles on philosophy of mind, history and philosophy of psychology, and artificial intelligence. He is a founder of Stanford Electronic Humanities Review, a founding associate editor of Psyche: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Consciousness, and a founding member of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness.

title: Guven Guzeldere

title: George Koob

overview: George F. Koob is a Professor and Chair of the Committee on the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders at The Scripps Research Institute and Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, and Adjunct Professor in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at UC San Diego. Dr. Koob's research interests are directed at the neurobiology of drug addiction, with a focus on the theoretical constructs of reward and stress.

title: George Koob

title: Panel - Human Flourishing

overview:
With Sonja Lyubomirsky, Owen Flanagan, Güven Güzeldere, Anthony Grayling, and George Koob

Moderated by Roger Bingham

title: Panel - Human Flourishing

title: Roger Bingham

title: Roger Bingham

title: Naomi Oreskes

overview: Naomi Oreskes is Provost of Sixth College, Professor of History and Science Studies and Adjunct Professor of Geosciences at UC San Diego and one of the nation's leading experts on the history of the earth and environmental science. Her work came to public attention in 2004 with the publication of "The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change" in Science and was featured in Vice President Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth. Her forthcoming book is FIGHTING FACTS: How a Handful of Scientists Have Muddied the Waters on Environmental Issues From Tobacco to Global Warming.

title: Naomi Oreskes

title: Chris Mooney & Sheril Kirshenbaum

overview:
Sheril Kirshenbaum is co-author of Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future with Chris Mooney describing the growing disconnect between science and society. She has worked in the Senate on energy, climate, and ocean policy and helped found ScienceDebate2008. A former pop radio disc jockey and musician, Sheril is now a science writer and Seed blogger based at Duke University.

Chris Mooney is a contributing editor to Science Progress, senior correspondent for The American Prospect magazine and author of two books - the New York Times bestselling The Republican War on Science and Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming. He also writes “The Intersection” blog with Sheril Kirshenbaum.

title: Chris Mooney & Sheril Kirshenbaum

title: Tony Haymet

overview: Tony Haymet is the tenth director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. Haymet also serves as UC San Diego's Vice Chancellor for Marine Sciences and Dean of the Graduate School of Marine Sciences, and is a Professor of Oceanography at Scripps and Chemistry at UC San Diego. Tony is a founder and currently Vice-Chair of CleanTech San Diego, a business development organization dedicated to the practical response to climate change issues.

title: Tony Haymet

title: This Is Your Brain on Politics

overview: With Chris Mooney, Sheril Kirshenbaum, and Tony Haymet. Moderated by Roger Bingham

title: This Is Your Brain on Politics

title: Roger Bingham

title: Roger Bingham

title: Peter Turchin

overview: Peter Turchin is Professor of Ecology and Mathematics at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of more than 100 articles including ten in Nature and Science. He has written five books, the latest of which is War and Peace and War: The Life Cycles of Imperial Nations, Pi Press. Much of his work concerns a new field known as cliodynamics, which attempts to discover general principles that explain the functioning and dynamics of historical societies.

title: Peter Turchin

title: Sally Saytel

overview: Sally Satel is a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and staff psychiatrist at the Oasis Clinic in Washington, D.C. She has published articles on cultural aspects of medicine and science in The New York Times, New Republic, Commentary, Atlantic Monthly, New York Times Magazine, and Wall Street Journal. Dr. Satel is the author of PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine; Drug Treatment: The Case for Coercion; and coauthor of One Nation Under Therapy.

title: Sally Saytel

title: V.S. Ramachandran

overview: V.S. Ramachandran is Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition and Professor with the Psychology Department and the Neurosciences Program at UC San Diego. A former BBC Reith Lecturer, he co-authored Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind, with Sandra Blakeslee, and is the author of A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness and a forthcoming book on human uniqueness.

title: V.S. Ramachandran

title: Panel - Human Flourishing Continued

overview: With Peter Turchin, Sally Satel, and V.S. Ramachandran. Moderated by Roger Bingham

title: Panel - Human Flourishing Continued

title: Roger Bingham

title: Roger Bingham

title: Jonathan Haidt

overview: Jonathan Haidt is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia. He studies the emotional and intuitive foundations of morality. His current work is based on the idea that morality is a team sport and that political liberals don't understand the game the other side is playing. He is the author of The Happiness Hypothesis and is currently writing The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion.

title: Jonathan Haidt

title: Sam Harris: Can We Ever Be Right About Right and Wrong?

overview: Sam Harris is the author of The New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason which won the 2005 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction, and Letter to a Christian Nation. His writing has appeared in Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, The Times (London), The Boston Globe, The Annals of Neurology, and elsewhere. He is currently researching the neural basis of religious belief while completing a doctorate in neuroscience. He is also a Co-Founder and Chairman of The Reason Project.

title: Jonathan Glover

overview: Jonathan Glover is Professor at the Centre of Medical Law & Ethics at King's College London, as well as a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. His books include Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century, What Sort of People Should There Be? and Causing Death and Saving Lives, the first philosophical study of the then futuristic issues of genetic engineering and of neuroethics. He is currently interested in a number of issues in global ethics and ethical issues in psychiatry.

title: Jonathan Glover

title: Marco Iacoboni

overview: Marco Iacoboni is Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Director of the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Lab at the Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center. He is also a member of the Brain Research Institute and of the UCLA Center for Culture, Brain, and Development. Iacoboni studies the neural mechanisms of imitation and social cognition in humans, and he is author of the recent book on mirror neurons entitled Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect with Others.

title: Marco Iacoboni

title: Patricia Churchland

overview: Patricia Smith Churchland, UC President's Professor of Philosophy, UC San Diego, focuses on neuroethics and attempts to understand choice, responsibility and the basis of moral norms in terms of brain function, evolution and brain-culture interactions. Her books include Brain-Wise, Neurophilosophy: Towrds a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain and On the Contrary, with Paul M. Churchland.

title: Patricia Churchland

title: This Is Your Brain on Morality

overview: With Jonathan Haidt, Sam Harris, Jonathan Glover, Marco Iacoboni, and Patricia Churchland. Moderated by Roger Bingham

title: This Is Your Brain on Morality

title: Roger Bingham

title: Roger Bingham

title: Brian Knutson

overview: Brian Knutson is Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Stanford University. His laboratory uses multiple methods (e.g., psychometrics, psychophysiology, brain imaging, and pharmacology) to investigate neural mechanisms that support emotional experience, and explores implications for clinical disorders of affect and addiction, as well as for economic decision-making. He has received Young Investigator Awards from the American Psychiatric Association, the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, and the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research.

title: Brian Knutson

title: Paul Zak

overview: Paul J. Zak is the founding Director of the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies and Professor of Economics at Claremont Graduate University. Zak also serves as Professor of Neurology at Loma Linda University Medical Center, and is a Senior Researcher at UCLA. Zak is credited with the first published use of the term “neuroeconomics” and has been a vanguard in this new discipline. He organized and administers the first doctoral program in neuroeconomics in the world.

title: Paul Zak

title: Terry Sejnowski

overview: Terrence Sejnowski is an HHMI investigator, the Francis Crick Professor and Director of the Crick-Jacobs Center for Theoretical and Computational Biology at the Salk Institute. He is author of several books including The Computational Brain and Liars, Lovers, and Heroes: What the New Brain Science Reveals About How We Become Who We Are.

title: Terry Sejnowski

title: Philip Zimbardo

overview: Philip Zimbardo is Professor Emeritus at Stanford University and is internationally recognized as a leading "voice and face of contemporary psychology" through his widely seen PBS-TV series, Discovering Psychology, his media appearances, best-selling trade books on shyness, and his classic research, The Stanford Prison Experiment. He is the author of over 300 professional publications and 50 books including the oldest current textbook in psychology, Psychology and Life, and The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil.

title: Philip Zimbardo

title: This Is Your Brain on Money

overview: With Brian Knutson, Paul Zak, Terry Sejnowski, and Philip Zimbardo. Moderated by Roger Bingham

title: This Is Your Brain on Money

title: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

overview: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong is Professor of Philosophy and the Hardy Professor of Legal Studies at Dartmouth College, as well as the Co-director of the MacArthur Law and Neuroscience Project. His research interests include ethics, philosophy of law, epistemology, and informal logic. Currently he is working on moral psychology and brain science, and the uses and implications of neuroscience for legal systems. He has recently edited three volumes on the evolution, cognitive science and neuroscience of morality.

title: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

title: Amanda Pustilnik

overview: Amanda Pustilnik conducts research and teaches in the area of law and neuroscience at Harvard Law School. She is a graduate of Yale Law School, practiced litigation at Sullivan & Cromwell and Covington & Burling, and has served as a visiting scholar at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in History of Science. She is also counsel to the Board of Network 20/20, a foreign policy not-for-profit organization.

title: Amanda Pustilnik

title: Nita Farahany

overview: Nita Farahany researches and writes about the intersection of criminal law, genetics, neuroscience and philosophy. She does so with an interdisciplinary background in Genetics from Dartmouth College, a master's degree concentrating in biology, from Harvard University, and a J.D., M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy of biology and philosophy of law from Duke University. She is the editor of forthcoming volume Genes and Justice: The Impact of Behavioral Genetics and Neuroscience on Criminal Law.

title: Nita Farahany

title: Adam Kolber

overview: Adam Kolber is a law professor at the University of San Diego who recently completed a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellowship at Princeton University's Center for Human Values. He writes about legal and ethical implications of emerging neurotechnologies. Most recently, he has written about methods of measuring pain and punishment. He runs the "Neuroethics & Law Blog" and is an associate editor of the journal Neuroethics.

title: Adam Kolber

title: Erin O'Hara

overview: Erin O'Hara is Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, and Director of the Law and Human Behavior Program at Vanderbilt University Law School. One of Erin’s primary research interests involves conciliation: the effort to integrate theoretical and empirical insights from multiple academic fields, including economics, positive political theory, cognitive psychology, behavioral biology, and neuroscience, to more effectively formulate legal policies that regulate human behavior.

title: Erin O'Hara

title: This Is Your Brain on Law

overview: With Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Erin O'Hara, Amanda Pustilnik, Adam Kolber, and Nita Farahany. Moderated by Roger Bingham

title: This Is Your Brain on Law

title: Lawrence Krauss

overview: Lawrence M. Krauss is Foundation Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and the Physics Department, Co-Director of the Cosmology Initiative and Inaugural Director of the Origins Initiative at Arizona State University. He is an internationally known theoretical physicist with wide research interests, including the interface between elementary particle physics and cosmology, where his studies include the early universe, the nature of dark matter, general relativity and neutrino astrophysics.

title: Lawrence Krauss

title: Beatrice Golomb

overview: Beatrice Golomb is Associate Professor of Medicine at UC San Diego, best known for her work on Gulf War Illness (she has testified before Congress, her RAND reports have changed US policy, and she served as Scientific Director and Chief Scientist for the Department of Veterans Affairs Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans Illnesses). She also heads the UC San Diego Statin Study group. Her work has engendered broad media interest, from The New York Times to Jon Stewart's The Daily Show.

title: Beatrice Golomb

title: Sir Harold Kroto

overview: Sir Harold Kroto is Francis Eppes Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Florida State University. In 1996, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of C60 Buckminsterfullerene. In 1995, he inaugurated the Vega Science Trust, and in 2007, he started the Global Education Outreach in Science, Engineering and Technology (GEOSET) at FSU. He has received many scientific awards including the Royal Society's prestigious Michael Faraday Award. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2007.

title: Sir Harold Kroto

title: Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum

overview: Sheril Kirshenbaum is co-author of Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future with Chris Mooney describing the growing disconnect between science and society. She has worked in the Senate on energy, climate, and ocean policy and helped found ScienceDebate2008. A former pop radio disc jockey and musician, Sheril is now a science writer and Seed blogger based at Duke University. Chris Mooney is a contributing editor to Science Progress, senior correspondent for The American Prospect magazine and author of two books - The New York Times bestselling The Republican War on Science and Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming. He also writes “The Intersection” blog with Sheril Kirshenbaum.

title: Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum

title: Leon Lederman

overview: Leon Lederman is Director Emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois and Professor of Science at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. He founded the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in Aurora, Illinois in 1986, and has served in the capacity of Resident Scholar since 1998. He has also served as President and Chairman of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and has received numerous awards including the Nobel Prize in Physics (1988).

title: Leon Lederman

title: Michael Shermer

overview: Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, the host of the Skeptics Distinguished Science Lecture Series at Caltech and Adjunct Professor of Economics at Claremont Graduate University. His most recent book on evolutionary economics is The Mind of the Market. He is also the author of Why Darwin Matters: Evolution and the Case Against Intelligent Design and How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God.

title: Michael Shermer

title: This Is Your Brain on Politics Continued

overview: With Lawrence Krauss, Leon Lederman, Chris Mooney, Sheril Kirshenbaum, Michael Shermer, Beatrice Golomb, and Harold Kroto. Moderated by Roger Bingham

title: Peter Atkins

overview: Peter Atkins was Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford from 1965 until his retirement in 2007. He is the author of over 60 books including Four Laws That Drive the Universe; Galileo's Fingers: The Ten Great Ideas of Science; and the world-renowned textbook Physical Chemistry. He is involved in a variety of international activities including chairing the Committee on Chemistry Education of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and organizing the Malta series of conferences.

title: Peter Atkins

title: Season 2008

overview: Beyond Belief: Science, Religion, Reason and Survival was the first gathering of The Science Network's annual Beyond Belief symposia, held from November 5–7, 2006, at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California.

title: Beyond Belief

original_title: Beyond Belief


title: Big Family

status: ReturningSeries

Season 1

title: Season 1

Season 2

title: Season 2

title: Big Family

original_title: Big Family

original_language: en


title: Big Ideas That Changed The World

status: Ended

Season 1

title: Communism

overview: Mikhail Gorbachev looks at the history of Communism and how it started in Russia and spread worldwide. Looks at its history in Russia, and Gorbachev's disillusionment with the system and desire to reform and improve it. He discusses the policies of "glasnost" and "perestoika" that he introduced, the fall of the Berlin wall, his own position and his hopes for the future.

title: Communism

title: Christianity

overview: Archbishop Desmond Tutu talks about the origins, precepts and history of Christianity and what his faith means to him.

title: Christianity

title: Democracy

overview: Tony Benn looks at how the concept of democracy developed and spread across the world over the centuries from its beginnings in Ancient Greece. Particularly considers the impact of extending the vote to more people in 19th century Britain and the state of democracy in 20th century Britain.

title: Democracy

title: Feminism

overview: Germaine Greer looks at the historical treatment of and attitudes towards women, some of the women who developed the idea of feminism and how it became a powerful movement, particularly in the twentieth century.

title: Feminism

title: Environmentalism

overview: Danish author Bjorn Lomberg looks at the origins and history of environmentalism from the late eighteenth century to date. Looks at the increase in pollution of the planet in the twentieth century and the harmful effects and consequences on both nature and man. Considers nuclear issues, the rise of Green politics, and also suggestions which differ from most...

title: Environmentalism

title: Capitalism

overview: Joseph Stiglitz discusses the history of capitalism, from the ideas of Adam Smith in the eighteenth century to the current day. Considers the effects of industrialization, the Depression, nationalization and the welfare state, the Cold War, free-market theories and globalization.

title: Capitalism

title: Season 1

title: Egalitarianism

overview: Reverend Jesse Jackson looks at the history of black people and the struggle for equality from the days of slavery to date, his work with Dr Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement and his continued dream of an egalitarian society.

title: Egalitarianism

title: Islam

overview: Former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, examines the history of Islam, from its origins in the 7th Century to the present day. Considers the impact of the Crusades on a religion that preached tolerance and peace, and the rise of the Hashshashin Islamic group at the time, which justified murder and martyrdom agains the Crusaders. Also at how ever since there has been tension between traditional liberal Islam, and the more militant extreme forms.

title: Islam

title: Consumerism

overview: Chair of the Sustainable Development Commission, Jonothan Porritt looks at the history of consumerism, and its destructive side which is now threatening the planet.

title: Consumerism

title: Nationalism

overview: David Blunkett MP looks at the history of nationalism and British national identity, and at how traditional distrust of the concept may have impacted on racism and insecurity and that it could be utilized to be beneficial to society.

title: Nationalism

title: Terrorism

overview: Terry Waite looks at the history of terrorism from the French Revolution to date and considers the effectiveness of violence and how negotiating with terrorists can sometimes have positive outcomes.

title: Terrorism

title: Season 2

title: Big Ideas That Changed The World

original_title: Big Ideas That Changed The World


title: Big Wing

type: Backdrop

type: Poster

title: Episode 1

job: Director

department: Directing

type: Crew

title: Episode 2

title: Episode 3

title: Episode 4

title: Episode 5

title: Episode 6

title: Episode 7

title: Episode 8

title: Episode 9

title: Episode 10

title: Season 1

overview: Kumiko Yoshikawa joins the Big Wing company at Tokyo International Airport. It's her first day and she is full of enthusiasm, but that leads her into trouble.

title: Big Wing

title: 未来空港

overview: 每天有15万人会使用新东京国际机场“BIGWING”，那里有个名为旅游服务中心的服务台，从早晨到深夜，随时为旅客解决旅行、办公、购物用餐的需要。这个地方必须要处理堆积如山的突发事件，从机场设施的设备解说、接驳铁路的票务工作、乃至于预约饭店、协助急病旅客等等。而这机场的门面配属了一位有合适的笑容，而且非常有精神的体贴温柔新人——吉川久美子。虽然她经常因为多管闲事或犯错而被前辈们责骂，但是充满干劲的她，为了服务来到这里的旅客，依旧每天非常努力的工作。

title: 未來空港

overview: 每天有 15 萬人會使用新東京國際機場“BIGWING”，那裏有個名為旅遊服務中心的服務台，從早晨到深夜，隨時為旅客解決旅行、辦公、購物用餐的需要。這個地方必須要處理堆積如山的突發事件，從機場設施的設備解説、接駁鐵路的票務工作、乃至於預約飯店、協助急病旅客等等。而這機場的門面配屬了一位有合適的笑容，而且非常有精神的體貼温柔新人——吉川久美子。雖然她經常因為多管閒事或犯錯而被前輩們責罵，但是充滿幹勁的她，為了服務來到這裏的旅客，依舊每天非常努力的工作。

character: Takeshi Kuriyama

type: Cast

job: Producer

department: Production

job: Editor

department: Editing

job: Assistant Director

original_title: ビッグウイング


title: Beautiful Cooking 2

title: Beautiful Cooking 2

original_title: Beautiful Cooking 2


title: BET The Next

title: BET The Next

original_title: BET The Next


title: BET Tonight

title: BET Tonight

original_title: BET Tonight


title: Mafia Princess

title: Mafia Princess

original_title: Mafia Princess


title: BET Walk of Fame

title: Aretha Franklin

title: Aretha Franklin

title: Smokey Robinson

title: Smokey Robinson

title: Patti LaBelle

title: Patti LaBelle

title: Luther Vandross

title: Luther Vandross

title: Stevie Wonder

title: Stevie Wonder

title: Diana Ross

title: Diana Ross

title: Whitney Houston

title: Whitney Houston

title: Kenneth Babyface Edmonds

title: Kenneth Babyface Edmonds

title: Boyz II Men

title: Boyz II Men

title: Michael Jackson

title: Michael Jackson

title: Season 1

title: BET Walk of Fame

original_title: BET Walk of Fame


title: Bill Bryson Notes from a Small Island

title: Episode 1

type: Still

overview: In the first episode in his affectionate survey of Britain, Bill hails a London cab driven by Stephen Fry before traveling to Liverpool to take a ferry across the Mersey and discuss Scouse humor with Alexei Sayle. Along the way his attention is caught by a proliferation of blue plaques, a forgotten tale of failed revolution, and a little-known subterranean kingdom.

title: Episode 1

title: Episode 2

overview: Bill salutes a uniquely British genius - the ability to fill any idle moment with a diversion, hobby or obsession. He meets the horn dancers of Abbots Bromley, caber tossers in Glenfinnan, ballroom dancers in Blackpool and a fell runner in the Lake District. Then, in a Bournemouth beach hut on a wet afternoon, he puts it all into perspective in conversation with Victoria Wood.

title: Episode 2

title: Episode 3

overview: Bill continues his journey with a search for the country's soul. Is it to be found in the capital, on a seaside pier, out in the country side, or on a mountain peak? Or must he leave the mainland to understand what is special about being British?

title: Episode 3

title: Episode 4

overview: The Japanese recognize the British genius for invention; they've calculated that sixty per cent of "the things we take for granted" came out of a British mind. Join Bill as he tries to understand what makes the inhabitants of this small island so good at innovation.

title: Episode 4

title: Episode 5

overview: "I'm not into dukes and earls - outside of jazz music", states Bill, who examines two very different views of the way in which heritage forms the backbone of Britain. From Blenheim Palace to a Glaswegian pub and on to a socialite who spends more on her clothes than a colliery band spends on their brass instruments, Bill observes Britain's heritage, north and south.

title: Episode 5

title: Episode 6

overview: In this final program, Bill returns to the spot in Britain that means the most to him, and travels from a south-coast geology lesson with adventurer Redmond O'Hanlon to the north most tip of mainland Britain - somewhere more remote and more beautiful than even John O'Groats.

title: Episode 6

title: Season 1

overview: Following his enormously successful book "Notes From a Small Island", American travel writer Bill Bryson sets off on a new tour of Britain. Starting at Dover, where he recalls his first disembarkation in 1973 to a land of rain, sweet tea and disagreeable land-ladies, his travels take him from Poole in the South to the Western Isles of Scotland. Along the way he encounters such colourful characters as the pipe smokers of Solihull, ballroom dancers in Blackpool and the caber tossers of Glenfinnan. Bryson brings all his perspective eye, dry wit and outbursts of comic exasperation to this affectionate survey of the British way of life.

title: Bill Bryson Notes from a Small Island

character: Self - Presenter

job: Writer

department: Writing

original_title: Bill Bryson Notes from a Small Island


title: Bill Moyers: The Wisdom of Faith with Huston Smith

title: Hinduism and Buddhism

overview: From the psychological insights of Buddhism to Hinduism’s guidance on religious living, Smith and Moyers discuss what defines Eastern religions, their enduring popularity in America, and how a single flash of insight inspired Smith to develop his synthesized view of faith.

title: Hinduism and Buddhism

title: Confucianism

overview: Decades before cities were dotted with yoga studios, a young Huston Smith appeared on black-and-white TV, shed his shoes, and introduced the lotus position to the American public. A yoga practitioner for over 60 years, Smith explains how the mental, physical, and spiritual sides of human life find a home in Confucianism and Taoism.

title: Confucianism

title: Christianity and Judaism

overview: While Smith’s exploration of world religions delivered him to the farthest reaches of the globe, he did not neglect spirituality close to home. Sharing personal stories of his own family’s blend of faiths, Smith discusses the meaning of prayer and speaks of the challenges in achieving spirituality today.

title: Christianity and Judaism

title: Islam

overview: Now more than ever, an understanding of Islam outside the newspaper headlines is crucial. Smith and Moyers examine the heart of Islam, one of the fastest-growing religions in the world, and Smith explains how the ancient religion dovetails with his own faith.

title: Islam

title: A Personal Philosophy

overview: Modern America teems with spiritual seekers trying to incorporate a moral, inspired path into their everyday lives. Smith shares his hope that people will recognize the vitality in all spiritual traditions, using his own remarkable explorations as an example of how all religions can, in essence, be practiced as one.

title: A Personal Philosophy

title: Season 1


title: Billy & Albert

title: The Show

title: The Show

title: Season 1

title: Billy & Albert

original_title: Billy & Albert


title: Billy Graham

title: 3/4/02

title: 3/4/02

title: 12/7/03

title: 12/7/03

title: L.A. Telecast II

title: L.A. Telecast II

title: Season 1

title: Billy Graham

original_title: Billy Graham


title: Bingoland

title: Season 1

title: Bingoland

original_title: Bingoland


title: Birth of Britain with Tony Robinson

BIRTH OF BRITAIN TEASE

site: Vimeo

type: Teaser

name: Brand new series Birth of Britain with Tony Robinson on Nat Geo UK

site: YouTube

Series 1

title: Hidden Volcanoes

overview: Britain has a volcanic past to rival any of the world's current hotspots, and the clues to this explosive prehistory lie beneath some of our most iconic landscapes. Starting out in Edinburgh, Tony treks, sails and flies around the British Isles in search of this fiery legacy to find the forgotten volcanoes that have not only shaped our land, but also forged our history.

title: Hidden Volcanoes

title: Ice Age

overview: Over the last two-and-a-half million years, Britain has experienced numerous deep freezes that left the land uninhabitable and locked under ice sheets over a mile thick. Tracing the movement of the frozen wastes, Tony visits some of the country's most scenic spots - including the Scottish Highlands and the Lake District - to explore its chilly past. Ending up in London, Tony unearths the bones of monkeys, rhinos and lions that once lived on the banks of the Thames.

title: Ice Age

title: Gold Rush

overview: Gold has been cherished since the dawn of human history and while these islands might be more readily associated with coal or tin, there is a surprising amount of bling lurking in Britain's rocks. Heading to Wales, Tony investigates an ancient Roman mine before visiting Britain's only working gold mine in Northern Ireland. Finally, our host traces the incredible geological forces that created this valuable commodity and pans for gold in Scotland.

title: Gold Rush

title: Series 1

overview: Join Tony Robinson as he ventures into the country's extraordinary and fiery past, revealing how our islands were forged from molten rock, volcanic explosions, ice and seismic upheaval.

title: Birth of Britain with Tony Robinson

title: Birth of Britain with Tony Robinson

overview: Sluit je aan bij Tony Robinson terwijl hij zich in het buitengewone en vurige verleden van het land waagt en onthult hoe onze eilanden zijn gesmeed uit gesmolten gesteente, vulkanische explosies, ijs en seismische onrust.

original_title: Birth of Britain with Tony Robinson


title: My Funniest Year

Specials

title: Rufus Hound: 2000

overview: Rufus Hound asks viewers to cast their minds back to a more innocent time, albeit one that's a mere ten years ago. In 2000, Keith Chegwin hosting a naked gameshow set in a jungle was considered family viewing, and some of us were still worried that our video recorders were going to be eaten alive by the Millennium Bug.

title: Rufus Hound: 2000

title: Season 0

Season 1

title: Jack Whitehall: 2005

overview: Jack chooses 2005 because for him it was a momentous year - the year he turned 17, left school, and lost his virginity in Antony Worrall Thompson's gastro pub. There was also Live 8, the hunting ban, the introduction of 24 hour drinking and the launch of YouTube. My Funniest Year is a comic journey rich in belly laughs from beginning to end as Jack gives his unique take on the events that shaped the year and his own life Jack also takes a pop at noteworthy TV shows of the year, including the launch of Come Dine With Me, and delves into the public reaction to the celebrity weddings of Prince Charles and Camilla, Peter Andre and Jordan, and Ken and Deirdre in Coronation Street.

title: Jack Whitehall: 2005

title: Al Murray: 1997

overview: Comic pub landlord Al Murray takes to the stage at the Hackney Empire to escort his audience through his Funniest Year, 1997. Clad in his characteristic blazer, shirt and tie, Al strides onto the stage clutching a pint of beer as he tells the raucous crowd why he's personally chosen 1997 as a trademark year. It was the year that his now ex-wife ran off with a Frenchman, the Spice Girls became the biggest pop phenomenon since the Beatles, and Tinky Winky from the Teletubbies was 'outed' as gay. Al's comedy extravaganza explores other unforgettable popular culture moments from the year - the detailed examination of Bill Clinton's manhood, the launch of Channel Five, and the popularity of alcopops.

title: Al Murray: 1997

title: Chris Addison: 2001

overview: Chris Addison takes a comic trip to 2001, a year where bumbling Bush became President, Major Ingram coughed his way to win a million pounds and Pop Idol introduced us to two villains - Simon Cowell and Darius.

title: Chris Addison: 2001

title: Season 1

overview: My Funniest Year is a British television stand-up comedy series broadcast on Channel 4. In each episode a comedian talks about the events of one particular year during his life.

title: My Funniest Year

original_title: My Funniest Year


title: Leonard Maltin's Secret's Out

title: Leonard Maltin's Secret's Out

original_title: Leonard Maltin's Secret's Out


title: Canadian Made

title: Clothing Revolutions

overview: Canadians are not widely regarded as fashionable, but we can proudly wear the label of fashionistas - because the clothing items we've devised were not merely stylistic flourishes but true revolutions that forever changed the way people dress. This episode looks at three very different upheavals in attire: the Wonderbra, the lumberjack shirt and the gas mask

title: Clothing Revolutions

title: Time Shifting

overview: Time may be unstoppable but its not as immutable as one might suppose. Here we tell the story of three brilliant inventions that transformed our use and perception of time. Standard time put the whole world on one clock. Key frame animation took Muybridge to the next logical step. And the Instant Replay reduced the squabbles that come up, from time to time, between players, fans and refs.

title: Time Shifting

title: Space Exploration

overview: Canadian contributions to space exploration including the Canadarm, Dexter and Laydar.

title: Space Exploration

title: Foresting

overview: 'Hewers of wood and drawers of water' is how Canadians were traditionally (and pejoratively) dismissed, abroad and (shockingly) at home too. If Canadian Made proves anything, it's that this old image is a load of beaver dung. This episode tells the stories of three inventions that utterly change our view of trees: the totem pole, newsprint and the water bomber.

title: Foresting

title: Cultural Revolutions

overview: Canada: home of the superhero, fighting for truth, justice and the Canadian way! Wait a minute... What do superheroes have to do with Canada? This episode looks at three very different Canadian inventions that had world-wide influence: Superman, electronic music (electronic sackbut) and Trivial pursuit.

title: Cultural Revolutions

title: Working Watercraft

title: Working Watercraft

title: Game Gear

overview: Our official summer and winter sports are really variations on the same theme: brutally bulldozing through your opponents to hammer a hard thing past a poor fellow stuck in a net. But the main pieces of equipment behind the action have long and fascinating histories that come out of First Nations traditions.

title: Game Gear

title: Sweet Treats

overview: The traditional Canadian diet tends to be basic meat and potatoes. And perhaps it's proof that people must have delights in their lives, that most of the foods Canadians can claim to have invented are all about putting a little unnecessary sweetness into the daily routine. "Sweet Treats" is about the yummy stuff we've discovered: maple syrup, ginger ale and chocolate bars.

title: Sweet Treats

title: Brilliant Amenities

overview: This episode is all about how Canadians have translated our cheerful ability to attend to the little things in life into some brilliant amenities that have made a world of difference for people living in this country: screws that can be used with one hand, bags that harness stinking garbage and bins that keep out the hungry intruders.

title: Brilliant Amenities

title: Experimental Vehicles

overview: As long as Canadians have had garages and basements, there have been guys holed up in them tinkering with weird vehicular contraptions and dreaming big. Some turn out to be noisy boondoggles and some to be brilliant breakthroughs. This show features a jetpack powered by water, a helicopter you can build in your shed and an electric unicycle that converts into a motorcycle for high speed getaways.

title: Experimental Vehicles

title: Imperviousness

overview: Survival, as Margaret Atwood said, is our middle name. We have always had to get by in a landscape and climate which are blithely capable of killing us. This episode is about the technologies we have invented to help us scoff at the elements: a house built from the softest powder snow, a coat fashioned from good ole fur and a suit that cannot be crushed by even the weight of the deep blue sea.

title: Imperviousness

title: Revolutionary Perspectives

overview: "Revolutionary Perspectives" reports on this wonderful trait through the stories of three visionary inventions: the microscope that reveals the building blocks of life; a form of surgery that allows doctors to operate on patients many kilometers away and an observatory that provides a window on the infinite mysteries of marine biology.

title: Revolutionary Perspectives

title: Snow Crossings

overview: Canadian innovations for getting around in the snow.

title: Snow Crossings

title: Medical Breakthroughs

overview: Just as we seem to be congenital peacemakers, so too are Canadians a nation of healers. In this episode we look at the remarkable Canadian stories behind the invention that keeps arrhythmic hearts ticking, the rebirth of a forgotten language that allows the mute to speak and the discovery of the basic building block of complex life forms - which promises to give medicine truly staggering powers.

title: Medical Breakthroughs

overview: Did you know that the Wonderbra is a Canadian invention? How about the gas mask? Standard time? The instant replay? Computer animation? How about electronic music? Or that famous "American" Superman? Canadian Made is a series about Canada's tradition of invention, innovation and discovery - astonishing in its range and genius, yet unheralded at home and abroad.

title: Canadian Made

original_title: Canadian Made


title: The Phoenix Team

title: Old Times' Sake - The Secret War

overview: A former Canadian agent (David) relegated to the Filing and Records Department accidentally meets a former British agent (Val) with whom he frequently collaborated in the "old days". He is approached by a defecting Soviet agent with secrets to sell and asks Val's assistance in verifying the story. Brian Linehan, making his television acting debut, is Graydon, David's tough chief who has little use or respect for David and his generation of agents, preferring to use the highly computerized technology at his disposal.

title: Old Times' Sake - The Secret War

title: Like Father, Like Son - Stening's Legacy

overview: When their old friend and colleague is killed, Brook and Val try to track down his killer. Their relationship is threatened because the son, also an agent, falls in love with Valerie, who is attracted to him as well.

title: Sanctuary - Fine Line

overview: Val is working undercover to try and determine who is stealing scientific secrets from a famous scientist. When Val shoots the scientist's brother, who is only using him, she is removed from the case. Disobeying orders, she continues to work to clear her name. The scientist has a formula which has very positive medical uses but can also be made into an offensive weapon.

title: Sanctuary - Fine Line

title: Saving Grace - The Last Gambit

overview: This episode concerns a young black communications officer in Brook's office who believes that he will never attain his dream of becoming a field operative, because of racial prejudice against him. Brook and Val are with Jerome and his wife Grace when they take part in a demonstration against racial injustice. A counter demonstration breaks out in which Grace is critically injured. Brook and Val, in investigating an organization called the Canadian Patriot Society, discover that members of the Ku Klux Klan are in Canada stirring up fear and dissent.

title: Saving Grace - The Last Gambit

title: Close Shave - Barbershop Quartet

overview: When his barber abruptly vanishes during his haircut, Brook starts investigating. Along with Val, they expose a complex scheme by Arabs to gain control of a major department store chain.

title: Close Shave - Barbershop Quartet

title: The Judas Game

overview: After his girlfriend, a British agent, is killed in Hungary, a veteran agent disappears for three months. When he surfaces, he asks Brook for help, thinking that the Canadian authorities are pursuing him. When Brook tries to bring him into Canada safely, the agent is killed. Val is on the case as well, and Brook believes that she may be behind the whole affair.

title: The Judas Game

overview: Season 1 depicts the start of a relationship between two former operatives and lovers as they undertake a series of secret missions.

overview: The Phoenix Team was a Canadian drama series that aired on CBC Television in 1980. Starring Don Francks and Elizabeth Shepherd, the show featured eight one-hour adventure dramas centered on former spies drawn back into action by circumstance. Shepherd portrayed Valerie Koester, a British secret service agent who enlists the unofficial help of her ex-lover, David Brook, played by Francks. Once a top Canadian agent during the Cold War, Brook became disillusioned with high-tech espionage and was relegated to a desk job. Both Brook and Koester, known for their nonconformist attitudes, opposed the overly bureaucratic Graydon, played by Brian Linehan, and partnered with the sympathetic General, portrayed by Mavor Moore, head of the Canadian secret service.

title: The Phoenix Team

character: David Brook

character: Valerie Koester

character: The General

character: Graydon

character: Carvallo

character: Moffat

character: Miss Woods

character: Janev

character: Theo

job: Executive Producer

original_title: The Phoenix Team


title: The Mortified Sessions

title: The Mortified Sessions - Season 1, Episode 1

character: Self

title: Season 1

Season 2

title: The Mortified Sessions - Season 2, Episode 1

title: The Mortified Sessions - Season 2, Episode 2

title: The Mortified Sessions - Season 2, Episode 3

title: The Mortified Sessions - Season 2, Episode 4

title: The Mortified Sessions - Season 2, Episode 5

title: The Mortified Sessions - Season 2, Episode 6

title: Season 2

overview:
The Mortified Sessions is an American documentary talk show on the Sundance cable television channel, hosted by David Nadelberg. The series, which premiered in December 2011, features interviews with one or more celebrities each episode, showing photos and artifacts from their childhood.

The show serves as a companion piece to Mortified, a live stage show Nadelberg created nine years earlier in which people share excerpts of their childhood writing and art before an audience of total strangers in order to reveal a story about their life. The stage show launched a series of books and web content, has been featured numerous times on public radio's This American Life, and there are plans for a Mortified documentary.

title: The Mortified Sessions

title: The Mortified Sessions

overview: Los famosos analizan su no-tan-excelente pasado y comparten recuerdos vergonzosos.

original_title: The Mortified Sessions