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Life's Really Big Questions
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There are certain questions that, universally, we agree are "big". The ones that don't have easy answers; the ones that have been theorized, researched, pursued, and chronicled...for centuries. In ...
There are certain questions that, universally, we agree are "big". The ones that don't have easy answers; the ones that have been theorized, researched, pursued, and chronicled...for centuries. In Life's Really Big Questions, a part of the PBS Scientific American Frontiers series, host Alan Alda meets with scientists tackling some of the biggest questions of the times: is there other life in the universe? Why did animals suddenly appear on Earth after only microbes had existed for billions of years? What made humans different from preceding life forms? Will robots one day surpass humans in intelligence? The program provides an in-depth look at the evolutionary questions of mankind and the experts that have dedicated their lives to finding the answers.
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- Creator
- Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
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- Scientific American frontiers (Television program)
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2011], c2000
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (60 min.) : sd., col., digital file
- digital
- data file
- OCLC
- ocn773481021
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on August 21, 2011.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- Closed-captioned.
- Sponsors: Life's Really Big Questions (0:27) -- Ice-Bound World (2:14) -- Earth Heats Up Again (1:56) -- Life in Yellowstone's Boiling Mud (2:56) -- Biological Big Bang (3:22) -- Climate Cataclysm (2:26) -- Technology and Ancient Tools (2:04) -- Human Ancestors: Bipedalism (3:38) -- Opposable Thumbs (2:05) -- Hands that Made Us Human (4:54) -- Future Planning? (1:27) -- Robot Independence (1:45) -- Computer Models and Artificial Life (2:46) -- Virtual Models in the Real World (3:25) -- Autonomous Robots (3:26) -- Are We Alone in the Universe? (2:35) -- Keck Telescope (3:19) -- Alien Civilizations? (2:29) -- I, Robot (2:33) -- How Are Humans Different from Animals? (4:12) -- Sponsors & Credits: Life's Really Big Questions (1:13)