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]]>Better Off Dead? – a one-hour documentary for BBC One argues that assisted suicide puts disabled lives at risk. Traveling to Canada, the film explores some of the most permissive assisted suicide laws in the world. Here we see a law that can end the lives of not just the terminally ill, but the disabled, and those who are offered a medically assisted death as a ‘way out’ of social deprivation.
★★★★★ The Guardian ★★★★ The Times ★★★★ The Independent
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]]>Europe’s Mining Renaissance is about Europe’s quest to responsibly mine the rare metals that are needed to manufacture the cleantech products for the transition to climate neutrality. By 2030 Europe needs to achieve at least 10% of domestic extraction of lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper and rare earths. Hence, Europe will need no less than a Mining Renaissance. Not the dirty coalmining of old, which fuels the global heating problem, but future-oriented, responsible mining of the metals that are needed to catalyse Europe’s climate change strategy.
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]]>Fecal Microbiota Transplant (FMT) is the act of taking stool from a healthy donor and implanting it into the gut of a sick individual. In “Designer Shit”, Director Saffron Cassaday, who has suffered from ulcerative colitis for nearly a decade, sets off on a journey to determine if this form of treatment could potentially cure her of her disease. Her investigation leads her down a path she did not expect to travel and enlightens her on the power “poo” has to affect our health, happiness and possibly even our physical appearance.
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]]>Welcome to RAT CITY. Reviled for millennia, the Brown rat is one of the most familiar creatures on the planet – but perhaps the least understood. We know more about life on Mars than how rats navigate life on Earth.
RAT CITY dives down the rathole to uncover remarkable superpowers that make Brown rats the evolutionary heroes of the animal kingdom, thriving in the urban landscape. Escape artists, problem solvers and master contortionists, they’re supremely equipped to infiltrate our world.
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]]>There are ten quintillion bugs on earth, and they all need to have sex in order for their genes to move on to another generation. BUG SEX takes us into the bizarre world of how bugs do it – everything from sperm packets to sexual cannibalism.
Enjoyment of sex encourages humans to reproduce but that’s nothing compared to other organisms like insects: the most numerous, diverse and important group of animals on the planet. But the madness of sex in bug world has a method: it’s about evolution and what we can learn from an alternate world that surrounds us every day.
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]]>In 2022 the first ever rocket to be launched into orbit from Europe is taking off.
In a world-first, a team of International scientists, test pilots and entrepreneurs are launching a rocket – from the back of a 747 Jumbo Jet. If they succeed it could pave the way for Europe to become a space superpower, providing a faster, cheaper, sustainable and local way to get its satellites to space.
Will they succeed? It’s a gamble, and they risk a multimillion euro payload.
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]]>Charles Townes changed the world by inventing the laser and discovering the black hole at the center of our galaxy, but his most republished paper was that science and religion are converging. Told through the lens of his 73-year marriage to his wife Frances viewers go on a journey through the universe with three Nobel-Prize winning physicists
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]]>PSYCHEDELIA is an hour-long documentary film about psychedelic drugs and their ability to induce mystical and religious experiences. The film chronicles their use in controlled research studies prior to the cultural upheaval of the 1960s, when LSD was regarded as a promising medical breakthrough, as well as their recent re-emergence in psychiatry.
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]]>In nature, rhythm surrounds us: the blinking light of the firefly, the loud sounds of the cicada,, even the rhythmic buzzing of a mosquito as it mates. Do humans and animals share musical traits? Does music have deeper roots than we have ever imagined? Scientists around the world are searching for evolutionary evidence of a biological basis to music.
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]]>In the documentary In Your Face neuroscientists and experts illuminate the fascinating science behind human facial recognition; while computer scientists and others reveal the promise – and the dangers – of the rapidly-changing world of facial recognition technology.
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