Documentaries

Ted Talks

7-7-2012

This is like a collection of mini-documentaries. Its a bunch of videotaped presentations from all walks of the scientific community, and they have interesting things to say. Just go to www.ted.com or www.ted.com/talks

What are dreams? inside the sleeping brain

7-6-2012

Carbon Nation

7-6-2012

What do you know about renewable energy? How much damage are nonrenewable energy sources do? How much potential do clean energy sources have? What is stopping us from progressing to clean energy sources? Learn the answers, and much more.

Zeitgeist: The Movie

7-6-2012

How are people controlled and manipulated? How ignorant are we of the origins and real purposes of our most trusted institutions?

Moment of Death by National Geographic

2008

When is someone dead? When they stop breathing? When their heart stops beating? Does death just occur at one moment or is it a process?
How can hypothermia be therapeutic? When can it be therapeutic? Why would it be therapeutic?
What is the Hayflick limit?
Why giving oxygen back to deoxygenated cells trigger the death process?
How were people determined to be dead in the 1800's?
What is a beating-heart cadaver?
Should people in permanent vegetative states be treated as dead?
What happens when the body dies?
What does death feel like?
When do near-death experiences happen?
How do we explain near-death experiences? Are near-death experiences just the result of extreme stress on the brain?
How did Duncan McDougal try to prove the existence of the soul?