Showing posts with label BBC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BBC. Show all posts
10 breathtaking moments from Life Story - BBC DVD
Ten breathtaking moments from Life Story DVD - Life Story - BBC - YouTube http://bit.ly/13e8HMw
Cats purr to heal themselves with "good vibrations" - BBC video
How do cats purr and why? BBC - YouTube http://buff.ly/1goU7Fm
World's Most Extreme Fisherman (video)
BBC's Human Planet joins Sam Niang, a Laotian fisherman, as he walks a high wire strung above the raging Mekong River rapids on an extraordinary commute to work.
Related videos:
Born In The Saddle - Human Planet - BBC - YouTube http://bit.ly/1dVATag
Killing With Poisoned Arrows - Human Planet - BBC - YouTube http://bit.ly/1dVAUv3
Related videos:
Born In The Saddle - Human Planet - BBC - YouTube http://bit.ly/1dVATag
Killing With Poisoned Arrows - Human Planet - BBC - YouTube http://bit.ly/1dVAUv3
BBC podcasts: selected programs
Here is the main page with all BBC podcasts. You can find a podcast by radio station or genre: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcastsHere are some selected programs:
The extensive audio archive of the weekly BBC program "In Our Time" is nicely categorized by topic:
BBC - Podcasts - In Our Time Archive: Science - http://goo.gl/yCXec
BBC - Podcasts - In Our Time Archive: History - http://goo.gl/mJa6j
BBC - Podcasts - In Our Time Archive: Culture - http://goo.gl/BTg6t
BBC - Podcasts - In Our Time Archive: Philosophy - http://goo.gl/vi5xf
BBC - Podcasts - In Our Time Archive: Religion - http://goo.gl/tgSdN
Here are some other BBC programs available as podcasts:
The Digital Human: BBC Podcast explores how digital culture is moulding modern living http://goo.gl/1jxKL
BBC - Podcasts - Kitchen Cabinet - http://goo.gl/WBE6d
BBC - Podcasts - Click - How digital technology affects our lives around the world http://goo.gl/Mz7a
BBC - Podcasts - Analysis - http://goo.gl/HMl2
BBC - Podcasts - A History of Mozart in a Dozen Objects - http://goo.gl/zo5iW
BBC - Podcasts - The Art of Monarchy - http://goo.gl/H4pK9
Medical Podcasts
Medical Matters
Health Check
Science Podcasts
The Life Scientific (BBC podcast): Each week, a leading scientist talks about their life and work http://goo.gl/2FQyY
BBC - Podcasts - A Brief History of Mathematics - http://goo.gl/q0pxn
Best of Natural History Radio
Material World
One Planet
Travel Podcasts
Crossing Continents
Excess Baggage
You can subscribe to all BBC with one click via the OPML feed (warning: this file probably contains too many podcasts for the average user): http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts.opml
Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.
Swimming with a Manatee - BBC video
The video shows a free diving expert swimming with one of the most endangered animals on Earth - the Manatee. This is a clip from BBC wildlife show Dive Caribbean:
Swimming great male polar bear - Planet Earth - BBC video
In the summer of the Arctic, a male polar bear finally submerges into the ocean of his collapsed icy home. Truly remarkable images of a great male polar bear diving and twisting in the open water in the hope of catching a seal unawares. Fantastic filming from BBC natural history epic, Planet Earth:
There are 64 polar bears in captivity in American zoos, far short of the 200 considered optimal for maintaining the population over 100 years. Source: Zoos’ Bitter Choice - To Save Some Species, Letting Others Die - NYTimes.com http://goo.gl/UiiLj -- Zoos Have to Decide Which Species to Keep - Graphic http://goo.gl/bfTlh
There are 64 polar bears in captivity in American zoos, far short of the 200 considered optimal for maintaining the population over 100 years. Source: Zoos’ Bitter Choice - To Save Some Species, Letting Others Die - NYTimes.com http://goo.gl/UiiLj -- Zoos Have to Decide Which Species to Keep - Graphic http://goo.gl/bfTlh
Fishing with birds - Wild China - BBC video
BBCWorldwide | February 02, 2011 | In the Guangxi province of China, fisherman use trained cormorants to help them catch fish from the Li river. A noose tied around the birds' necks to stop them swallowing any fish they may catch. This practice is criticized by the animal rights advocates, I'm sure.
Endangered Seahorses - BBC video
BBC Worldwide: Philippe Cousteau and the team come face-to-face with one of the Indian Ocean's most mysterious creatures, the Seahorse. As the team race against time to identify one of the ocean's most cryptic animals, they make a remarkable discovery.
Kingfisher close-up - Deadly 60 - BBC video
BBC Worldwide: Steve Backshall and his team are gobsmacked as to just how close they can get to a kingfisher as they sail down a river at night.
Mantis shrimps - Deadly 60 - BBC video
The BBC team delve deep for the mantis shrimp to capture these amazing ambush predators on film in the wild. Just like its insect namesake, the mantis shrimp uses its claws to impale its prey with lethal accuracy.
Erasmus Darwin - BBC Great Lives
From Wikipedia:
Erasmus Darwin (12 December 1731 – 18 April 1802) was an English physician who turned down George III's invitation to be a physician to the King.
One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher, physiologist, abolitionist, inventor and poet.
His poems included much natural history, including a statement of evolution and the relatedness of all forms of life.
He was a member of the Darwin–Wedgwood family, which includes his grandsons Charles Darwin and Francis Galton.
Darwin was also a founding member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, a discussion group of pioneering industrialists and natural philosophers.
The Lunar Society of Birmingham was a dinner club and informal learned society of prominent figures in the Midlands Enlightenment, who met regularly between 1765 and 1813 in Birmingham, England. At first called the Lunar Circle, "Lunar Society" became the formal name by 1775. The name arose because the society would meet during the full moon, as the extra light made the journey home easier and safer in the absence of street lighting.
His parents' choice of name, Erasmus, is an unusual one; the most historically significant person of that name was Desiderius Erasmus, the great humanist.
He obtained his medical education at the University of Edinburgh Medical School.
Darwin settled in 1756 as a physician at Nottingham, but met with little success and so moved the following year to Lichfield to try to establish a practice there. A few weeks after his arrival, using a novel course of treatment, he restored the health of a young man whose death seemed inevitable. This ensured his success in the new locale. Darwin was a highly successful physician for more than fifty years in the Midlands.
Darwin was a large man who gave up weighing himself when he reached 336 pounds (24 stones, about 153 kg). He would have his driver, also a very large man, walk through the patient's house in front of him to ensure that the floor would hold him.
Evidence of the time reveal Erasmus to have been a bit of a maverick who, according to his friend James Keir, 'paid little regard to authority.'
He was described by many as a friendly and generous fellow with a sharp wit who loved to tease. Married twice - both times to women he adored - he also had an in-between mistress and fourteen children.
Darwin married twice and had 14 children, including two illegitimate daughters by an employee, and, possibly, at least one further illegitimate daughter.
Darwin died suddenly on the 18 April 1802, weeks after having moved to Breadsall Priory.
Darwin formed the Lichfield Botanical Society in order to translate the works of the Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus from Latin into English. This took seven years.
Darwin's most important scientific work is Zoönomia.
Darwin was the inventor of several devices, though he did not patent any. He believed this would damage his reputation as a doctor, and encouraged his friends to patent their own modifications of his designs.
In notes dating to 1779, Darwin made a sketch of a simple hydrogen-oxygen rocket engine, with gas tanks connected by plumbing and pumps to an elongated combustion chamber and expansion nozzle, a concept not to be seen again until one century later.
Perhaps we should not be surprised then to learn that he was already working on a theory of evolution - that is, the theory that Man is descended from a single microscopic ancestor - well before his grandson Charles took up the debate.
References:
Wikipedia
Great Lives and Wikipedia
BBC
Erasmus Darwin's Microscope
Related:
Erasmus Darwin (12 December 1731 – 18 April 1802) was an English physician who turned down George III's invitation to be a physician to the King.
One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher, physiologist, abolitionist, inventor and poet.
His poems included much natural history, including a statement of evolution and the relatedness of all forms of life.
He was a member of the Darwin–Wedgwood family, which includes his grandsons Charles Darwin and Francis Galton.
Darwin was also a founding member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, a discussion group of pioneering industrialists and natural philosophers.
The Lunar Society of Birmingham was a dinner club and informal learned society of prominent figures in the Midlands Enlightenment, who met regularly between 1765 and 1813 in Birmingham, England. At first called the Lunar Circle, "Lunar Society" became the formal name by 1775. The name arose because the society would meet during the full moon, as the extra light made the journey home easier and safer in the absence of street lighting.
His parents' choice of name, Erasmus, is an unusual one; the most historically significant person of that name was Desiderius Erasmus, the great humanist.
He obtained his medical education at the University of Edinburgh Medical School.
Darwin settled in 1756 as a physician at Nottingham, but met with little success and so moved the following year to Lichfield to try to establish a practice there. A few weeks after his arrival, using a novel course of treatment, he restored the health of a young man whose death seemed inevitable. This ensured his success in the new locale. Darwin was a highly successful physician for more than fifty years in the Midlands.
Darwin was a large man who gave up weighing himself when he reached 336 pounds (24 stones, about 153 kg). He would have his driver, also a very large man, walk through the patient's house in front of him to ensure that the floor would hold him.
Evidence of the time reveal Erasmus to have been a bit of a maverick who, according to his friend James Keir, 'paid little regard to authority.'
He was described by many as a friendly and generous fellow with a sharp wit who loved to tease. Married twice - both times to women he adored - he also had an in-between mistress and fourteen children.
Darwin married twice and had 14 children, including two illegitimate daughters by an employee, and, possibly, at least one further illegitimate daughter.
Darwin died suddenly on the 18 April 1802, weeks after having moved to Breadsall Priory.
Darwin formed the Lichfield Botanical Society in order to translate the works of the Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus from Latin into English. This took seven years.
Darwin's most important scientific work is Zoönomia.
Darwin was the inventor of several devices, though he did not patent any. He believed this would damage his reputation as a doctor, and encouraged his friends to patent their own modifications of his designs.
In notes dating to 1779, Darwin made a sketch of a simple hydrogen-oxygen rocket engine, with gas tanks connected by plumbing and pumps to an elongated combustion chamber and expansion nozzle, a concept not to be seen again until one century later.
Perhaps we should not be surprised then to learn that he was already working on a theory of evolution - that is, the theory that Man is descended from a single microscopic ancestor - well before his grandson Charles took up the debate.
References:
Wikipedia
Great Lives and Wikipedia
BBC
Erasmus Darwin's Microscope
Related:
Reindeer racing in Lapland - BBC video
BBCWorldwide | July 29, 2010 | Johnny joins the 500-plus spectators who travel from all over Finland and Norway to find out who will be the winner of the biggest reindeer-racing event of the year. Watch more high quality videos on the new BBC Worldwide YouTube channel here: http://www.youtube.com/bbcworldwide
Related:
On the top of the world in western Norway - Chicago Tribune, 2011.
Wild Bears in Turkey - BBC Video
BBCWorldwide | July 23, 2010 | In Turkey presenter Simon Reeve learns about the wild bear population and meets a controversial conservationist who befriended an orphaned cub. Clip from the programme Explore.
Hungarian Parliament building - BBC video
Michael Palin travels to Hungary to take a guided tour of the extravagant parliament building and learn more about its bloody and tumultuous history. Fascinating video from BBC travel documentary, Palin's New Europe.
Second Largest Building in the World is in Bucharest, Romania
Bucharest: 2nd Largest Building in the World - Michael Palin's New Europe - BBC. After the Pentagon, the Romanian parliament building is the second largest building in the world. Michael Palin visits the Bucharest building with 1,000 rooms in his BBC travel documentary Palin's New Europe.
Rattlesnake eating a lizard - BBC video
BBCEarth - June 25, 2010 - Nick Baker heads to Arizona and dares to get up close and personal with a tiger rattlesnake as it feeds on a lizard captured only moments before.
Hadrian in Judea - BBC Video
BBCWorldwide — June 11, 2010 — In this BBC documentary, historian Dan Snow explains how the Jewish people attempted to rise against Roman Emperor Hadrian, with bloody battles following. Watch more videos on the new BBC Worldwide YouTube channel here: http://www.youtube.com/bbcworldwide
Hadrian's North African Walls - Hadrian - BBC.
Hadrian's Mausoleum - Hadrian - BBC. Hadrian died in 138 on the 10th of July, in his villa at Baiae at age 62. The cause of death is believed to have been heart failure. Dio Cassius and the Historia Augusta record details of his failing health, and a study published in 1980 drew attention to classical sculptures of Hadrian that show he had diagonal earlobe creases – a characteristic associated with coronary heart disease: Diagonal Earlobe Creases, Type A Behavior and the Death of Emperor Hadrian. Nicholas L. Petrakis, MD. West J Med. 1980 January; 132(1): 87–91.
Books:
How to Make Houmous - BBC Video
BBCWorldwide — May 20, 2010 — Delia Smith once again delves in the freezer to serve up one of her own favourite recipes, houmous served with pitta bread. Clip taken from her series of handy recipe shortcuts using ready-made ingredients.
How To Make A Telescope Lens - The Story Of Science - BBC
How To Make A Telescope Lens - The Story Of Science - Episode 1 Preview - BBC Two. Michael Mosley follows in Galileo's footsteps as he learns how to make a telescope lens. He takes a flat piece of glass and an artillery ball to a Venetian lens maker to find out how Galileo turned these raw materials into a lens fit for his telescope.
Pierre Desceliers' World Map - BBC
Pierre Desceliers' World Map - The Beauty of Maps - BBC Four. A short film that explores the significance of Pierre Desceliers' World Map, a visual encyclopaedia from the Renaissance. Denis Lawson explains how this historical map shows us our growing knowledge of the world in the Age of Discovery.
See related videos here.
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