Plastic Pollution: How Humans are Turning the World into Plastic

Panorama: A basic income for everybody!

This documentary talks about the pros and cons of doing a Universal Basic Income for everyone. To give a simple understanding. Give people a small subsidy for life.
The video focuses on doing it in Belgium, but shows other countries and societies that are proposing the idea.

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National Geographic Evacuate Earth

This documentary is a "what if" humankind hand to leave the Earth due to some outside catastrophe. This has some very interesting ideas. The people and scientist who make these shows always seem to have a very high esteem for people. I say that because I don't think this sort of thing would happen as smoothly as they do in these kind of shows. I see a great deal of fighting, physical, verbal, and political. But to it's credit this show does not shy away from the truth of money, violence, and people's irrationality.

YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY

Showtime's Years of Living Dangerously is about the changes of Climate Change. It is about how people are living with those changes now and how they may live with them in the future.

The first episode has Harrison Ford learning about deforestation around the world and palm oil in Indonesia.

Don Cheadle learning about droughts in Texas and Mexico and a scientist who is also a devout Christian attempting to educate fellow Christians on Climate Change.
Journalist Thomas L. Friedman travels to Syria to learn how the civil war there started because of four years of heavy drought.

This documentary series is produced by James Cameron, Jerry Weintraub and Arnold Schwarzenegger among others.

I like the feel of this show. It attempts to bring the emotions of everyday life effects of Climate Change to the audience. It tries to show how Climate Change effects jobs, living, economics and politics. But what it also shows is that Climate Change is here now. It is no longer something that will happen decades from now. Now is here.

POWERING THE PLANET

Pure Science Specials: Powering the Planet: Earth Operating Manual. This documentary is about Geologist Richard Alley as he travels the world attempting to figure out how much Renewable energy the earth can produce. The key moment in this show is when they say America needs to create a sustainable energy program for the next fifty years not for the next two to four with each new Administration.

When I watch shows like this. When I see the plans that are in development or being planned this is what comes to mind.

I would add "ALOT MORE!" Then I remember here in the USA economics and politics (mostly politics) is the reason why.

It seems many of these ideas have government backing around the world but it always seem they aren't being funded nearly as much as say the military. The saddest thing is many other countries have these huge national infrastructure plans while in America local small projects are the best one can hope for.

NOVA - BECOMING HUMAN

Nova documentary about how modern Homo Sapiens became what we are. What makes us human?

This video has three parts in one.
Part one, "First Steps" what are the factors that separated us from other great apes.
Part two, "Birth of Humanity" The first humans to look like us.
Part three, "Last Human Standing" What happened to the other humans that lived on the Earth.

NOVA scienceNOW with Neil deGrasse Tyson

NOVA scienceNow: Where did we come from?
Origins of the Solar System, the start of life, how head lice figures in human evolution, erasing memories.


NOVA scienceNow: Can we live forever?
Slow down Aging, replacement body parts, virtual replica of you.



NOVA scienceNow: How smart are animals?
How smart are dogs? How smart are dolphins? How smart are Octopus? Talking parrot Alex, how intelligent was he?


NOVA scienceNow: How does the brain work?
How does the brain pay attention? Magnetic mind control. Artificial Intelligence. Neuroscience and synesthesia.


NOVA scienceNow: What is the next big thing?
Robots, earthquake forecasting, automated vehicles, Smart grid, designer microbes (synthetic biology).

THE STORY OF SCIENCE DOCUMENTARY

This is a BBC Documentary taking a look at how Science evolved and developed. It speaks of how traditions, religion, money, and history shaped science and how science has shaped them in the modern era.

The story of Science is a BBC documentary telling the story of how science happens in history.

THE STORY OF SCIENCE: WHAT IS OUT THERE?

THE STORY OF SCIENCE: WHAT IS THE WORLD MADE OF?

THE STORY OF SCIENCE: HOW DID WE GET HERE?

THE STORY OF SCIENCE: CAN WE HAVE UNLIMITED POWER?

THE STORY OF SCIENCE: WHAT IS THE SECRET OF LIFE?

THE STORY OF SCIENCE: WHO ARE WE?

LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE

This is a National Geographic Infotainment Documentary. Travel the universe from earth seeing amazing sites in space. The Computer Generated Imagery in this is beautiful. It makes me want to jump in a spacecraft and take the journey.

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Interesting Infographs I found on the internet.

Pure Nature Specials: Animal Homosexuality

Pure Nature Specials: Animal Homosexuality this documentary talks about how science has and still does in some ways avoid homosexuality in animals in the wild. I laughed out loud when they spoke about scientist in the past attempting to cover up or defend what they were seeing with religious or socially acceptable thoughts.



for those of you that can not watch the above here is a youtube embed.

Plastic: The Real Sea Monster

Pure Science Specials Plastic: The Real Sea Monster is about how plastics are doing increasing damage to the oceans and other waterways around the world.

THE STORY OF EARTH

This documentary uses computer animated time lapse video to show the history of the plant Earth. From it's inception to the first ancestor of humanity.

Life in the Future

This is a BBC Horizon documentary on the science and technology that are believed will have the biggest impact on human everyday life. Biotech, Nanotechnology, Energy and Space are the four areas of technology focused on.

How Robot WIll Change the World (NHK)

This is a documentary made by the Japanese channel NHK. It is about how many organizations where pushed into making humanoid robots after the Fukushima nuclear incident. Japan, North Korea, and USA are the top contenders to create the first humanoid robots to help in emergency disaster situations.



The video above stop short. The video below has the remainder of the show.

NOVA MAKING STUFF WILDER

This is a PBS Nova special called Making Stuff. This particular episode is about bioengineering looking at nature to inspire form, movement, behavior, materials, and manufacturing. If you are interested in engineering or what the future will possible look like this show is for you.