Sir David Spiegelhalter discusses Thomas Bayes and Ronald Fisher • 2018 • episode "5/6" • People of Science with Brian Cox

55:04

Leonardo da Vinci is well known for his inventions as well as his art. New evidence shows that many of his ideas were realized long before he sketched them out in his notebooks-some even 1,700 years before him! Of these “inventions” Leonardo never affirmed that his projects came from his original ideas. The film features drawings of his most famous ideas and inventions some of which trace their original creation to ancient Greece while others were a product of the scientific inventions of golden age of Islamic learning. This knowledge seemed to be lost in Europe during the Dark Ages until the Renaissance when Leonardo recovered it.

2017 • Secrets of the Dead • Science

4:25

President of the Institute of Physics Professor Julia Higgins explores the life and work of Michael Faraday and how his curiosity and passion for communicating science inspires her.

2018 • People of Science with Brian Cox • Science

5:39

All we are is dust in the (cosmic) wind.

Science

3:02

How do you know you’re real? Is existence all just a big dream? Has some mad scientist duped us into simply believing that we exist? James Zucker investigates all of these questions (and more) in this mind-boggling tribute to René Descartes’s "Meditations on First Philosophy."

TED-Ed • Science

5:34

Dame Sally Davies talks to Brian Cox about her interest in antibiotic resistance and admiration of Alexander Fleming and Howard Florey for their development of penicillin.

2018 • People of Science with Brian Cox • Science

12:07

Chris Anderson shares his boyhood obsession with quirky questions that seem to have no answers.

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