Just months ago, the world stood in fear of an emerging new disease that threatened to kill millions. A new flu variant H1N1 had arrived. In the UK alone, 65,000 deaths were predicted. Yet to date, these dire warnings have not materialised. If this latest pandemic has taught anything, it is just how little is understood about the invisible world of viruses. But that has not sto...
松泽教授带领的京都大学的灵长类动物研究所,探索作为人类的我们是谁达38年。松泽和他的研究团队一直在检测黑猩猩大脑的各个方面。从探索黑猩猩节奏感、到黑猩猩的语言能力、理解数字规则的能力、再到黑猩猩的记忆能力与观察学习能力,松泽教授得出了许多意料之中与意料之外的结果。在有的方面人类比黑猩猩更优越,然而其他方面我们却比黑猩猩更逊色。那到底是什么成就了我们人类在地球上的霸主地位?在进化的过程中我们得到了什么并失去了什么?让我们来一探究竟。
一部关于曾被美国时代杂志选为20世纪代表人物之一的同性恋政治家Harvey Milk的记录片。 Harvey Milk是首个以公开同性恋者身份者角逐成功为美国旧金山市重要官员,生前致力争取同性恋者的公民权益。他被暗杀前,很有希望当选为卡斯特罗(旧金山最著名的同性恋街区)的市长。70年代间,当他推动通过旧金山市首个同性恋者的公民权益条例之际,Harvey Milk与他的政冶盟友George Moscone于1978年11月28日被保守派前旧金山市前警察官Dan White刺杀而死,事件唤醒了当地同性恋者,使他们对争取自身权益作出了强烈的反省和回应。 1985年奥斯卡最佳长记录片
本部纪录片是导演迈克尔·艾普特从1964年开始拍摄的纪录片系列的第七部。迈克尔·艾普特在1964年为英国BBC电视台拍摄了记录片《7 Up》,采访来自英国不同阶层的十四个七岁的小孩子,他们有的来自孤儿院,有的是上层社会的小孩。此后每隔七年,艾普特都会重新采访当年的这些孩子,倾听他们的梦想,畅谈他们的生活。四十九岁知天命,看尽岁月流逝,看穿沧海桑年。本片综合了被访者七岁、十四岁、二十一岁、二十八岁、三十五岁以及四十二岁多年的访问精华。 本季《人生七年》荣获2006年英国电影学院奖和金卫星奖提名。
In March 2018 an international team of scientists gathered in a remote valley in the Canadian Rockies to conduct a unique experiment - to attempt to see into the heart of a massive avalanche to see if we can find ways to save lives in the future. Avalanches kill hundreds of people every year. Even in the UK 25 people have been killed by these forces of nature since the year 200...
The pressure to achieve more, do more, and be more is part of being human - and in the age of Adderall and Ritalin, achieving that can be as close as the local pharmacy. No longer just "a cure for excitable kids," prescription stimulants are in college classrooms, on Wall Street, in Silicon Valley...any place "the need to succeed" slams into "not enough hours in the day." But t...