Alfred Wegner and Continental Drift

Tell me your favorite episode for the 6th anniversary show! In the 18th century, a French astronomer who was a regular comet hunter kept finding things in the sky that weren’t comets, but they also weren’t stars or planets. So, he created a list of these objects, not because he w ...  Show more

Tell me your favorite episode for the 6th anniversary show! Few phrases in American law are more familiar than “You have the right to remain silent.” They are spoken in police stations, on city streets, and in countless movies and television shows. Yet behind those words is a rea ...  Show more

Just looking at a world map makes it clear that today's continents were once a single mass, but scientists are still researching how they came together and apart. Learn about the history of the Southern Hemisphere's continents in this episode of BrainStuff. Learn more about your ...  Show more

In the 1760’s a clever, young, ambitious Scotsman named Alexander Dalrymple began advocating a theory as to the existence of a great southern continent. The idea of a landmass that would counterbalance the known world had long been the stuff of legend. Now Dalrymple wanted to pro ...  Show more

This talk is on Antarctica, one of the seven continents. It contains the geographic South Pole, and is situated in the Antarctic region of the Southern Hemisphere. It is the fifth largest continent, bigger than Australia and Europe. When you think of this place, what comes to you ...  Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the science of plate tectonics revolutionised our understanding of the planet on which we live. America is getting further away from Europe. This is not a political statement but a geological fact. Just as the Pacific is getting smaller, the Re ...  Show more