Darwin's Other Theory

Sometime around 66 million years ago, a meteor smashed into what is today the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. The impact of that event changed life on Earth in ways that are still evident today. Evidence for this impact wasn’t obvious. There was strong skepticism when the theory was ...  Show more

For thousands of years, a narrow body of water between Arabia and Persia has shaped the fate of empires, economies, and the modern world. The Persian Gulf has been a crossroads of trade, a cradle of ancient civilizations, and today, the center of global energy and geopolitical te ...  Show more

For a century Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution has been as unquestioned as Newton’s theory of gravity. But science never stops asking questions. Or at least it’s not supposed to. Stephen Meyer, Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute, takes up the challenge in this video. Ar ...  Show more

Neil MacGregor's history of the world as told through things. Throughout this week he is examining the global economy of the 19th century - of mass production and mass consumption. Today he is with an instrument that first helped Europeans to navigate with precision around the wo ...  Show more

Rediffusion Membre de l'Académie française, le comte de Buffon est l'un des esprits les plus brillants du siècle des Lumières. S'intéressant aux sciences dès sa jeunesse, il fait la connaissance de Voltaire et traduit un des ouvrages de Newton.Mais il se passionne plus spécialeme ...  Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the simple animals which informed Charles Darwin's first book, The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, published in 1842. From corals, Darwin concluded that the Earth changed very slowly and was not fashioned by God. Now coral reefs, which s ...  Show more