Humanities West
About this original series
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# Episodes
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Episodes of Humanities West
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Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler: Redefining Our ...
Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler:Redefining Our Place in the UniverseOctober 2 and 3, 2009Herbst Theatre, San FranciscoPanel Discussion with all presenters and written questions from the audience.
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Release date
Jan 12, 2010
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Runtime
53:38
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Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe.
Presenter: Alex Filippenko (Astronomy, UC Berkeley).Observations of very distant exploding stars (supernovae) show that the expansion of the Universe is now speeding up, rather than slowing down as would be expected due to gravity. Other, completely independent data strongly support this amazing conclusion. Over the largest distances, our Universe seems to be dominated by a repulsive "dark energy," stretching the very fabric of space itself faster and faster with time. The physical nature of d...
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Release date
Jan 12, 2010
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Runtime
57:25
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Performance: Copernicus Comments on Modern Astro...
Presenter: George Hammond (SF Attorney and Author).George Hammond impersonates Copernicus, wryly commenting on the "hot ideas" of 21st Century cosmology, dismissing those that look like "yet another epicycle dead end" and passionately predicting those that will lead to the next Copernican Revolution.
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Release date
Jan 12, 2010
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Runtime
21:13
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Galileo Meets Darwin: The Search for Life in the...
Presenter: Geoff Marcy (Astronomy, UC Berkeley). Science fiction assumes that our Milky Way Galaxy abounds with habitable planets populated by advanced civilizations engaged in interstellar commerce and conflict. Even Kepler wrote a science-fiction work about travelling in the solar system. Back in our real universe, Earth-like planets and alien life have proved elusive. Has science fiction led us astray? This year, astronomers launched the first searches for Earth-like worlds around other sta...
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Release date
Jan 12, 2010
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Runtime
51:01
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Galileo and the Telescope: The Instrument That C...
Recap of Friday and Introduction of Saturday Program (Patricia Lundberg).Presenter: Paula Findlen (History, Stanford University).In 1609 an Italian mathematics professor, Galileo Galilei, devised a telescope based on reports of a spyglass that could magnify things at a distance. He turned it on the heavens and saw things no one had ever seen before: the imperfections of the moon's surface, the composition of the Milky Way, and the hitherto unknown satellites of Jupiter. Galileo's report of the...
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Release date
Jan 12, 2010
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Runtime
52:06
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