How monarch butterflies find their way home – equally fascinating and breathtaking short segment from BBC’s Wonders of Life, hosted by rockstar-physicist Brian Cox.
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At 200 meters, we leave the Photic Zone and enter the first layer of the deep sea – the Twilight Zone. At this depth, there’s less than 1% of the sunlight at the surface, the pressure has increased twentyfold, and the temperature has dropped to 4º — but we find a world of extraordinary beauty.
Oh, amazing planet. Mesmerizing excerpt from BBC’s The Deep Sea.
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Sir David Attenborough – who knows a thing or two about nature’s majesty – shares his lifelong obsession with amber in this detective story that spans 150 million years.
How chaos theory changed the course of science – a fascinating excerpt from BBC’s The Secret Life of Chaos.
Kids step in for Sir David Attenborough and narrate BBC’s Planet Earth. Yes, the sweetest thing on the internet.
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Legendary singer Dusty Springfield, dubbed The White Queen of Soul, would have been 73. In this BBC documentary from the mid-90s, comedians Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders trace Springfield’s influence on more of popular culture than you dare suspect.
