Extinction

Combining in-depth studio discussion with exploratory films and on-the-spot reports, Dara O Briain's Science Club takes a single subject each week and examines it from unexpected angles. In the third episode, comedian Mark Steel learns how to deflect an incoming asteroid, neuroscientist Tali Sh...

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Other Authors: BBC Worldwide Ltd., Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), Infobase.
Format: Video
Language: English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2014], c2012.
Physical Description: 1 streaming video file (50 min.) : sd., col.
Series: Dara O'Briain's Science Club ; Series 1.
Science Club ; Series 1.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Discussing Extinction (2:32)
  • Understanding Extinction (1:18)
  • Historical View of Extinction (3:50)
  • Frog Killer (5:34)
  • Habitat Loss (2:02)
  • Lab Grown Beef (5:45)
  • Food Science Breakthrough (1:53)
  • Species Saving Ethics (1:58)
  • Conservation Efficiency (1:27)
  • Bee Decline (2:18)
  • Conservation Debate (2:49)
  • Human Extinction Threat (2:37)
  • Near Earth Object Shield (2:27)
  • Reconstructing a Comet (5:06)
  • Genetic Arc Project (2:29)
  • Resurrecting Extinct Species (3:23)
  • Resurrecting a Wooly Mammoth (1:43)
  • Credits: Extinction: Dara O'Briain's Science Club (Series 1) (0:33)