Explosive Evidence (Air Crash Investigation - National Geographic)

Air India Flight 182 explodes in mid-air and disintegrates over the coast of Ireland while flying on the Montréal-London-Delhi-Bombay route. The plane, a Boeing 747-237B named after Emperor Kanishka — was blown up at an altitude of 31,000 feet (9,400 m), and crashed into the freezing Atlantic Ocean. In all, 329 people died in the crash, among them 280 Canadian nationals, mostly of Indian descent, and 22 Indians. The incident represents the largest mass murder in modern Canadian history. Extremely costly investigation and prosecution took nearly 20 years to be completed as the most expensive trial in Canadian history, costing nearly CAD $130 million. Investigators in the end discover that a bomb from Sikh militant group Babbar Khalsa caused the explosion.

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Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

Expelled uncovers that educators and scientists are being ridiculed, denied tenure and even fired in some cases for the fact that they believe there is evidence of “design” in nature, challenging the idea that life is a result of random chance. For example, Stein meets Richard Sternberg, a double PhD biologist who allowed a peer-reviewed research paper describing the evidence for intelligence in the universe to be published in the scientific journal Proceedings. Not long after publication officials from the National Center for Science Education and the Smithsonian Institution where Sternberg was a research fellow began a coordinated smear and intimidation campaign to get the promising young scientist expelled from his position. This attack on scientific freedom was so egregious that it prompted a congressional investigation.

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Einstein's Equation of Life and Death (Horizon - BBC)

In the summer of 1939 Albert Einstein was on holiday in a small resort town on the tip of Long Island. His peaceful summer, however, was about to be shattered by a visit from an old friend and colleague from his years in Berlin. The visitor was the physicist Leo Szilard. He had come to tell Einstein that he feared the Nazis could soon be in possession of a terrible new weapon and that something had to be done.

Szilard believed that recent scientific breakthroughs meant it was now possible to convert mass into energy. And that this could be used to make a bomb. If this were to happen, it would be a terrible realisation of the law of nature Einstein had discovered some 34 years earlier.

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