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Episode Detail: What Are the Big Questions of Science? - Closer to Truth

Discussing the key areas focused on by the scientific world. The panel includes astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, author Timothy Ferris (“Coming of Age in the Milky Way”), evolutionary biologist Francisco Ayala, philosophy professor Patricia Churchland and theoretical physicist Steve Koonin.

Episodes: What Are the Big Questions of Science? - Closer to Truth - 46 total Episodes

7/10/2003: Testing New Drugs: Are People Guinea Pigs?
7/3/2003: Can Religion Withstand Technology?
6/26/2003: Is the Universe Full of Life?
6/19/2003: Is Conciousness Definable?
6/12/2003: Who Gets to Validate Alternative Medicine?
6/5/2003: How Does Basic Science Defend America?
5/29/2003: Does Psychiatry Have a Split Personality?
5/22/2003: Will Computers Take a Quantum Leap?
5/15/2003: Why Is Music So Significant?
5/8/2003: How Does Order Arise in the Universe?
5/1/2003: Microbes: Friend or Foe?
4/24/2003: How Weird Is the Cosmos?
4/17/2003: How Does the Autistic Brain Work?
4/10/2003: Can We Believe in Both Science and Religion?
4/3/2003: Is Science Fiction Science?
1/13/2002: What Are the Big Questions of Science
12/18/2000: Will Intelligence Fill the Universe?
12/10/2000: Will This Universe Ever End?
12/9/2000: What Is Parapsychology?
12/3/2000: Can You Learn to Be Creative?
11/26/2000: How Does Technology Transform Society?
11/23/2000: Who Needs Sex Therapy?
11/12/2000: How Did We Think in the Last Millennium?
11/10/2000: Why Is Quantum Physics So Beautiful?
11/3/2000: Why Do We Make Music and Art?
10/26/2000: Will Gene Therapy Change the Human Race?
10/13/2000: Do Brains Make Minds?
9/29/2000: Does Creativity Work at Work?
9/26/2000: What Are the Next Breakthroughs in Science?
9/24/2000: Can We Imagine the Far Future---Year 3000?
8/8/2000: Does Sex Have a Future?
8/5/2000: Strange Physics of the Mind
8/1/2000: Can Science Seek the Soul?
7/22/2000: How Does Technology Transform Thinking?
7/11/2000: Whatever Happened to Ethics and Civility?
7/4/2000: Can ESP Affect Our Lives?
6/27/2000: Can You Really Extend Your Life?
6/20/2000: What Is Consciousness?
6/13/2000: Can We See the Near Future---2025?
6/6/2000: How Did This Universe Begin?
6/1/2000: New Communities for the New Millennium
5/25/2000: What's Creativity and Who's Creative?
5/18/2000: Will the Internet Change Humanity?
5/14/2000: What Are the Big Questions of Science?
5/11/2000: Closer to Truth
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Premiered: 2000, on PBS
Rating: TV-PG
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Premise: Panel discussions of new developments in the fields of science, social science and the humanities. Episodes include the mind and brain; creativity and thinking; technology and society; and health and sex. The series originated at PBS station KCET in Los Angeles.

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