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Episode Detail: How Weird Is the Cosmos? - Closer to Truth

Physicists and astrophysicists discuss new developments in cosmology. Among them: Roger Blandford (Caltech); David Goodstein (Caltech); Alan Guth (MIT); Neil deGrasse Tyson (New York's Hayden Planetarium). Robert Lawrence Kuhn hosts.

Episodes: How Weird Is the Cosmos? - 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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