In his first lecture, RV Jones considers numbers, systems, and in particular the rise of the decimal system and the number zero, as well as the binary system used in computing.

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RV Jones explores the history of man's attempt to measure time, from early hourglasses and pendulum clocks to quartz and atom measuring devices.

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It is now possible to measure things on very small scales, but how small can we go and how much of this can be automated by computers?

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In his fourth lecture, RV Jones investigates measurement on very large scales. How are waves used to measure the distance between stars or how fast celestial objects are moving in relation to us?

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Our ability to make very precise measurements has impacted the process of science in innumerable positive ways, but is it possible to take it too far?

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Antarctica is more than a continent-sized sheet of ice (and the penguins that live atop it). There's land, liquid water, and even life underneath all that ice. And scientists have built up a suite of tools to find all of it.

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Small grains in the Murchison meteorite have been estimated to be 7 billion years old—much older than the Earth, and even the solar system.

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In one of Aesop’s fables, a crow is searching for water. It spies a pitcher— but the water inside is beyond its reach. So, the crow begins dropping in pebbles. One-by-one, they displace the water, and the crow…

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You've probably heard that processed foods are bad for you. But is that true for all of them? And how do we know?

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Dig into the science of how and why fireflies glow, and how their bioluminescent signals differ between males and females.

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The first firefly is thought to have lived over 100 million years ago, illuminating the night with a glowing green light. And today…