Eclipses

Gossip over facts has changed the landscape of journalism in the age of social media as tweets and online chatter eclipses news paper headlines and the news media. Newsgeist explores the defining spirit of news and journalism in the age of social media and its affect on the ideas and beliefs of our time.

Les Grecs connaissaient-ils déjà le calculateur analogique ? Une mystérieuse machine, découverte près de l'île d'Anticythère, commence à livrer ses secrets…

Hear about the astonishing possibility that the Greeks built a working computer over 2,000 years ago. Experts try to prove that the device could predict solar eclipses.

In 1901, a group of divers excavating an ancient Roman shipwreck near the island of Antikythera, off the southern coast of Greece, found a mysterious object - a lump of calcified stone that contained within it several gearwheels welded together after years under the sea. The 2,000-year-old object, no bigger than a modern laptop, is now regarded as the world's oldest computer, devised to predict solar eclipses and, according to recent findings, calculate the timing of the ancient Olympics.

In this remarkable new series ‘Stephen Hawking’s Grand Design’ the world’s most famous physicist attempts to unravel the truths behind humanity’s most enduring questions: Did God Create the universe? What is the meaning of life? Why does the universe exist? Unfolding his personal, compelling vision of the universe, the eminent British cosmologist evaluates a variety of intricate ideas, from ‘Intelligent Design’ to the impact the search for the Higgs Boson particle at CERN could have on our understanding of the cosmos.