transforming science into stories
VPRO Noorderlicht / 25 min / 1996
The American Steve Thaler works with neural networks. He makes them dream and die. Through this process the networks develop elementary creativity. Thaler uses this phenomenon to compose music, design cars and finding new superconducting materials.
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– juni 29, 1996
Carleen Hutchins in haar kelder
VPRO Noorderlicht / 25 min / 1996
Can science help to make better violins? The American violinmaker and scientist Carleen Hutchins is convinced it can. She developed and published a method for building violins and claims to make better violins than Stradivarius, occasionally.
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– juni 29, 1996
VPRO Noorderlicht / 25 min / 1996
Antibiotics, the wonderdrug from shortly after the second worldwar, is losing its power to bacterias which are getting more and more resistant. Does the pharmaceutical industry have any answers?
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– juni 29, 1996
VPRO Noorderlicht / 25 min / 1995
Inventarisation of the influence of digital imaging techniques on modern medicine. Up to and including computer guided surgery.
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– juni 29, 1995
VPRO Noorderlicht / 25 min / 1995
Inventive findings that the Dutch radiologist Sytze des Plantes made in the 1930’s can be found back in modern computer tomography machines. A portrait of this pioneer , told by his son (also radiologst) at the event of 100 years X-rays.
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– juni 29, 1995
VPRO Noorderlicht / 25 min / 1995
After the second worldwar, the harbour-porpoise was nearly extinct in the Dutch coastal waters of the Northsea. Recently though, there have been sightings again. Does this mean the animals are making a come-back or is it the last we’ll ever see of them?
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– juni 29, 1995
VPRO Noorderlicht / 15 min / 1993
A convention of (amateur)scientists in Poland who collect waterbeetles. The amount of beetles and their species tell them all about the history of the landscape down to the last ice-age.
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– juni 29, 1993
Reve d’Afrique
Humanistische Omroep Stichting (HOS) / 53 min / 1992
A voyage through Africa with the Dutch COBRA-artist Corneille, in search of the African roots of his works.
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– september 29, 1992
