Professor Marcus du Sautoy explores why we are driven to measure and quantify the world around us and why we have reduced the universe to just a handful of fundamental units of measurement.
Series Overview
Rating
- imDb Rating: 8.2 (125 Votes)
- Metascore: N/A
Plot
Professor Marcus du Sautoy explores why we are driven to measure and quantify the world around us and why we have reduced the universe to just a handful of fundamental units of measurement.
Details
- Rated: N/A
- Released: 10 Jun 2013
- Runtime: N/A
- Genre: Documentary
- Director: N/A
- Writer: N/A
- Actors: Marcus du Sautoy
- Language: English
- Country: UK
- Awards: N/A
- Total Seasons: N/A
Previous Episode
Heat, Light and Electricity
Episode 1x3; Jun 24, 2013
From lightning bolts and Watt engines to electromagnetic waves and single electrons, Professor Marcus du Sautoy continues his journey into the world of measurement as he reveals how we came to measure and harness the power of heat, light, and electricity. It's a journey that has involved the greatest minds in science and, today, is getting down to the very building blocks of atoms.
Previous Episodes
1x3: Heat, Light and Electricity
1x2: Mass and Moles
1x1: Time and Distance
Cast
Marcus du Sautoy as Marcus du Sautoy
Recent News
Google Maps 101: how imagery powers our map
Earlier this year, we gave you a look at how Google Maps maps the world. Today, we’ll dive deeper into a main ingredient of the map making process– imagery–and how it powers one of our most popular features. More than just pictures When you think of imagery a…
HOWTO: Get tenure (2015)
Comments
Crusoe at the Crossroads
On ‘Robinson Crusoe,’ ‘Lost,’ and why we keep returning to mysterious islands where science blurs with the supernatural
View More Related News
Skip to:
Series Cast
 |
Marcus du Sautoy | as Marcus du Sautoy |
Related News
Google Maps 101: how imagery powers our map
Earlier this year, we gave you a look at how Google Maps maps the world. Today, we’ll dive deeper into a main ingredient of the map making process– imagery–and how it powers one of our most popular features. More than just pictures When you think of imagery a…
Article preview:
How Google Maps uses imagery: (hint - its everywhere) Photos are great, but how are they useful for someone using Google Maps? Well, imagery is woven into every product that Maps provides. Live View, for example, is a tool that uses augmented reality to sh… [+885 chars]
HOWTO: Get tenure (2015)
Comments
Article preview:
My reply First, your question is trivial to answer: to minimize the risk – to zero – that you’ll have a disabled child, don’t have a child. Any attempt to have a child will incur risk, although you can take measures described in other answers to lower it.… [+20780 chars]
Crusoe at the Crossroads
On ‘Robinson Crusoe,’ ‘Lost,’ and why we keep returning to mysterious islands where science blurs with the supernatural
Article preview:
Kirsten A. Hall On Robinson Crusoe, Lost, and why we keep returning to mysterious islands where science blurs with the supernatural To my office till past 12, and then home to supper and to bed, being now mighty well, and truly I cannot but impute it to my … [+48232 chars]
The 100 Best Albums of 2019
It was a great year for throwback hip hop, sex-positive R&B, ice-cold dance music, ambitious metal, and downright weird pop.
Article preview:
In modern times, albums have largely lost their physical form and have become more like playlists, feature-packed endeavors that exist to game streaming algorithms and be consumed piecemeal. But this year, artists like Lana Del Rey and FKA Twigsas well as ban… [+100379 chars]
The best platform games on PC
The biggest names in platforming used to live only on console, but it’s on PC now that the genre is thriving. Indies have taken the simple ingredients and spun them off in umpteen directions (but still normally from left to right). Below you’ll find a collect…
Article preview:
The biggest names in platforming used to live only on console, but it’s on PC now that the genre is thriving. Indies have taken the simple ingredients and spun them off in umpteen directions (but still normally from left to right). Below you’ll find a collect… [+17988 chars]
Ocean explorers delve beneath the ice
To predict how much climate change will raise sea level, researchers are studying ice shelves — where vast expanses of ice meet the ocean.
Article preview:
Every two hours, Craig Stevens gets a text message from Antarctica. The messages come from a narrow, hugely expensive metal tube suspended in the Southern Ocean beneath the Ross Ice Shelf. The tube contains sensors that periodically record the temperature, s… [+16195 chars]
Ocean explorers delve beneath the ice
To predict how much climate change will raise sea level, researchers are studying ice shelves — where vast expanses of ice meet the ocean.
Article preview:
Every two hours, Craig Stevens gets a text message from Antarctica. The messages come from a narrow, hugely expensive metal tube suspended in the Southern Ocean beneath the Ross Ice Shelf. The tube contains sensors that periodically record the temperature, s… [+16195 chars]
The 50 best albums of the 2010s
Like television and film, the music industry has undergone seismic changes over the last 10 years, the effects of which we could be parsing for many decades to come. With more access to more music than ever, we continued to fragment as listeners, our journeys…
Article preview:
Like television and film, the music industry has undergone seismic changes over the last 10 years, the effects of which we could be parsing for many decades to come. With more access to more music than ever, we continued to fragment as listeners, our journeys… [+47888 chars]
The 100 best movies of the 2010s
Time flies when you’re watching movies. Back at the start of 2015, The A.V. Club took the temperature of the half-elapsed 2010s in film, ranking our favorites of a decade still very much in progress. It’s been a long, wild, eventful five years since. Netflix,…
Article preview:
Time flies when youre watching movies. Back at the start of 2015, The A.V. Club took the temperature of the half-elapsed 2010s in film, rankingourfavorites of a decade still very much in progress. Its been a long, wild, eventful five years since. Netflix, hav… [+87020 chars]
Behind The Smiles
Amazon's internal injury records expose the true toll of its relentless drive for speed.
Article preview:
By Will Evans / November 25, 2019 This story was originally published by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit news organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more at revealnews.org and subscribe to the Reveal podcast,… [+37034 chars]
The Best Slim Watches For Men
Good looks, convenient features and reliable performance in a small but mighty package
Article preview:
This article is a part of RS Recommends, an editorial series reviewing products in music and entertainment. Items are independently selected; Penske Media may earn a commission from purchases made from our links. Sometimes bigger isn’t better — at least when… [+5931 chars]
How to build a 3-D map of the universe—and why
One of the biggest mysteries in science began with a dying star.
Article preview:
One of the biggest mysteries in science began with a dying star. It wasn't any particular dying star so much as the idea of one. In the 1980s, Saul Perlmutter at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and his collaborat… [+12336 chars]
Google's Nest Mini vs. Amazon's Echo Dot: pick your assistant
When Google introduced the Home Mini two years ago, it was playing catch-up to Amazon's Echo lineup. The Echo Dot, a tiny and affordable version of the larger Echo smart speaker, had been on sale for more than a year and a half, and Google was clearly respond…
Article preview:
Design If you've seen the original Home Mini, there's almost nothing to distinguish this new model. It's a small, circular, fabric-covered speaker that comes in four colors (gray, black, coral and Sky Blue). In fact, the only way to know tell the Nest Mini f… [+7580 chars]
The Art of Losing
In 1970 Robert Lowell was a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, and Elizabeth Hardwick was at home in New York with their thirteen-year-old daughter, Harriet. Hardwick felt overwhelmed trying to manage the family’s affairs. “Cal,” she wrote to Lowel…
Article preview:
edited by Saskia Hamilton Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 504 pp., $50.00 by Robert Lowell, edited by Saskia Hamilton Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 195 pp., $18.00 (paper) Harriet LowellElizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Harriet Lowell, mid-1960s. Lowell was … [+30490 chars]
Google's Nest Mini vs. Amazon's Echo Dot: pick your assistant
When Google introduced the Home Mini two years ago, it was playing catch-up to Amazon's Echo lineup. The Echo Dot, a tiny and affordable version of the larger Echo smart speaker, had been on sale for more than a year and a half, and Google was clearl...
Article preview:
In use At this point, the capabilities of Alexa and Google Assistant are well known. To quickly recap, you can ask both speakers to control devices in your home, play audio, answer questions, give you info from your personal accounts (e.g., Google Calendar) … [+3090 chars]
Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer measurements unveil properties of cosmic helium
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) collaboration, a large group of researchers from CERN and other institutes worldwide, has recently presented a series of precision measurements of the properties of cosmic Helium isotopes 3He and 4He. These measurements w…
Article preview:
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) collaboration, a large group of researchers from CERN and other institutes worldwide, has recently presented a series of precision measurements of the properties of cosmic Helium isotopes 3He and 4He. These measurements w… [+5093 chars]
i3 Verticals Inc (IIIV) Q4 2019 Earnings Call Transcript
IIIV earnings call for the period ending September 30, 2019.
Article preview:
Image source: The Motley Fool. i3 Verticals Inc (NASDAQ:IIIV)Q4 2019 Earnings CallNov 22, 2019, 8:00 a.m. ET Contents:
- Prepared Remarks
- Questions and Answers
- Call Participants
Qudian Inc. (QD) Q3 2019 Earnings Call Transcript
QD earnings call for the period ending September 30, 2019.
Article preview:
Image source: The Motley Fool. Qudian Inc. (NYSE:QD)Q3 2019 Earnings CallNov 18, 2019, 7:00 a.m. ET Contents:
- Prepared Remarks
- Questions and Answers
- Call Participants
Veeva Systems Inc (VEEV) Q3 2020 Earnings Call Transcript
VEEV earnings call for the period ending October 31, 2019.
Article preview:
Image source: The Motley Fool. Veeva Systems Inc (NYSE:VEEV)Q3 2020 Earnings CallNov 26, 2019, 4:30 p.m. ET Contents:
- Prepared Remarks
- Questions and Answers
- Call Participants
Medtronic (MDT) Q2 2020 Earnings Call Transcript
MDT earnings call for the period ending September 30, 2019.
Article preview:
Image source: The Motley Fool. Medtronic (NYSE:MDT)Q2 2020 Earnings CallNov 19, 2019, 12:00 p.m. ET Contents:
- Prepared Remarks
- Questions and Answers
- Call Participants
