100 Greatest Discoveries

100 Greatest Discoveries

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100 Greatest DiscoveriesScientists have transformed the way we think and live throughout the centuries.

What are the most important scientific discoveries of all time? In no particular order, we present the top 100 in eight different categories.

Explore the universe, the world around you, the world under a microscopic, the Earth under your feet, the past, what makes you, developments in health, and how stuff works.

Episodes included: Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, Evolution, Genetics, Medicine, Physics, and Top Ten.

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Dylan Burke
Dylan Burke
12 years ago

Oh my goodness it's Bill Nye :D

Mohamed Hassan Dakkam
Mohamed Hassan Dakkam
12 years ago

So far I watched the episodes of astronomy, biology, chemistry and earth science. Actually I didn't understand the biology episode so good because of my poor background about this subject. However, these episodes are so wonderful and I like their easy-english language.

Liebewitz
Liebewitz
12 years ago

in response to 'super grey alien' below-infra

Liebewitz
Liebewitz
12 years ago

---addendum I'm Irish.

I guess his first little neural response or 'brain fart' would be 'a slur on jews'.

SuperGreyAlien
SuperGreyAlien
12 years ago

The Irish were planing a trip to the SUN,to avoid the problems with heat and radiation they were going at night!

Farid Hotel
Farid Hotel
12 years ago

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim. The verse means, "In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the most Merciful."

Surah 36, Ayah 40 "It is not permitted to the sun to catch up the moon, nor the night outstrips the day: Each (just) swims along in (its own) orbit (according to Law)"

Surah 21, Ayah 33 "It is He Who created the night and the day, and the sun and the moon: All (celestial bodies) swim along, each in its rounded course (orbit)."

Surah 55, Ayah 5-7 "The sun and the moon follow courses (exactly) computed; And the star and the trees - both (alike) bow in adoration. And the Firmament has He raised high, and He has set up the Balance (of Justice)"

Surah 24, Ayah 35 "Allah is the Light of heavens and the earth. The parable of His Light is as if there were a niche and within it a lamp. The lamp enclosed in glass: the glass as it were a brilliant star (planet)"

(and there are many more)

Allah did not create this except in truth and righteousness. And He explains His signs in detail, for those who understand. (Glorious Qur'an 10:5 )
(Glorious Qur'an is a Book of Signs)
peace be upon you

Hoa Minh Pham
Hoa Minh Pham
12 years ago

It is a known fact that if "a great discovery" finding is never released on western papers, it might has well never existed.

Ian Kirkpatrick Van Gaal
Ian Kirkpatrick Van Gaal
13 years ago

how come a lot of these documentaries don't cover African contributions?

Nancy
Nancy
13 years ago

What about the Moon Landing. I heard a lot about this that it was totally a drama. Why no more missions sent to the Moon ? Why other developed countries not tried to step on Moon ?

Jeigh
Jeigh
13 years ago

@ Nick_kcin

I sympathize with, you but argue that the discovery of Peyote about two-thousand years before the invention of acid was/and will be, more important that LSD. Your claim kind of gives more validity to what Dread was commenting on. Great stuff, LSD, but doesn't hold a candle to the sacred Peyote succulent.

nick_kcin
nick_kcin
13 years ago

or, much better than beer, LSD.
been tripping again, after staring at a leaf blowing in the wind unable to comprehend what the f--k an air particle is, and how seemingly minor differences in numbers of protons and electrons completely change the nature of a substance to allow the different elements of air to become gasses and mix together while unable to have any kind of interaction with the carbon atoms that make up the leaf, I decided to learn everything everyone knows about chemistry. this may take a while, lucky I've got another tab for this weekend...

the chemistry one only has 4 parts, the last 2 are on the same youtube channel

jtl1985
jtl1985
13 years ago

They missed the gratest discovery ever, beer.

Wulumulu
Wulumulu
13 years ago

@dread
you also forgot that they figured out(Eratosthenes(280ish BC)) earth's tilt, and circumference in which they only erred by 1-10%(depending on whether they used the egyptian stadia as a measuring unit or the greek stadia))
in addition we could add heliocentrism(aristarchus 'round 300BC though it was omitted), that the earth is round and even the steam engine(though the discovery was later labeled as useless and omitted) and those are just the discoveries i remember from the top of my head... and we'll not even go into the discoveries of india, china and the likes

Riley
Riley
13 years ago

ram

those are entirely legitimate objections. i suppose the thinking is that until a discovery is registered in the current of cultural continuity, it sort of doesnt matter.

for example, lucretius (roman) and some of the greeks clearly saw and 'wrote down' their ideas of evolution and the intuition that higher animals were related, for example, to fish. and men before darwin (including his own grandfather) speculated on the plasticity of species, but darwin is credited as the originator of the concept of
evolution, despite these predecessesors, because he
a] provided a plausible mechanism (natural selection)
b] provided plausible evidence to support the notion
c] brought it to the attention of the world, at large

so, we see that there are a number of factors which go into
the crediting of things which are not accounted for only on the basis of, perhaps, racism or cultural chauvinism.

nevertheless, it probably would be more appropriate to bring everyone who had contributed - but that does make the picture more complicated.

to a person who comes from a culture which acheived major insights, but was not integrated into the european enlightenment and industrial & scientific revolution, these accounts probably come across as self-serving rationalizations.

howsoevermuch that may be considered, the perception may be defended that a discovery which is not widely known, or made use of in such a way as to result in its becoming widely known, how relevant or useful is that flash of insight? in some respects, its like a light which is never brought to the candle.

put another way: the wheel may well have been originated more than once, but the only time that first counted was when it got put onto a cart and mustered onto the battlefield.

dread
dread
13 years ago

White mans Propaganda.........

The Ancients knew about Earth rotation,.. two thousand years before Copernicus.

Ram
Ram
13 years ago

I'm fed up with this Astronomy section repeatedly indoctrinating just the European advancements. Is the observation of Super Nova by Chinese in 1054 not an achievement? The first heliocentric theory was proposed by Aryabhata in 500 AD way before Copernicus. I wonder if these people are ever interested in looking beyond the western history

cg
cg
13 years ago

the earth science one was blocked in my region. what ARE they hiding? lol

mike
mike
13 years ago

Awesome. The only part that bothered me was at the end of the medicine one. The guy being interviewed downplayed AIDS and even suggested that its overall had more positive impacts than negative.

Watch "Origin of Aids" documentary and you'll understand more. Its one of the best docs on this site.

Boudiay
Boudiay
13 years ago

i don't to ask that if the earth is in between Venus and Mars is that mean Venus is underground and Mars is upside( sky)? please reply me i don't understand.

Quark
Quark
13 years ago

Thanks, Epicurus!

Quark
Quark
14 years ago

if planets have an eliptical path around the sun, how come do they keep the same speed? Naturally the planets should be quicker around/closer to the sun, and slower in the "outer space", away from the sun...
Anyone? Thanks

Monza man
Monza man
14 years ago

Why is the part about genetics "blocked in my region"?? Wierd.. what information is being withheld from me and why???
Wierd..

Chris
Chris
14 years ago

I didn't learn anything new but it's amazing how far we have come in our understanding. We are truly privileged to be alive during this age.