Science and Wonder: Rapture

Season 1 Episode 1

Short films by award-winning filmmakers, as part of TED Talks: Science and Wonder.

In early 2015, Dr. Oliver Sacks learned that his ocular melanoma had metastasized to his liver. Shot in the last months of his life, this film illuminates Sacks’s searching curiosity, extraordinary powers of observation, compassion, and ability to find joy and beauty in science and in the world around him.

AIR DATE 3/30/16

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Science and Wonder: Times Square Time Machine

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Juan Enriquez: Natural vs Unnatural Selection - Clip

Latif Nasser: Discovery in the Arctic - Clip

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About TED Talks

TED Talks is a three part PBS series of one-hour television specials recorded at the Town Hall Theater in New York, and features TED Talks from some of the world’s greatest thinkers and doers. The programs also feature performances and short independent films. Hosted by author and comedian Baratunde Thurston, each program highlights speakers and films that focus on a different theme: Science and Wonder, War and Peace, and Education Revolution.

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