S02 · E24

Boys on Bubbles / Problems and Puzzles

Sep 25, 19661h

Horizon re-stages highlights from Professor C. V. Boys's famous Christmas lectures on bubbles and surface tension which drew crowds to the London Institution sixty-six years ago. Then, a mathematician challenges you to solve some of the puzzles he has invented.

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Boys on Bubbles / Problems and Puzzles

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Learning from Machines

The Technique of Change

Star Gazers

Science and Art

The Great Computer Scandal / H-Bomb Detectors

Forbidden Events / I am a Madman

Restless Genius / Faster, Farther, Higher

The Other Side of the Pill

The Big Smoke / The Model Makers

The Long Slide / Men with Gills

Men and Sharks / Sir Henry Dale, OM, FRS

The Brain Gain / The Sudden Night / Learning to Speak

Dr. Joseph Needham / Mariner IV

Science Fiction : Science Fact? / Alone and Unarmed

Certain of Uncertainty / State of Nature

Time Stood Still / Weighty Matters

Fuel for the Future / Collector's Piece

Let Newton Be

Special Senses / Toil, Sweat & Tears

An Affair of the Heart

10,000 Tombs

Albert Szent-Györgyi M.D., Ph.D., D.h.c.

The Big Dishes / The Living Stream

Boys on Bubbles / Problems and Puzzles