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In the summer of 1977, NASA sent Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 on an epic journey into interstellar space. Each of the Voyager probes carries a golden record, a compilation of images and sounds meant to represent our planet to any distant civilisations that should encounter them. ‘The launching of this bottle into the cosmic ocean says something very hopeful about life on this planet,’ said Carl Sagan, the golden record’s co-creator. Sagan met and fell madly in love with his future wife Ann Druyan while working on the golden record. The project became their love letter to humankind and to each other.
Director: Penny Lane
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Engineering
From simple motors to levitating trains – how design shapes innovation
23 minutes
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Home
How an artist transformed a dilapidated hunting lodge into a house made of dreams
8 minutes
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Family life
The migrants missing in Mexico, and the mothers who won’t stop searching for them
21 minutes
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Virtues and vices
Why Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith were divided on the virtues of vanity
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Ecology and environmental sciences
The tree frog die-off that sparked a global mystery – and revealed a dark truth
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Family life
One family’s harrowing escape from postwar Vietnam, told in a poignant metaphor
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Film and visual culture
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War and peace
A frontline soldier’s moving account of the fabled ‘Christmas truce’ of 1914
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Bioethics
What a 1970 experiment reveals about the possibility and perils of ‘head transplants’
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